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...remember one party during the early summer after my freshman year where all my old classmates sat around talking endlessly about whose fraternity had the most rigorous initiation procedure and what was the best way to drive from Washington and Lee to Sweetbriar, and feeling for the first time that I wasn't like them any more. These people, it struck me, were perhaps the real Southerners, and they were neither poetic nor haunted by the past; they were clean-cut, well-fed young future businessmen and housewives, conservative and full of good cheer. I, on other other hand...
...squeeze on foreign study, most colleges have drastically expanded their junior-year-abroad programs. In the majority of cases, the student enrolls directly in a foreign university, but remains under the stringent supervision of a reliable American sponsorship program, the most popular of which are run by Wayne State, Sweetbriar, and Indiana universities...
...ironic that Harvard, the only American college well known and widely respected in Europe, has lagged behind most others in developing opportunities for foreign study. In 1952 the Faculty authorized the Romance and Germanic Languages Departments to grant carefully screened applicants junior-year-abroad under the Wayne State or Sweetbriar programs. In 1961 the authorization was extended to the History and Literature Department. Concentrators in all other fields are left high and dry, unless they can persuade their department chairman to steer the individual request through the Committee on Educational Policy and the Administrative Board--bureaucratic channels of which most...
...Sweetbriar's $650 is wasted in an unnecessary program, and it performs just one valuable function. It enables Americans without degrees of bachelor of arts to enter, by special permission, certain classes in the French University, which usually requires a college degree from Americans. Yet Harvard students in the past have obtained such special dispensations on their own for a total tuition of $10. Harvard itself, as one of the leading universities in this country, could surely obtain a standing dispensation equal to Sweet briar...
...other four prospective female lawyers spent their undergraduate days at Wellesley, Sweetbriar, Tulane, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia respectively...