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...when a female product of a progressive school tries to get into Vassar. Smith, Wellesley or Bryn Mawr, she is often unable to meet the formal admission requirements. To provide for such girls, the residents of Old Bennington, Vt., laid plans six years ago to establish a college. Under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth, townsmen and summer visitors raised over $500,000 and provided a campus on a slope of the Green Mountains where oldtime Mount Anthony Seminary was founded...

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

This was the statement of President William Allan Neilson of Smith College, delivered yesterday afternoon in the Hotel Statler before 1000 members of the Alumnae Clubs of the Seven Associated Colleges--Smith, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Mt. Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Barnard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/29/1930 | See Source »

...second half of the year 1930-31. He was graduated from Hobart College, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Before he became professor of English at Smith in 1924 he was an instructor at Harvard, a lecturer and later assistant and associate professor at Bryn Mawr. He has written several studies on English literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FOREIGNERS TO LECTURE AT HARVARD | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

...elevation of Cary Travers Grayson from Commander to Rear-Admiral in 1916 was at the special request of President Wilson, to give his personal physician appropriate rank. *A second son, John, was killed in a motor accident in 1926. The daughter, Josephine, was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1928. Philip, third son, is a sophomore at St. Lawrence College. Richard, youngest son, is in primary school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Man-of-the-Year | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foxcroft's Accolade | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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