An Unusual College for Women
The Corcoran School for Girls was a very elite college tucked away in rural Pennsylvania. While it carried a very liberal arts curriculum, it also had a number of very special classes whose descriptions in some cases were quite vague while in others no attempt was made to describe exactly what was being taught. The tuition was very high which you would think would limit the number of applicants but the reality was that it was a very difficult school to get in. When I applied for a position...