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...when a female product of a progressive school tries to get into Vassar. Smith, Wellesley or Bryn Mawr, she is often unable to meet the formal admission requirements. To provide for such girls, the residents of Old Bennington, Vt., laid plans six years ago to establish a college. Under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth, townsmen and summer visitors raised over $500,000 and provided a campus on a slope of the Green Mountains where oldtime Mount Anthony Seminary was founded...
Last week in Manhattan, Bennington College sponsors, with more than $1,000,000 pledged, planned to precipitate the last $1,500,000 drive. They hoped to break ground for the buildings in May, start operating with no freshmen in September 1931. Invited to preside was the Hon. John William Davis, onetime (1918-21) Ambassador to Great Britain, onetime (1924) Democratic Candidate for President. Also invited were President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College and President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke. Bennington's own President Robert Devore Leigh, procured two years ago from nearby Williams College, was there to explain...
...Bennington, groups of 40 girls will live in eight house groups, a plan resembling "that of the hostels connected with the newer English universities." Each house will be autonomous, its residents self-governing. The college calendar provides for two "long vacations," in summer and winter, during which time Bennington girls will be encouraged to travel or engage in research. Although each student at Bennington is an incipient specialist in her upperclass years, the close association of many specialists will theoretically prove broadening...
...this year's semi-finals, E. T. Richards of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. and R. F. Carney of Milwaukee, Wisconsin speaking for the Chafee Club will argue against V. V. R. Booth of Bennington, Vermont and R. F. Young of Dayton, Ohio for the Warren Club. The other wing of the semi-final will find Edward Darling of Kingston, Pennsylvania and C. T. Lane of Richmond, Surrey County, England for the Bryce Club opposing C. A. Howard Jr. of Aberdeen, South Dakota and E. B. Hanley '27 of Seattle, Washington of the Scott Club. A unique feature of the arguments...
...Trevor Grimm '29, of Los Angeles, California, who will deliver the Class Oration, Robeson Bailey '29, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, who is to read the Class Poem, and Chauncey Deverecux Stillman '29, of New York City, who will deliver the Class Ode. The Chorister is Richard Stedman Holden '29, of Bennington, Vermont...