Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Margaret Cole, Honorary Secretary of the British Fabian Society, extolled the contributions of her organization to British social history before a packed Cabot Hall living room last night...
Singing & Talking. To her own present position, Margaret Clapp brings more talent than training: she was never a dean like Vassar's President Sarah Blanding or Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride. But ever since her childhood, when she tried to tag after her two older brothers and sister as they marched off to school, she seemed to know what she wanted to do next. "She was always pretty," says her brother Alfred. "She always had brains, and she could always take care of herself...
...East Orange High School during the '208, Margaret fought the Scopes trial with her friends (she was on Clarence Darrow's side, in favor of teaching evolution) and secretly read The Sheik. By the time she got to Wellesley, she was writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...
Then there were meetings and a stream of visitors scheduled over the week at short intervals. After a summer's light mail, her correspondence was beginning to swell. But modern Margaret Clapp, whom only the staunchest Wellesleyites had heard of two years ago, seemed already to be an old hand. As she conducted her first chapel, almost lost behind the great lectern, it was as if she had been a president for years. Wellesleyites decided that Margaret Clapp, in their chosen phrase, already looked like a well-rounded "First Lady...
British author and lecturer Mrs. Margaret Cole will speak on "The Role of Fabianism in British Social History" at 8:30 p. m. tonight in Cabot Hall...