Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wellesley College is currently considering its responsibility to the academic community, now and in the future, in relation to the question of coeducation. Some Wellesley students who like the idea of a college dedicated to the liberal arts education of women are a little amused and greatly disturbed by the untroubled assumption of many people that coeducation is the only answer to the problem of academic responsibility. Coeducation can create as many problems as it can solve; and perhaps some girls really do need the advantages a woman's college can offer them...
This does not mean that complete separation from men is desirable; most girls need and like the company of men. It means that some creative thinking could reveal a more feasible solution and not leave Wellesley in the position of taking in boys, like laundry, in order to support itself...
...have a responsibility to offer a fine education to those girls who do not care for a completely coeducational institution. If Wellesley's problems are approached and solved creatively, a women's college could still be considered a valid and exciting type of educational institution. Wellesley could be more like a women's college in the university complex of Boston than an isolated and secluded girls' school. Wellesley girls could enjoy the benefits of the Boston area and those of a school with an education tailored to their needs...
...could be done with the talent that finds its way to Cambridge, and I think Adolph Samborski is wise to talk about the "program" with this year's seniors. But I also feel that Yovicsin, as an individual, is being stepped on by some Harvard officials who don't like the fact that he was hired as a special assistant at Suffok Downs race track...
...LIKE MOST literature that has a complaining tone, women's liberation magazines don't appeal strongly, at first, to anyone who can't join in the complaint. Especially when the complaint is. "We women are unhappy with our sexual and social role," most readers tend to make a detour around this literature, if they don't jeer and throw tomatoes...