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...that she enjoyed, called Harvard sometimes “overwelming.” “I slightly regretted not going to Swarthmore,” she said. “Even though I am a very old lady I can remember that.” She later attended Girton College at Cambridge University, according to the British Who’s Who Magazine. There she met her husband Lord John Vaizey in England “through friends of friends,” she said. He was a “preeminent Englishmen,” according to Elaine...
...Lynn Girton, an attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, also noted that society's focus is not on children...
...fled their violent town-gown riots and settled in the fens 53 miles north of London. Beginning in 1284 with Peterhouse, now the smallest college (240 undergraduates), Cambridge has grown to 21 colleges-including rich, intellectual Kings, athletic Jesus and Emmanuel, social (and biggest: more than 800) Trinity, plus Girton and Newnham for the 666 women undergraduates that Cantabs complain...
Economics in many ways remains almost "a branch of theology," Joan Robinson, Reader in Economics in Girton College, Cambridge, declared yesterday afternoon before an overflow audience at, Littauer Center. Although the subject has slowly become more scientific, it hasn't really progressed "any further than alchemy," she added...
...home is in Oxford, but in term she lives at Girton College, Cambridge. Her day begins when a gyp (servant) brings a cup of tea at 6 a.m. Three times a week Dr. Cam cycles to a lecture hall, her steel-grey hair and black academic gown billowing in the breeze. She has been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social...