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Died, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, 76, pioneer U. S. sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at Columbia University; after a long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...
Engaged. Josephine Young, only daughter of Owen D. Young, Bryn Mawr graduate, employee in National Broadcasting Co.'s educational department; and Everett Needham Case, assistant secretary of General Electric Co., confidential secretary to Owen D. Young, secretary of Princeton's Class of 1922, son of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank...
Awarded. To Jane Addams, 60: the $5,000 prize for a woman's "eminent achievement"; by Bryn Mawr College...
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...recognition of these facts, 80 literary persons, most of them women, lunched in Manhattan last week with alumnae of Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Barnard, Smith and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. All present were urged to help create public interest in higher education for U. S. girls. President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College complained that the seven colleges represented at the luncheon gave education.equivalent to that offered by seven highest ranking male institutions, but received only one-tenth the males' endowment. Said she: "The women's colleges are asking not a dole, but justice...