Word: sisterhoods
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...believe that we have taken an enormous step backward in bringing "into reality the sisterhood of women." Either we should live up to our aims or we should make no pretenses of having them. Perhaps we have been lacking in "a clear vision of life" and "an appreciation of real merit and worth...
Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), perhaps the most democratic of the select sisterhood of Eastern women's colleges, last week appointed its first Negro teacher. Sociologist Adelaide Cromwell Hill, 26, who got her B.A. at Smith cum laude in 1940, proceeded to an M.A. at University of Pennsylvania, and is now working on a Ph.D. at Harvard, will join a faculty which already includes two Chinese and a Japanese...
...Each sisterhood is headed by a Mother General, the larger orders also having Mothers Provincial. All American convents are subject to the bishops of their respective dioceses...
...Rosella Carroll, 14, test tubes and microscopes were the most fascinating things in the world. Studying science at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minn., her grave, shining brown eyes seldom missed a trick. Rosella was pious, too, and she intended to enter the Catholic sisterhood. But she knew that in this day and age a nun could be a scientist, if she were smart as well as conscientious...
...consequences of marriage are almost too much for everybody in the Lemp sisterhood. The clinical situation at a glance: Sister No. 1 expects a baby, visits her doctor to learn that she never can have one. Sister No. 2 deduces therefrom that she is in the same predicament, adopts a baby only to learn that she is going to have one, has twins. Sister No. 3 is beyond all reasonable doubt going to have a baby, but its father (John Garfield) committed suicide in Four Daughters. Without waiting for the baby to arrive, she curdles the thickening plot by marrying...