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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HARLAN L. CLAPP Audubon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...young married woman five years out of college ... I disagree with the statement by Wellesley's President Clapp that men & women have the same function as citizens and as members of the community . . . The primary function of woman in society is that of mother and homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened" mind is humiliated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

They include Professor Cam, Mrs. Roosevelt, Princess Wilhemina of the Netherlands, Senster Margaret C. Smith, President Sarah G. Blanding of Vassar, and President Margaret Clapp of Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wright Will Be Inaugurated As President of Smith Today | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

Actually, President Clapp was quite ready to wrestle with the money problem ("Of course, I didn't like correcting papers either"). But last week, there were too many other things to think about. For one, there was the big tea for parents-the first time she had been hostess to so many people. She had already found out one thing about the job of an unmarried (and so far unattached) woman executive: "I am not only the president, but the president's wife as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Then there were meetings and a stream of visitors scheduled over the week at short intervals. After a summer's light mail, her correspondence was beginning to swell. But modern Margaret Clapp, whom only the staunchest Wellesleyites had heard of two years ago, seemed already to be an old hand. As she conducted her first chapel, almost lost behind the great lectern, it was as if she had been a president for years. Wellesleyites decided that Margaret Clapp, in their chosen phrase, already looked like a well-rounded "First Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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