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...Board of Managers at Haverford College announced Saturday that it has compromised on the dispute over coeducation, deciding not to admit women into next year's freshman class while allowing women to transfer into other classes...
...debate centered around the relationship between Haverford, an all-male school near Philadelphia with about 800 students, and Bryn Mawr, a women's college of about 1000 students located approximately a mile and a half away...
...present, students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr may freely cross-register, providing a coeducational atmosphere. Most classes at the two schools contain approximately 25 per cent cross-registered students...
When Denoël, bludgeoned and awed by his unsolicited masterpiece, finally tracked down its author, he turned out to be equally original. In this persistent rather than brilliant biography, British Scholar Patrick McCarthy (who now teaches at Haverford College) patiently matches the manuscript...
...Revolution, the "police" were nothing but night watchmen who set up the hue and cry if a fire broke out or a horse died in the street. But big cities began to suffer more noisome problems. By the 1820s one out of every 65 Bostonians was, according to Haverford College Historian Roger Lane, engaged in selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston were raided in 1823 by a party of citizens led by Mayor Josiah Quincy. In 1837 a riot between volunteer firemen and an Irish funeral procession was so serious...