Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for Bennington College, an institution to release promising young women from strict curricular bondage, began to be realities last week. In the ancient, green-hilled Vermont town of Bennington, famed for its historic white homesteads and its annual production of 500,000 Kiddie-Kars, gathered many a distinguished well-wisher for the ground-breaking exercises. Robert Devore Leigh, 40, onetime Williams professor, president of the new college, led the ceremony. The audience eyed him appraisingly, a pink-cheeked, bespectacled scholar who is expected to infuse Bennington with the same stirring liberalism he had shown at Williams. Dorothy Canfield Fisher...
Designed to educate girls of exceptional talent without forcing them to undergo uncongenial group requirements, Benning ton will pose no entrance examinations. Girls will be chosen on the findings of scholastic aptitude tests, examination of their school records. Especially proud are Bennington's founders of the fact that vocational and cultural courses will be combined, that fine arts will be recognized as one of the four major fields of concentration. During her last two years a student will be given credit for nonresident work. Every girl will be encouraged to give free rein to her individual tastes...
Although $1,265,000 has been raised, Bennington will have no faculty endowment. Tuition charges will be flexible, will be fitted to all costs. That such a scheme may be expensive need not terrify indigent girls of talent. Full scholarships will be available for one-fourth of the student body...
...September 1932, Bennington will open its doors to 80 freshmen. The class will be separated into four equal groups which will remain together throughout the course...
...awarded to an editorial on the subject. Therefore gossipy tongues were set wagging last week when President Hoover picked a Nebraskan to be Agriculture's member of the Federal Reserve Board, vice Edward Henry Cunningham, deceased. The new man is big, husky, talkative Wayland W. Magee, 49, of Bennington. Mr. Magee did not have Senator Norris' endorsement, but he had the next best thing, the endorsement of Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska. Senator Norris' close political crony. Others who urged his appointment included Senator Carey of Wyoming, Samuel McKelvie of the Federal Farm Board, Governor Willis...