Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Robert Davis of Smith will wind up the series of forums on April 24, when he lectures on the subject, "Forster as a Critic...
...since 1928. About 10,000 of them, flivvered down to Juniper Grove to get in on the 3,000-lb. beef barbecue. The Man had offered to let the whole 80th Congress come along in a body, but everybody seemed to have previous engagements. The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith showed up, though, to say that Bilbo was "the most persecuted man in the world." The Man himself wasn't talking: his mouth was still bandaged from a recent operation. But after the shindig the bandages parted and in popped a cigar...
Russia's excuse for limiting the newsmen-the Moscow housing shortage-gave U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith his opening. The U.S. would pare 16 men off its 100-man official delegation, he said, and thus make room for 16 more newsmen. At week's end, the Russians agreed. No. 35 on the new quota of 36: the correspondent of New York's Communist Daily Worker...
...When Smith College let in a few forlorn male G.I.s last September, the boys knew that they would have to abide by women's rules. But they hoped to change them. Ten male veterans, taking graduate work, were recently told that Smith would not grant them master's degrees. The college attorney had read Founder Sophia Smith's will on the subject, and after skipping through all the passages about the "influence [of women] in reforming the evils of society," concluded that the male animal was not on the mind of Feminist Smith when she made...
...G.I.s took their troubles to the Veterans Administration, and were told that VA was powerless to help. Last week, however, Smith's President Herbert Davis finished a study of the will and made a manly decision with which the trustees agreed. Said he: the will declares that the leading object of the college shall be the education of young women. "A 'leading object' implies the existence of ... subordinate objects." On that ground, he decided, it was in his power to grant degrees to such subordinate objects...