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...Chicago, Runner-up Addams announced her own list of twelve greatest, dropping six poll winners including herself. Her substitutes: Lacy Stone Blackwell, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Florence Kelley, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Lillian Wald...
Senior Kudos. To Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons, 65, went the American Chemical Society's senior kudos, the Priestley Medal. He has been the Society's secretary for 25 years, its business manager since last year. His work in pure chemistry flowered 30 years ago when he was busily exposing the properties of beryllium. As chief chemist of the Bureau of Mines he was a leader in the chemical prosecution of the War. Since 1919 he has practiced in Washington as a consultant chemist...
Summer William Langson Lathrop A. A. Anderson Gallery of Art (Richmond...
...Died. Julia Clifford Lathrop, 74, famed child-welfare worker; after a thyroidectomy; in Rockford, 111. Daughter of Illinois' onetime Congressman William Lathrop, she was trained in Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, was long a member of the State Board of Charities. When President Taft set up the Federal Children's Bureau in 1912, she became the first woman head of a Government bureau, fostered it until 1921. Worker Lathrop fought for the recognition of illegitimate children, advocated U. S. statutes like Norway's. The National League of Women Voters selected...
When he had about completed his program at Bloomington, there came to visit him an elderly Californian, Senator Leland Stanford, and his wife, Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. Once Governor of California, Senator Stanford was a rich, celebrated horse breeder. To Dr. Jordan he explained his mission: his only son, Leland Stanford Jr. had died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills...