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Last week the trim white Colonial student houses of Bennington College were locked up tight. Bennington's 230 bright, healthy young women had put their ski trousers away in mothballs and, like all other college students, gone home for the holidays. Unlike the others, the girls of Bennington would not be back for two months. This week each of the 230 will be off to do field work in some part of North America or Europe...
...midwinter recess is one of Bennington's ways of stimulating intellectual independence. Unlike most experimental colleges, this well-bred institution was conceived by no educator but by the residents, especially the summer people of the town of Bennington. Many a college president welcomed such a proving ground for his own progressive ideas, took an active part in the founding. From nearby Williams, Professor Robert Devore Leigh was called to be president. Only two and one-half years old now, Bennington still has no fourth-year class. Its tuition rate is $1,000, highest college rate in the country...
Delegates from most of the New England colleges will attend the regional conference against war to be held on Armistice Day in Phillips Brooks House. Representatives from Harvard, Radcliffe, Smith, M. I. T., Boston Theological School, Boston College, Tufts, Simmons, Dartmouth, Bennington, and Mount Holyoke will assemble at 2 o'clock to hear speakers present their viewpoints on the subject...
...Sidney S. Alexander, Forest City, Pa.; Howard S. Derrickson, Darby, Pa.; Edward H.H. Jasen, Stroudsburg, Pa.; John S. Lang, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Rupert M. Smith, Bethayres, Pa.; Irving G. Shaffer, Reading, Pa.; George F. Tittmann, West Chester, Pa.; George D. Zimmerman, Reading, Pa.; Joseph A. Hindle, Providence, R.I.; George Cantor, Bennington, Vt.; Charles E. Tuttle, Jr., Rutland, Vt.; Lemuel Bowden, Jr.; Norfolk, Va.; Donald W. Davis, Jr., Williamsburg, Va.; John H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, Wis.; Lorne Rickert, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Phillipe Dur, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Frederic C. Bartter, Baguio, Philipine Islands
Vermonters were assured of a genuine New Deal "test" in their November Senatorial election. Republicans again put up Senator Warren Robinson Austin, than whom the White House has no severer critic. No one contested the nomination of Fred C. Martin of Bennington, who could count as an asset his New Deal standing as Democratic Internal Revenue Collector...