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...last week, President Bancroft Beatley of Boston's Simmons College rose up before the girls of his senior class, picked up a trowel, and cried, "Come on, let's get to work." The president had a lot to do. At 3:45, he slapped in mortar for the cornerstone of a new dining hall. At 3:52, he was doing the same for a new dormitory, and at 3:57 he repeated the process for still another. On its 50th birthday last week, flourishing (1,400 students) Simmons College was making quite a show...
Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of Government, and Henry N. Smith, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, have been named the 1951 winners of the Bancroft Prizes, Dr. Grayson Kirk, vice president and acting head of Columbia University, announced yesterday. The awards carry a $2000 stipend each...
...student journalists, Paul Bancroft III, Business Manager, William A. Douglas, vice-Chairman, Putney Westerfield, associate managing editor, and Bruce Monerief, circulation manager put together their book by selling space rights to loading firms around the nation who wanted to describe what sort of manpower they needed...
...book contains 160 pages and will be behind in a hard cover. Bancroft and his colleagues will distribute 20,000 copies of their book free of charge in 29 New England colleges and universities...
...audience assembled at the Sanders Theatre rites heard Bancroft Beatley '15, president of Simmons College, urge that the graduates help improve the nation's public schools. Pointing out "the climate of the postwar world," Beatley said, "What happens to the minds of our great school population, what their experiences in our democracy are, are matters of first importance...