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CREA is composed of six faculty members, two alumnae, and admissions officers at Stanford, Princeton, and Bryn Mawr...
Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Radcliffe. When the first was founded by a Massachusetts teacher named Mary Lyon in 1837, she called it a "peculiar institution"; it was designed solely for the post-secondary education of women. In the 1920s the colleges banded together as the Seven Sisters, partly to present a united front for fund raising. Elaine Kendall (Mt. Holyoke '49) sees all of them as Peculiar Institutions (Putnam, $8.95). Her "informal history" of the Seven, both affectionate and critical, scans their strange beginnings, early growth and difficult future...
...esthetic nature of the manly oak." In 1895, according to Kendall, the women's college movement was staggered when a survey showed that more than half the graduates remained single. This was of no matter, however, to M. Carey Thomas, the redoubtable lesbian president of Bryn Mawr from 1893 to 1922. Arguing that women should have both marriage and a career, she commented tartly: "Our failures only marry...
...began in the 1960s. When men's colleges started going coed, siphoning off some of the best women students, the Seven Sisters had to take a new look at their original charters. Radcliffe elected to become part of Harvard; Barnard tightened its ties with neighboring Columbia, and Bryn Mawr with Haverford; Vassar took in men. Only Wellesley, Smith and Mt. Holyoke remained colleges for women. There is currently a new wave of interest in them, fueled in part by their courses in women's studies, but Kendall believes it is temporary, and that ultimately no single-sex school...
...Bryn Mawr...