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Awarded. To Jane Addams, 60: the $5,000 prize for a woman's "eminent achievement"; by Bryn Mawr College...
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...recognition of these facts, 80 literary persons, most of them women, lunched in Manhattan last week with alumnae of Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Barnard, Smith and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. All present were urged to help create public interest in higher education for U. S. girls. President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College complained that the seven colleges represented at the luncheon gave education.equivalent to that offered by seven highest ranking male institutions, but received only one-tenth the males' endowment. Said she: "The women's colleges are asking not a dole, but justice...
...subjects. He was graduated from Haverford College, and after studying at the University of Heidelberg, he received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901 and D.D. in 1922. In the same year he received the degree of LL.D. from both Swarthmore and Haverford. He is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, president of the board since 1916, and of Brown University, while he has held his present professorship since...
...disastrous aviation "boom" of three years ago, stands Harold F. Pitcairn, 34. Lean, conservative, outwardly humorless, he is third son of the late John Pitcairn, founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The elder Pitcairn, a follower of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, gave land near the family home at Bryn Athyn, Pa. for the beautiful Swedenborgian Cathedral (New Jerusalem Church) which now stands there. All of the family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned to fly as a youngster...