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...Cora Wilson Stewart, Chairman of the Illiteracy Commission of the National Education Association: " It does not take a vivid imagination to see the potentialities of this vast illiterate population...
Married. Major General Peyton Conway March, retired Chief ol Staff U S. A., 58, to Miss Cora Virginia McEntee, 26, of Brooklyn, in London. One of the honor men of the West Point class of '88, he fought in the Philippines as Captain of the Astor Battery. In 1904 he was officer-observer of the Russo-Japanese War, and in 1912 did service in Mexico. During the World War he was in command of the A E. F. artillery and was appointed Chief of His first wife died...
Before us are two memorials to the vanished art. The Comic and Humorous Reciter, edited by Ernest Pertwee and published by Routledge, of London, and an American product, My Recitations, selected by Cora Urquhart Potter, published by Lippincott. Dipping into them revives odd memories ? lambrequins and dadoes ? gilded rolling-pins, dudes, croquet, the high-wheel bicycle, the game of Boston ? a departed...
...course of four amusing acts falls in love with and finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet sixteen. The play is a comedy of incidents in the life of the Wheeler family; Bobble is burdened with the dark crime of having kissed the housemaid in "a moment of sensuosity," as he tragically confesses, while passionately in love with...
Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is now in New York, attending a conference on a Nation-wide Professional Employment Service held in the Engineers' Societies' Building. The conference, of which Cora H. Coolidge, Chairman of the National Committee of Bureau of Occupations is a leader, is for the purpose of discussing the exact status of professional employment work in this country and to consider the devisability of a, national system of employment office, including both placement and information service for professional men and women...