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Attitude is elusive; one instructor at Wellesley, a Harvard alumnus, characterized it as a "cult of gentility." It is manifested in rules, in curriculum, and in the faculty itself. Smoking is permitted in the halls of Administration buildings--for visitors. Again, a recent student request to go to the college PX shop, The Well, after 10:00 curfew until it closed at 10:45 was turned down. According to a member of the newspaper, the Dean of Students objected that Wellesley girls should not be "living a life of whim...
Using Harvard as a basis for comparison, class discussion is much freer at Wellesley; there is less fear of saying the wrong thing. Wellesley's faults carry along with them merits; and although the instructor confesses that he consciously pitches the level of the discussion a little lower than he would prefer, he has the satisfaction of almost one hundred per cent participation...
Faculty members conducting the study include Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology; I. Bernard Cohen '37, professor of the History of Science; Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics; and Don K. Price, Jr. Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration. J. Stefan Dupre, instructor in Government, and William E. Gustafson, teaching fellow in Economics, are also on the staff...
From Hannibal to Space. Inventor Lear's restlessness hit early. Born in Hannibal, Mo., Mark Twain's home town, he enlisted in the Navy at 16, was made a radio instructor at the Great Lakes Training Station. He learned so much that, discharged at 18, he soon opened his own radio consulting and manufacturing firm. Among his early jobs: designing a special coil that made possible the first practical commercial auto radio. He learned to fly, and in 1930 opened an aviation-electronics business that turned out the first practical light-plane radio. After World War II, Lear...
Roger D. Fisher, an instructor in Law who has been personally involved in the decisions, sharply disagrees with the court's majority opinion, while Professors Mark de Wolfe Howe, Alfred E. Sutherland, and Paul A. Freund have stood firm in its defense. The split concerns both the philosophical implications and the practical results of the decision...