Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanford University was the cause of an embarrassing situation early this year when the undergraduate committee sent out letters inviting delegates from the various universities and colleges to attend the Tercentenary Celebration. Stanford appointed, as one of its two delegates, Miss Betty Grover. A letter from Jerome D. Greene '96 to President Wilbur of Stanford is quoted in part...
...reply from Stanford gives the gratifying information that two official undergraduate Delegates have been appointed, namely, Mr. William Foster and Miss Betty Grover, I am afraid that the thought of a young woman Delegate had not be entertained when the invitation was sent; but as Harvard College has no undergraduate women students and as all arrangements for hospitality are within the monastic walls of the residential houses, I fear it will not be fessible to entertain any but men Delegates...
...Shapley, now director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks, the period gradually lengthening to three weeks. Discoverer was not Dr. Shapley but another able member of the Harvard staff: Miss Henrietta Hill Swope, 33, daughter of General Electric's President Gerard Swope...
...Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women's East-West record set by Laura Ingalls last year (TIME, July 15, 1935). Miss Ingalls, ahead of her old record, came in second in a Lockheed Orion...
...rare mood of affability, the world's most distinguished collector of modern paintings, Dr. Albert Coombes Barnes, arrived from Paris on the Normandie last week accompanied by his friend and collaborator, Miss Violette de Mazia, the manuscript of a new book and half a million dollars worth of pictures. Talking easily, the inventor of Argyrol announced...