Word: tyringham
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Died. Margaret Clapp, 64, for 17 years president of her alma mater, Wellesley College; of cancer; in Tyringham, Mass. Clapp won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for her Columbia University Ph.D. thesis, a biography of 19th century Editor John Bigelow. One year later, as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, she was tapped for the presidency of the venerable women's college. An advocate of well-balanced liberal arts education, she resigned in 1966 to head tiny Lady Doak College in Madurai, India, a country she had never seen. She later became Minister-Counselor of Public Affairs...
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