Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen miles north of New York hidden in a peaceful residential section of east Yonkers, Sarah Lawrence College quietly continues the experiment in progressive education that it has carried on since its inception...
When she has a formal date, the Sarah Lawrence girl will typically dress chicly and drive to New York with her escort to see a show, stop in somewhere afterward, and return in plenty of time for her 2 a.m. curfew (Weekday curfews are 1:30). There is also a great exodus to Princeton, Yale, or home on weekends, leaving the campus quiet and lonely...
Sarah Lawrence co-eds must depend on their dates and the New Haven rail-road for transportation to New York, since car permission is rarely granted. Safety, inadequate parking facilities, and a desire to keep the college residential are the stated reasons for this regulation, which is unpopular among the students. One dean added that banning cars has the extra advantage of eliminating one difference between the financial haves and have-nots...
...president of Sarah Lawrence is Harrison Tweed, a prominent New York attorney who spent his undergraduate and law school days at Harvard. Only a three-day-a-week president, he maintains his law practice, working in New York on Monday and Friday. This is President Tweed's first and last year in this capacity, for his is an interim appointment, lasting until a permanent president is selected...
...American, basing his question on a New York Times article which said Communist officials were not satisfied with the festival, asked the group if this was true, and he received sharp, if not sarcastic answers ridiculing both the question and the New York Times...