A Victory for Academic Freedom

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A TWO-YEAR stalemate between the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and a battery of academics over a yet-to-be-published book about the girls’ school ended Monday. In a letter to scholar Andrea Hamilton, who wrote a history of the school as her dissertation in 1997, the Bryn Mawr trustees told Hamilton that she was welcome to publish her history.

The letter, signed by trustee president David Funk, laid down one stipulation: Hamilton must include a disclaimer saying the book is not an official or sanctioned history. The trustees added that the manuscript does not cover numerous facets of the school’s present or past, including the perspectives of the four living headmistresses or the accomplishments of alumnae.

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