Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Who said that naughty word? Wily observation: College girls have brains like stewed oatmeal — sometimes. You re going to change your course again? ' What? The books don ' t balance? ■U3

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They handle bills, budgets, and bulletins What have we got that no other college has got? You know darn well; the likes of our faculty! Lec- ture after lecture, day in and day out, year after year, they ' ve managed to cudgel our greymatter into a mass of educated — perhaps even intellectual? — brain cells. Without their instruction, we would still be vegetating in that pre-college cocoon of blithe ignorance. Even if we can ' t share Mr. Edgell ' s unrestrained enthusiasm for certain back-to-nature boys, we know who some great American authors are . . . Mr. Cleaves has inculcated us with a passion for Beetho- ven (and a desire to spend week-ends skiing); while Mr. Bush has taught us all we ' ll ever know about modern art . . . How many of us see that Mrs. Coulter certainly knew her advertising, media, busi- ness, etc., etc.? . . . Mr. Deane, Miss Jones, and Dr. Harley taught us enough psych to qualify us as amateur psychiatrists, . . . Mr. Bosworth put us on a par with Woolcott Gibbs as critics of the drama, . . . Eliot became ABC with Mr. Nitchie ' s explana- tions . . . Mr. Valz added a new dimension of meaning to publication terminology like widow, press, screen. . . . Mr. Palmer opened doors into the past with his history lectures . . . Gert Stein, Will Shakespeare, James Joyce, and Partisan Review somehow emerge as intelligible literature after some of Mr. Sypher ' s illuminating lectures . . . Accuracy is instilled in us as a prime virtue by Mr. Fessenden . . . Miss King took us by the hand and now we know how to write Gregg . . . Mr. Johnson taught us marriage and the family with a startlingly differ- ent point of view from our own . . . economics lost its dry aspects when Mr. Silk and Mr. Jacks pre- sented their interpretations. And now we feel we know All, . . . almost. Diagnosis: Bad case of over-dating And Harvard Med is just around the corner. 2 }

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Mrs. Coulter can pose for a charm ad any time I know, but Ed gell ' s is longer, says Dr. Frye. Zat ' s funny, says class adviser Grossman Simmons ' own Bernard Shaw and spouse adorn the receiving line Watch it — that ' s sho powerful stuff ' 4 14 }