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...addition to Rowe, the other Harvard members of the club who made the trip were: Stephen P. Baldwin '43, Earle J. Carleton, Jr. '41, Chester S. Chard 2G, E. Mott Davis, Jr. 1G, Robert J. Kormfield '42, Judson T. Shaplin '42, and Harold P. Winchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCAVATORS' CLUB BACK FROM TRIP | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

...huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted to listen to the proceedings from behind a screen. They walked down Great Queen Street that night, boiling mad, resolved to return to the U. S. and launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Hundred Years' War | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Published last week by the University. Press order the title of "Charleston Goes to Harvard," the diary was written when Mott was a 19-year-old Junior in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIARY SHOWS THAT HARVARD MEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO SAME AS TODAY | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...chief change between 1830 and 1940 seems to have been the tempo at which college life was lived. Mott walked when he took a trip to Boston, or else drove his velocipede. The only excitement which he seems to have had during his Junior year was when he raced his machine with the stage coach which was between Cambridge and Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIARY SHOWS THAT HARVARD MEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO SAME AS TODAY | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...Mott admits that his aceustoined time of "retiring to court the favors of Morphous" was 12 or 1 o'clock, and that he finds it "the most difficult thing to the world to rise at a proper built in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIARY SHOWS THAT HARVARD MEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO SAME AS TODAY | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

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