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BumRushDaShow

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4. A "blue blood" Main Line thing

Reply to QueerDuck (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 06:42 AM

21 hrs ago

Last edited Fri Feb 20, 2026, 07:29 AM - Edit history (1)

(as a multi-generational Philly native and resident knowing about those "storied" schools, with Haverford being the earlier "all-male" now co-ed) counterpart to one of the nearby all-female "Seven Sisters" schools - Bryn Mawr College (where the other "6" of the "7" women's colleges being Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe (merged with Harvard and co-ed), Wellesley all in MA, and Barnard and Vassar in NY).

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