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...only justification 'Cliffies could see for ending off-campus housing was their expensive upkeep. "But maybe each of us could write to an alumna for money--it's worth it!" exclaimed one girl...
Magic Savvy. From her first week in law school, the would-be woman lawyer recognizes, in the words of a Columbia alumna, that "she has to do better than the men." "Two girls were eliminated in my class at University of Washington Law, because they just could not bring themselves to argue a rape case," recalls Mary Sanders, who herself has given up practice and is now chief law librarian for the attorney general of California. Another handicap, recalls a male jurist, is that "the men in law school study together, drink coffee together, share their notes, ideas and problems...
...Apple Walker and Polly Lawrence, with children ranging from 9 to 18, turned their dissatisfaction with charity work to profit by forming a public relations firm called Ideas Inc. to handle publicity for charity benefits and a few commercial accounts. Teaching appeals to many. "Frankly," says a Mount Holyoke alumna (1946) with four children, "I think teaching is the best bet for me because it's the best way to use my education and still let me spend the most time with my family. I'll have the same vacations that my children have." But the range...
...GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Vassar's cleverest alumna tells all about eight girls who might have graduated with her into the confused Depression world of New York in the '30s. Though it is brilliantly fictionalized sociology of a sad period, Vassar may think of it as a class portrait by Charles Addams...
...hard that the kid broke down. The file began with a letter on the stationery of a large corporation, signed by the president, which requested a college application blank for his son and added in a guileless-looking P.S. that the boy's mother was a Stanford alumna. Next, with thanks for the dean's prompt reply, came a $250 check for the mother's life membership in the alumni association...