Word: matthew
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...best means, cost what they may, and corresponding prices in return," said Matthew Vassar when he founded his Female College in 1861. Vassar is the costliest of women's colleges. In 1931 it upped its charge for tuition, room & board from $1,000 to $1,200 per year, and no girl can get by on less than $150 for incidentals. But Vassar supplies 25% of its students with scholarships averaging $300 and last year it turned three dormitories into cooperative settlements where, by sweeping, scrubbing, waiting table and running errands, girls may help make their...
Forty-one proctors for 1934-35 in the Harvard University freshman dormitories were announced today by Matthew Luce, regent, following approval by the Harvard Corporation...
Enjoying evil for its own sake, the Captain reduces Brother Matthew to a state of misery by destroying his faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...
...Anne is not mentioned in the Bible. Her story rests solely on three apocrypha the Pseudo-Matthew, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, the Protoevangelism of James. Their account...
Energetic Matthew Scott ("Matt") Sloan, who resigned as president of New York Edison Co. in 1932. was an executive without a major executive post until he was elected chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway last April. No railroad man, he spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...