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There was little doubt that Wagner had lost-and little sympathy for the bad grace with which he had taken his defeat. Those more interested in the survival of the college than in the conflict of personalities could only hope that time and a better spirit would knit raveled Rollins together again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Rollins Row (Cont'd) | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

With tighter-knit bluebooks to correct, graders will be able to go over each one more carefully. These men will also have the time either to write longer marginal comments in the examination books, or to discuss them individually. There will no longer be any excuse for not returning blue books to their authors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grasping the Bull by the Horns | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Although the greatest efforts are made in Poughkeepsie to treat every undergraduate as an individual, there is a natural tendency toward conformity within any such closely-knit, isolated group. Though the aim of the admissions policy has been to gather individuals who show a wide variety of experience, the girl from Zanesville, Ohio, who leaves Vassar after four years must resemble her roommate from Manhattan in many respects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in Isolated Community Stamps All Undergraduates with Similarities | 4/13/1951 | See Source »

Meanwhile Smith starts its fourth quarter century. The atmosphere there may not be intellectually exciting, the girls often knit rather then take notes, but it is certainly intellectually alert, perhaps a little less isolation would be desirable, because after all, how far can a handful of Amherst men go around. But at least it makes sure that the cream of America's young ladies are not merely "admitted, on sufferance and made to fit as best they can," as Herbert Davis, Wright's predecessor, suggested women are in many a college

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Smith... A Little Bit of Everything | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

...said the Alumni Bulletin last term. And the spirited, close-knit Bunny Hutch--with a band for its football games, a 'six-foot rabbit for its mascot, and a riot for its weekends--is still the House it's most fun to live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noisy Leverett Roars to Prominence | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

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