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...Bennington's administrators have always had a hard time with the finances of the school. The alumnae body is energetic but small, and tuition is high of necessity. Burkhardt, as he sits his desk in the Barn, is constantly haunted by the $80,000 deficit with which Bennington starts off every year...
...phase of Bennington's progressive system which creates an uneasy twitch among the students is the lack of grades. To one steeped in the progressive line this is no discomfiture, but a girl who arrives from a conventional school tends to feel unsure of her progress, at least for the first year. Marks are kept by the administration for use only in cases of transfer...
...study plan, arranged according to her educational desires. This is one of the best-loved of the progressive ideas. In most courses the nature of the work undertaken is mapped out by both students and the professor at the beginning of the year. This freedom imposes many responsibilities, but Bennington students meet them honestly. The Harvard undergraduate, with his often lackadaisical approach in required reading, would be against at the amount of work most Bennington girls grind out every evening. There are few distractions on weekdays. On week ends, the distraction embraces Williams men who roll into Bennington with their...
...Bennington faculty deserves mention for the amount of work required of each professor, generally two course, five to ten tutees, and a great deal of informal intellectual activity. Bennington professors have no contracts with the college; if student don't like them, they usually wash out. In answer to the charge that professors must feel a bit uneasy as the end of the year approaches. Burkhardt says that once a professor is accepted, he almost always gets the yearly nod from his students. Student opinion about tenure is expressed merely by waling up to college trustees and talking...
...Government is planning to make a movie of Bennington as "the typical girls college...