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...Amherst gave him a scholarship and he graduated cum laude ('57) with an honors thesis written in ancient Greek on "The Greek Concept of Eros." He got a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, earned his master's degree in teaching at Harvard in 1959. Married to a Wellesley girl, he is now working for a Ford Foundation project to help modernize Boston schools...
...situation is somewhat different at Wellesley," Miss Clough said, "because Early Decision candidates almost all do better at the college level than the normal applicants...
...third of each freshman class at Wellesley is chosen under the program. Radcliffe has accepted less than a quarter of each class in December. Margeret W. Stimpson, Radcliffe Dean of Admissions, commented last month that the college academic records of these students did not justify their early acceptance...
Asking students to apply during the spring of their junior year does not increase college pressure, said the Wellesley official, "because by that time it's already there." On the other hand, the security of early acceptance increases the value of the senior year, she stated...
Disagreeing with Wellesley's policy, Miss Barbara Ziegler, Wheaton director of Admissions, defended her school's recent decision to join Radcliffe in dropping the program. She noted that early commitment to a college limited the senior's opportunity for growth and change. "It just pushes the college anxiety complex down into the younger grades," she added...