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- ↑ Google (2011). The Federalists: a study in ... - Leonard Dupee White - Google Books . Retrieved 2011-09-25.
- ↑ "1959, May 4. Jean Schneider '21 was among the prizewinners announced by the Pulitzer Prize Committee. - A Documentary Chronicle of Vassar College". chronology.vassar.edu.
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