Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handful of outstanding women hold important corporate jobs; e.g., Mrs. Mildred McAfee Horton, 53, former president of Wellesley and wartime boss of the WAVES, is a director of NBC, RCA and the New York Life Insurance Co. Women have become leaders in obviously feminine lines, such as fashions, cosmetics and, increasingly, department stores, e.g., Dorothy Shaver, 56, president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor. Women have done well in lines where their eye for detail is useful, e.g., banking (there are 8,105 female bank officers in the U.S., 9% of the total). But how rare women executives still...
TIME Agent Mary Helen Colby of Wellesley College reports that selling subscriptions often leads to unexpected complications : "I have taken time out to give seniorly advice on topics ranging from how-to-lose-weight-for-the-coming-formal to writing freshman compositions in the approved manner." And speaking of freshmen, TIME Agent Nish Kechejian of Bates College says: "I have had pretty good results. Among the 115 male freshmen here, 105 have either an individual or a group subscription...
...instructures for the groups. Originally, only Harvard offered the courses under the auspices of the Lowell Institute, new Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, the Lowell Institute, the Massachusetts Board of Education, M.I.T., the Muscum of Fine Arts, the School Committee of the City of Boston, Simmons, Tufts, and Wellesley cooperate in the program for education of Boston's intellectually hungry adults...
Pusey and Dean William J. Kenealy of the Boston College Law School had conferences with the seven-man committee on November 12. Presidents Margaret Clapp of Wellesley, James R. Killian of M.I.T., and Harold Case of Boston University talked to the group a week later...
Another aid in drawing students from west of the Mississippi has been Radcliffe's membership in the Seven College Conference. Composed of Wellesley, Smith, Vassar, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, and Radcliffe, the Conference recruits girls and gives scholarships to all seven schools. The combination was born of necessity; by splitting the cost seven ways, seven times as many girls will hear the gospel. Radcliffe's administration is not altogether satisfied with the Conference, however. Applicants from the West are still largely from private schools, while students from public schools are especially wanted...