Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Clapp did not guess why the trustees were there, or why they stayed for lunch with her. That night she rode home on the subway, as usual, to her Greenwich Village walk-up and thought no more about it. But some time later her telephone rang. It was Edward...
Bustles & Bonnets. Wellesley was founded by a wealthy Boston lawyer named Henry Fowle Durant, who contributed $1,000,000 for the training of future teachers and "the glory of God." Its first students numbered 314-a bewildered group in bustles & bonnets, who were carted in horse-drawn "barges" up to...
In time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard...
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...
Actually, they are worriers. They worry about racial equality, and when they go home to find their parents less enlightened, they begin to worry about them. They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a...