Word: vida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vida D. Scudder, Professor of English at Wellesley College these 14 years, briefly suggested the content of "The College Girl's Mind," by publishing some of the questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed...
...Miquel is neither a great student nor a great critic of philosophy, but is himself a philosopher dealing with his own material−"naked humanity and its secret passions and hidden dreams, its obscure gropings and faltering hopes" Probably his greatest work is Del Sentimento Tragico de la Vida. In 1912, even the King spoke of him as "my friend Unamuno...
Gulian falls in love with Vida Prendergast, who is unhappily married to Sydney Prendergast, son, of Father Eyre's partner. But just as that affair shows signs of becoming dangerous, Gulian learns that his father's health is in a grave condition-"any sudden shock would kill him." Vida will not divorce her husband and partly on account of his father's condition, Gulian will not consider any other arrangement. So the affair ends...
Speakers--Professor Vida D. Scudder of Wellesley; Roger N. Baldwin '05, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union; Stuart Chase, Director of The Labor Bureau, and Professor Felix Frankfurter L '06 of the University, Chairman...
...This gathering will begin Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with a session at Boston University Theological Seminary on "The Church and Labor". The evening session, a dinner conference at the Harvard Liberal Club, will deal with the "Brainworkers and the Labor Movement". Speakers will be Professor Vida D. Scudder, Wellesley College; Dr. Leo Wolman, Research Adviser, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Roger N. Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union, Stuart Chase, Director, Labor Bureau, Inc. Chairman: probably a Harvard professor...