Famed, scholarly, 54-year-old Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, recently began looking for a new president. Its third president, Dr. Marion Edwards Park, will retire a year from next June. Last week it became known that "prominent Bryn Mawr alumnae" want as their fourth president a certain Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
If Eleanor Roosevelt were asked for a statement of her qualifications for the job, it would be something like this:
EDUCATION—private tutors until the age of 15, three years at Mme Souvestre's school near London, three months in a French convent.
DEGREES—Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary) from Russell Sage College. Doctor of Laws...
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