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Finalists in the year-long competition were Geoffrey Gaulkin of Essex Falls, New Jersey and Lowell House, John L. Lizars of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and Eliot House, and Leigh B. Trever of Galesburg, Illinois and Adams House...
Philadelphia. Aiming point: City Hall. All of the midtown and South Philadelphia areas, the Navy Yard, Germantown, Upper Darby and Camden destroyed; Chestnut Hill, Bryn Mawr, Chester severely damaged...
...committee that recommended Miss Du Bois for the Professorship was under the chairmanship of President Katherine E. McBride of Bryan Mawr College, and included Radcliffe and Harvard scholars in all major academic fields...
Following this original historical bent she went to a London college and received a B.A. in 1902. She then got a scholarship at Bryn Mawr to write her M.A. At that time there was no one teaching in her field and no one knew much about it, so she had the run of the graduate school. "The whole thing was such a lovely joke," she recalls. "It didn't matter if I were dropped." She stayed on, and after getting her degree returned to England for a busy teaching and research life at Holloway College near London. When not teaching...
...life that has kept forever on the move. At nearly seventy, she and her sister jostled across the United States sitting up in a train, to take a bus trip up and down the West Coast--a trip that she had never been able to afford when at Bryn Mawr...