Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amherst, Annapolis, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Michigan, Mt. Holyoke, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Smith, Vassar, Virginia, Wellesley, West Point, Williams, and Yale
...saucy dairy maid, James Watts as the lavender Bunthorne and Joseph Macaulay as the poet Archibald, carol sweetly, they play with more diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical Gilbert & Sullivan to no Gilbert & Sullivan, the production will serve. The plot, as all should know, satirizes Oscar Wildian esthetics, which it quite drove...
...Wheaton voted higher than 97% orthodox. But, such universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, Chicago, Illinois, California, Stanford were not questioned by the International Advertising Association. Of the women's colleges, Wellesley was least orthodox with a vote of 75% affirmative; but Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Barnard were not asked. Affirmative votes included, of course, theists as well as Christians...
...Bryn Mawr...
...young ladies of Bryn Mawr College did honor last week to two of their number who had smashed all local records, one in scholarship, the other in athletics. Sylvia Walker of Bethlehem, Pa., "greatest athlete ever developed at Bryn Mawr," they named Queen of the May. She was already senior president; had captained the basketball and hockey teams; had played on the lacrosse team. At Frederica De Laguna, daughter of Professor and Mrs. Theodore De Laguna, respectively the head and a member of the Bryn Mawr philosophy department, they marveled when it was announced that she had scored...