Word: goucher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...common application program was initiated last year by Richard Moll, dean of admissions at Vassar College, and Edward Wall, dean of admissions at Amherst College. Other participating colleges include Williams, Wesleyan and Goucher...
...Sisters just when it is being eyed acquisitively by Columbia University, its big brother across the street. Although Barnard has run a deficit in each of the last few years ($500,000 in 1975-76), the college and its $24 million endowment are nonetheless attractive to Columbia. Mattfeld, a Goucher graduate, argues a partnership, yes, a merger, never. Discovering some "ambiguous wording" in the intercorporate agreement with Columbia, Mattfeld had Barnard trustees write out a specific mandate calling for the college's continued autonomy. At the same time, Mattfeld must allay the fear of some of her faculty that...
With its graceful stone buildings set among the rolling, wooded hillsides of Maryland's hunt country, Goucher College has long been an exclusive school for women. This summer, however, it has been the training-camp home of the National Football League's most aggressive social climbers, the Baltimore Colts. Last season the Colts were football's Cinderella, bouncing from two wins and twelve losses in 1974 to the championship of the American Football Conference's Eastern Division and a spot in the 1975 playoffs. They were beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first playoff round...
That the Colts were ready for the race to the Super Bowl was obvious from the first day of training, when every member of the squad reported to Goucher with a signed contract. Thus the Colts began practice with no holdouts and no distractions-the only N.F.L. team to do so in an era of free agents and player unrest. While the players went through drills under muggy Maryland skies, the emphasis was on honing a club that would be young enough-average age: 25-to contend for years...
...their 40s and 50s who were hired in the 1950s, when many women's colleges sought male professors as a sign of progressiveness and academic seriousness. In any case, today 71 colleges-a record-now have women in the president's chair, including Hunter, Wellesley, Goucher and Wheaton. Last month Smith College, the nation's largest private women's college (2,600 students)-and the school that produced Feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Sylvia Plath-installed its first woman president. She is Jill Ker Conway, 40, an Australian who grew up on a sheep ranch...