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Most Madeira girls go to good colleges (favorites: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr), marry comfortably, and send their daughters back to Madeira. Among past & present Madeirans: Paulina Longworth, Joan Morgenthau, Susan Saltonstall, Diana Hopkins, Laurette Soong (niece of Madame Chiang Kai-shek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Retribution | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...institutions whose students will come under the program include Wellesley, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, and Vassar. Adams indicated that, of the seven, Smith would probably send the greatest number of students here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Maps Plan To Lure Feminine Students | 4/27/1948 | See Source »

...servant) brings a cup of tea at 6 a.m. Three times a week Dr. Cam cycles to a lecture hall, her steel-grey hair and black academic gown billowing in the breeze. She has been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social life? Says Spinster Cam: "I don't have any. Too busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Gets a Woman | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Though the meeting is titled the Seven College Conference and the so-called "Big Seven" of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley will be represented, a bevy of delegates from Sweet Briar have also been invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 4 'Cliffe Students Off to Conference At Mount Holyoke | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...Companion what she would do "if I were president of a men's college." Said she: "It is just as important to teach the fundamentals of home economics, budgeting, marriage and child psychology to students at Yale, Harvard and Princeton as to those of Vassar, Smith and Bryn Mawr. After all, it takes two persons to make a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: It Takes Two | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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