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...your most worthy and accurate periodical, I am taking the liberty of requesting you to correct a misstatement on p. 11 of the Nov. 26 issue, wherein you state Mabel Walker Willebrandt was the first woman to be appointed to a sub-Cabinet position. The fact is, Annette Abbott Adams was appointed Assistant Attorney General on June 26, 1920, resigning on Aug. 15, 1921. I am asking you to make this correction in fairness not only to Annette Abbott Adams but to Woodrow Wilson who, rather than Warren Harding, was the first President to appoint a woman...
...Presidential appointment of the week: Katharine F. Lenroot, daughter of one-time Republican Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin and assistant chief of the Labor Department's Children's Bureau since 1922; to be the Bureau's chief vice Grace Abbott, resigned...
Founded in 1810, Lawrenceville was reorganized in 1884 by the late James Cameron Mackenzie, who gave it one of the first U. S. "house plans." Lean years lay behind the school when Mather Almon Abbott took its headmastership in 1919. Halifax born and Oxford bred, "The Bott" had taught President Roosevelt at Groton, had been crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, was big, ruddy, firm-willed. At Lawrenceville he upped scholarship and enrollment, turned everybody out for sports, started rowing and polo, opened a Lower School for boys under 14, established scholarships for British boys. His biggest & best jobs...
...John Harvard Scholarships, which are made without stipend to students in the College of the highest scholastic standing who have not made application for other types of scholarships. The other 72 are Harvard College Scholarships, similarly assigned to students of slightly lower academic standing. The remaining award was the Abbott Lawrence Scholarships which is given to an undergraduate in the Engineering School...
...Abbott Lawrence Scholarship...