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...strongest traditions at Smith College are balance and moderation. Academically, the college has followed neither the formal but intensively intellectual approach of Sarah Lawrence, nor the pattern of disciplined scholarship of Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe. Socially, Smith remains firmly middle class and middle of the road: the Smith ideal is diversity rather than intensity, and among the girls, the urge to be well-rounded is extremely powerful...
...class. "I met her in my short story course," he recalls. "She was brought there by a very good poet who has since become famous--I can't remember his name--and I accosted her and asked her to tea." Miss Kunhardt, a post-deb who was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1948, was then a student at the Graduate School of Education...
...past few years, Miss Sarton has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has also served a term as a Lucy Marton Donnelly Fellow at Bryn Mawr College. She lectured recently at the Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, and her readings there have just been published in a book called "The Moment of Poetry...
Taming Cobras. Much of all this began under seasoned adult leadership, but a new wrinkle is the help project launched by students themselves. In the forests of northern Minnesota, 16 collegians representing campuses from Bryn Mawr to Minnesota are living among the Chippewa Indians, who are 75% unemployed and too indifferent to care much. By organizing parties and ball games, the boys and girls of Project Awareness have slashed the Chippewas' usual summer crime wave to a low that startles even the sheriff...
...University of Chicago 80%. At Swarthmore, where 81% of men seniors will go on studying, 40% of the girls will follow. At least 40% goes for the girls at Smith and Radcliffe, up from about a fourth of them five years ago. The 1961 rate for Bryn Mawr girls was 58%, and this year it should be even higher. The University of California's Berkeley campus is so overwhelmed that it has yet to gather statistics. Says Graduate Dean Sanford S. Elberg: "We've had 70,000 inquiries about graduate study so far this year...