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Wellesley tuition is finally going the way of all college tuitions up. A $200 boost, slated to come into effect next fall, will boost the fee to $1600. The announcement of the long-delayed increase came from President Mildred McAfee Horton...
...treating each case on its merits. Said she: "Some jobs and some people can take on matrimony, and some cannot." Last week, after three years of trying to combine her job and matrimony, pert "Miss Mac" decided to leave Wellesley and join her husband, the Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, a leader in the Congregational Christian Churches, in New York. Explained Mrs. Horton: "As a team we can accomplish more than the sum of the accomplishments of each of us working separately...
...quite a few jobs, ranging from a teacher in grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...
President Milton Eisenhower of Kansas State College is chairman of the U.S. Commission for UNESCO. Fellow members of the fifteen-man executive committee with Smith include Archibald MacLeish, former Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State; Mrs. Douglas Horton, President of Wellesley College; and Editor Erwin D. Canban of the Christian Science Monites...
...suit against religious education on school property (TIME, March 22). Others, however, were not so sure there was anything to cheer about. Among them were 28 top Protestant leaders, including Bishops Angus Dun and William Scarlett, and Reverends Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry P. Van Dusen and Douglas Horton. They issued a statement deploring the Supreme Court decision, believed that it would "greatly accelerate the trend toward the secularization of our culture." In the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary tells where he thinks the significance of the McCollum and other...