Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Political Scientist Benjamin Fletcher Wright of Harvard University was appointed president of Smith College (TIME, March 21), he had a reservation: he was afraid he did not know enough about women's education. "I've got to do some homework," said he. Last week at his inauguration (which coincided with Smith's 75th anniversary celebration), President Wright showed how far his homework had taken him. He jumped right into the biggest question of all: What should women be educated...
...women's colleges was clear to Smith's new president: they must thoroughly investigate "the role of women in contemporary life," and perhaps change their curricula accordingly. The "older and more firmly established" colleges had been slow to do so. "I can see no justification," said he, "for allowing the newer and frankly experimental colleges to take the initiative in making the investigations and the trials which may seem to be called...
Exactly what he intended to do, Wright did not say. Smith expected there were some experiments ahead...
Except for a matter of dates, the letter to the editor of Street & Smith's Astounding Science Fiction (circ. 80,000) would have received no more attention than the next piece of fan mail. Writing in October 1948, 20-year-old Richard Hoen of Buffalo, N.Y. had told in detail what he liked & disliked about the issue of November...
KILLERS OF THE DREAM (256 pp.)-Lillian Smith-Norton...