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Miss Margaret Clapp, President of Wellesley, was asked if she had heard of the new Zoll report and said "I have, but I guess one can't do anything about...
...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
There was much of the modern, too, juxtaposed with the traditional. At one point Wellesley President Clapp interrupted the program to say that "the trustees have empowered me to make an announcement about the new dormitories. The plans are completed. But we don't have the material...
...What we lack," Miss Clapp explained, "is the money...
Miss Margaret Clapp, the small, soft-spoken, and pleasant lady who has been President of the College since July 1949, is somewhat more restrained in her opinion of the role of Wellesley in the world. Admitting that "the career of a majority of women is homemaking and bringing up children," Miss Clapp is fully aware of the different immediate objectives of a man's and a woman's quest for education...