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Radcliffe is one of the last of the "seven sister" colleges to raise its tuition rates. Vassar, Barnard, Smith, Bryn Mawr, and Mt. Holyoke began the trend this year by increasing charges $250 to $300 each. Like Radcliffe, Wellesley will wait until 1964-'65 for a $300 rise. Radcliffe will remain the most expensive of the seven schools by over...
...embassy in Kabul comes an urgent State Department order to locate Ellen Jaspar, a Bryn Mawr junior who has run off and married an Afghan engineer named Nazrullah. Thirteen months have passed since Ellen had last written her parents back home in Dorset, Pa. The task of finding the missing girl falls to Mark Miller, a junior embassy officer fluent in Pashto, the native language...
...girls are not just manicuring their nails either. A recent study of the students at the Seven Sisters (Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley) shows that last year six out of every ten were gainfully employed during the summer. This year some 300 will work in scientific research laboratories without pay as part of their training, about 75 will serve in Government internship programs in Washington. Many more will join traveling seminars in art, language and international affairs. Others like Vassar's future geologist, Diana Chapman will devote their summer to their specialty, and still...
...Antioch (Ohio), Bennington (Vt.), Bryn Mawr (Pa.), Goddard (Vt.), Oberlin (Ohio), Reed (Ore.), Sarah Lawrence (N.Y.), Swarthmore (Pa.), Vassar (N.Y.) and Wesleyan University (Conn...
Happy went to the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., graduated in 1944, earning a record of average scholarship and her nickname ("because she just made everybody happy," recalls a classmate). In December 1948, she married Dr. "Robin" Murphy in a big society wedding in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer called Happy "pulchritudinous," "superbly lovely" and noted that she wore a bridal gown "brought from Belgium by her great-great-grandmother and worn by every bride in the family since then...