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Miss Annin, who is and alumna of Bryn Mawr College, is doing graduate work in Government at Radcliffe. She moves up to the Moors Hall position after serving this year as head-resident of 20 Walker Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Picks New Dorm Head | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Yale undergraduate, class of '99. Before that, he had lived the peripatetic life of a minister's son (Maine to Colorado), and his great ambition was to be a conductor on the Boston & Maine railway. After Yale, he taught one year at Bryn Mawr and fell in love with a student-"a very beautiful girl." She married someone else, and Tinker settled into bachelordom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fall in Love | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Among other big Eastern women's colleges, Wellesley has always had women presidents, Bryn Mawr switched to them in 1893, Radcliffe has alternated. Mount Holyoke, after ten madam presidents, chose Roswell Gray Ham in 1937; Vassar got its first woman president in Sarah Gibson Blanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Mr. Smith | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...supervision of an American professor who accompanies them, and are allowed to elect courses at any of the outstanding Paris institutions. This plan, administered by Sweet Briar College, is carried out under the auspices of a committee of the Institute of International Education composed of professors from Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and Yale. There is also a French supervisory committee of prominent educators from the Sorbonne and the University of Paris. Sixty-six men and women from Eastern colleges are in Paris working under the plan right now. Fifteen of these are from Yale. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Year Abroad | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

Back at Bryn Mawr she worked up to acting dean of the college, moved on in 1930, to become headmistress of Manhattan's Brearley School. In 1932, she married Dr. Rustin Mclntosh, director of the Babies Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, bore five children without breaking her career for more than a few months at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quakeress with a Quota | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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