Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen years ago a Manhattan drug manufacturer named William Van Duzer Lawrence went to Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken for advice. Rich and generous Mr. Lawrence wanted to found a college for women but was not sure how to go about it. He was prepared to give the college his big gabled house Westlands in suburban Bronxville, N. Y., twelve acres of land, the sum of $1,250,000 and his wife's name, Sarah Bates Lawrence. Would Vassar take the fledgling college under her wing? Magnanimous Dr. MacCracken promised that Vassar would...
Other distinguished visitors during the National Assembly: pious Copperman Cleveland Earl Dodge and his pious wife; Emily Newell Blair, writer and Democratic politician; Episcopal Bishop Walter Mitchell of Arizona; Mrs. Henry Noble MacCracken, wife of the president of Vassar College; Mrs. Henry Guggenheim, wife of the onetime Ambassador to Cuba; Mr. and Mrs. F. Shepard Cornell, Manhattan socialites; Lord Addington of England; Baroness de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris; Dr. J. E. W. Duys of The Netherlands Parliament; Carl Vrooman, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Bernard Hallward, director of the Montreal Star; Herman Hintzen, Rotterdam banker; Eric Bentley, Canadian businessman...
Upon leaving Yale, President-Elect Ham need not feel entirely as though he were joining an academic hen party. Among administrators of big U. S. women's colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...
More sedately Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper and Vassar College's President Henry Noble MacCracken made speeches...
...judges, Funnyman Cantor, who never got beyond the seventh grade himself, had lined up four famed U. S. college presidents. University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, Stanford's Ray Lyman Wilbur, Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken, College of the City of New York's Frederick Bertrand Robinson...