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Crowding around the display tables like pigs at a trough, Harvard bibliophiles mobbed the fifth annual Bryn Mawr Book Sale in its opening skirmishes yesterday. In the two hours of the sale a mixed multitude of students, book dealers, kindly old ladies, and Harvard faculty members battled for positions and bought 3600 volumes of "Fiction, Literature and Ten-Cent Miscellany...
Books are donated by Bryn Mawr alumnae and priced by Mrs. Lyman H. Butterfield, with the aid of her husband, the editor of the Adams Papers. Proceeds of the sale are used to send bookish girls to Bryn Mawr, and the cycle begins again...
...strongest traditions at Smith College are balance and moderation. Academically, the college has followed neither the formal but intensively intellectual approach of Sarah Lawrence, nor the pattern of disciplined scholarship of Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe. Socially, Smith remains firmly middle class and middle of the road: the Smith ideal is diversity rather than intensity, and among the girls, the urge to be well-rounded is extremely powerful...
...short story course," he recalls. "She was brought there by a very good poet who has since become famous--I can't remember his name--and I accosted her and asked her to tea." Miss Kunhardt, a post-deb who was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1948, was then a student at the Graduate School of Education...
...past few years, Miss Sarton has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has also served a term as a Lucy Marton Donnelly Fellow at Bryn Mawr College. She lectured recently at the Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, and her readings there have just been published in a book called "The Moment of Poetry...