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Philadelphia is not a slow town. It is big, rich, social. It drinks hard, plays hard. Especially on its socialite Main Line northwest of the city-in Radnor, Haverford, Merion, Ardmore, Bryn Mawr -where live the people who appear in the Sunday society supplements, is life regarded as a cocktail free to all who would drink. Such gay communities as socialite Philadelphia are ripe for tragedy. Last week tragedy appeared there...
...That is just the reason you are ashamed of it," said the father of one young wife. "These college professors are likely to be unbelievers. The products of women's colleges are mostly a faithless, shameless lot too. I ought to know for I sent three daughters to Bryn Mawr or Mt. Holyoke. [I am not sure which college he designated. It was one or the other. Perhaps the three doubters distributed themselves. Both colleges were mentioned by the father.] My married daughter is not teaching her children their prayers, a vital mistake to my Methodist mind. Probably...
...plan has been taken up by executives of other colleges, including Yale, Princeton, M. I. T., the University of Seattle, Bryn Mawr, and Vassar...
Died, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, 76, pioneer U. S. sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at Columbia University; after a long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...
Engaged. Josephine Young, only daughter of Owen D. Young, Bryn Mawr graduate, employee in National Broadcasting Co.'s educational department; and Everett Needham Case, assistant secretary of General Electric Co., confidential secretary to Owen D. Young, secretary of Princeton's Class of 1922, son of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank...