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...Bryn Mawr's maple-shaded campus last week gathered a clothing worker and a shoe worker from England, an automobile worker from Kansas City, a rubber worker from Akron-65 working girls all told. Their clothes did not come from Fifth Avenue nor their manners from a finishing school, but for seven weeks they will enjoy the luxury of Bryn Mawr's capitalistic dormitories, swimming pool, tennis courts and learning. They are students in the college's Summer School for Women Workers, which last week began its 18th year...
...pioneer in workers' education in the U. S., which is scarcely a generation old, Bryn Mawr's summer school was started in 1921 by Bryn Mawr's brilliant late president, Miss M. Carey Thomas. Since then similar schools have been opened at University of Wisconsin, in North Carolina, in Berkeley, Calif, and in Chicago. They are now associated with the Affiliated Schools for Workers. Bryn Mawr supplies buildings and helps plan the summer school. The teachers come from high schools and colleges. Labor unions, college girls, Y. W. C. A.s, settlement houses and alumnae contribute the scholarships...
Nearly all the students are union members, but the school does not try to sell unionism or Marxism, merely endeavors to help students see all sides of a problem and learn how to hunt facts. The method of learning is reading and discussion. The Bryn Mawr school teaches its students economics, politics, English, dancing, dramatics, music. The girls go on hikes, are fattened on well-balanced meals...
Professor Kohler, one of the world's most brilliant organic chemists, has been an integral part of the Harvard scene for 26 years: he has taught Chemistry 5 every year since 1912, when he came to Harvard after 20 years of teaching at Bryn Mawr. One of the first two graduate students who studied with him was James B. Conant '14, who also worked under him during the war. As a scientist, he was outstanding--his work in unsaturated organic compounds is internationally known and respected--but it was as a teacher and a man that the unique quality...
Kendall Balkins, manager of the team, said yesterday that a new consignment of curling irons is expected from Bryn Mawr this afternoon...