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Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Yale have all declined the $25,000 bequeathed to each of them by the late Albert Enoch Pillsbury, onetime Massachusetts Attorney General, to combat Feminism (TIME. Jan. 19). Harvard, which permits female students in a few of its courses and whose President & Fellows constitute the supervising Board of Visitors of nearby Radcliffe College, refused as a matter of policy. Princeton, which has never allowed women in any of its courses; Yale, which has many a post-graduate female student and a School of Nursing, refused with equal firmness. Columbia, which has more women than men, found...
...unsolicited, embarrassing bequest came with the New Year to Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale, when the will of the late Albert Enoch Pillsbury, onetime Attorney General of Massachusetts, who died last month at the age of 81, was made public. Said the will: "Believing that the modern feminist movement tends to take woman out of the home and put her in politics, government or business, and that this has already begun to impair the family as a basis of civilization and its advance, I bequeath to Harvard. Yale, Princeton and Columbia colleges $25,000 each . . . [to be used] toward creating...
Keen-minded, acidic, Albert Enoch Pillsbury was long known as one of Boston's ablest legal minds. He had entered Harvard in 1867 (among his classmates were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Bishop William Lawrence, Charles Joseph Bonaparte). Unwary hazers remembered his stocky, undaunted figure: once he beat them off with upraised chair in one hand, menacing clasp-knife in the other. Two years later he was expelled for his pranks, went to Boston and passed his bar examination. The Harvard faculty invited him back. "Go to hell!" was his booming défi. He grew a long black beard...
Died. Albert Enoch Pillsbury, 81, onetime (1885-86) president of the Massachusetts State Senate, onetime (1891-94) Massachusetts Attourney General, lecturer on constitutional law at Boston University Law School; in West Newton, Mass...
Novelist, playwright, journalist extraordinary, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, is the most versatile, one of the most prolific living English writers. He has published over 50 books, more than a dozen plays. Born poor, he got little schooling, went to London at 21, became a solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones...