Word: laking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as one of the most successful heads of U. S. women's colleges. Smith's girls adore him and hope that his successor also will be a man. Wellesley's girls are proud of woman's intellectual stature, of their comely campus on a lake, and of their young woman president, Mildred Helen McAfee, 39. Missouri-born and Vassar-educated, Miss McAfee taught in progressive schools, was dean of women at Oberlin before she became Wellesley's president in 1936. Tall, athletic, curly-haired, President McAfee likes to write detective stories in her spare...
...gained distinction. Aside from the injustice to students who, attracted by Harvard's name, have a right to some substance, one wonders what will happen to the relative ranking among English faculties throughout the land, of a department which loses four able men so soon after the departure of Lake, Lowes, Copeland, and Kittredge...
...bought the turreted Potter Palmer house which occupies nearly a block on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, hung it with Rembrandts and Christys (Howard Chandler), dubbed it the Bendix Galleries and lost it after paying $1,250,000 on its $3,000,000 purchase price...
...Harvard Engineering Camp on the shore of Squam Lake, New Hampshire, will open this year on Saturday, June 24, and will continue for eight weeks, it was announced last week. At the suggestion of the Graduate School of Design, a course on Statistics and Resistance of Materials will be given, in addition to the regular program of Engineering Sciences 4; Plane Surveying. Curves, and Earthwork. No student is permitted to take more than one course at the camp...
Divorced. Lady Willmott Lewis, daughter of Frank B. Noyes, since 1910 president of the Washington Star; from Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, famed Washington correspondent of the London Times; in Lake Worth...