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...wealthy English brewer in Poughkeepsie, New York, decided that "woman, having received from her Creator the same intellectual constitution as man, should have the same right as man to intellectual culture and development." Four years later Vassar Female College opened its doors to 353 students, and three years after that, Matthew Vassar died while reading his farewell report to the board of trustees...
Since the first four girls were graduated in 1867, the $400,000 gift of the foresighted brewer has fizzed over into a college of 1400 students, 200 faculty members, 37 buildings, 900 acres, and 16,000 living alumnae...
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...discovered it while brewing for an Irish bishop. In making beer one day he burned the barley and accidentally turned out a dark, bitter brew that everyone liked. Whoever discovered it, the brew came to be known as porter because of its popularity among laborers and porters. An enterprising brewer put out an even stronger beer called "stout porter." In Ireland, only the visitor asks for "Guinness." Irishmen simply ask for "a pint" when ordering Guinness stout. At Dublin's Dolphin Hotel, the "quality" mix their Guinness with champagne in a "black velvet" (which was also Bismarck...
...Rochester, N.Y., federal Food & Drug agents seized 108 quarts of blackstrap molasses along with 25 copies of Gayelord Mauser's popular diet book, Look Younger, Live Longer, in which the fashionable dietician touts his perfect health menus of wheat germ, yogurt, brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses. The food men, taking a dyspeptic view of the perfect-health approach, charged that Hauser was violating the pure food laws, particularly with his claim that blackstrap would prevent menopausal difficulties, constipation, heart trouble, neuritis, also induce sleep and help grow hair...