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Education and Wardrobe Trunk Drive Woman to College
A first person account from a Bryn Mawr Summer School student describes leaving factory life for college. She details family and friends doubting her plan, the lure of learning for knowledge, and the wish for an education and a wardrobe trunk. She writes about class questions, history studies, athletic hype, and her emotional moment seeing autumn woods and factory workers’ lives.
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