Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When all-girl Vassar announced last winter that it was exploring an affiliation with male Yale (TIME, Dec. 30), the college was far from taking a revolutionary or original step. All across the nation, separate-sex schools are rapidly going coed, and some educators wonder whether colleges that do not go along with the trend will survive at all. "Nowhere in the world," insists Vassar President Alan Simpson, "is anyone really making a powerful argument for separate education any more." Kenyon College President Franze Edward Lund agrees that separate education "is an anachronism in an age that admits less...
Successor has been something of an enigma this year. This son of Bold Ruler, last year's two-year-old champion, and winter-book favorite for the Derby, am-assed $441.000 in winnings...
They do, of course, in a concrete sense. Harvard is here, population changed but not very much diminished, business as usual in the Union and Lamont, "winter" students occupying their Eliot House suites, plays on the Loeb mainstage, presses running at the CRIMSON. But they see Harvard as one who stops at Churchill Downs in December and then says he has seen the Kentucky Derby...
...joined the "competiton for the bunnies"--as one put it--with relish. (Actually, the boys out-numbered the girls last year by more than 400.) Director Crooks, who views the scene with ironic humor from his seventh-floor office in Holyoke Center, remarks that "Some Harvard students wear those 'winter' buttons and keep to themselves, but some plunge right in and enjoy...
...stereotype can be misleading. Summer school admission is far from rigorous, which is the way the administration like it, but still, as Crooks points out, "we have to produce a student body that the facultly is happy to work with." And to an extent which would probably surprise most "winter" people...