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...They wanted their daughters to be as well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains a first-rank reputation for scholarship...
Tuition fees are above the Manhattan sisterhood's average. Upped $100 in 1928 and another $100 in 1930, they now run from $400 for the preliminary school to $800 for the six upper classes. But of this year's 412 students, 52 are on scholarships, against nine...
...lire ($70,000) to make a saint of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart,* on whose case hearings were in progress last week at Chicago. Youngest of 13 children, Frances Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850. She founded her sisterhood in 1880. Saved as a child from drowning, she had a lifetime horror of water, but this did not keep her from crossing the Atlantic 24 times on the business of the order. The Sacred Heart Sisters now have 5,000 members, maintain 200 institutions all over the world, including Columbus Hospital...
...Prioress explained to "The Pilgrim" that the sisterhood had been founded because of the Christian Century discussion...
...last week Protestants and Catholics alike were anxious to hear more about the Harmonian Sisterhood-first interdenominational convent ever founded. Where was it in Rhode Island? How many sisters were there? What rule of life had they adopted...