Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty-five married women, 25 children, three husbands, nine unmarried women and a grandmother assembled last week at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for a new kind of Institute. The children were put in a special school, the husbands loitered near, while President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College explained to the attentive women: "It is an endeavor to answer the criticism that women's higher education does not have anything to do with her principal occupation* the family." We are not training cooks; we are not training welfare workers. We are giving women a liberal outlook upon the problem...
...Henry Noble MacCracken, G. '05, President of Vassar College, has written for the New York Times his views on the present student movement toward greater self-government and self-expression in American colleges. His article, reprinted from the Times, follows...
Miss Anne Riggs, Vassar '27, has written the following article especially for the Crimson. Miss Riggs is chairman of the Student Curriculum Committee at Vassar and the following review was submitted to the President, H. N. MacCracken. It is notable that the undergraduate body at Vassar has always been more closely in touch with the administration of the college than has previously been the case at Harvard...
...Harvard's representative on the executive committee, shares the auspices for the project with the American Advisory Committee which numbers among its members, Stephen P. Duggan, President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe, President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin University, President Hibben of Princeton, President Garfield of Williams, President MacCracken of Vassar, President Neilson of Smith, Norman Hapgood '90, John F. Moors '83, Fellow of Harvard College, Frank A. Vanderlip and various other educators and public leaders...
President John H. MacCracken of Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) was present among the Presbyterians, and though he made no notable pronouncement, in his annual presidential report, published at Easton during his absence, he had written of the growth and maturity of U.S. secondary schools, which are now being built at the rate of one a day. "There is little in the college life of the last generation which does not find its reflection and imitation in the life of the preparatory school of today. If the college is to maintain its claim to a position superior to the preparatory school...