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...rate an unofficial poll of selected students at Radcliffe, Wellesley and Barnard, conducted recently by a certain advertising agency in connection with the promotion of a book, "The Sex Life of the Unmarried Adult," revealed the embarassing detail of comparative sex knowledge at Harvard and Columbia...
...unofficial poll . . . . "Well," the advertising man said, "that gave us a little trouble at first. First we had to determine which of the women's colleges to include in our questionnaire. And it is only natural that Barnard girls would know more about Columbia College men than would, let's say, Smith students. Radcliffe and Wellesley were chosen pretty much on the same basis for the Harvard end of the poll...
...Well, anyway," the evasive one continued, "the results of the poll clearly revealed that in the estimation of the girls of Barnard the boys of Columbia have a sex knowledge rating of only 44 per cent. And the young women up at Radcliffe and Wellesley thought that the boys at Harvard were entitled to a 66 per cent rating. And that's the reason we had a three-column ad in The Spectator and only a two-column ad in the Harvard CRIMSON. Columbia Spectator...
...brownstone house on East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard, Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, Sculptress Malvina Hoffman, Actresses Michael Strange and Hope Williams, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...
After a decorous debut party in 1929 and two years at Barnard, Jane Wyatt did her best to conform to the routine for stage beginners by making the round of theatrical offices. The round lasted only until she reached the office of Charles Hopkins who promptly engaged her for an ingenue role in Give Me Yesterday. One season in stock, at the commodious summer theatre in Stockbridge, Mass., a few more appearances in Manhattan, prepared her for Hollywood. In her first picture (One More River), Jane Wyatt performed so well that she got the lead in her second, Great Expectations...