Word: beatley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, President Bancroft Beatley of Boston's Simmons College rose up before the girls of his senior class, picked up a trowel, and cried, "Come on, let's get to work." The president had a lot to do. At 3:45, he slapped in mortar for the cornerstone of a new dining hall. At 3:52, he was doing the same for a new dormitory, and at 3:57 he repeated the process for still another. On its 50th birthday last week, flourishing (1,400 students) Simmons College was making quite a show...
...former Williams College dean named Henry Lefavour, Simmons climbed out of its position as a mere trade school. In 1927 it was admitted to the Association of American Universities, and two years later it made the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Then, in 1933, Bancroft Beatley, a brisk, dapper professor from the Harvard School of Education, took over. After that, Simmons came into...
President Beatley believes that this sort of education is well suited to the modern girl: "The economics of life being what they are, most girls know that they will have to work . . . We are all familiar with the cliche that education is not preparation for earning a living, but preparation for life-as if it were possible to separate the two. For most of us, work is a dominant life interest, and a theory of education which studiously ignores that fact appears to be something less than liberal...
...audience assembled at the Sanders Theatre rites heard Bancroft Beatley '15, president of Simmons College, urge that the graduates help improve the nation's public schools. Pointing out "the climate of the postwar world," Beatley said, "What happens to the minds of our great school population, what their experiences in our democracy are, are matters of first importance...
...Beatley outlined as a program for encouraging better public education: 1) getting the right people elected to school committees; 2) creating public opinion supporting good schools; and 3) special community projects...