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...1960s. When men's colleges started going coed, siphoning off some of the best women students, the Seven Sisters had to take a new look at their original charters. Radcliffe elected to become part of Harvard; Barnard tightened its ties with neighboring Columbia, and Bryn Mawr with Haverford; Vassar took in men. Only Wellesley, Smith and Mt. Holyoke remained colleges for women. There is currently a new wave of interest in them, fueled in part by their courses in women's studies, but Kendall believes it is temporary, and that ultimately no single-sex school can survive...
...Recently, for example, the results of a two-year study in Philadelphia showed that both black and white elementary school pupils learned more in integrated classrooms. When black youngsters reached junior high school, however, they learned more when the majority of their classmates were black. John Coleman, president of Haverford College and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, which financed the research, believes that the study has "the potential to shake up the entire educational establishment." At the very least, it could provide a new rationale for those who want to hasten the retreat from integration...
...result is an incoming class whose average age is 26. Many people come to Northeastern only after becoming discouraged with the work a bachelor's degree makes available to them. The experience of a 1972 Haverford graduate is typical. After leaving college he went to California to live for a year. "I'd studied German in college, and I went to look for a job as a translator, but there was nothing," he says. "I tried selling encyclopedias, but that lasted only a week. Meanwhile, my expectations sank lower and lower. Then I got involved in two types of contradictory...
John R. Coleman is chairman of the board at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and president of Haverford College. His daily scribblings from a two-month leave he took last spring to live a working-class existence are compiled in Blue-Collar Journal. The narrative follows Coleman's jaunt through three main jobs in Atlanta, Boston and Washington, but now and then wanders to an apparently still-rankling divorce in New York City and an honest youth in Canada...
Even if Coleman won't make any grand judgements on the system that has supported him, he ought to allow others to attain his personal dream of wholeness. In the detachment of his Haverford office, Coleman certainly should reflect on the masses of workers who have never had the opportunity to exercise their minds for a couple of months in, say, the rigors of running a college. Naturally he ought to step down for a spell to give them all a chance to write White-Collar Journals and achieve some sense of regained self. But of course, as Coleman notes...