Word: sophian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, Smith girls loved it too. In a pool conducted this September by the Sophian, the semi-weekly Smith newspaper, 93% of the student body said they wanted interim continued. This was the third year of the experiment; the year in which its fate would be decided...
...Faculty vote kills Interim--'Nobel Experiment' Fails" wrote the Sophian on page one, and gave the experiment its last elegy on the editorial page. No reasons were given by the faculty for its decision...
...Sophian put its finger on the ambiguity of the administration's position in a sad editorial. The faculty's attitude, they said, was at first, "We aren't going to tell you what to do with these three weeks;" and then at last, "You didn't do what we didn't tell you we expected...
...girls will quietly shake their heads over the change, like the four lowerclassmen who wrote in to the Sophian, "With the loss of Interim, Smith has become just another good school." But nearly everyone will slowly being to agree to his own culpability. "The abuses of Interim have been flagrant," write the Sophian editors. "Unfortunately you can't run a College forever on an ideal if it only benefits a minority...
...increasingly vocal. Those who favor the program do not claim that significant work is accomplished in the period, but rather feel it is a valuable time for introspection. "It is surprising what one can learn about oneself in the short space of three weeks," said a letter in the Sophian. Others agreed. "I did some practice teaching," said one girl, "and I decided I liked it and wanted to be a teacher. In a way, that's not much to do in three weeks, but in a way it's a tremendous...