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...while the general population was increasing three-fold, the enrollment of high schools was being multiplied by about ninety times as a result of the movement toward universal education begun in a few states before the middle of the last century by Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and culminating at the end of the century in free public education in every state and free secondary education in most...
...arrived in The Bronx to have the symbol of their new responsibility-a Mainbocher-designed hat-clapped on their heads and to buckle down to learning their duty. After six weeks' schooling under the piercing blue eyes of Lieut. Commander Elizabeth Reynard, who once taught English literature at Barnard, they were ready for duty...
...Evangelists. It was Barnard's determined Dean Virginia Gildersleeve who talked Miss Mac into it. Dean Gildersleeve was head of an advisory council of university women set up by the Navy to help get something started. It was decided that the head of the WAVES should be Mildred McAfee...
...talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas Manning removed St. Mark's from his Episcopal visiting list (so that members had to be confirmed elsewhere), did not relent until 1932, when the dances were discontinued for lack of funds. On his retirement in 1937, Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to the Episcopal Church...
Married. Gloria Marie Callen, 20, beauteous U.S. backstroke champion, holder of 31 national swimming records, Barnard College Junior; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Herbert Erskine Jones Jr., 23, 1942 Princeton crew captain, now in the submarine service; in Manhattan...