Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean of College Admissions Richard M. Gummere will tell any students who wish to know, "How and Why You Were Admitted to Harvard" in a Student Council sponsored forum at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson...
...Tell Me." By June the matter was settled. As soon as she could rent her apartment and pack her trunk, Margaret Clapp hopped a train and went back to her old college, twelve miles west of Boston's Copley Square. Feeling a little like Cinderella, she moved into the big white mansion she had known as the President's House. She had three sitting rooms, a drawing room, two maids, a cook, a chauffeur and two secretaries. Her new domain stretched out over 400 acres of rolling hills. From the air it looked like a series of Gothic...
...still hard to recall exactly where all the pathways led. And when she got inside the Administration Building she promptly got lost. She introduced herself to the first person who happened along, and asked: "Can you tell me where mv office...
After weekends, when the population is back to normal, Wellesley is as busy as an A. & P. "Don't panic," the girls tell each other as pre-exam work piles up. But some girls do panic, and a few secretly resort to "bennies" (benzedrine). Otherwise, they worry about their figures, and then at the Well, the campus soda fountain, they gorge themselves on Wellesley Specials (a brownie smothered in ice cream and hot fudge sauce). They play bebop records by the hour, but know more about Bach than any Wellesley generation before them. They are coldly practical about some...
...shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green "one of the living novelists whom...