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Last week Kent's mission ("to produce soundly educated Christian citizens") was expanded in a way that would almost surely have left Father Sill blinking. On a bucolic, 600-acre farm a mere five miles and one mountain away from the Kent campus, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for a new girls' annex. By autumn of 1960, the first 100 girls (aged 14 to 15) will join Kent's 292 boys...
...indefiniteness of the last objective--"something worthwhile"--is no accident, for the dean was right too. There is no obvious Wellesley stereotype on campus. The college prides itself on the ever-widening geographical distribution of its students, and weekday dress does not fit in with the usual picture of the Wellesley girl. (Leather jackets, lumber jackets, and gym suits were scattered plentifully...
Though the College is predominantly residential, and proud of it, over 11 per cent of its students now live off-campus as "commuters." Thirty years ago when the stock market crashed, the percentage was up over 40, but then Harkness gave Harvard its Houses, President Conant laid heavy stress on "national distribution," and the non-resident segment began shrinking to its present minimum...
Plans for construction of a $2 million motel, which would replace the Radcliffe off-campus house now at 1653 Massachusetts Avenue, have been postponed indefinitely. According to George Economy, owner of the property, the previously announced plans were "just a false alarm...
...adults, Aycock's education drive produced the South's first great college extension service at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Its regular faculty members roamed far and wide, by World War I came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country doctors, inspired...