TIME
Officials of Wellesley College this week announced with evident satisfaction the results of a survey of 457 freshmen on what made them pick the school in the first place. By far the greatest number (42%) specified Wellesley’s academic standards. Other chief reasons: Wellesley’s prestige, a Wellesley tradition among family or friends. Only two girls said it was because Wellesley is just twelve miles from Harvard, 14 miles from M.I.T.
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