Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bryn Mawr...
...tried by the Seven College Conference, any student with a "strong high school record" and the approval of her school who applies to only one of the colleges will be notified of her acceptance or refusal in the fall. The members of the Conference are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Pembroke, Radcliffe, Smith and Wellesley...
...young Bryn Mawr graduate looked up from her ironing board. "The living room is no place for work like this," she remarked, "and it's certainly no atmosphere in which to raise children...
After getting a B.A. and an M.A. at Bryn Mawr, she set out for Germany with her sister Alice, who was later to become the first woman professor at Harvard Medical School. In those days the University of Munich was a famous classics center, and even though no woman had ever been admitted before. Edith was soon a familiar sight in Munich's classrooms, seated at her special place, isolated from the males, on the speaker's platform. In 1896, she was made headmistress of Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. There, for 26 years, "Miss Edith" remained...
...Bryn Mawr College's Helen Taft Manning, 65, two-time dean (1917-19, 1925-41) and two-time acting president (1919-20, 1929-30), who might well have been president had she not preferred to stick to her first love, studying and teaching history. The only daughter of William Howard Taft, Helen was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr when, at the age of 18, she was called to serve as her father's hostess in the White House. Three years later she went back to take her bachelor's degree, followed by graduate study at Yale, marriage...