Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Females will soon outnumber male students at the university level throughout the country, the president of Wellesley College asserted yesterday...
...Harvard, he earned part of his way playing for dances at Wellesley with a band of his own (he played piccolo and piano). He played center on the basketball team, headed Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Harvard's last remaining national fraternity. He majored in economics (B average), neither smoked nor drank (he likes an occasional drink now), but was not above staying up all night playing low-stake bridge and poker...
...Wellesley & Jail. But when Mahatma Gandhi came, the entire family Nehru joined his nonviolent rebellion, organized strikes, whipped up civil disobedience against the British raj-and often went to jail. Vijaya Lakshmi served three terms, two years and eight months, on a food allowance of 19? per day. Her husband, Ranjit Pandit, a lawyer and Sanskrit scholar, spent about ten years in jail and died in 1944 from its ill effects...
Between jail terms Vijaya Lakshmi raised three daughters. The two eldest, one of whom had served a jail term for anti-British activities, went to Wellesley; all three are now married to Indian government officials. Vijaya Lakshmi also put in years of public service (the Allahabad Education Committee, the United Provinces State Legislative Assembly, the All-India Women's Conference). In 1937, she became India's first woman minister in the first British-supervised Congress provincial government. In 1944, she toured the U.S. to counter British propaganda against Indian independence, and did it so effectively that...
Married. Mildred ("Mimi") Clark, 20, Wellesley-educated daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark; and Ensign Thomas Richard Gronlund, 23, Navy air cadet; in a formal wedding attended by 565 guests, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Associate Justice Hugo Black. General of the Army Omar Bradley; in Washington...