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Adele D. Allen, president of the student government association at Wellesley, said yesterday that at Wellesley both men and women professors--there are about 50 per cent of each--were interested in educating women...
Newell said that she felt the research done by Matina Horner, president of Radcliffe, on women's fear of success, had been important to the decision to continue developing Wellesley as a woman's school...
Women in a coeducational school receive "conflicting signals on the 'femininity' of intellectual vigor and do not take full advantage of college," Newell said. She said she hoped the study of women's roles "will be an area of cooperation between Radcliffe and Wellesley...
Horner said yesterday that she and Newell will be meeting soon to discuss ways in which the two institutions can benefit each other in this area. She said, however, that Wellesley's decision to remain closed to males was a separate decision that would have no effect on the future of Radcliffe under the non-merger merger...
Newell said that research has shown that women educated at coeducational colleges hold positions of responsibility in later life less often than those educated at women's schools. "Wellesley's department of economics produces proportionately more women economists than any other college or university," she said...