Word: ham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lone society of two men who are presidents of eastern women's colleges, has now been added Dr. Roswell Gray Ham. An ex-captain in the U. S. Marines, he has been selected to head Mt. Holyoke College, the first male president in its 101 years. It began as a female seminary in 1836, today is pioneer among schools to offer higher education to women...
...took almost a regiment of Marines to overcome the opposition to Dr. Ham's appointment. He personally was under no harsh scrutiny. He had taught in Woman's College of Albertus Magnus and had faced co-eds at the Universities of California and Washington. It was just that under woman's hands, notably those of retiring 74-year-old President Mary Emma Wooley, Mt. Holyoke had grown to an eight-and-a-half million endowment. During her 37-year administration, enrollment has doubled, the faculty quadrupled...
...Ham is 45, six-foot-three, a native of California. For 16 years he taught at Yale, a good part of that time as professor of English. He is much younger than Smith's William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble McCracken, who have learned to delight their girls with clowning...
Tennessee-born Singer Grace Moore arrived in Manhattan with a Tennessee ham, was asked by photographers to pose with it. As she did so, her pressagent warned: "You know what the caption will be: a couple of Tennessee hams...
Five New England college presidents will be gathered here for the occasion. They are: Charles Seymour of Yale, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, Roswell G. Ham of Mount Holyoke, Father McGarry of Boston College, and Fred Englehardt of New Hampshire...