When she is admitted, a Sarah Lawrence girl has to tell the college what studies, friends, movies, books, magazines she likes, what she does in her spare time, what she worries about. To each girl the college assigns a “don,” who advises her each week about her studies, her dates, her worries. First thing a girl does is to take an “explanatory course” (e.g., “Literature and Society”), to help her decide what to study. Freshmen also may take a course called “Opinions and Prejudices,” to discover their own. Sarah Lawrence’s curriculum offers students many an unusual course: the modern dance, problems in social philosophy, Indian arts, a practical course on marriage. The college has no chapel. Instead, students discuss such topics as “Why I am an Episcopalian,” “Why I am a Jew.
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—“Education: New Design,” TIME, February 19, 1940 (via sarahlawrencegirls) haha! unusual courses i.e. “the modern dance” oh, and also to be schooled in the practicalities of marriage and to learn what my prejudices are. this place is so crazy. |
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