Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vassar Miscellany News is published Wednesdays and the Vassar Chronicle comes out on Saturdays, but apart from editorial disagreement there are few other differences between...
...representative week (the third in February) "Misc" led with the inaugural production of the Vassar Radio Workshop, scheduled for Saturday; the second lead story concerned Soph Party, and annual original musical comedy scheduled for Friday and Saturday. The Chronicle on Saturday led with Soph Party and relegated the radio story to second position. Within the normal range of Vassar opinion, however, "Misc" is considered left of center and Chronicle somewhat conservative. The divergence is hardly startling...
...whole, a truer picture of the makeup of Vassar society is given by the fact that while 135 of the 250 schools whose graduates now attend Vassar are public, only a little over 17 percent of the students receive scholarship aid. The first figure is distorted by the larger number of girls from each of the private schools represented in the college...
...While Vassar resents being referred to as a school for the daughters of Park Avenue, the dominance of New York City is betrayed by the statistic that exactly half the enrollment comes from the North Atlantic states, and only 20 percent each from the New England and North Central areas. Ten percent are Southerners, and the remainder are Westerners and foreigners...
...annual Harvard term bills. Art, music, and dramatic training require extra fees. Thus with less than a fifth of the school on scholarship, with $800 the outside limit on short term loans, and with the "self help" program not expected to net any student quite $200 a year, Vassar College is not troubled with too noticeable economic stratification...