People, may 9, 1960

Not only in Korea and Turkey were students in revolt: last week some of the girls at Columbia University's Barnard College arose in anguish against a memo, issued by Barnard's able President Millicent McIntosh, requesting the students to wear skirts in classes and on the campus. The shorts contingent, a leggy minority, promptly got up an angry petition, attended a student assembly in abbreviated attire. But if they planned on pushing their long-stemmed rebellion much farther, they could count on a formidable adversary in Millicent McIntosh, 61, mother of five grown children, a...

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