Word: lancey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most astounding intelligence!" to President J. Edward De Lancey of the Irvington (N. J.) Board of Education was the news that the 116 candidates for teaching positions in Irvington schools had all failed in an eligibility examination last month. Irvington needed 20 teachers. Robert Lee Saunders, superintendent of schools, sent notices to normal schools throughout the East. Came 114 young ladies, two young men, all properly quali- fied graduates, to take a five-hour test in spelling, punctuation and diction, grammar and composition, and arithmetic. All failed in the requirement: to pass all four sections with a grade...
...expelled for some "obscure"' cause. At 17 he shipped as a foremast hand in a Down Easter, next year got a commission in the Navy. But he saw no service in the War of 1812, for by then he had met and married Susan De Lancey, who "did not care to become the wife of a naval officer." Biographer Boynton comments: "The short of it is, he was the type of male who holds the strictest views about the subordinate position of woman-and is quite at her mercy...