Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with unmitigated horror that I read the article on Wellesley in December 16's CRIMSON: It is compelling evidence, not that Wellesley has a place in education today, as the article purported to prove, but rather that Wellesley and schools like it are a major part of the female problem. In particular I was bothered by the justification that at Wellesley...
Both of these concepts point in the same direction-Wellesley is turning out obsolete and useless graduates in a time when we can ill afford to waste educational facilities on training dilettantes. To quote from the article, "in this age of increasingly necessary specialization a women's college may remain the only place where a true liberal arts education can survive." (Emphasis added.) Survive for what reason? The obsolescence of Wellesley's graduates is especially tragic in light of our current misallocation of national resources. Universities-if they do not train the majority of their students to deal directly with...
...tower" for another. The college should be seen as one aspect of the world we live in, not as a world in itself. Students in a women's college are just as capable of recognizing this problem and acting on it as any other group of students. Perhaps a Wellesley girl will be more likely to discover the importance of the outside world early since she often must leave the campus to find...
...course it is not necessary or desirable that everyone agree with these ideas about women's education in general and Wellesley College in particular. What is needed is a serious evaluation of a validity of the current trend towards coeducation, especially in relation to Wellesley and its future. It is far more important that the problem be considered in terms of the nature of an education than the perhaps overrated importance of a certain type of education. Wellesley College has unique problems and should be able to find unique solutions. If the problems are approached creatively and responsibly the Wellesley...
Police are still trying to find out where the articles were stolen from. Egan said the boys told police they thought the decorations had come from the Wellesley-Newton area, but could not remember exactly where they had gotten them. A Jesus figurine is missing from the Cambridge Common, Egan said...