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...motor accident in France three years ago made Margaret Ayer Barnes an author: in bed for months, she wrote to give herself something to do. Chicago socialite, sister of Novelist Janet Fairbank. Authoress Barnes was formerly a director of Bryn Mawr College. Her short stories have been published under the title Prevailing Winds. Years of Grace is her first novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cycle a Woman | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...proposition." But fine, frequent and varied as are its temporary exhibits, it is Brooklyn Museum's permanent collections which sustain its reputation. Among these: the Avery collection of Chinese cloissonne; a collection of Xapoleana unsurpassed in the U. S., donated by the late Dean Marion Reilly of Bryn Mawr College: the American rooms, 22 excellent native interiors faithfully rebuilt in the museum; a modern watercolor collection scarcely to be equalled anywhere (much notable work by Sargent, Homer, Burchfield, Hawthorne, Davies, Demuth. etc., etc.); a collection exhibiting the history of costume in the U. S.; the 461 famed water-colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Brooklyn | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...more vital values; only if they serve to bring personalities into blossom; only if they call out to the full the possibilities of the self; only if they make for rich, intense, growing, creative experience. Morality must be a means, not an end." ? Professor Hornell Hart of Bryn Mawr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mental Hygiene | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...accomplishments of Helen Herron Taft Manning, Ph. D. (A. B. Bryn Mawr, 1915; M. A., Yale, 1916, Ph. D., 1924), Dean and Acting President of Bryn Mawr College, TIME is well aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...three or four years, each Bennington girl will reveal her accomplish ments to the faculty through "examinations, theses, or other objective tests." Should she be successful, she will receive as crisp and sightly an A. B. diploma as ever was given at Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bennington Experiment | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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