Education: Miss Egan's Girls

Hannah M. Egan, Ph. D. is grey, matronly, stoutish, wears dark wool dresses and is Acting Dean of the largest woman's college in the world—New York City's Municipal Hunter. This week the city's Board of Higher Education was to consider giving her a permanent appointment as Dean. At least 250 of Hunter's some 10,000 students do not want Hannah M. Egan to receive the appointment. That was the number who had signed a petition against it last fortnight when President Eugene A. Colligan made them stop.

Last week 20 Hunter girls marched breathlessly into...