Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alcohol has entirely supplanted the goldfish on the national college palate, according to Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College. In addition, she warned 750 women attending a New York luncheon last Saturday, that campus atmosphere cannot improve so long as "parents send girls to college for opportunities to meet Harvard men," and other non-academic pursuits...
From Education: In the fields of education and cultural activities, women play a major part. The Institute's speaker on this theme is Mildred Helen McAfee (Mrs. Douglas Hor-ton), the "Captain Mac" who organized, trained and bossed 86,000 WAVES, is now again the president of Wellesley College. She believes that colleges (in which she has spent almost all of her adult life) are the place to start to right wrongs in the postwar world...
...like my stocking filled," said Miss Jean Workmann, Wellesley 49, "with invitations to all the big, bang-up festivities at Harvard next fall...
...watched Wellesley go home and the knots of people in the Square's liquor marts thin out as funds dwindled and students had only a few days left to supply for. "We serve them all year, and they walk out on us at Christmas," the man behind the counter observed half-facetiously, half-sardonically...
...Much better than the Old Howard," was the delighted answer of one young Wellesley girl when asked how she liked the food and floor-show in the Union. Her remark was typical of the attitude of the many goggle-eyed females there for the first time on Saturday...