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...other two women with professorial status are Cora A. Du Bois, professor of Anthropology, and Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchin, professor of Astronomy...
...ladies of easy virtue rode through Hyde Park in such splendid carriages or on such fine horses that the popular euphemism for rich prostitutes of the time was "pretty horse-breakers." One, Lizzie Howard, became the mistress of Napoleon III, and a French countess, and died a rich woman. Cora Pearl (born Crouch and no kin to Author Pearl), one of the few prostitutes to win mention in the Dictionary of National Biography, also made good in Paris. The book's title is provided by Catherine...
...same time the Corporation elected four new members to the group. They are Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and an expert on juvenile delinquency; Dana M. Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education; Cora A. DuBois, Stone-Radcliffe Professor Anthropology; and Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services. Dean Leighton, Dean Bender, and Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, were all reappointed to the group...
Last fall Cora Sutherland became too sick to teach and took a leave of absence. Her Christian Science practitioner certified that she was suffering from a "lung congestion aggravated by activity." And when her salary stopped, he cut his fees for treatment (prayer and readings from the works of Mary Baker Eddy) from $62 to $25 a month. Last March Teacher Sutherland's brother finally insisted that she go to a hospital. The day after she was admitted, Cora Sutherland, 55, died of tuberculosis. The coroner's report showed that she had probably had TB in active form...
Alarmed, the city's health department went out looking for 72 recent Van Nuys graduates who had been exposed to Cora Sutherland's tuberculosis, urged all to appear for chest X rays. Last week the health department asked the board of education to require all teachers to submit to complete medical examinations. Said the resolution: the teachers now sidestepping the examinations"may be exposing the school population of 463,719 to tuberculosis, a leading killer...