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...Bryn Mawr College's Helen Taft Manning, 65, two-time dean (1917-19, 1925-41) and two-time acting president (1919-20, 1929-30), who might well have been president had she not preferred to stick to her first love, studying and teaching history. The only daughter of William Howard Taft, Helen was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr when, at the age of 18, she was called to serve as her father's hostess in the White House. Three years later she went back to take her bachelor's degree, followed by graduate study at Yale, marriage...
...specialist in 19th century French literature, Morris has taught at the University since 1954. He has also taught at Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan...
Radcliffe was rated second, behind Bryn Mawr, among women's colleges...
Oberlin, Swarthmore, Carleton (Minn.), and Reed (Ore.) rank as the best co-educational colleges. The Tribune listed Barnard, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, and Smith behind Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe as the leading women's colleges...
...still printing articles like "A Thought for the Piano Tuner," Etude by last fall was badly out of tune. Despite a peak circulation of 250,000 in 1919, Etude had been carried at a loss for some 30 years on the books of Presser's highbrow Bryn Mawr music publishing firm (owned since Presser's death in 1925 by the Presser Foundation, which also operates a home for aged music teachers...