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Much condolence is due the feminine voters of Bryn Mawr who have survived the gruelling and chaotic procedure of the May Day polling which, with its party politics and agitation, has evidently kept the college girls in a state of hectic suspense and turmoil. However, appearances seem to indicate that it is not the voters who bear the brunt of the burden of electoral vicissitudes. For from an account of the recent proceeding at Bryn Mawr in The College News it would appear that every May Day queen pays a price for her crown in shoe leather if nothing else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAD WORK | 1/24/1928 | See Source »

Indeed, Bryn Mawr femininity just loves to see its fortunate choices for the royal headgear promenade. Queenly "walkings" are all the vogue after the horrible strife of a great deal of competition is over, after the heckling over in-numerable processes of elimination dies down, and even after the acceptance of a position which would have delayed things a little longer and added to the excitment had been nullified. This is just an initiation, it seems, into the usual proceedings which the election entails and which The College News condescends to elucidate for "poor muddled heads." It merely reduces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAD WORK | 1/24/1928 | See Source »

Professor Harper Woodrow Wilson Memorial Professor of Literature at Princeton, Chairman; R. S. Baker, Amherst, Mass.; Hon. J. W. Davis, New York; W. L. Lippman, the New York World; Miss Marion Park, Bryn Mawr College; Miss Ellen Pendleton, Wellesley College; and W. A. White, Emporia, Kansas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILSON ESSAY CONTEST CLOSES AT END OF MONTH | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

...examples from the ranks of the magnates who write for the American Magazine would have proved as little as over, but the knowledge that two-thirds of those who enter college have come from homes that never knew the framed degree is soothing balm to the knowledge that Bryn Mawr's best is 1.8 children per graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNBENT TWIGS | 11/23/1927 | See Source »

Amherst, Annapolis, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Michigan, Mt. Holyoke, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Smith, Vassar, Virginia, Wellesley, West Point, Williams, and Yale

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVES THREE PRIZES IN CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST | 10/29/1927 | See Source »

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