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Taming Cobras. Much of all this began under seasoned adult leadership, but a new wrinkle is the help project launched by students themselves. In the forests of northern Minnesota, 16 collegians representing campuses from Bryn Mawr to Minnesota are living among the Chippewa Indians, who are 75% unemployed and too indifferent to care much. By organizing parties and ball games, the boys and girls of Project Awareness have slashed the Chippewas' usual summer crime wave to a low that startles even the sheriff...
...University of Chicago 80%. At Swarthmore, where 81% of men seniors will go on studying, 40% of the girls will follow. At least 40% goes for the girls at Smith and Radcliffe, up from about a fourth of them five years ago. The 1961 rate for Bryn Mawr girls was 58%, and this year it should be even higher. The University of California's Berkeley campus is so overwhelmed that it has yet to gather statistics. Says Graduate Dean Sanford S. Elberg: "We've had 70,000 inquiries about graduate study so far this year...
...doors of the Unitarian Church opened. The crowd rushed in. Some came with boxes, some with shopping bags, some with only their bare hands. They clawed, pushed, shoved. Sweet dowagers fought burly sophomores; professionals, amateurs, spectators, and bystanders joined the fray And all for old books and old Bryn Mawr...
...Bryn Mawr book sale has been running for four years now, and the response is always the same. 10,000 to 12,000 books are sold in two and a half days, netting almost $3000 for the Bryn Mawr scholarship fund. Books are donated by Bryn Mawr alumnae (e.g. Mmes Nathan Pusey, Merle Fainsod, David Riesman) and their friends, marked at bargain prices by Mrs. L. H. Butterfield (Mr. Buttefield is editor of the Adams Papers), and sold to first comers at the church on Garden Street...
Though Radcliffe's expected class size of marks an approximate increase of places over last year, the number of locations dropped 100 from 1700, in with the general decrease in application to the Seven College Conference --Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley, addition to Radcliffe...