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...house in Hampstead ; she has even had her eye on the house. Against her children's protests she retires thither, having made most unbusinesslike arrangements with the owner, eccentric Mr. Bucktrout. She lives there happily with her old French maid, seeing almost nobody until even more eccentric old Fitz-George, a millionaire miser and famed col lector, renews an acquaintance lapsed for 50 years. Then FitzGeorge dies, electrifies Lady Slane 's family and the nation by leaving her all his immense fortune, his priceless collection. When Lady Slane in turn hands over her unwelcome bequest to charity...
...recognition of these facts, 80 literary persons, most of them women, lunched in Manhattan last week with alumnae of Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Barnard, Smith and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. All present were urged to help create public interest in higher education for U. S. girls. President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College complained that the seven colleges represented at the luncheon gave education.equivalent to that offered by seven highest ranking male institutions, but received only one-tenth the males' endowment. Said she: "The women's colleges are asking not a dole, but justice...
Nine well know authorities on International Affairs and Parliamentary Law headed by President Law headed by President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley will compose the Honorary Advisory Board of the Fourth Annual League of Nations Model Assembly to be held on Friday and Saturday of this week at Wellesley. The members of the Board are Professors W. Y. Elliott, C. J. Friederich, B. C. Hopper '24, M. O. Hudson, and C. K. Webster of Harvard: Professor E. D. Ellis of Mt. Holyoke; President Pendleton of Wellesley, and President of the Foreign Policy Association, J. G. McDonald, and R. L. Buell...
...When Major General Fitz-John Porter was arraigned for disobeying orders at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Last notable courtmartial in all the services was that of Col. William Mitchell in 1925 for criticizing the Air Service. Found guilty, suspended, he resigned...
...Green for aid. The A. F. of L., which has yet to get a firm foothold in the South, viewed Mr. Fitzgerald's "workers' congress" as merely one more example of the hated "company union." Mr. Green eagerly sent organizers to Danville, signed up most of the Fitz gerald employes...