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...Among state universities, California was by far the best money magnet, with $15,366,679; the University of Michigan got $7,612,890. Leaders in other categories: ¶Private men's colleges, the University of the South. $1,883,598. ¶Private women's colleges. Bryn Mawr, $2,863,716. ¶Private coed colleges, Brandeis. $4,271,713. ¶Private professional or technical schools...
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...tried by the Seven College Conference, any student with a "strong high school record" and the approval of her school who applies to only one of the colleges will be notified of her acceptance or refusal in the fall. The members of the Conference are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Pembroke, Radcliffe, Smith and Wellesley...
...young Bryn Mawr graduate looked up from her ironing board. "The living room is no place for work like this," she remarked, "and it's certainly no atmosphere in which to raise children...
After getting a B.A. and an M.A. at Bryn Mawr, she set out for Germany with her sister Alice, who was later to become the first woman professor at Harvard Medical School. In those days the University of Munich was a famous classics center, and even though no woman had ever been admitted before. Edith was soon a familiar sight in Munich's classrooms, seated at her special place, isolated from the males, on the speaker's platform. In 1896, she was made headmistress of Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. There, for 26 years, "Miss Edith" remained...