Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the school year Fayer lived in Pennsylvania, attending the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. But during vacations and summers, she returned to Puerto Rico to do her heavy training under the club coach's direction. She swam a total of 13,000-14,000 yards in those "two-a-day" training sessions...
Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chamber Singers perform the medley that made them famous. Busch-Reisinger Museum, noon...
...admit women to their hallowed halls early in the '70s put a great deal of pressure on the female branch of the Ivy League to follow suit and open their doors to men. Each of the Seven Sisters responded differently to that pressure: Vassar admitted men outright; Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley settled for sedate exchange programs with neighboring men's colleges; and Radcliffe and Barnard merged with their parent (male) universities. In I'm Radcliffe, Fly Me!, Livia Baker examines the success of each of the routes, and the direct effect the changes brought on the position...
...larger society abandoned feminism for a third of a century as soon as they got the vote." Second--and perhaps more telling, although Baker fails to develop this idea fully--the women of the Seven Sisters failed to support the feminist movement because, in the words of Bryn Mawr's Carey Thomas, herself an ardent feminist, it is "the symbol of a stupendous social revolution and we are frightened before it." The women who attend the Seven Sisters, like the men who have traditionally attended the Ivy Leagues, come from predominantly upperclass, Eastern establishment backgrounds. Any threat to the status...
...Haverford's board of managers-including two members who also serve on Bryn Mawr's governing board-saw things Bryn Mawr's way. Although it voted to allow women transfer students into Haverford's upper three classes, there are actually very few openings for transfer students. Bryn Mawr called the decision "a victory of coeducation through cooperation...