Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilson, who was one of the participants in the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences, is professor of Philosophy at the College de France, Paris, and Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto. He was professor at Harvard...
Another Tercentenary speaker, who will lecture for the first half year, is Etienne Gilson, prominent Catholic thinker and medievalist, professor of Philosophy at the College de France in Paris, and Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto. This will be his second term at Harvard, having taught here from 1926 to 1929. This year he will give a series of public lectures on "The Unity of Philosophical Experience." In addition he will hold a student seminar on the 17th Century French Philosophers Descartes and Malebranche...
...Lily Kenny, 33, claims to be the mother of 14 (seven living), of whom twelve were born within Toronto's city limits. City records show only ten registered within the decade. Rats killed one Kenny child. If the contest judges rule out her two unrecorded infants, Mrs. Kenny still has a good chance to break the tie and pocket Bachelor Millar's $500,000 by delivering the child she is now carrying before All Souls...
...contest's biggest thrills last week when suddenly Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, 24, revealed herself the mother of ten, eight living. Mrs. Clarke's reluctance to put her claim forward was not unnatural. Five of her offspring are children of her husband, a Toronto railroad worker from whom she separated four years ago. The others, including twins who died last year, are by "the only man I ever really loved, the man to whom I am married by nature if not by law. When we were first together we thought my divorce would come through soon, and then...
Dark horse of the competition is Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 43, sturdy Toronto-born Italian court interpreter, who habitually keeps working up to the hour of her confinement. Mother of 23 (14 living), she has already been able to produce nine to qualify for the Millar money. Last week she was due to produce again before time is called, hoped for twins...