Word: northampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smith College (Northampton, Mass...
Last week Smith's Neilson journeyed from his Northampton, Mass. campus to nearby Springfield, to be the guest of honor at a City Club dinner celebrating his 20th anniversary as president of the largest resident college for women in the U. S. In the gathering of 400 Neilson admirers there were 18 college presidents and a liberal sprinkling of deans and professors. But there was very little solemnity...
Smith's Neilson today seems to Smith's 2,000 girls and their parents the very model of a modern college president, although his strong opinions have occasionally differed from those of many Smith alumnae. He went to Northampton in 1917 from an English professorship at Harvard, where his tall German wife Elizabeth had been snubbed by War-minded faculty wives. Stanchly liberal, Dr. Neilson defended Sacco & Vanzetti, early advocated the recognition of Russia, invited such figures as Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to speak at Smith...
...special honors courses, in general treating his girls as though they were not very different from men. Smith girls, who are inclined to be smart and well-balanced, respect President Neilson's wishes in such matters as not knitting or chewing gum in class. But when several Northampton residents once complained that his girls should pull their shades down at night before undressing, President Neilson observed that they should pull down their own instead. Once a particularly conspicuous wave of amatory misbehavior moved Smith's administration to call a compulsory chapel. President Neilson appeared, cocked his head...
...statement that all Dunster men find it necessary to purchase bicycles is a myth. The physical isolation has always proved an advantage in the minds of most Dunster men, and by measurements other than actual, it has been established that Dunster is usually closer to Boston, Wellesley, Northampton, Poughkeepsie, the Crimson, Lampoon, and other centers of generally more interesting activity than University Hall...