Coeducation gains ground as ivy league schools go mixed
The piece reports on the trend of formerly single sex colleges adopting coeducation. It cites Yale Princeton Vassar Bennington Holy Cross Williams and others as shifting to include women. It notes student pressure and the need to attract quality applicants as key drivers.
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Princeton
Yale
Vassar
Frederick Rudolph
America College and University
Williams College
Williams
Andover
Edward J. Bloustein
Bennington
Vermont
Rudolph
Cornell
Holy Cross
Brooks
Edward McCrady
Yale coeducation gains momentum with student support
Mary J. Gilbert from Vassar notes rising sensitivity to student needs as Yale and Vassar study coeducation. Avi Soifer, a Yale planner, recalls 700 girls visiting Yale for a coed week. housing is restructured with freshmen in one building and upperclass transfers in other colleges.
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Yale
Avi Soifer
Schenectady
N.Y
Soifer
Meall
Ann Freedman
Dayton
Radcliffe
Yale Law School
Elga Wasserman
Mary J. Gilbert
Vassar
Boola
Seifer
Brewster
Trumbull College
Ohio
Miss Zheutlin
Wesleyan
Tom Ollendorff
Bennington
Coeducation Debate Alters Ivy League Traditions
Students across Williams Wesleyan Trinity Dartmouth Amherst Bowdoin Smith Mount Holyoke Vassar Wheaton and Connecticut College test coeducation as Holy Cross Princeton Yale and Bennington plan admissions shifts. Analysts warn gender balance will evolve gradually with costs of new buildings and faculty, yet some insist single sex options may persist.
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Wesleyan
Trinity
Dartmouth
Amherst
Bowdoin
Smith
Mount Holyoke
Vassar
Wheaton
Mass
Connecticut College
Colgate
Princeton
Yales Brewster
New Haven
Bloustein
Nome burials begin as thaw approaches in Alaska
Nome begins interring winter dead as permafrost thaws. Three bodies buried, eight more await spring, with coffins staged in a shack and a downtown building. Undertaker James Arrington notes high costs of winter graves and the lack of embalming facilities compels spring burials. Fred Crane and Kristie Waldheim among those to be buried this spring amid gold rush memory.
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Nome
Alaska
James Arrington
Belmont Point
Fred Crane
Kristie Waldheim
Arrington
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