Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman Debate Team last night convinced a Wellesley audience of 60 girls that "women do not prefer death to dishonor." Walker J. Blakey '62 and Terry W. Schwab '62 spoke for the Yardlings...
Taking the affirmative, two Wellesley girls tried to define death as including "mental anguish," and dishonor as "only what a woman does against her will." But the Yardlings objected...
...argue that this body of left-over girls is sufficient reason for Radcliffe resident tutors is to ignore the fact that Radcliffe, since it is a woman's institution, will not attract many of the best Harvard tutors. Radcliffe is no Wellesley, and until Harvard moves to Peterborough, New Hampshire, the Annex will not have an intellectual life of its own. To increase all-girl tutorials is to make Radcliffe girls feel like "second-class citizens" and to increase a problem, not to solve...
...Mediterranean area, Stevens, a longtime Christian Science Monitor correspondent, has stuck close to the Soviet scene. He is the author of two books on Russia, Russia Is No Riddle and This Is Russia Uncensored. His wife Nina became a U.S. citizen in 1943. is a 1946 graduate of Wellesley. They have one son, Moscow-born Edmund Jr., 22, an M.I.T. graduate, and one daughter, U.S.-born Anastasia, 17, who is studying at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet School...
Compounding the tendency to flee to greener pastures from New Haven is the close proximity of New York--an hour and a half away--and several women's colleges: Smith only two hours distant, and Wellesley but three. The casualness of Elis towards traveling is exemplified by three who journeyed to Wellesley in order to take blind dates to a movie. It is the avowed purpose of President Griswold to cut down on this roaming by increasing academic work loads...