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...1870s, when Faust’s alma mater Bryn Mawr was pioneering in higher education for women, Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, doubted whether women’s “natural mental capacities” were up to the challenge. Co-education was, of course, unthinkable, even when bright young Bostonian women were pounding on the doors. Eliot could barely imagine the consequences of trying “…to teach together sets of persons, who like young men and young women, differ widely in regard to sensibility, quickness, docility...
...abuse of diet pills and laxatives among girls at schools that implemented a two-year health program called “5-2-1-Go!” “The protective effect we found for girls was very strong,” said lead author S. Bryn Austin, an assistant professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). “It cut the risk for girls by two-thirds, that’s really quite large.” Yet boys in the health program did not demonstrate any measurable reduction...
...here is the noteworthy difference. New York's Sarah Lawrence College fell from the highly coveted top-50 tranche of liberal-arts institutions to a no-man's-land of 18 unranked schools few readers are likely to have heard of. (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, anyone?) Sarah Lawrence had been ranked No. 45, but because the school decided to stop collecting applicants' SAT scores Sarah Lawrence is no longer listed anywhere near its highly competitive peers. In an essay published in the Washington Post last March, the college's president emeritus complained publicly that U.S. News...
...fact, there are success stories. Shanghai's Raffles City and the MIXc, a mall in the city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, have good locations and a profitable tenant mix, says Bryn Davies, executive director of retail services for CB Richard Ellis in Greater China. And, despite the glut of space, the mainland's retail sector remains in bull-market mode. Economists expect as the country's consumer culture continues to develop, demand will continue to increase. China today accounts for 5% of global consumption, but investment bank Credit Suisse predicts that number will rise...
...Dunn and fellow members on a search committee were simultaneously searching for a new dean during these tumultuous times. “Drew Faust had been nominated by a number of people, including me,” Dunn says, who taught Faust when she was a student at Bryn Mawr. But it was ultimately Faust’s sense of purpose that sealed the deal.“She had a very strong vision of what the institute should be like,” Dunn adds, “and she was very articulate in explaining that vision to everyone...