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...inherited a fortune from a skinflint bachelor brother and intended to open a school for deaf-mutes until she was told that there were not enough of them to fill one. After rejecting a proposal that she make a bequest to Amherst-she believed that professors there were subversives bent on controlling central Massachusetts-Smith settled on starting the college, which opened in 1875. Matthew Vassar, a Poughkeepsie brewer, simply wanted to be remembered, and was persuaded that the women's college he was to found in 1865 would be something "more lasting than the pyramids." In his private...
This is what Hills means by scruples: Suppose your brand-new electric portable typewriter is stolen from the back seat of your locked car, and the thief was deft enough to get the door open without breaking the window. (He did it with a bent wire coat-hanger--easy as pie). You have plenty of insurance, but the company won't pay without physical proof that you didn't leave the car unlocked. A broken window would do, for example. Now, you've been paying premiums for twenty years, and they owe you the money fair and square...
Proof Required. Despite the court's generally moderate to conservative bent on other issues in recent years, its action last week reaffirms its longstanding belief that racial discrimination in the marketplace must be rooted out. The practical implications of its decision are less clear. The ruling applies only to applicants who can prove they were initially victims of discrimination...
...vocational bent in higher education has obvious pitfalls. "This whole business of trying to pick a major to match a job is just Russian roulette," says Harvard's Freeman. Today's "hot" fields-engineering or accounting, for example-could be glutted in a few years much as aerospace science, the glamour field of the early 1960s, fell fallow by the decade's end. Besides, asks Herbert Salinger, director of career planning at Berkeley: "Should we turn someone off to a field that really interests him" because job prospects are slim...
...returned to America, still an unknown, and carved her name into more small books of poetry. Seventh Heaven began with a lot of lesbian imagery. Then came another silver of a tome, this one more heterosexual bent. She hated her female body from the beginning...