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...graduated from Haverford College, and after studying at the University of Heidelberg, he received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901 and D.D. in 1922. In the same year he received the degree of LL.D. from both Swarthmore and Haverford. He is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, president of the board since 1916, and of Brown University, while he has held his present professorship since...
...growth of the student body in late years has been rapid and Radcliffe has suffered accordingly from inadequate buildings. The recent addition, the gift of friends, is the first unit in a projected expansion which, when realized, will give the institution a modern and handsome surrounding. Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and other women's colleges have beautiful camp to their credit; it is fitting that Radcliffe with her high scholastic reputation should at last be situated in an environment worthy of that reputation...
...great bookworm and spends most of his time curled up on a sofa reading. . . . On inauguration day he took to the Senate Treasure Island - to read, he said, in case his father's address bored him"; 4) "Helen Taft [Mrs. Frederick J. Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr] is a nice girl and very intelligent without being a prude"; 5) "When the music began the President began to waltz around the room by himself. . . . Uncle Joe [Cannon], though he knew no waltz steps, simply capered around in a sort of ragtime shuffle"; 6) the first cigaret smoked...
...Chairman of the Administrative Committee, and so the actual head of U. S. Zionism. A brilliant Manhattan lawyer, he was (1914-15) Assistant Attorney-General of Porto Rico, assistant (1915-18) to Solicitor General John William Davis. Mrs. Szold (Zip S. Falk of Savannah) is a member of Bryn Mawr's summer school administrative committee, is President of Hadassah women s Zionist organization. The Szolds live with their three young daughters at Pelham, New York residential suburb...
Increasingly has the policy of a "pay-as-you-go" education found favor among eastern private colleges. Among institutions which have recently raised or will soon raise their tuitions are: Yale, Princeton, Bryn Mawr, M. I. T. Added to this list last week was Vassar. Effective in 1931, parents of Vassar girls will pay $1,200 a year for their daughters' tuition and living expenses at Poughkeepsie, an increase of $200. Town girls will be charged a tuition fee of $500. Trustees explained that the college's additional income will relieve "the strain on overburdened endowments," "pay better...