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...knows no distinctions of sex. In fact, failure is especially inadmissable for women, who should have an interest in dispelling the belief that Radcliffe women go on to become only well-educated housewives. Radcliffe women have reportedly left less of an imprint on the public arena than Vassar or Wellesley graduates, but this should not condone the cultural and political lag that characterizes Harvard attitudes...
...Richard Nixon's most persistent Watergate defense themes is that he will never do anything to weaken the institution of the presidency. A study of children's attitudes toward the office by Political Scientist F. Christopher Arterton of Wellesley College indicates, however, that the Watergate scandal already has profoundly altered at least one small group of the younger generation's perceptions of the presidency...
John T. Dunlop, director of the Cost of Living Council and former dean of the Faculty, Patricia Roberts Harris, former dean of the Howard Law School, and Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley College, are among the people who will receive honorary degrees at tomorrow's Commencement, sources said yesterday...
Battling wind and rain and slippery roads, Peter Bates pedalled his way to victory in Sunday's Harvard-Wellesley Bicycle Race...
Died. Margaret Clapp, 64, for 17 years president of her alma mater, Wellesley College; of cancer; in Tyringham, Mass. Clapp won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for her Columbia University Ph.D. thesis, a biography of 19th century Editor John Bigelow. One year later, as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, she was tapped for the presidency of the venerable women's college. An advocate of well-balanced liberal arts education, she resigned in 1966 to head tiny Lady Doak College in Madurai, India, a country she had never seen. She later became Minister-Counselor of Public Affairs...