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Minneapolis was also the scene of the organization convention of a National Association of Women Lawyers. Brought together by the industry of Mrs. Rose Falls Bres, Editor of the Women Lawyers' Journal, nearly 100 of the country's 1,500 Portia representing 38 states, constituted themselves the nucleus of a body national to supersede the Women Lawyers' Association, a New York State organization founded 35 years...
...years after the death of his first wife). During her husband's terms in the White House she was very retiring and has been even more so since that time. Nevertheless, at the time of President Harding's entrance to office she was proposed (by the Portia Club) as a member of the Harding Cabinet. In 1919 Andrew Carnegie left her an annuity of $5,000, and in the same year by act of Congress she was given letter franking privileges. Since her husband's death (January 6, 1919) she has been abroad three times. Just...
...Limitation of Armaments and the cooperation of the following colleges and schools has been secured, each college having engaged to send a delegation: Boston University, Boston College, Tufts College, Radcliffe College, Wellesley College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simmons College, Northeastern College, New England Conservatory of Music, the Suffolk and Portia Law Schools, and the University...
...would be impossible to accuse the creator of Portia, Lady Macbeth, and Rosalind of being hostile to "women's rights." Yet "The Taming of the Shrew" is a healthy antidote for the overdose of feminism we are getting today. It is somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...
...become stranded in a rustic town without their money. The second act act is a modernized version of Shake speare's "Merchant of Venice," the burlesque taking its name from the fact that Shylock takes a mortgage on Antonio's fattest calf instead of the conventional pound of flesh. Portia's defense is grounded on the claim that the calf cannot be moved without a permit from the board of health, on account of the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease. The book was written by D. C. Josephs '15 and J. A. Richards '15; the lyrics...