Word: mussey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Dr. Henry Raymond Mussey, Wellesley College Economics Professor; to be managing editor of The Nation...
...memory. Born in a log cabin in Wisconsin in 1852 she was, at the time of her death (January, 1927), Dean of the co-educational Washington College of Law, the only U. S. law school directed by women, founded in 1896 by Miss Gillett and Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. She had been a co-worker of Susan B. Anthony, had organized the first woman's suffrage lobby, been founder and president of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, vice president for the District of Columbia branch of the American Bar association, and chairman...
...number of intellectual leaders of today, including Professor Harry Barnes of Smith. Professor Clarence J. Skinner of Tufts. Captain Paxton Hibben, Francis Deak of the Confederation International des Etudiants, and Professor Henry R. Mussey of Wellesley, will lead the conference and direct discussion of the problems. A brief course of study has been arranged under their tutelage which will lead to a better understanding of the forces that make for War and the agencies that are working for Peace...
...tempted to agree definitely with Professor Mussey whose language may at times favor the sentimental and the inspirational, but whose thought is fundamentally sound in that it presents a truth which is at the basis of much of the difficulty in modern education: the faculties often are too blinded by the masses with which industrial success has flooded the college to remember that those who really delight in learning and in culture, who can get at the root of things, system or no system, are just as much a part of the college world as they ever were...
...faculties, then," writes Professor Mussey, "will only forget their methods and devices, their endowments and equipment and paraphernalia, their hopes of prosperity and success, of riches and power, their hordes of so-called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world...