1974-1975 BULLETIN OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE CATALOGUE ISSUE SEPTEMBER 1974 1974-1975 BULLETIN OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE ^^>^S(^ Volume 64, Number 1 Catalogue Issue Bulletin published eight times a year by Wellesley College, Green Hall, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 . September, one; October, one; November, two; January, one; March, one; April, one; May, one. 2 CONTENTS Contents Academ ic Calendar 1 974-1 975 The College Admission Financial Information Student Life The Campus Academic Program Courses of Instruction Officers of Instruction Administration Alumnae Organization Index ACADEMIC CALENDAR Academic Calendar First Semester 4 CORRESPONDENCE/VISITORS Correspondence Visitors President Vice President for Business Affairs Wellesley welcomes visitors to the College. General interests of the College Business matters The administrative offices in Green Hall are open Monday through Friday, 8;30 a.m. to Dean of the College Vice President for Resources 4:30 p.m., and by appointment on Saturday Academic policies and programs Gifts and bequests mornings during term time. Special arrange- Admission of graduate students ments for greeting prospective students can Executive Director, Alumnae Association also be made during vacation periods. Rooms Class Deans Alumnae interests for alumnae and for parents of students or Individual students prospective students are available on the Study abroad; students from abroad College Information Services campus in the Wellesley College Club and General College information may be reserved by vi/riting to the club Director of Admission manager. Admission of undergraduate students A prospective student who wishes to arrange an interview with a member of the profession- Financial Aid Officer al staff of the Board of Admission should Financial aid make an appointment well in advance. Student Services Address Student guides provide tours for visitors with- Residence; health services; counseling Wellesley College out previous appointment. Visitors to the Wellesley, Massachusetts 021 81 College may call the Board of Admission prior Bursar (617)235-0320 to their visit to arrange a mutually convenient College fees time for the tour. Recorder Transcripts of records Director of Continuing Education Continuing education Dean of Academic Programs MIT cross-registration Exchange programs Director of Career Services Employment of students and alumnae BOARD OF TRUSTEES 6 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Nelson J. Darling, Jr., LL.B. Walter Hunnewell, MBA. Mary Ann Dilley Staub, B.A. Chairman of the Board Wellesley, Massachusetts Winnetka, Illinois Swampscott, Massachusetts David 0. Ives, MBA. Nancy Angell Streeter, B.A. Betty Freyhof Johnson, M.A. Lincoln, Massachusetts New York, New York Vice Chairman Cincinnati, Ohio Barbara Loomis Jackson, Ed.D. Kathie Ann Whipple, B.A. Cambridge, Massachusetts South Yarmouth, Massachusetts John Kenneth Spring, M.B.A. Treasurer Carol G. Johnson Johns, M.D. Barbara W. Newell, Ph.D., ex officio Concord, Massachusetts Baltimore, Maryland President of Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts Betsy Ancker-Johnson, Ph.D. Howard Wesley Johnson, M.A. Washington, D.C. Boston, Massachusetts Dorothy Dann Collins, B.A., ex officio President of the Wellesley College Florence Van Dyke Anderson, B.A. Mary Gardiner Jones. LL.B. Alumnae Association Golden, Colorado Urbana, Illinois Dallas, Texas Erwin Dain Canham, M.A. (Oxon.) Hilda Rosenbaum Kahne, Ph.D. Boston, Massachusetts Lexington, Massachusetts Trustees Emeriti Harriet Segal Cohn, B.A. Mildred Lane Kemper, B.A. The Hon. Charles C. Cabot, LL.B. Brookline, Massachusetts Kansas City, Missouri Dover, Massachusetts Ann Rockefeller Coste, B.A. George Howell Kidder, LL.B. The Rev. Palfrey Perkins, D.D. New York, New York Concord, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts Barbara Buckstein Green, Ph.D. Robert Lawrence, B.A. John R. Quarles, J.D. Shaker Heights, Ohio Westwood, Massachusetts Wellesley, Massachusetts Harvey H. Guthrie, Jr., Th.D. Suzanne Carreau Mueller, B.A. Cambridge, Massachusetts New York, New York William E. Hartmann, B.Arch. Samuel H. Proger, M.D. Chicago, Illinois Brookline, Massachusetts Barbara Barnes Hauptfuhrer, B.A. George Putnam, M.B.A. Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania Manchester, Massachusetts Anne Cohen Heller, M.D. Rose Clymer Rumford, B.A. New York, New York Baltimore, Maryland James T. Hill, Jr., LL.B. Camilla Chandler Spear, B.A. New York, New York Pasadena, California THE COLLEGE 8 PRESIDENTS Ada Howard 1 875-1 881 Alice Freeman Palmer 1881-1887 Helen Shafer 1887-1894 Julia Irvine 1894-1899 Caroline Hazard 1899-1910 Ellen Fitz Pendleton 1911-1936 Mildred McAfee Horton 1936-1949 Margaret Clapp 1949-1966 Ruth M. Adams 1 966-1 972 Barbara W. Newell 1972- The College THE COLLEGE 9 A student's years at Wellesley College are the A primary concern in the Wellesley classroom Students in the arts find excellent facilities in beginning — not the end— of an education. It is the development of analytical skills and the Jewett Arts Center which has a teaching is an education characterized by sensitivity clarity of expression; to this end, most in- museum, libraries, practice rooms, studios, and knowledge, and by the mastery of intel- structors emphasize writing papers and re- and an auditorium. Each year the Museum lectual skills and the growth of a discerning ports. Classes are small, with the average size has several exhibitions of students' work, and mind. Above all, its aim is the wisdom to use ranging from 22 to 25 students. Popular intro- Jewett is also used for students' concerts and knowledge to enhance one's own life and to ductory courses which enroll more than 100 recitals. participate more effectively in the larger students include small discussion or confer- The Wellesley curriculum is extended through community. ence sections. Upper level classes and semi- opportunities for cross-registration with the nars bring together 12 to 15 students and an Wellesley offers this education in an environ- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ex- instructor to pursue a common problem. The ment which takes women seriously as indi- change programs, and study abroad. student-faculty ratio of 11 to 1 offers an excel- viduals, as scholars, and as leaders. lent opportunity for students to undertake MIT men and women come to Wellesley for Although education at Wellesley will be 100 individual work with faculty on honors proj- such courses as psychology, economics, and years old in 1 975, it continues to reflect the ects and research. art history. Wellesley women travel to MIT for goals of its founder, Henry Fowie Durant. He such classes as urban planning, political sci- Wellesley's faculty— of whom 54 percent are was an impassioned believer in equality for ence, and photography. Buses shuttle hourly women — bring to the College diverse aca- women, who saw education as the way wom- along the 12 mile route between the two demic and professional interests. They are en could prepare themselves for "great con- campuses. scholars as well as poets, novelists, artists, flicts" and "vast reforms in social life." musicians, scientists, political and economic The Twelve College Exchange Program each Wellesley College reaffirmed these early vi- analysts. A number live on or near the cam- year brings men and women from other New sions in 1971 when, after seriously consider- pus, and they take part in many aspects of England colleges to Wellesley for a semester ing coeducation, it elected to remain a college College life. or a year, and enables Wellesley students to for women only. live and study on another campus. Intellectual development at Wellesley is but- Throughout the years, Wellesley has encour- tressed by outstanding resources and facili- Wellesley also offers opportunities for study aged women to make unconventional ties. The Margaret Clapp Library has an exten- abroad through the Slater and Waddell fellow- choices, and it continues to encourage sive general collection containing original ship programs. The Slater program under- students to seek for themselves a range of source material from special collections. In writes the cost of attending European insti- options. As a result, many Wellesley women addition to the facilities of the main library, tutions for a summer or academic year, and it choose to major in such areas as economics, many departments have their own libraries. In brings Slater mathematics, and the sciences and Fellows from abroad to the the sciences, facilities include laboratories, Wellesley campus. The Waddell program pro- subsequently enter careers in business, law, greenhouses, an observatory, and special vides funds for study in countries and medicine —all fields which have been Caribbean equipment such as controlled environment or in Africa. long dominated by men. Wellesley does not have its own chambers, an electron microscope, and a junior year abroad program, but it does help This conscious effort to provide women with a laser beam spectrophotometer. Wellesley's students make arrangements for such study full range of career and life choices is an inte- physics laboratory was the second such lab- by direct enrollment in foreign universities or gral part of Wellesley's rigorous and demand- oratory in the country (the first was at the through application to such programs admin- ing academic experience. Massachusetts Institute of Technology). A istered by other colleges. new Science Center, for which construction High academic standards at Wellesley are has already begun, will bring together all of combined with considerable flexibility