Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bennington College lost its founder and president last week. At 50, pioneering President Robert Devore Leigh resigned, he said in effect, because he had grown too old for the job. He thinks no college should be "shackled by executive leadership gradually growing stale, feeble or lacking in initiative...
...succeed Dr. Leigh, the trustees elected without ado a member of Bennington's faculty, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, 42, economist and labor mediator. Dr. Leigh will join the staff of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
Dean Gregersen picked out his students at Yale, Harvard, University of Chicago, Smith, Bennington, other colleges. The 17 gathered at Williams' Delta Phi House where Dean Gregersen taught them Latin American literature, music, history, languages. When they complete their course at Williams this week, they will go to Mexico for a finishing course. Then they will be placed in jobs in Latin America-as businessmen, journalists, teachers-through an Association of Committees for Inter-American Placement (A.C.I.P.) organized by the same group...
...destroyers to battleships, ships to planes, and blondes or brunettes to redheads. More than half the men don't smoke, and only a few go through a pack per day. Freshmen and Seniors are ardent Wellesley fans, with Smith winning the Sophomoric hearts and Vassar neck and neck with Bennington for the Juniors. Personality is first and beauty a close second in the qualities Harvard gobs seek when they get in port--except for the Junior class which puts a strong emphasis on so-called "miscellaneous qualities...
...crowded round of services, Communions, breakfasts, lunches, teas, dinners and just plain get-togethers, in eight days Rector Price visited 25 schools and colleges (Yale, Wesleyan, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, Harvard, M. I. T., Radcliffe, Exeter, St. Paul's, Dartmouth, Bennington, Kent, Taft, etc.), talked with a hundred youngsters from Scarsdale, got home this week with the car muddy and himself full of ambition. Some of the encouraging things he found on his trip...