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...Cecil Rhodes's will, which established the Rhodes Scholarship program, specified that scholarships be given only to men. William Barber, American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust said yesterday...
Errett McDiarmid, Rhodes adviser at the University of Minnesota, said yesterday that he hoped Lach's nomination will help to prompt revision of the Rhodes will. "Oxford is more receptive to women today than at the time when Cecil Rhodes lived," he said...
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...cesspool." Rather, the local water-quality-control board's sole public member, Ellen Stern Harris, pointedly began inviting taxpayers and television reporters to board meetings. Under this public scrutiny, the embarrassed board immediately toughened its antipollution policies, putting potential polluters on tight cleanup schedules. As a result, says Cecil Muchmore of the harbor pollution patrol, "the fish are coming back...
Though it operated in the shadow of the more prestigious New York City papers, the News sometimes rivaled them in its heyday. In 1932 its city editor, Henry Coit, was the first to report that Charles Lindbergh had paid a ransom to the kidnaper of his son. News Correspondent Cecil I. Dorrian was the first woman to file dispatches from the front lines in World War I. Correspondent Arthur J. Sinnott had such a pipeline to President Woodrow Wilson that the capital press corps formally protested the long string of major exclusives. The paper's coverage of state...