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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually the visitors were trustees from one of the most important colleges for women in the U.S. Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass., was searching high & low for 3 new president. With only six candidates left out of an original 1,200 whose names had been suggested, Wellesley's scouts had come to look over the Brooklyn possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Powers & Poland. Wellesley, in the first year of Margaret Clapp's reign, has a faculty of 130 single women, 28 married women and 53 men. Some are noted in their fields-Johnsonian Scholar Katharine Balderston for her Thraliana, Pulitzer Prizewinner Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Psychologist Edna Heidbreder for her Seven Psychologies. One professor, Mary Ellen Goodman (sociology), is a former Powers model; another, Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (Russian) was a prewar Polish minister of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

What is Wellesley doing about all its future housewives and the dire prospect, if the critics of women's education are to be believed, of future frustration? To the critics, President Clapp's answer might seem to be "nothing." She sees no reason why education should be particularly different for men & women: "They have the same functions as citizens, the same functions as members of a community, the same functions as voters and volunteers." When Harvard was reforming its curriculum, Wellesley did the same, tightened course requirements to give freshmen and sophomores a broader general education. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Columbia for her degree (John Bigelow was written for her Ph.D. dissertation), she did so well that other teaching appointments began to come easy. She was the first woman in the history department of New York's City College, went next to the New Jersey College for Women and finally to Brooklyn ("I was sold to the Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...eighth president of Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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