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Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Radcliffe. When the first was founded by a Massachusetts teacher named Mary Lyon in 1837, she called it a "peculiar institution"; it was designed solely for the post-secondary education of women. In the 1920s the colleges banded together as the Seven Sisters, partly to present a united front for fund raising. Elaine Kendall (Mt. Holyoke '49) sees all of them as Peculiar Institutions (Putnam, $8.95). Her "informal history" of the Seven, both affectionate and critical, scans their strange beginnings, early growth and difficult future...
...hour in a party-favors store; the Ph.D.s who work as stewardesses, fishermen, welders, bank tellers. All bear witness to the death of the deeply ingrained American belief that a college diploma is a semi-automatic passport to a high-paying job and a fulfilling career. As a Wellesley senior puts it, "After college, there is no free lunch...
...underemployment. Robin McElheny, a 1975 magna cum laude Radcliffe graduate who describes her undergraduate education as "worthless," works as a housecleaner in Boston and hopes to become a quiltmaker. "I enjoy cleaning houses," she says, "and I meet a lot of people doing it." For some, such as a Wellesley graduate working as a groom at a prep school's stables, there is even a certain blue-collar chic in low level jobs...
After some time, three women from Wellesley College--strangers no less--crept into the room and sat on the floor listening. Perhaps they were amused by the sight--two college boys spending their Saturday night next door to a party, discussing the nuts and bolts of pulling votes in downtown Quincy...
Somehow, the answer did not satisfy. And well it should not have. For the Wellesley College woman had struck upon a telling, perhaps the telling point of 1976. The liberals could not afford to be so liberal this year. No candidate could afford to talk about the forgotten masses in Brazil. The voters wouldn't stand...