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Word: wellesley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most colleges piously deny that they set racial or religious quotas-but just the same, many ask their applicants to specify their race and religion. This week President Mildred McAfee Horton announced that Wellesley College would henceforth omit these questions on its application forms-to free Wellesley from "even the appearance of unfair discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Questions | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Planned Byproducts. More than 1,000 graduates wandered nostalgically last week over Milton's 95-acre, $2,000,000 campus, watched a student production of Alumnus Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, heard speeches by Pundit Walter Lippmann, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton, Oxford's Sir Richard Livingstone. After Sir Richard's plea for the sort of education that would foster "a feeling for the first-rate" and "a quest for the good," visiting educators wrangled politely about the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three in One | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...meeting which elected Ullman was held Saturday at Wellesley. More than 300 geographers from the New England area were present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ullman Becomes President of NE Geography Group | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

...second match with the Indians, the Crimson Freshmen administered another setback to the Indians, 6 to 3. Meanwhile, the Jayvees made it a clean sweep at Wellesley with a 4 to 1 victory over Babson Institute...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Varsity Tennis Team Defeats Big Green, 5-4 | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Past statistics are not available on the truth of the Wellesley superstition, which claims that the winner will be the first senior to wed. Carmen, who comes from Portland, Oregon, said that her present intentions offer little hope for early espousal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waban Hoops Doom Busy Schooler to Early Wedlock | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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