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...Johns Hopkins withheld Mrs. Ladd-Franklin's diploma for 40 years...
Three days later Johns Hopkins bestowed a Ph.D. diploma upon the wife of Dr. Oilman's biographer, Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, wife of Fabian Franklin, onetime editor of the Independent. Educators took interest because that bestowal indicated the great change that has come over U. S. education in less than half a century...
...years ago that Christine Ladd, a Vassar graduate of '69, was permitted, as being of exceptional ability, to attend the courses required by Johns Hopkins for the philosophical doctorate. She completed her studies with distinction, demonstrating a form of rebuttal in argument called antilogism, which has been described as "the crowning achievement in a field [logic] worked over since the days of Aristotle." But Johns Hopkins gave her no diploma. In that day Johns Hopkins gave no women their diplomas. It welcomed her back in 1904 as Mrs. Franklin, lecturer in logic and psychology, subjects that she has administered...
Last summer Senator Ladd of North Dakota, one of the prominent insurgents and followers of LaFollette, suddenly died. The Governor of North Dakota decided 1) to call a special election for Senator next June, and 2) to appoint Gerald P. Nye, 33 years old, editor of the Non-Partisan League newspaper, to serve until the new Senator is elected (TIME...
Ralston, Spencer and Ladd; also to give a year's pay to the widow of a deceased acting assistant doorkeeper in consideration of funeral expenses; also to give six months' pay to the son of a deceased messenger of the Senate in consideration of funeral expenses...