Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following years Pierian turned to the pleasanter occupation of visiting Smith, Wellesley, and Radcliffe. Their first concert at Wellesley was under the auspices of the Tennis Association. Apparently the girls were somewhat shy of the Harvardmen; the Pierian record says that they offered "many prayers to Zeus the Averter that it would be the last...
...Sodality's activities--they went on trips to neighboring towns in trolley cars instead of horse cars--the basic pattern of meeting, drinking and abjourning did not change much during their first 75 years. Later, however, football matches between Pierian and the Glee Club, and trips to Wellesley, Smith, and Radcliffe were added to the agenda...
Following Pierian's tradition of visiting women's colleges, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra travelled to Colby Jr. College in February, 1943. Although a 'Cliffie reports that the girls were taken along as "excess bags," she later adds that "a glad and gleeful time was had by all." Wellesley and Groton School were also destinations of the combination's travels, but in February, 1948, the Pierians asserted their freedom by giving a concert with the Mt. Holyoke College orchestra, or so the first page of the program says. Radcliffe girl's names appear in the roster on page three...
...Conference, any student with a "strong high school record" and the approval of her school who applies to only one of the colleges will be notified of her acceptance or refusal in the fall. The members of the Conference are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Pembroke, Radcliffe, Smith and Wellesley...
Although Genet reputedly wanted to add a cynical touch to an already morbid and sexually suggestive play by having the maids acted by two men, Wellesley refrains. Patricia Adel and Lucienne Schupf were given the roles, and they gnaw through them histrionically but frequently well. Their occasional over-acting is probably very much what Genet would have wanted; it helps exaggerate the nebulous line between reality and artificiality. Now and then, perhaps due to Nadine's Duwez's direction, sharp emotion and vigorous gestures and poses come too obviously from nowhere...