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Heartening to most campuses, the news was of small moment to five elderly, aristocratic spinster sisters in the East. At the top of their class, the sisters-Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley-have had no trouble keeping at or very near their top limits of enrollment. Depression has not bothered them financially. They have long complained about the fact that their endowments average only one-tenth those of their men's-college equivalents.. But what they had in 1929, invested ultra-conservatively, they have kept. No faculty salaries have been cut, no instructors dismissed...
Having surveyed Vassar, the observer who traveled on last week to Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Bryn Mawr would have found that the years since 1929 had in general treated the five sisters alike-bringing a greater scholastic seriousness and independence, a simpler and more self-reliant social life, an easing of campus restrictions, a virtually doubled enrollment in economics, social studies and fine arts. But he would have been rash as well as obtuse if he had forthwith concluded that the sisters are all alike...
...keep people from starving is the Federal Relief Administration's chief job, but it likes to give them food for the mind as well as the body. So it pays Hilda Smith, friend of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and onetime dean of Bryn Mawr, to sponsor a summer School for Workers on Manhattan's East side. There unemployed teachers get jobs and unemployed workers become pupils, get $8 a week. Last week newshawks wandered in, discovered a rack in which supplementary reading was provided for the pupils...
...from War Commissar Klimentiy E. Voroshilov's Red cavalry rode forth one afternoon last week on a pleasant green meadow across the river from Moscow. They dangled polo mallets from their wrists. With them rode a Philadelphia socialite who had won his one-goal rating with the Bryn Mawr Polo Club and the West Point polo team, Charles W. Thayer, personal secretary to U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt...
...Katharine White, Boston-bred, Bryn Mawr-schooled, joined The New Yorker in its first spring as a reader. Says FORTUNE: "Ross was without taste, either literary or good. . . . Katharine Angell, hard, suave, ambitious, had both kinds and Ross was bright enough to see it. Definitely an antifeminist, he resented her at first, used to tear his hair and bellow that his magazine was 'run by women and children.' But he has long since grown to depend on her, often considers her his most important executive. ... It was she who raised the standard of prose and verse." Her salary as managing...