Education: Spouse Trap

To the 930 girls at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. their ruddy, rotund President James Madison Wood is affectionately known as "Daddy." For three days last week Stephens' rolling campus, bridle paths and dormitories were thronged with 600 old Stephens graduates, assembled for a special meeting of their alumnae association. Together with 1,500 other guests including Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, they were particularly eager to shake "Daddy's" hand and take tea at his trim Georgian house. By night the campus was aglow with two dozen giant silver candles, for this week James Madison...

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