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...Fifth oldest (1879) of the Seven Sisters, the female Ivy League. Oldest is Mount Holyoke (1837), biggest is Smith (2,200), richest is Wellesley ($44 million). The others are Vassar, Barnard, Bryn Mawr...
...entire student body explains other things about the Princetonian. Dance weekends are big news simply because the average undergraduate is preoccupied with them. Unlike Harvard, Princeton is a lot farther than an M.T.A. ride from theaters and concerts. There is no Radcliffe just up the street, and no Wellesley 15 minutes out Route 16. The football weekend is about all the Princeton man has outside of an occasional splurge on a trip to New York...
Starting with Harvard in 1636, U.S. Congregationalists fathered some of the nation's top colleges, including Amherst, Dartmouth, Howard, Oberlin, Smith, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.* In this century they have not launched a single four-year U.S. campus. Last week they announced a new start: New College in booming Sarasota, Fla. (pop. 34,083), which plans to open its gates by 1964 to 1,200 students of all races and creeds, will eventually have 2,400 undergraduates...
...Wellesley, Mass...
Radcliffe and Wellesley reported the greatest increase in number of applicants, Mrs. Farrington noted, suggesting, "It may be the feeling of many girls that they want education near a large city...