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...spring the true Harvard Freshman should have inured himself to the charms of our neighbors 14 miles to the north-west and quite probably will have moved on the greener fields of Northampton, Bennington, and Poughkeepsie...
Often it takes several years before the Genus Harvardianus sees the light and follows Horace Greeley's advice. Somewhere off in the wilds of New England lie Smith and Bennington, the one 90 miles away, the other 200. Then, just across the state border lies the third of the green field trio, Vassar, 213.5 miles from Cambridge. These three colleges are inhabited by Powers-worthy beauties and an unfortunate number of Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Williams, and Dartmouth men. Their very difficulty of attainment lends them a charm...
...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...