Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morrison had been a hero-worshiper since 1918, when she and other students invited Frost to lecture at Bryn Mawr. He attracted a large circle of personal and professional friends-Mrs. Morrison very much near the head of the list-who thought his pouts and tantrums worth putting up with, and who conspired elaborately to ease him through the last half of his life...
...ironic side-her doctoral research at the University of Michigan paved the way for subsequent studies revealing that most American women fear success. The daughter of Greek immigrants, raised in Boston's mixed ethnic section of Roxbury, Horner attended Boston Girls' Latin School and Bryn Mawr College. One of her tasks is presiding over the integration of Radcliffe and Harvard under one university umbrella on a trial basis. Her major concern: helping women and minority groups achieve equal access to education and jobs...
Horner's shift from the specific to the general this year comes partly because she was so specific in her duties last year, when she was learning the ropes of the job. She came to Harvard in 1969 after getting her B.A. at Bryn Mawr (she turned down Radcliffe) and her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She taught a few undergraduate courses and had something of a following in her field because of her studies in women's fear of success, but at the time of her appointment she had little experience with Harvard administrative work...
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...college then contacts these potential candidates to encourage them to apply. Schwalbe said that Bryn Mawr College has also participated in a program of this kind, with similar results...