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Word: unconventionalvassar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...romantic Royalism and a devotion to the past. She was a Latinist and knew more about St. Thomas Aquinas than about the contemporary Thomas (Norman) for whom many of the faculty members cast their votes. Outwardly, there was nothing much to set her apart from the conventionally unconventionalVassar girls who, on graduation, shec their pearls and Brooks sweaters anc swarm down the Hudson to arrive, after false start or two, in a marriage suitable for mention in the Alumnae Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cye | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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