Education: Field Work

Last week the trim white Colonial student houses of Bennington College were locked up tight. Bennington's 230 bright, healthy young women had put their ski trousers away in mothballs and, like all other college students, gone home for the holidays. Unlike the others, the girls of Bennington would not be back for two months. This week each of the 230 will be off to do field work in some part of North America or Europe.

Completely on their own, they will study drama with the Theater Guild, dancing with professional dancers, science in clinics, social...

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