"I shall always be most grateful to him. He made me rediscover that I had a mind. It had lain fallow, I am afraid, since my Mount Holyoke days."
— Frances Perkins

January 1, 1970

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Description of Professor Simon Nelson Patten, one of her teachers at the Wharton School, where she attended evening classes in economics and sociology in 1908.