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...fund for the women's dormitory at the University of Southern California. The price was $200 a plate. Many fine ladies came, some from Pasadena. The visiting orator was President Aurelia Reinhardt, of Mills College, Oakland. She spoke in praise of three benevolent women, deceased-Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Susan Lincoln Mills. Said she: "Mrs. Hearst built the first women's building west of the Mississippi, and the women's building of the University of California is one of the monuments to her memory. That benevolent woman founded scholarships and fellowships and she paved...