Word: mawr
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...Bryn Mawr, Pa. and Eliot House...
...1870s, when Faust’s alma mater Bryn Mawr was pioneering in higher education for women, Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, doubted whether women’s “natural mental capacities” were up to the challenge. Co-education was, of course, unthinkable, even when bright young Bostonian women were pounding on the doors. Eliot could barely imagine the consequences of trying “…to teach together sets of persons, who like young men and young women, differ widely in regard to sensibility, quickness, docility...
...thus dumbfounding that the University’s Governing Boards would elect to the presidency a pants-wearing, child-bearing scholar of social history (read: history for weaklings) who doesn’t even hold a degree from Harvard. By entrusting our community to a scaredy-pants Bryn Mawr alumna, whose principal administrative experience is as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—the what?—the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers have jeopardized our collective future.There is, however, an alternative, whose viability has become blissfully clear in the past week. Blessed with insight...
...Dunn and fellow members on a search committee were simultaneously searching for a new dean during these tumultuous times. “Drew Faust had been nominated by a number of people, including me,” Dunn says, who taught Faust when she was a student at Bryn Mawr. But it was ultimately Faust’s sense of purpose that sealed the deal.“She had a very strong vision of what the institute should be like,” Dunn adds, “and she was very articulate in explaining that vision to everyone...
SUSANNA GAERTNER February 15, 2007 Scotts Valley, Ca. The writer is president of the Bryn Mawr college class...