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...bright new curtains. In the roadways, cars were emptied of bridge lamps, wastebaskets and even a pair of antlers. In one house a janitor wrestled with a trunk ("I should be twins today"). The Head of House tried to make everyone feel at home. "The girls get prettier every year," she burbled. "At least we think so for the first few days...
...hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
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...
Their charge, the average Wellesley girl, weighs about 127 Ibs. and stands about 5 ft. 5 in. In addition to her $1,600 tuition, she may spend as much as $6,000 a year, or as little as $200; her average is $1,200. Almost half (46%) of her classmates come from public high schools; one out of four is on a full-or part-time scholarship. Founder Durant had always insisted that "a calico girl is worth two velvet girls...
...find their parents less enlightened, they begin to worry about them. They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a Russian department. The classics major is just about extinct (one major in Latin last year, none in Greek). It is the time to be a social scientist and to be haunted by the woes of the world...