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...week's end, six schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Antioch, Princeton, Swarthmore and Reed-had refused to accept money under the act. Other schools are accepting funds but protesting the oaths. Presidents Nathan Pusey of Harvard and A. Whitney Griswold of Yale praised Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming for criticizing the oaths, and Griswold wrote: "In our eyes, such measures are at best odious symbols, at worst a potential threat to our profession . . . Belief cannot be coerced or compelled." Other institutions whose heads object to the provision: Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, the University of Wisconsin and Atlanta...
...more institutions--Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby--also have attacked the non-subversive pledge. Bryn Mawr and Haverford authorities felt so strongly about the measure that they refused to take part in the act's loan program...
...Sister Seven" colleges are: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard...
Their daughter Ann, then 13, graduated from Bryn Mawr eight years later, married Pusey, and is now 17 Quincy Street's first lady. She majored in philosophy at Bryn Mawr, and quotes President Pusey as often childing her that "I've never met anyone who got less out of a major than you did." The President, however, is wrong, for one Webster definition of philosophy proves his error: "Calmness of temper and judgment befitting a philosopher...
Rowing & Croquet. The outsized history prof was headed for Smith College before he was born; according to family legend his pediatrician mother (class of '95) entered him antenatally. Among his qualifications for running the school: he is the father of three daughters (the eldest is a Bryn Mawr freshman). Among Yalemen, there seems some reason to believe that Mendenhall will modify his wardrobe before journeying to Smith next July, perhaps holding a ceremonial bonfire for the professorial rags on Berkeley lawn. At any rate, publicity pictures passed out by the women's college show him in a neat...