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...Garland is bringing out many important works that would otherwise be unavailable," agreed Robert J. Polito, a professor of English at Wellesley College...
...Crimson's 8-3 record represents its best start since its inception as a varsity sport in 1981. Tonight's match against Lowell (15-4 overall) is Harvard's first home match since the squad opened the season with a straight set victory over Wellesley last month...
...destructive pounding in coed classrooms. A report released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight." By contrast, at women's colleges, notes Wellesley President Nannerl Keohane, female students not only enjoy "equal * opportunity, but every opportunity." This pays off, she insists, when graduates go out into the real and frequently sexist world: "When they do hit their first mound of prejudice, instead of saying, 'I'm not ready for this,' they will...
...education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will be able to work equally professionally across the board," says Wellesley's Keohane. "Perhaps when that day comes, our mission of educating women alone will be accomplished. I don't think it's going to happen soon...
...Wellesley quickly jumped to a 6-3 advantage, but unlike last year, the spikers did not self-destruct. They came back...