Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a program could not be adopted by Radcliffe, Mrs. Bunting cautioned, because of the confusion, size, and complexity of urban life. In a rural setting, academic maturity would be the primary measure of a girl's success. She said that Vassar and Bennington have ideal conditions...
...college years--while less intelligent students have reached stable adult-hood by the time they enter college. Certainly, too, changes toward a more liberal flexible view of the world are part of normal healthy maturation away from the inflexibility of youth. Theodore M. Newcomb observed such growing liberalism at Bennington, and related it to the faculty's liberal values; a CRIMSON study of Harvard political and religious values showed a similar trend; the same movement is clear in the studies Jacob summarized. The similarity might argue that these diverse colleges are all the tools of liberal brainwashers; a more plausible...
...looks over the American college scene, it becomes clear that American education has never been more conservative than it is today. Why is this so? It is not because the experiments in changing the undergraduate program have failed. It cannot be said that the students at Antioch, Bennington and Sarah Lawrence are worse...
...Fresh Face. Kennedy named Connally Secretary of the Navy-and it turned out to be a first-rate appointment. As a naval officer during World War II, Connally had served as a fighter-plane director aboard the carriers Essex and Bennington, won the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit. In the Pentagon, he fought hard for Navy programs he considered worthy and scrubbed those he considered impractical (he concluded that after the new U.S.S. Enterprise there should be no more nuclear aircraft carriers). Deciding to return to Texas, he carried with him President Kennedy's respect, and L.B.J...
WILLIAM C. FELS President Bennington College Bennington...