Search Details

Word: sophonisba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Died. Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, 82, veteran social worker, cofounder and longtime professor of the University of Chicago's famed School of Social Service Administration; in Chicago. She pioneered in social-welfare legislation, became the first woman delegate from the U.S. to any international conference when she attended the Montevideo Pan American conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Mediocre!" The Conference accomplished nothing else last week, though speeches were reeled off on nearly all possible subjects. Only U. S. Delegate to make a proposal of any sort was Kentucky-born Miss Sophonisba Breckinridge, professor of Public Welfare Administration since 1929 at the University of Chicago. She urged progress in promoting international interchange of bibliographic material. After sitting through a committee session in Spanish on social problems, Sophonisba Breckinridge said: "I don't understand Spanish but I have heard those same arguments so many times before that it was quite nice, just like home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hungry Statesmen & Honest Press | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...University of Kentucky (Lexington) made honorary doctors of Louis Wiley, Business Manager of The New York Times since 1895; Miss Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Dean of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. William Allen White, jovial editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, delivered the commencement address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commencements | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...electric coupé and took him for a ride. The Columbus Day conference over which she will preside will be addressed by Mary Emma Woolley, President of Mt. Holyoke College; Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover; Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Dean of Civics and Philanthropy at the University of Chicago (first woman ailed to the bar of Kentucky); Mrs. Maud Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters, and eight or nine other prominent women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The World Is Round | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

| 1 |