Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With proper ceremony the Navy was winding up a supply training program at Wellesley. Among the college officials on the platform sat high-ranking Navy officers. Although Wellesley's faculty had never really cottoned to the presence of 200 sailors on the campus, one speaker after another politely sang the Navy's praises. Then Captain Mildred McAfee of the WAVES, who is also Wellesley's part-time president, got up. "The Navy reminds me of having a trained nurse in your home," she said. "You are glad to see her come-" She paused, briskly continued...
Most other women's colleges have taken little public notice of the women veterans. Some of them, like Wellesley and Radcliffe, perennially receive more applications than they can accept. Others believe that most women veterans are not interested in college, that the interested minority, being older than the average girl student, will feel more at ease on larger, coed campuses...
This futile attempt to call attention to their prominent features is clearly an example of jealousy at Smith. Wellesley girls have had their fling...
Walter E. Robb 3rd, of Weston, and Arthur C. McGill of Wellesley Hills were chosen to represent Lowell House. The Directive Committee's appointments for Adams, were Howland P. Hall, of Chestnut Hill and Oliver W. Roosevelt, Jr., of New York City...
...should be quite a shore-leave. The Boston College-Harvard game (for free through the courtesy of both institutions) Saturday afternoon, the Middies dance, the Wellesley dance and McBride's in the evening...