Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first girl off nearly stumbled with excitement. The rest, in tailored suits or hooded raincoats, hovered about their luggage, fingered their baggage checks, exchanged nervous pleasantries...
...girl of the '80s read Macaulay and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, carefully refrained from eating between meals (no "pies, lies [or] doughnuts at Wellesley," Founder Durant had warned). By 1900 she wanted to be a Gibson girl, and a few years later, to the horror of her elders, she began sewing in class, missing vesper service and using such unseemly words as "prune," "pill," and "nifty...
Their charge, the average Wellesley girl, weighs about 127 Ibs. and stands about 5 ft. 5 in. In addition to her $1,600 tuition, she may spend as much as $6,000 a year, or as little as $200; her average is $1,200. Almost half (46%) of her classmates come from public high schools; one out of four is on a full-or part-time scholarship. Founder Durant had always insisted that "a calico girl is worth two velvet girls...
...library, the Wellesley girl has added T. S. Eliot, Sartre and Freud. In her closet she keeps a suit of red winter underwear, three "dressy" dresses and at least one evening gown. For the sake of her prestige, she must never let a week go by without at least one date (freshmen get only 15 "1 o'clocks and overnights" the first semester). Those without weekend dates often prefer to leave campus, for "the awfulness of not having a date when everyone else does," says Dean Lucy Wilson, "hangs over them constantly...
...Margaret Clapp, college students' minds, male or female, are broadened by the same studies. With a good general college course, a girl can go on and do as she pleases-study medicine, swim the English Channel, or take up the housewife's career and serve it well. Woman's place, thinks Margaret Clapp, is anywhere...