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Take the swim team. Radcliffe has always terrified its aquine competitors. This year the team, captained by Eleanor Thomas '69 proved at Wellesley last Saturday, that it could have drowned them all. Radcliffe won the meet with 52 1/2 points, over Wellesley's 50 and Wheaton's 11 1/2 points. The laurels belong to Pat Davidson '68, who secured a Radcliffe victory by her performance in diving...
...life of a Harvard man is good according to the survey, which McCall's describes as the "most through study of college reputations ever carried out." He is attractive to the "best wives" of Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, unlike his near neighbors at M.I.T., called "the least attractive boys" in the nation...
Harvard evokes a mixed reaction from the Wellesley girls. The questionnaire drew such descriptions as "stuffy phonies, pompous, self-centered, neurotic, and holier-than-thou," although a good three-quarters of the girls prefer dating boys from Harvard than any other school. Despite these unkindnesses, Wellesley girls did have some more respectful things to say about Harvard: "More intelligent, less standard preppy, more urban, individualistic, sophisticated, more confidence...
...Wellesley girl said, "I've never met a Cliffie." The rest of the 140 set about to describe the differences between the two schools and came up with a neat schematization of the role of woman in society. Radcliffe: "More aware of the outside world, freer spirits, more intense intellectual curiosity, introverted, egotistical, less feminine, less wholesome, not as refined, more independent, more bohemian and liberal, more spontaneous, less social, longer hair, more unorthodox." Wellesley: "More sickeningly wholesome, more socially conscious, more conscious of being women, different life-goals, less intellectual, more normal, less independent...
...trend is toward Radcliffe and away from Wellesley. It is not a question of which direction, but only of how long it will take to get there. (Almost half of the girls who filled out the questionnaire said that if they had not attended Wellesley, they would have chosen Radcliffe.) Wellesley has a new president this year, Ruth M. Adams. She was a head resident at Radcliffe from 1943 to 1945, and a teaching fellow and tutor at Harvard from 1944 to 1946. Wellesley should be there soon.A Grace Note at Dinner...