Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time, as the Senior president explained, Mr. Hunnewell gave a silver pine to Mr. Durant. Wellesley was two years old at the time, and hard up for traditions; and it seemed almost inevitable that the College would still be celebrating Tree Day 74 years later--last Saturday, in fact. Tree Day, as the Senior president explained, is "one of Wellesley College's oldest and most colorful traditions." Most of the two thousand onlookers weren't too sure what was going on; but it was quite enough that it had been going on for one hell...
...prominent holdover from Mr. Durant's Seminary days is a course in Biblical History required of all sophomores. Aside from this the Wellesley curriculum is very similar to that of Harvard, a system on concentration and distribution of courses having been in effect approximately the same length of time as that of the Cambridge institution. Also the immediate post World War II period saw the rise of certain inter-departmental basic courses, roughly parallel to Harvard's General Education series...
...more the Wellesleyite pays through the nose, to the average tune of some $2500 per year--a large part of this falling in the catch-all category of personal expenses. High tuition, room, and board rates are traceable to the fact that few alumnae die and leave fortunes to Wellesley. The alumnae's husbands die and leave the money to Harvard...
...little use to ask the Wellesleyite why she chosen to romp these fertile pastures. An administrative poll conducted last fall showed that a majority chose Wellesley for its high academic standing, while less than one percent sited the proximity to Harvard and M.I.T. A high administrative, official, however, shrugs and says, "I'm, not so naive as to consider this completely accurate." The high administrative official is undoubtedly right...
Most of the girls Wellesley as they find it, but some 25 percent disappear between freshman and senior classes to join coed schools. But for those who remain, no matter how diversified the academic interests, tradition and honor leave their mark. Wellesley will continue, for many generations to come, to be a minor tempest behind the Teapot of American society