Word: crocheron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrate the golden jubilee of Barnard College, Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve asked visiting notables to review their adventures in scholarship, to show students that "It's fun to use your mind." English Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson of Smith College remembered her elation at discovering the "Conway Letters" (detailing the romance of a Cambridge University philosopher and a beautiful young viscountess) in a chilly Cambridge library: "I wore all the clothes I owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly...
...student," purred lanky, smiling Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve to some 1,000 girls at the opening assembly of Manhattan's Barnard College last week, "who feels that she must agitate for a cause-and I hope we do have some-will please do it off the Barnard campus. We would rather not ask anyone to leave the college, for it is much more amusing to keep you all here...
Said Dean Virginia Crocheron Gilder-It has been a varied adventure from ringing doorbells at strange houses search of a few dollars, and being almost turned out as an impostor to securing two millions from one generous donor...
...meeting of private school headmistresses, at Manhattan's Spence School. Standing: Mrs. Ordway Tead of Katharine Gibbs School; Miss Valentine Chandor of Spence. Seated: Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve of Barnard College; Mrs. Roosevelt of Todhunter School: Mrs. Reid...
...their needs studied by an advisory council headed by Newton D. Baker and including Bernard Mannes Baruch, Thomas William Lament and Owen D. Young. Last week the banded seven sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher...