Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expose on how "greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are making a nightmare of "man's great dream"--America. In one chapter it states that "Harvard is so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles," and follows this closely with: "Girl queers breed at Wellesley and at many of the fine finishing schools...
Daniel I. Murphy, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Safety, said that complaints from "some Harvard graduates and Wellesley students" that the book is foul and libelous brought about the action. Despite the fact that police merely "advised" that sale or lending of the book might bring about libel suits, most book-stores in the Square immediately took it off display...
...Wellesley College reports that the demand for its Latin and Greek scholars has definitely been revived...
...only in teaching that they're wanted," according to Mrs. Joan Fins Bishop, Wellesley Placement Director. She reports that seniors concentrating in these fields are being sought by the government for work in certain agencies which require aptitude in learning difficult languages...
Miss Jeanne Glasscock, a member of the Wellesley faculty, remarked, however, that she could foresee no increase in the number of girls majoring in these courses...