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...sterility. Chief mover of last week's conference was Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, wife of a famed Manhattan insurance economist. She has been president of the Ameri- can Birth Control League since Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger resigned in 1928. Brown-haired, slim, energetic, mother of two college daughters (Bryn Mawr, Yassar) herself a Radcliffe graduate, she has made Birth Control a learned, professional, socialite movement...
...recent count taken at the postoffice through which most Harvard mail goes on its outward trip reveals that an average of 60 letters a day is sent by students to Wellesley College. To Smith go half as many, 30 per day. Vassar girls receive but 20 a day, and Bryn Mawr places a poor fourth with but 12 daily...
Evidently the Wellesley girl is a sort of golden mean. Students are familiar with the studious Vassar girl, the social Smith type, and the athletic maiden of Bryn Mawr. Perhaps the explanation for the number of letters which travel from Harvard to Wellesley every day is explained by the fact that the Wellesley girl is near at hand. Or perhaps she is, as has been suggested above, the happy combination of the qualities of students at the three other leading feminine colleges of the north...
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...Director of the investigation was Carnegie staff member Howard James Savage, onetime English teacher (Harvard, Bryn Mawr), Encyclopedia Britannica contributor (U. S. Athletic Sports). Other field workers: John Terence McGovern, oldtime Cornell runner (1900), member of U. S. Olympic Commission (1921), Encyclopedia contributor (Track and Field Sports); Harold W. Bentley, Columbia University Spanish Instructor, Encyclopedia contributor (Sports); Dean F. Smiley, M. D., Cornell medical adviser. The Bulletin's preface was written by Carnegie Foundation President Henry Smith Pritchett himself, famed Astronomer, onetime (1900-1906) President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...