Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard-Yale cross-word puzzle match is to take place at the same time as a triangular match made up of representatives of Smith, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr colleges. The winners of the two matches will then decide the championship of the eastern colleges by a final contest...
...announced John Farrar and Stephen Vincent as her crossword team, but a canvass of likely persons both at Harvard and Wellesley failed to reveal any one aware of this new departure in intercollegiate competition. The New York contests are to be staged for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr Music Foundation and the City Music League of New York...
Brandeis. Miss Susan Brandeis, Manhattan, was educated at Bryn Mawr College, schooled in law at Chicago University. She is third partner in the law firm of Kirsch, Edelman and Brandeis. She scorns feminine foibles in dress and manner, works hard, studies harder, plays little. On levity, on publicity, she pours disdain. She sits late, rises early. As special assistant district attorney she prosecuted anti-trust cases for the State of New York. "My daughter," says Justice Brandeis, "is a self-made...
...year ling for "one of the highest prices ever paid for a harness horse in Europe." Purchased last spring by Miss Jean Browne Scott, of Manhattan, he lately beat Charm, famed hackney, at the Olympia show in England, thus becoming the champion English hackney horse. At the recent Bryn Mawr show, he was awarded 21 blue ribbons, an un precedented performance. In the present exhibition, he won the Bal- manno Challenge Cup, defeating his ancient rival, Field Marshal, and a blue in the class for harness horses over 15.2 hands. Blooded, debonair and sleek, Knight Commander is like the horse...
Miss Mary Rodney of Bryn Mawr College spoke in favor of the Progressive movement. "Really, one might think that the very fundamentals of the government were at stake", she said, referring to La Follette's desire to limit the powers of the Supreme Court, "but what the Progressive Party is really seeking is the abolition of tyranny by one branch of the government." She described La Follette's foreign policy as "refusing to let the flag follow the investor...