Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughter of wealthy New Orleans Coffee Importer Armant Legendre, who belonged to a Creole family, Anne Armstrong earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Vassar and worked briefly for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. In 1950 she married wealthy Texas Rancher Tobin Armstrong (who will probably accompany her to London) and became mistress of a 50,000-acre Southern Texas spread. Besides being mother of five children, Mrs. Armstrong helps keep the ranch books, works with the Santa Gertrudis cattle on occasion-"She can cut a herd with the best of them," says her husband. She is also an active...
...when Yale and Harvard didn't mean tie and jacket?" But there are reminders that, in certain ways, more than the superficial has changed. Women, though certainly not accepted completely at Yale and Harvard, two of the bastions of male chauvinism, are not singing the song that Smith and Vassar women made their craze in the 1920s: "Was I drunk? Was he handsome? Did my mummy give me hell...
...running out for Harvard, fair catches a punt on its own 3-yard line. On the last play Kubacki drops back into the end zone to pass, eludes several Yale tacklers, and calmly steps out of the end zone as the gun sounds. William F. Buckley, disguised as a Vassar coed, vainly tries to kick the drum. He is discovered and politely escorted to his car. Harvard...
...most interesting, versatile and well-known art historians is speaking at Harvard tomorrow. Linda Nochlin, who's a professor at Vassar and whose books are recommended reading, at least, in Fine Arts 13 and most of the Fine Arts department's post-1800 courses, will be lecturing on Manet's Ball at the Opera at 4 p.m. in the Christian Room at the Fogg. Nochlin is a great scholar, but she's also written about problems of art and artists in our own time--the state of scholarship on women artists, the problems of government funding for art. It should...
...boys at Vassar and Sarah Lawrence were the B.M.O.C.s just a few years ago as women's colleges rushed to open their gates to men. The nationwide push for coeducation in the early '70s brought hard times to women's schools that chose to exclude men. Enrollment tumbled, alumnae panicked and school officials scrambled to recruit new students. Now, however, the picture is changing dramatically. All-women's colleges will open this fall with their highest enrollment in four years...