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From Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
...Miss Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve has been Professor of English and Dean of Barnard College since 1911. Born in 1877, educated at Brearly School (Manhattan), she received an A.B. degree at Barnard, an M.A. and a Ph.D. at Columbia, an LL.D. at Rutgers...