Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumna of Wellesley College, I wish to take exception to your reference to Katharine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful" as "onetime Wellesley professor." Herself a graduate of Wellesley, after a lifetime of service to the college from instructor to head of the department of English literature, she is now professor emeritus, honored and well beloved for "all times...
...since 1923, who has been active head the past two years, now automatically becomes titular head as well. Bishop Lawrence, by this resignation, relinquishes none of his prerogatives in Protestant Episcopal Church councils. Nor will he yet give up his educational leadership at Harvard University, Wellesley College, St. Mark's and Groton Schools for Boys...
...following excerpt is the result of a questionnaire concerning smoking rales which the Vassar Misceliany News sent out to Wellesley, Barnard, Smith, Stanford--and Harvard...
...guilt they question. Last week 7,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square, roared "Stop the murder of Sacco & Vanzetti." In London, in Paris, in The Hague police guard U. S. embassies and consulates, fearing that European radicals will let bombs express their disapproval of Massachusetts justice. Girls of Wellesley and Barnard colleges have petitioned the Governor to intervene. And a long list of liberal intelligentsia, including Jane Addams of Hull House, Remain Rolland (French novelist), Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard Law School faculty, Albert Einstein (relativity theorist) and many another have enrolled themselves with the Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers...
...Harvard, I gave four lectures. At the fourth, 1200 people listened to me, something one never sees at a lecture in France. I also spoke at girls colleges. Nothing is more full of beauty or seriousness. At Wellesley, for example, I had an audience composed of 800 girls and one man. So I began my lecture, Ladies and gentlemen!. And the youthful crowd broke out into laughter. It is necessary, on the other side of the Atlantic, to know how to mix the serious and the whimsical...