Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidents of eastern women's colleges, has now been added Dr. Roswell Gray Ham. An ex-captain in the U. S. Marines, he has been selected to head Mt. Holyoke College, the first male president in its 101 years. It began as a female seminary in 1836, today is pioneer among schools to offer higher education to women...
...these more than 32,000 mounts were added to the organized collection, bringing the total at the herbarium to approximately 950,000. Based on the private collections of Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, the Herbarium is the world's finest collection of North and South American flore, representing more than a hundred years of continuous, carefully directed growth...
Understood to have Republican leanings, the group did not see eye to eye with the Democratic administration's plan of sending a commemorative pioneer wagon from Ipswich, Massachusetts, to Marietta, Ohio. "If the pioneers should be commemorated," said Chief Bull, "so should us Indians...
...pioneer wagon had reached a little bridge just outside the town, and the Warreners were on hand in large numbers. Chief Bull struck the first blow. Leaping on one of the oxen, he tore at the harness traces. The driver of the wagon lashed out with his horse whip, and Bull took a called strike...
...third man in red got around to the rear of the wagon and fought his way inside. He counted one sack of mail and six suitcases and then backed out, not before being bitten by a particularly tough pioneer...