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...logical answer to the Administration's objection has been proposed by the Romance Languages Department. This answer is embodied in the so-called Sweet Briar Plan. Under this, qualified juniors from any recognized college in America may study in France for one year. They are under the supervision of an American professor who accompanies them, and are allowed to elect courses at any of the outstanding Paris institutions. This plan, administered by Sweet Briar College, is carried out under the auspices of a committee of the Institute of International Education composed of professors from Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth...
Recently, the entire Romance Languages Department went on record unanimously in favor of the Sweet Briar Plan. Associate Professor Francis M. Rogers, Chairman of the Department, feels that students are under adequate supervision and do at least as much work as they would in this country. He points out that awarding of credit by Harvard would be a comparatively simple matter. The French university would send the College a transcript of the student's record. If his grades were satisfactory, the College would grant credit for a full year. If they were not, credit would of course be withheld...
Surely here is a reasonable system of safeguards. In fairness to those who want to study abroad, the College should either participate in the Sweet Briar plan or set up a similar arrangement...
...prevailing script was too knotty to read; to rectify it the Emperor invited the Northumbrian monk Alcuin to teach the Franks a comparatively simple hand inherited from the days of Roman rule. The script did not stay simple: by the 13th Century, manuscript texts had become as tangled as briar patches. The gnarled letters of ladies' prayer books were twined about with ornamental thorns, and even the page borders swarmed with children and gargoyles...
Though the meeting is titled the Seven College Conference and the so-called "Big Seven" of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley will be represented, a bevy of delegates from Sweet Briar have also been invited...