Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the board of trustees. That job Dr. MacCracken faithfully held until last week. Then he turned up at the college's tenth anniversary banquet to announce that Sarah Lawrence was now able to go her way alone. Said he: "Mr. Lawrence recognized his own advanced age and was concerned lest the college, inadequately endowed, fall prey to misfortune or more grasping hands. Mr. Lawrence sought a defensive alliance with Vassar, giving that college the power ... to control and finally take over Sarah Lawrence. ... All its powers Vassar now willingly lays down...
Exulted Sarah Lawrence's President Constance Warren: "This marks our coming of age...
What had come of age was the first U. S. women's college dedicated to Progressive Education. Part of the advice President MacCracken gave Founder Lawrence was that big women's colleges such as Vassar were growing to be much like big men's colleges. He suggested that the new college might limit itself to a not too severe two-year course devoted to "activities" as well as study. Sarah Lawrence now has four fields of study: Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, the Arts and Literature. Each girl is expected to keep busy with individual projects, like planning...
...Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. thumped for a "wider appreciation and understanding of the social responsibilities of business." It was up to industry, said Mr. Brown, to help supply what the U. S. wanted- "work, more money, still more leisure, security against unemployment now and against poverty in old age, and more and better goods at lower prices...
...fail with the greatest crash then on record. A blue-eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since his marriage in 1844 was happy, his prudent investments in railroads and Western lands profitable, his early career was so unexciting that it appears in his biography as little more than a record of the jobs he held...