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...last year Helena Hall, a vacationing Bennington girl, found a yellowed manuscript in the family attic. The manuscript was Caroline Le Roy Webster's diary of her trip to Europe (1839) with her husband, Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and his daughter Julia. Published for the first time, as Mr. W. and I, this long-lost journal has the stylistic simplicity of a 19th-Century...
...Saratoga, 1777. General John Burgoyne tried to drive down from Canada in order to join the British commander, Howe, on the Hudson, but was so roughly handled at Bennington and in two engagements near Saratoga, that he capitulated. News of Burgoyne's surrender impressed Louis XVI of France enough to make him sign an alliance with the U.S. Within a few weeks, France and Britain were at war. Total U.S. casualties: 80 killed, 190 wounded...
...hills of Vermont, the grass s verdant and the air is crisp and cool. There is a college called Bennington. Every year several hundred young ladies attend this college, which is a famous place, because it is liberal and progressive, and does things which other girls' colleges never...
...instance, Bennington has male students. Not many, but a handful. And these young men are awarded scholarships to take a special course in the drama, and they are all great actors, because they play the male leads in all Bennington's productions...
...take charge of physical training of the WAVES, Mary Josephine Shelly, ex-dance teacher, assistant to President Lewis Webster Jones of Bennington College...