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...structure mounted on four trailer trucks. Unfolding like a massive Chinese puzzle, the shell's white fiberglass panels and canopy can be set up in seven hours. During the five days following, the shell was trucked to Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Crocheron Park in Queens, where the orchestra drew crowds of 30,000 and 22,000 (in the rain) respectively. In total, the Philharmonic-on-wheels played to more people in three evenings than it does in three months at its elegant Lincoln Center quarters...
Died. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 87, longtime dean of Barnard College (1911-47), formidable though warmly admired teacher ("It's fun to use your mind"), champion of women's rights and supranationalism, who called students by their last names and disapproved of coed schooling, nevertheless allowed smoking and introduced courses in sex hygiene; the U.S.'s only woman delegate at the 1945 founding of the U.N.; of a heart attack; in Centerville, Mass...
Last week, having been just that for 34 years, Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 68, resigned from the job of running Columbia's 1,237 undergraduate Barnard girls. Said she, as matter-of-factly as her father would have, "I may not get away until the middle of 1947, but it's time they started looking for my successor...
...celebrate the golden jubilee of Barnard College, Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve asked visiting notables to review their adventures in scholarship, to show students that "It's fun to use your mind." English Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson of Smith College remembered her elation at discovering the "Conway Letters" (detailing the romance of a Cambridge University philosopher and a beautiful young viscountess) in a chilly Cambridge library: "I wore all the clothes I owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly...
...student," purred lanky, smiling Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve to some 1,000 girls at the opening assembly of Manhattan's Barnard College last week, "who feels that she must agitate for a cause-and I hope we do have some-will please do it off the Barnard campus. We would rather not ask anyone to leave the college, for it is much more amusing to keep you all here...