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...close can a class dean be to 840 students? How many students talk personal problems over with professors? The only real personal advisor the Wellesley student has is the House Mother. Each dorm has one House Mother, who is usually an older single or widowed woman living by herself. How much help can she be? A common obstacle to freshmen adjustment is that almost half of the girls entering Wellesley are involved in a relationship with a boy "from home." No matter how well-meaning the House Mother, age is crucial in this case...
...unusual at intramural events to see freshmen signing PT cards for dorm-mates. Several young entrepreneurs sold extra credits last year. In 1955, a senior who had not fulfilled his PT requirement hired freshmen to sign him in at various events. All went well until he was married and told his new bride of this ingenious scheme. She demanded that he confess his sins at the PT Office. He finally settled down to 30 hours of physical training -- and a lifetime of marital bliss...
...want any men in my milk and cookies," Mary Ellen Anschuetz '69 of Cabot Hall said yesterday, referring to the traditional 11 p.m. snack served in Cabot on Saturday nights after the dorm is closed...
Though the change in parietal hours differs in each dorm, most have decided to use 36 hours a week, an increase of 11 hours...
...impassioned campaigner for longer parietals attacked opponents' "squirt gun type mentality": "they said they wanted to live in a girls' and not a coed dorm; apparently boys change the atmosphere and make studying more difficult. It is no longer possible to run uninhibited up and down the hall...