Wellesley Installs President Today

Several thousand people will descend on Wellesley at 10:45 a.m. today to witness the Inauguration Exercises officially inducting Margaret Clapp as eighth president of the College. Provost Buck, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Radcliffe's President Jordan will comprise part of the delegation from 86 colleges.

Wellesley will set a new precedent at the ceremonies by awarding 11 honorary degrees to add to a total of only 10 others given in the College's entire history. Among the notables receiving these degrees will be: Madame Vijaya Pandit, India's ambassador to the U.S.; Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-President of Wellesley; Ester Forbes, 1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History; Tilly Edinger, Research Paleontologist in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; Anne O'Hare McCormick, N.Y. Times Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle Sherwin, a founder and first President of the League of Women Voters; Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics at Vassar and a former members of the UN Conference at Breton Woods; and Ruth Baker Pratt, first woman to represent New York State in Congress.