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Books & Men. Back at Harvard, Pusey eventually turned out a Ph.D. thesis on 4th century Athenian law. Meanwhile, he took two trips abroad, traveled in Greece, explored the cathedrals and palaces of Rome. In 1936 he married a trim Bryn Mawr graduate named Anne Woodward, whom he had once tutored in algebra back in Iowa. By that time he had begun "teaching my way across the country"-at Lawrence. Scripps College in California, and Wesleyan...
President Pusey spoke before the alumnae of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley at the Hotel Bradfard ballroom...
Another aid in drawing students from west of the Mississippi has been Radcliffe's membership in the Seven College Conference. Composed of Wellesley, Smith, Vassar, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, and Radcliffe, the Conference recruits girls and gives scholarships to all seven schools. The combination was born of necessity; by splitting the cost seven ways, seven times as many girls will hear the gospel. Radcliffe's administration is not altogether satisfied with the Conference, however. Applicants from the West are still largely from private schools, while students from public schools are especially wanted...
...adds Weiss, "there's no hiding the fact that we need to improve things. In the 20 years that I have been teaching at Harvard, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Yale, I have noticed a decay in spelling, grammar and ability to study. Some thing must be done. But no matter what system you have you will find the same problems; that of getting better men to teach. The best way to solve the problem is to make learning exciting. If you want excellent teachers you must give freedom to the teachers...
...thirteen. He seemed like somebody's grandfather." President Pusey tutored Mrs. Pusey, then Anne Woodward, for a summer in algebra. "I got an A in algebra for the first term," she says. "The next term, without the tutoring, I didn't do so well." Upon her graduation from Bryn Mawr eight years later, Miss Woodward and her tutor were promptly married...