Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking back over his ten-year administration at Smith, Wright reveals his bias in favor of scholarship, noting with the greatest satisfaction his extremely active role in attempting to bolster the College faculty. In the quest for the "ablest young people... we could find," Wright personally interviewed all prospective faculty members, always "trying to size people up--trying to determine whether they would make good teachers...
...upshot of these efforts is that today, Wright insists, the Smith faculty is, excluding Radcliffe, "either first or right among the top group of all the women's colleges. In the four major departments [English, Art, History, and Government] it stands right...
...Wright's emphasis on the academic is also reflected in the doubling of the numbers of honors candidates since 1950. And not least important, he has brought a little of Harvard to Northampton by instituting "interdepartmental" courses, the content and approach of which cut across traditional departmental lines. The interdepartmental courses have their analogy here in the upper-level General Education courses...
...careers in education behind him, Benjamin Wright prepares to begin his third. In so doing, he will be completing his own personal westward government that began with the migration from Cambridge to Northampton almost ten years ago. From scholarship to administration and back to scholarship again. Westward the course of empire...
Students of American civilization and friends of Professor Wright will be looking forward to that big book...