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...vigorous years, Miss Sarah Porter was described by a Yale professor as "the most magnificent example of symmetrical womanhood that I have ever known"-meaning, of course, that her spiritual and intellectual attainments were in agreeable balance. Daughter of the Congregational pastor in Farmington, Conn., and sister of Yale President (1871-86) Noah Porter, she was a formidable teacher who at 30 launched a school in her father's house, where she cultivated some 20 young ladies at $200 a year...
...following have been elected Radcliffe Senior Class Marshals: Elinor R. Bernstein, of Cabot Hall and Great Neck, N.Y.; Phoebe A. Keith, of Briggs Hall and Louisville, Ky.; Elizabeth J. Richmond, of Edmands House and Rowayton, Conn.; H. Caroline Schultz, of Cabot Hall and Great Neck, N.Y.; and Mary B. Taylor, of McIntire House and Cambridge...
...quality of a college is no more scrutable than a new wife or a secondhand car, but consumers' research helps. Last week students at Trinity College (1,000 men) in Hartford. Conn., put out an exhaustive critique on the school, from architecture to public relations and professorial performance. They politely concluded that Episcopalian-founded (1823) Trinity is "one of the finest schools in the nation." But to "improve further,'' Trinity is in urgent need of correcting...
Tocsin recently announced election of the following officers: Todd A. Gitlin '63 of Quincy House and New York City, president; Adam M. Hochechild '63, of Loverett House and Princeton, N. J., vice-president; Christopher A. Sims '63, of Quincy House and Riverside, Conn., treasurer; John H. Ehrenreich '63, of Quincy House and Philadelphia, Pa., secretary; and Jennifer Simon '64, of Slater Hall and New York City, executive board member...
Soldier & Civilian. Martin was a farm boy from Mil ford, Conn., who signed up for six months' service in July 1776, at the age of 15, in part because all the kids in the neighborhood did (volunteers received $1), but also because "I collected pretty correct ideas of the contest between this country and the mother country." The following spring Martin re-enlisted, and for the next six years fought at New York, Monmouth and Yorktown, and under Generals Washington, Lafayette and Steuben...