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Remember The Group - Mary McCarthy's novel about eight college girls and how they grew? Change Vassar to Radcliffe, the '30s to the '50s, take away the wry tone, and you have Rona Jaffe's readable reworking, Class Reunion. The four women in her sorority are archetypes...
...Sullivan principles, a set of guidelines established by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black civil rights activist and General Motors board member, which outline affirmative-action policies. Among them: Amherst ($1 million), Smith ($680,000), Columbia ($2.7 million), Boston University ($7 million), Brandeis ($350,000), Yale ($900,000), Vassar ($2.2 million), Ohio State...
After Boston, he did his residency at the Neurological Institute in New York City. In 1941 he married Beryl Dawson, a Vassar girl he had met at a college dance; they were wed about a year when Thomas, then at the Rockefeller Institute, was called for service in the Navy. Lieut. Commander Thomas waded ashore during the dramatic invasion of Okinawa and collected a lifelong memory: "I went over the side of a troop transport with a case on my shoulder containing 50 white mice, bedded on white toilet paper. One soldier who watched me wade ashore with this load...
...name of some forgotten dog competes with book critiques. Analysis of a philosophical essay mixes with scuttlebutt of a gossip column: a horoscope predicted a bad end; a Vassar campus newspaper considered the writer's visit to New York "one of the cultural events of the season...
...tour that celebrated the group's 120th anniversary. Club members were also saying farewell to their conductor of the past eight years, F. John Adams. In a controversial decision, the position of director of choral activities had been passed to Jameson M. Marvin, former director of choral activities at Vassar College. The transition leaves the Glee Club troubled, as senior members try to guide the group through a difficult passage...