Assistant professor Kenneth Van der Laan, left, conducts a biology class at Wellesley College,Mass., March 27, 1975. Wellesley is one of the women's colleges benefiting from renewed interest in what they offer, after the last years of the trend to go coed or merge. At a time when many colleges are facing dwindling enrollment, that at women's colleges is growing--and so is the idea that all female schools are, perhaps , at present the best place to prepare girls for a male-dominated world. (AP Photo)
