Education: Vassar Woos Williams

It is a woman's right to be fickle about whom she will embrace. Last week, Vassar College, which for several years has been in search of a masculine mate, opened her arms to the men of Williams.

Several other suitors were considered by Vassar. The selective all-girls school (enrollment 1,600) rebuffed a discreet pass from Princeton,* then flirted with a proposal to move to New Haven. Ultimately, the school decided not to give up its wooded 950-acre campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Next Vassar's trustees decided on creating a separate but coordinate mens college on the campus. When that kind of union seemed too...

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