Education: Neilson's 20th

A salesman once fell into conversation with a goateed little fellow traveler in a smoking compartment, finally asked: "What do you do? My line is skirts." Replied President William Allan Neilson of Smith College: ''That's my line too."

Last week Smith's Neilson journeyed from his Northampton, Mass. campus to nearby Springfield, to be the guest of honor at a City Club dinner celebrating his 20th anniversary as president of the largest resident college for women in the U. S. In the gathering of 400 Neilson admirers there were 18 college presidents and a...

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