Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl can major in a field she enjoys but could never excel in or spend time sampling many different fields without having to waste her time fulfilling useless requirements. In this age of increasingly necessary specialization a women's college may remain the only place where a true liberal arts education can survive. Perhaps the noncareer oriented woman is the only person who can afford to be well-rounded...
...MANY capable girls, a school primarily for women helps solve another big problem: How can a girl maintain her role as a woman when she is in intense academic competition with men, especially if she is excelling? Many capable girls have faced the frustration of accusations of aggressiveness, lack of femininity and a desire to "beat the boys" when they were in high school and college. Though this problem can never be eliminated, it can be mitigated by having only boys who are exchange students for a year or semester and so do not become long-term competitors or become...
...colleges are "ivory towers" in the sense of being apart from the world around them. But it seems that coed schools are no more relieved of this problem than are girls' schools. It is dangerous to exchange one type of "ivory tower" for another. The college should be seen as one aspect of the world we live in, not as a world in itself. Students in a women's college are just as capable of recognizing this problem and acting on it as any other group of students. Perhaps a Wellesley girl will be more likely to discover the importance...
...ahead for you. I don't see any sickness for you. You will marry someone like yourself, but not soon. I don't see any marriage for you in the next two years." My barber could have told me that. I thought silently. "You have not yet met the girl you will marry. You will have four children, two boys and a girl, twins...
...Well, I can see that you will be a success in whatever career you choose. You're going to have to work at it, though; it won't just come to you." This girl must have a maternal fixation, I thought. Probably an occupational hazard...