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Admission to Bennington requires "creditable completion of a secondary school course. . . . The requirements are not stated in terms of a standard group of 15 units in which students may be certified or pass examinations. . . . But a goodly proportion of girls have unusual aptitudes in one field combined with temporary or permanent blind spots in others. Girls with such specialized ability will be encouraged to enter...
...tuition at most colleges pays for about one-half of the student's actual expense to the institution. At Bennington, for those who can afford it, the tuition will be $850, covering the full price of instruction. One-fourth of the girls will be the recipients of $850,000 worth of scholarships. Each year from twelve districts of the U. S., one $1,000 scholarship will be awarded. Six foreign students will receive an annual stipend...
...adult activity will be disregarded. Preparation for professions in international relations, painting, music, social service will be intermingled with courses in bookkeeping and stenography. 'The type of intellectual asceticism which fears that contact with practice and reality will destroy the field for culture will have no place at Bennington...
...three or four years, each Bennington girl will reveal her accomplish ments to the faculty through "examinations, theses, or other objective tests." Should she be successful, she will receive as crisp and sightly an A. B. diploma as ever was given at Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr...
Faculty. At Bennington, the Ph. D. degree will be held as lightly as a secondary school certificate. The college will not demand it of its faculty. "And al though the faculty will necessarily be recruited largely from the younger mem bers of the college teaching profession, there will be appointments of persons . . . outside of academic life." So that its pedagogs will not incline to fustiness, no initial faculty appointment will be for more than three years. The President and trustees will hold a seven-year term of office...