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Nuns met in Chicago in the 2 5th annual convention of the Catholic Educational Association. Meeting with the nuns were priests. Bishop Francis W. Howard of Covington, Ky., said: "Catholic education is constantly on the increase in the U. S. . . . both in the college, the secondary schools and the parish schools...
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Married. Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the late Jesse W. Smith,* to one Phillip E. Brast, oil operator; at Covington, Ky. While on her honeymoon she stopped in Manhattan to visit the trial of Harry Micajah Daugherty. Two years ago she had testified against the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General during the Senate investigations. Newspapers called her "Daugherty 's giggling nemesis" (TIME, March...
Engaged. Virginia Dorothea Morris, eldest daughter of the Morris banking system* founder; to Lieutenant Earle H. Kincaid of Covington, Va. Engaged. Ruth Whiting, daughter of William F. Whiting, (famed manufacturer of letter paper) (When you thing of writing think of Whiting); to one Neil Chapin, brother of Alfred H. Chapin Jr., famed tennis player; at Holyoke, Mass...
Last week Dr. Covington ploughed through a bale of papers submitted by his present juniors and seniors. He averaged their marks, found that they had recognized 93 of the 100. Routing out the marks of 1916 he announced that the average student vocabulary was clearly increasing. Today it included 93% of his list as against 86% a decade back. He declared the 1% improvement was due to increased newspaper reading and to the prevalence of hobbies nowadays. Every hobby teaches words. He announced: "These figures are not startling, but they seem indicative of an improvement. We cannot think without tools...