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Founded in 1839, Hollins was Virginia's first chartered institution for young ladies, first in the U. S. to adopt an elective system of studies, first to establish an English department under a full professor. It has some 8,000 alumnae, including Adviser to the Lovelorn Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer). First president of Hollins was Charles Lewis Cocke, member of an old Virginia family, professor at Richmond College. Hollins became more & more in his debt until in 1900 the college was deeded to him. The following year he died. His daughter Matty L. Cocke became president...
...Department. This seventh volume of "The Pepys Ballads" concludes Professor Rollins's reprints from the Pepys Collection, although it will presently be followed by an eighth, containing Indexes to the whole work. Some of these ballads are of a strictly historical nature; numerous others deal with the troubles of lovelorn maidens; various have to do with deeds of passion and violence, expiated on the gallows; and many more report strange and wonderful news. So miscellaneous, indeed, are the themes in this volume, that in many ways it is the most interesting and valuable of the seven. The London Times comments...
Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), newspaper adviser to lovelorn gum-chewers . . . Litt.D...
Virtuous Husbands (Universal). "Remember that your wife is a shrinking violet," wrote Pansy Pomeroy, conductor of a colyum of advice to the lovelorn, in one of the countless letters of guidance which she left her son, Elliott Nugent. So in a hotel in Niagara Falls, while his wife is waiting for him in bed, Nugent sleeps on a sofa in the parlor. This honeymoon scene was the one which the audience, like the bride, had been looking forward to, but it is staged so much in the spirit of good clean Will-Haysian fun that it loses even the little...
...Taylor shelved it for Peter Ibbetson the evening he met Constance Collier at a party given by Katherine Cornell. In his libretto he followed the structure of the Peter Ibbetson which Miss Collier adapted in 1917 as a play for herself and the Barrymore Brothers. The story which every lovelorn schoolgirl knows...