Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch underground. After a year at Yale and the cross-country trip, he had been impressed by "the lack of class distinction, the materialistic thinking of most Americans, their absence of reserve, and the general lack of interest in church." One English girl who attended prep school at Bryn Mawr, Pa. thought that "the amount of food Americans waste is disgusting. The amount of clothes American girls have is tremendous-closets and drawers filled to overflowing." Said another English girl: "The overwhelming friendliness is the most striking thing about America. Central heating is next...
...Cheer." Author Miller, who teaches at Bryn Mawr, is the author of a biography of Sam Adams and of Origins of the American Revolution. He writes in the carefully documented tradition of Henry Adams-i.e., unsparing, exact, relying largely on original sources, skeptical of pretensions to high motives. There is, in fact, an undercurrent of exasperation in Author Miller's account, as if he placed the grim record of incompetence and theft and treason in evidence, and said: "Now cheer." Curiously enough, the heroism of the seven years' struggle is all the more remarkable in an account...
Most Madeira girls go to good colleges (favorites: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr), marry comfortably, and send their daughters back to Madeira. Among past & present Madeirans: Paulina Longworth, Joan Morgenthau, Susan Saltonstall, Diana Hopkins, Laurette Soong (niece of Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...institutions whose students will come under the program include Wellesley, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, and Vassar. Adams indicated that, of the seven, Smith would probably send the greatest number of students here...
...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 life? Says Spinster Cam: "I don't have any. Too busy...