Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wellesley's dark paths, hosts to many goodwill missions, were invaded last night by one of the strangest expeditions that ever left the Square. Equipped with washboards, a piano, and a set of drums, Peter Hewitt '48 and his "Pair of Dirty Stockings" were trying to prove to the Wellesley Institute of Foreign Students that early American jazz--New Orleans style at least--had never died...
Prior to the First World War he served as an instructor in Geology here and at Radcliffe and Wellesley Colleges, and later held an associate professorship in the subject at the University of Kansas...
...mere rattling of seats, which generally heralds the rise of a summer theater curtain, will inaugurate the dimming of the house lights at Wellesley's Alumnae Hall tonight. Elaborate brassladen ceremonies have been scheduled, which climax in a squadron of airplanes zooming overhead in letter "W" formation...
Competing with the aircraft motors, on the guest speakers' platform, beginning at 8:15 o'clock, will be Lieutenant-Governor Arthur W. Coolidge; Linus Towers, executive vice president of the Yankee Network; Rear-Admiral Morton Dayo; Major General Horace McBridge; S. Murray Forbes, Wellesley trustoo; and star Jane Cowl...
Somewhat eclipsed by the theatrical spotlight, and winding up on Thursday a two week session of pondering social issues is the 12-year old Wellesley Institute for Social Progress, with an enrollment of 200 quartered in Claftin, Severance, and Pomeroy Halls...