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...Mawr girls nor quite so country-sweet as the Mount Holyoke lasses. Their distinguishing characteristic, in short, is that they don't stand out. They tend simply to be wholesome girls who make normal, well-adjusted housewives and civic-minded citizens. One important reason for that reputation is Wellesley College President Margaret Clapp, 55, who emphasizes a well-balanced liberal-arts education for her girls. She is a sharp critic of what she calls "the smorgasbord school," where students get a wide, undirected choice of elective courses that adds up to a smattering of everything and a challenge from...
...Never Laughed At." Neither girl appears to have suffered either from the emotion-charged recitations or the maternal embrace. "We were never talked down to as children, and we were never laughed at," says Patsy, who graduated cum laude from Wellesley. "We grew up with dignity." Julie, who sailed through Radcliffe with equivalent scholastic honors, has since written her own declaration of independence...
...Change Things." Before that, Simon had met a pert, Wellesley-trained social worker named Lucille Ellis at a Thanksgiving party, married her after a three-month courtship. "We danced a lot," says Lucille Simon of the courtship. "While he isn't that winning a dancer, his dialogue is great." For a honeymoon, Simon took his bride on a cruise through the Panama Canal, then went on a week's tour of East Coast steel mills to learn about the tin making that affected his tomato canning. One stop: at Wheeling Steel in West Virginia, where Simon informed Lucille: "Some...
...skirts fly. See the gallant gentlemen help the poor damsels in distress regain control of their runaway steeds. Come to the annual Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race, taking off from the Soldiers Field gate at 2 p.m. Sunday. The prize: no, not the fox's tail, but a Peugeot racing bicycle, compliments of the Bicycle Exchange...
...discovered when they convened in Chicago to compare notes, all their projections of soaring application rates are falling short. The Ivy League (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale) and its related Big Seven women's colleges (Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley) were besieged by 62,000 applications for only 12,190 freshmen openings. Elsewhere, Swarthmore could accept only 460 out of 2,500 applicants, Carleton 375 of 1,750, Stanford...