Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business shocked the young couple into questions. In Chicago, with Clarence Darrow and Eugene Debs, they sought answers at the famed forum of Jane Addams' Hull House. In London they continued the quest, helped set up a workingman's college (Ruskin) at Oxford. Later, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said: "If Charles Beard had stayed in England, he would have been a member of my Cabinet...
Dean Gummere, who worked with Miss MacDonald for the last ten years, remembers her as a very objective person with great ability for understanding people and their individual problems. Thousands of Harvardmen came to her for advice just because they liked her and the way she helped them...
Freshmen entering this summer are the first Hardvardmen in 42 years who will not meet Miss. Anne MacDonald, administrative assistant to the Committee on Admissions. Miss MacDonald, who died on June 24, corresponded with over 35,000 Harvard students before they entered College, and untold thousands who applied for admission and were not accepted. She was an institution in the University, and well-known to school-masters all over the United States...
...Miss MacDonald first came to Harvard in January, 1902, a bright girl of 20 who was hired as executive secretary to the Committee. Her career was an unbroken epic of service for three Admissions Directors, John G. Hart '93, Henry Penny packer '88, and Richard M. Gummere '07, present Director, under whom she attained the rank of Administrative Assistant...
Jeannette MacDonald, redhaired Hollywoodienne, jumped out of bed in a Santa Barbara hotel cottage when she heard a door slam, got a black eye and face cuts struggling with a 14-year-old bellboy who said he was looking for souvenirs...