Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wellesley girls, a usually easy going group given more to worry over sign outs than studies last year started keeping exceptionally close track of exactly how they spent their time. Each day for six weeks they carefully went up to a little chart and to tailed up how many hours they spent studying, sleeping, and attending classes. They noted how much time they had spent working at jobs, how much time they had spent on exercise. Then they handed in the little charts, and the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education picked up the sheets and started tabulating...
...Monday morning the splintered trophies are propped on a score of House mantlepieces, or have already found their way to Smith, Vassar, or Wellesley in overnight bags. And a small man, red-faced, with steel-grey hair, paces Soldiers Field and checks the damage...
...Wellesley president Margaret Clapp announced Tuesday that the number of women in colleges would soon out-number the men. In order to prepare for this onslaught, the editors of the CRIMSON have decided that there will be no Crime Monday...
Speaking before the 38th Annual Convention of the American Council on Education, Margaret Clapp of Wellesley said trends indicate women will soon outnumber men in the nation's institutions of higher learning. In line with this rise in female enrollments, Miss Clapp warned that women will begin to take over more jobs now the exclusive property...
...Colleges should prepare new for the avalanche of new students that will hit them within the next ten years," the Wellesley College president added. Miss Clapp credited this expected enrollment increase to the increased birth rate during World...