Wellesley College

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The Wellesley College is an American private university for women. Many now famous personalities studied there.

The Wellesley College was founded in 1870 by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline. Today it's claim of College, "Women who are mean something in the world to provide an excellent education ."

The private college in Wellesley (about 27 km west of Boston), offers a study in the " Liberal Arts "; the students receive a bachelor 's degree after four years of study. The university is one of the Seven Sisters ( Seven Sisters, a coalition of American women's colleges ) and has about 2,300 students. In the ranking of the magazine U.S. News & World Report, the College regularly takes a one of the top five places among the " liberal arts " colleges in the USA and each time rated as the best women's college in this category.

The film Mona Lisa's smile plays at Wellesley College, where he was also shot partly.

Famous people

Lecturers

  • Edith Abbott, a social scientist
  • Emily Greene Balch, economist, Nobel Peace Prize 1946
  • Annie Jump Cannon, astronomer
  • Alice Freeman Palmer, History
  • Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet
  • Mary Lefkowitz, Classicist
  • Tom Lehrer, mathematicians
  • Julián Marías Aguilera, Spanish philosopher
  • Tony Martin, historian
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Russian literary scholar
  • Adrian Piper, philosopher
  • Richard Rorty, Philosopher
  • Claude Vigée, French Language and Literature
  • Alice Walker, writer

Graduates

  • Madeleine Albright (1959 ), Secretary of State of the United States from 1997 to 2001
  • Lisa Alther (1966 ), writer
  • Barbara Babcock (1960), actress
  • Blanche Baker ( 1978), actress
  • Carolina Barco (1973 ), Colombian politician
  • Muriel Gardiner Butt Inger (1922 ), psychoanalyst and author
  • Hillary Clinton ( 1969), Secretary of State of the United States from 2009 to 2013
  • Harriet B. Creighton (1929 ), plant geneticist, Mitentdeckerin of crossing over in maize
  • Jo Duffy, comic book author and editor
  • Nora Ephron (1962), screenwriter and film director
  • Rosario Ferré (1960), Puerto Rican writer
  • Colette Flesch (1960), Luxembourg politician and Fencing
  • Nancy Friday (1955 ), author
  • Marjorie Grene (1931 ), philosopher
  • Carolyn Heilbrun (1947 ), writer
  • Erna Schneider Hoover (1932 ), programmer and inventor of a process for prioritizing the computerized telephone switching
  • Rosalind Krauss (1962 ), art critic and theorist
  • Ali MacGraw (1960), actress
  • Song Meiling (1917 ), wife of Chiang Kai- shek
  • Pamela Melroy (1983 ), astronaut
  • Cameron Russell, Model
  • Nayantara Sahgal (1947 ), Indian writer and journalist
  • Diane Sawyer (1967 ), TV journalist and presenter
  • Gertrude Woodcock Seibert (1885 ), poet and Bible Student
  • Ernestine Wiedenbach (1923 ), nursing scientist
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