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...Last week the President approved of Secretary Hoover's trans continental airways plan, appointed William P. MacCracken Jr. Assist ant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aviation...
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...