Smith's New President

When Professor Benjamin Wright, inaugurated yesterday as President of Smith College, decided to leave Harvard last year there were a lot of disappointed people in Cambridge. They already knew what the Smith selection committee had found out--that Professor Wright was a remarkable administrator, a fine teacher, and a man who had a real insight into educational problems.

As head of the General Education program during its trial years, Professor Wright made the program so successful that last year the Faculty went right down the line with his final recommendations--to make the program a permanent and increasing part of the College curriculum. He guided what might have become a rambling and ill-organized group of courses through the years when a determined segment of the Faculty was dead against G.E.; he left the program vigorous and expanding.

Smith College has made a happy choice. President Wright deserves and should have a successful term.