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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.) Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen of U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals .....LL.D...
Oldest of the East's five famed women's colleges, Mount Holyoke sits comfortably on its ancient campus in small South Hadley, Mass, for the purpose of making 1,000 smart girls from 37 states smarter. Over this establishment for 36 years has presided massive, distinguished Mary Emma Woolley, longtime Friend of Peace. Last year President Woolley, now 73, sent her trustees searching for a successor. That they had been hard pressed to fill "May" Woolley's ample chair was evident last week when, announcing a "clean break with tradition," they chose as Mount Holyoke...
...though he were joining an academic hen party. Among administrators of big U. S. women's colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...
...University of California. After the War he went to Yale's Graduate School, has been a mem ber of Yale's English Department since 1920. When he goes to his new post in September 1937, after President Woolley officiates at next year's centenary celebra tion, Mount Holyoke girls can expect a change in presidential speaking fare. President-elect Ham's specialty is not Peace but the poetry of John Dryden, on which he is a top-ranking authority...
...stingy, never took so much as a beer unless someone else paid for it; that the bullets she used in her act were explosive, scattered the shot so that misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets were off, and the show, taking its cue from him, went really wild. Cody and his equally temperamental manager, "Arizona John" Burke, sometimes had differences. Cody once wired...