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Stocky, genial, accustomed to bustling about his city room in his shirt sleeves, Publisher Stern lives in a square colonial house at East Haddonfield, N. J. with his wife, whom he married when she was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr, and their four children. He smokes long black cigars, drives his car recklessly, plans to commute to Manhattan by plane. His office at the Record has a kitchenette where his butler makes his lunch on busy days...
...their lawmakers cut down on education's budget. Private institutions have to levy their own taxes, from alumni and rich friends. Seven women's colleges in the East five years ago hit on the idea of banding together to get better publicity for their appeals-Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley. In 1931 they presented their case-that they get only one-tenth as much as big Eastern men's colleges-at a Manhattan luncheon. In 1932 they had their needs studied by an advisory council headed by Newton D. Baker and including...
...Morgan at Bryn Mawr College (1891-1904) and Columbia University (1904-28) was one of the pioneers in chromosome study. In fact he hopped to scholarly repute from a frog's egg. Man has 24 chromosomes in his germ cells, the fruit fly 4. Dr. Morgan picked the fruit fly as most convenient for the study of inheritance. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) produces 25 generations a year, which is about as many as man produces in 500 years...
...Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School. The last two and Author Morley were given honorary Litt. D. degrees at last week's celebration...
...traveled abroad. ¶13.4%, as compared with 5.34% in 1903, had attended either Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Smith, Radcliffe or Wellesley...