The students from the Seven Sisters and Goucher had been selected on the basis of ability, willingness, and loyalty, but tenacity was something they had to prove during the months-long correspondence course. Some had become discouraged and dropped out; others married and relocated to follow husbands; others did not answer enough problems correctly; others were rejected by the Civil Service Commission based on some aspect of their background. Back in the patriotically fervent winter of 1941, Barnard had enrolled twenty women, of whom seven stuck it out and showed up at Main Navy, the
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