Word: bardeen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech-maker": onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. In the gathering were: the first man to receive a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Ernest G. Sihier** of New York University; the first man to receive a Johns Hopkins M. D., Dr. Charles R. Bardeen of the University of Wisconsin; the first woman to receive a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Florence Bascom, head of the geology department of Bryn Mawr College. Other alumni: Director George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey; President Cyrus Adler of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Manhattan) ; U. S. Minister...
...lady is Lanice Bardeen; her home, a New England college town; her "Work," painting and writing under the genteel urban sponsorship of her Cousin Pauline, a sparse-bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...