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Leah Gordon has probably checked a few million or so herself in the course of her distinguished career with the magazine. A philosophy major at Bryn Mawr College, she joined TIME in 1960; during the next 20 years she worked in virtually every editorial department of the magazine. Today she is in charge of the magazine's more than 50 men and women who are reporter-researchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 20, 1982 | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...according to Crawford, the almost unanimous vote in favor of the nuclear freeze would have an effect. She said she believes a nationwide student movement could influence legislators. Similar referendums were passed on Thursday at four other schools--Williams, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Marlboro...

Author: By Barry J. Fisher, | Title: 96% at Brown Favor Proposal For Nuclear Weapons Freeze | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

...nativity scene, stripping to his short and insisting on playing little baby Jesus. But Fenwick is clearly a lot more complex than all this, which we see in a revealing scene in which he sits alone in his room watching college Bowl, and beats Cornell and Bryn Mawr to the punch on every question. He's a great, messed-up kid, perhaps on his way to being an alcoholic...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: A Four-Star Diner | 4/8/1982 | See Source »

...addition to more than 2000 Harvard-Radcliffe students, about 5000 students from Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley are participating in the study, funded by a $685,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study Results Show Compromised Goals | 1/20/1982 | See Source »

...foreign languages and math as part of a strong liberal arts background. That has meant that Georgia Tech, because it mainly trains engineers, has never had a chapter. ΦBK guidelines also indicate that new members rank in the top tenth of their class, a standard that made Bryn Mawr refuse a chapter on grounds that all Bryn Mawr women are academically elite. The grade inflation that began in the late '60s has made it difficult to distinguish the brilliant from the merely bright. Many college chapters, including Harvard's, now examine the records of candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Centuries of Elitism | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

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