Word: duzer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for an A.B. degree. "Joan," the heroine, is Marjory Erdman, a sophomore from Honolulu, who was allowed to count her cinemacting as school work. From the time she comes wide-eyed up the winding drive to the luxurious hilltop estate of the late founder William Van Duzer Lawrence in Bronxville, N. Y., until she self-consciously reads her senior "contract" (thesis) to critical classmates, Joan untiringly shows off Sarah Lawrence's progressivism...
Thirteen years ago a Manhattan drug manufacturer named William Van Duzer Lawrence went to Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken for advice. Rich and generous Mr. Lawrence wanted to found a college for women but was not sure how to go about it. He was prepared to give the college his big gabled house Westlands in suburban Bronxville, N. Y., twelve acres of land, the sum of $1,250,000 and his wife's name, Sarah Bates Lawrence. Would Vassar take the fledgling college under her wing? Magnanimous Dr. MacCracken promised that Vassar would...
...Duzer Burton, Baltimore socialite, gave a ball at his home near Monkton, Md. (once the house of dandaical Sportsman Foxhall Keene). At midnight, while the orchestra was playing a waltz, into the ballroom in his pink hunting coat gravely rode Van Duzer Burton on Golden Eagle, his favorite hunter...