Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wallingford, Conn., moving to Greenwich in 1900. Miss Ruutz-Rees (Democratic National Committeewoman for Connecticut) is English by birth and education, and her school has something of the English temper. Its physical and intellectual life is robust, "not for weaklings."* The diploma requirement is admission by examination to Bryn Mawr, Vassar or Smith College. Field hockey, basketball, self-government and brains are the things for which Rosemary has become noted. Associated with Miss Ruutz-Rees are Miss Mary E. Lowndes, who rides horseback and thinks vigorously at 70; and Miss Margaret Augur, a Barnard graduate and old Rosemarian...
...Baldwin School, at Bryn Mawr, Pa., is the oldest and most widely known of the many girls' schools in and about Philadelphia. Elizabeth Forrest Johnson, Vassar graduate, "maintains the wholesome and sensible ideals of the founder," Florence Baldwin. Her girls take their studies seriously, are taught well by a large staff, usually enter Bryn Mawr College...
Substitutes: Eric Pedley, Midwick Country Club, Calif.; Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Earle Hopping, Bryn Mawr...
...Central Trust Co.; Bernard Gallant, proprietor of the Club Gallant, Manhattan restaurant recently padlocked by Prohibition enforcement officers; Ho Kom Tong, Chinese banker bound for London to be knighted by George, R. I.; Harry Pilcer, onetime dancing partner of Gaby Deslys; Miss M. Carey Thomas, President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr...
...peace plans of a number of unsuccessful contestants for the Bok award. My plan was included, as were also those of Charles W. Eliot, Bishop Charles H. Brent, David Starr Jordan, Simeon Strunsky (editorial writer on The New York Times) Dr. M. Carey Thomas (President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College), William S. Culbertson (Vice Chairman U. S. Tariff Commission...