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...darling of Wall Street: Polaroid. Edwin Herbert Land, 50, the founder-president who left Harvard to work on his first polarized light project in 1926 and later invented the Polaroid Land camera, actively cultivates an academic atmosphere in the plants. Every year he hires a few Smith or Wellesley girls for laboratory work, considers them a prime source of fresh ideas. Several have made notable contributions to Polaroid's quick photography. "Everyone," says Land, "whether he is a worker on the assembly line or a scientist in the lab, has some real urge and need for creative participation...
Group 20 Players (Wellesley): June 23-July 4, Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"; July 7-18, Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"; July 21-August 1, Shaw's "Man and Superman"; August 4-15, Barrie's "Peter Pan"; August 18-29, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and Moliere's "The Follies of Scapin...
...graduated from Vassar in 1931, and took her Ph.D. in agricultural bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin three years later. She subsequently taught at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley, and Yale...
...believe Mr. Kingson has perceptively pinpointed several aspects of student life at Wellesley. Much of what he says is extremely valid. However, from the viewpoint of a Wellesley girl (one in partial agreement with him), the strength of his arguments is lessened by the several inaccuracies that occur throughout the article and betoken haste and inaccurate research...
...instructor is consciously pitching the discussion at a low level. Many questions with obvious and simple answers are left hanging in the air by students who feel it is a waste of time to be dealing with them. My second point is that in our three years here at Wellesley, neither my friends nor I have ever been in any class where the discussion was voluntarily participated in by more than 50 per cent of the class. Throughout the article a great point is made of the freedom of, abundance of, and wide participation in class discussion. There is often...