Word: durant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William J. Bingham made a statement Wednesday afternoon. No one but Jack Durant of the Associated Press knows exactly what he said, but everybody knows he shouldn't have said...
Bustles & Bonnets. Wellesley was founded by a wealthy Boston lawyer named Henry Fowle Durant, who contributed $1,000,000 for the training of future teachers and "the glory of God." Its first students numbered 314-a bewildered group in bustles & bonnets, who were carted in horse-drawn "barges" up to old College Hall...
...girl of the '80s read Macaulay and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, carefully refrained from eating between meals (no "pies, lies [or] doughnuts at Wellesley," Founder Durant had warned). By 1900 she wanted to be a Gibson girl, and a few years later, to the horror of her elders, she began sewing in class, missing vesper service and using such unseemly words as "prune," "pill," and "nifty...
...tuition, she may spend as much as $6,000 a year, or as little as $200; her average is $1,200. Almost half (46%) of her classmates come from public high schools; one out of four is on a full-or part-time scholarship. Founder Durant had always insisted that "a calico girl is worth two velvet girls...
...Clay 1 3 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Huntington 1 2 0 0 .000 0 0 2 1 0 1.000 Essayan 4 2 0 0 .000 1 0 0 0 0 .000 Hymans 3 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 2 0 1.000 Durant 1 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Kobusch 1 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Reilly 1 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Lucas 5 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 .500 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- TOTALS...