Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June the matter was settled. As soon as she could rent her apartment and pack her trunk, Margaret Clapp hopped a train and went back to her old college, twelve miles west of Boston's Copley Square. Feeling a little like Cinderella, she moved into the big white mansion she had known as the President's House. She had three sitting rooms, a drawing room, two maids, a cook, a chauffeur and two secretaries. Her new domain stretched out over 400 acres of rolling hills. From the air it looked like a series of Gothic cathedrals with...
...weeks passed, however, Wellesley's summer staff found that its new president needed few directions. One room of the big office suite, she learned, was for receiving visitors. The other, with its high ceiling and ornate desk, was for working...
There Margaret Clapp spent most of her time. "She's in there reading," one of her secretaries told visitors. "Reading reports and such. She's getting educated." Last week, after two months of getting educated, Wellesley's president was ready for her first big opening...
...usual, the freshmen came early. In a cold drizzle, four upper classmen with big "Ask-Me" badges on their coats waited impatiently on the station platform for the 9:03 to round the bend. Among its passengers would be the first wave of the Class of '53. The train was half an hour late...
...picked Wellesley she seldom knows. But she is apt to feel superior to Wellesley's rivals (as rivals feel superior to Wellesley). According to the girls, Radcliffe tends toward "the creepy, arty bookworm." Smith, some think, "makes big with the party type of girls." They don't care very much about Vassar, either: "Vassar makes girls into businesswomen." Wellesleyites prefer to think of themselves as "just well-rounded...