Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland started off badly as Harvard's "social desert." First thing the Dean's Office did when it began Housing freshmen was to induce a big group of young socialites (including Theodore Roosevelt III) to pioneer in Kirkland. After one year most of them (including Theodore Roosevelt III) moved out. Today most of Kirkland's residents come out of public schools...
...material is present for several exciting novels and a monograph on prison reform but unfortunately the two various themes are so interwoven in this biography of the pioneer prison reformer that it is all much time wasted by the reader who wants to carry away any definite impressions...
Last week many a Madame of the Sacred Heart felt piously proud. In Vatican City the Congregation of Sacred Rites met before Pope Pius XI, voted to beatify Mother Philippine Duchesne, founder of the U. S. branch of the Order. Now to be titled "Blessed," this pioneer Madame thus passed the second milestone on the road to sainthood, which she will eventually attain if two miracles are henceforth performed in response to prayers addressed through...
...born in Waltham and has lived there ever since, holding several municipal offices and founding the Waltham Hospital in 1886. He was one of the earliest to operate in cases of appendicitis and was a pioneer in systematic training for nurses...
...Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...