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Once upon a time, little girls agrowing used to think dreamily of the day they would matriculate at Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr or Sweet Briar. But with the population explosion, those colleges, can no longer take care of everyone, and some girls have to settle for less. In Los Angeles, for example, there is the Pink Pussycat College of Striptease...
...Fifth oldest (1879) of the Seven Sisters, the female Ivy League. Oldest is Mount Holyoke (1837), biggest is Smith (2,200), richest is Wellesley ($44 million). The others are Vassar, Barnard, Bryn Mawr...
Section 1001(f), and more particularly, the disclaimer affidavit, has caused the withdrawal from NDEA of many universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton (one of the first), Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Amherst, Antioch, Reed, and (most recently) Colby...
...advantages have long been apparent to Philadelphia's Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore. Years ago, they began swapping students and professors. Now Bryn Mawr alone offers geology, cutting costs for the other schools. Haverford and Bryn Mawr share sociology, cutting costs for Swarthmore, which, in turn, is strongest in psychology. The schools snag high-priced professors by splitting their salaries. Last year they also got a $136,000 Ford Foundation grant for Asian studies, a project too ambitious for any of them to have handled alone...
When she married a Columbia medical school pediatrics professor in 1932. Millicent Carey Mclrrrosh considered resigning as headmistress of Manhattan's top-notch Brearley School, changed her mind after her aunt, Bryn Mawr's late President M. Carey Thomas, coldly reminded her: "You can have your babies in August." Last week, after five babies, 17 years at Brearley and 14 more as head of New York's Barnard College, Educator Mclntosh, 62, announced that she would finally retire come next commencement. Future plans: to squander a year on "a real holiday," then move off to rural Massachusetts...