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...freshmen this semester has risen an average of 6.6% above last year, with some notable peaks around the academic landscape. The head count at California's Mills College is up 20%; freshman enrollment at the College of New Rochelle in New York has jumped from 92 to 144. At Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania, early-admissions applications increased 50% to help make the freshman class of 345 the biggest in the school's 102-year history. "Our applicant pool is up, the quality of students is up, and we're doing quite well," exults Martha Morris, admissions director at Chicago...
...women and, on average, the faculty is 61% female, in contrast to 27% for all higher-ed schools. Without the intimidating male presence, notes WCC's Reindorf, students at all-female colleges are more apt to venture into such traditionally male fields as engineering, physics and economics. At Bryn Mawr, for example, the percentage of physics majors is 20 times as great as the national average for all women students...
Planning to follow family tradition, du Pont majored in engineering at Princeton and there met his future wife Elise, a finely chiseled Bryn Mawr student and Philadelphia heiress with bloodlines as imposing as his own. Du Pont retains fond memories of the cutthroat competition of Harvard Law School but only dim memories of what he calls his "very conventional" life before then. While at Princeton, he had a blind date with Vassar Student Jane Fonda but cannot remember what they...
Surveying the damage, Church Historian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago sees a "widespread sense of moral disarray." Once, notes Bryn Mawr Political Scientist Stephen Salkever, "there was a traditional language of public discourse, based partly on biblical sources and partly on republican sources." But that language, says Salkever, has fallen into disuse, leaving American society with no moral lingua franca. Agrees Jesuit Father Joseph O'Hare, president of Fordham University: "We've had a traditional set of standards that have been challenged and found wanting or no longer fashionable. Now there don't seem to be any moral...
Said Spain: "Bryn Mawr has always had a hard time looking financially healthy...