Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mount Holyoke, at small South Hadley, Mass. (pop. 6,773), last week began its 34th year under the presidency of Mary Emma Woolley, 71, famed feminist and warrior for peace who crowned her labors in 1932 as the only U. S. woman delegate to the unsuccessful Geneva Disarmament Conference. Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself...
...author's verdict on him is stern but not unkindly: "It was his mission in life to father all forms of progress and development, and he had left behind him desolation in one form or another wherever he had gone. He was ignorant and therefore innocent; a warrior in the cause for human emancipation even were the result to prove meaningless and destructive...
...Mapuche warrior chiefs who led his braves against the Araucanian, again against Argentine invaders from across the lesser Andes of the south, was venerable Jacinto Lefignir Ineleu, then 68 years old. Last week, 120 years...
...Ineleu felt that he was ready to die but Chilean law commands that the dead be buried in authorized municipal cemeteries. By a kinsman he sent a message to Chile's blue-eyed President Arturo Alessandri. Spoke he with grave dignity: "I am the last of the Mapuche warrior chiefs and I have served you well. It is not right that my aged bones should be laid to rest among Christians. They belong in the place called Auquell near Cunco in the province of Cautin...
...lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze ax, it was the first stone burial statuet turned up at Ur of the Chaldees, where Dr. Woolley has long been directing a joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania...