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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duzer Lawrence went to Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken for advice. Rich and generous Mr. Lawrence wanted to found a college for women but was not sure how to go about it. He was prepared to give the college his big gabled house Westlands in suburban Bronxville, N. Y., twelve acres of land, the sum of $1,250,000 and his wife's name, Sarah Bates Lawrence. Would Vassar take the fledgling college under her wing? Magnanimous Dr. MacCracken promised that Vassar would...
...rolled socks, played the piano and sang until all hours. Sarah Lawrence girls no longer overrun Bronxville. They are now responsible to advisers or "dons," who watch their progress, give them permission to leave when they deserve holidays. When President Warren, stately, handsome daughter of the headmaster of Albany (N. Y.) Academy for boys, succeeded President Marion Coats in 1929, she put through a charter enabling the college to give a four-year course, grant A. B. degrees. Though few Sarah Lawrence girls avail themselves of the longer course, under Miss Warren the enrolment has grown, to 277, tuition...
Left. By the late Theatre Critic Percy Hammond of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME, May 4); to his son John T.; a net estate of $117,265; in Riverhead, N...
Appointed. Dr. Fred Engelhardt, 51, professor at the University of Minnesota's College of Education: to be tenth president of the University of New Hampshire, succeeding the late Edward Morgan Lewis; in Durham, N...
...grammar school training, Banker Mount worked himself up in 15 years to a president-&-cashier's job in the Oakland Bank. There Banker Giannini discovered him in 1921, plucking him out to make him head of the Oakland branch of Bank of Italy (now Bank of America, N. T. & S. A.), the Giannini bank. Impressed by this hardheaded, hard-working young man, Banker Giannini later took him to his head office in San Francisco, shortly made him big Bank of Italy's president...