Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The University library is second only to the Library of Congress in the number of books in its total collection. Yale University, with about 3,600,000 is the sole American educational institution approaching its size.
Died. John Alden Loring, 76, explorer and naturalist who as a representative of the Smithsonian Institution tramped around East Africa with Teddy Roosevelt, wrote a book about it (Through Africa With Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Owego, N.Y.
¶ In San Francisco, Dr. Margaret Mead, ethnologist of the American Museum of Natural History, told a conference of social workers that romantic love, with its "whole myth-laden aura," is wrecking the institution of marriage.
American mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket...
It was not the adwriters themselves who should be blamed for such marble rhetoric, said Miss Fitz-Gibbon, but "the heavy hand of the heavy head of the heavy institution. . . . Every president ought to be kept out of advertising."