Word: wellesley
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...descended, socially prominent California Communist leader and perennial party candidate for state and federal offices; in San Francisco. The daughter of a wealthy California lawyer, and a niece of onetime U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field and transatlantic-cable sponsor Cyrus W. Field, Charlotte Whitney was graduated from Wellesley, turned to Communism as an answer to the poverty she encountered as a social worker on Manhattan's East Side and later in Oakland, Calif. Sentenced to prison in 1920 under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act to curb post-World War I sabotage, she was eventually pardoned...
...This year we want to make the Yale game a big affair," Gilmour said. "Sort of a Test Match. We plan to have Wellesley girls serving tea, and with this large membership already, we should win the game...
Caplan, named associate professor of Mental Health, has worked with the ministry of Health in Israel. He is currently a consulting psychiatrist to the Wellesley Human Relations Service and the School of Public Health...
...turned out that their experiment, though born out of innocent curiosity, violated a college ruling against publicizing the Wellesley name without official sanction. And in addition, the "Syndicate" members suddenly became rather unpopular with their dorm-mates, who found it hard to get used to the 3 a.m. telephone calls...
...Eight Wellesley freshmen hastily stepped out of the date-interviewing business yesterday, as the college's publicity office explained to all callers that the girls "just didn't know what they were stirring up." Among the callers were several New York newspapers and national magazines...