Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frances Willard at College...
...settle the cigaret controversy which has aroused many doubting Thomases to rise in defense of the "saintly" Frances Elizabeth Willard in an effort to wipe clean her nicotine-stained fingers, may I offer this tobacco episode as presented by Miss Willard herself in her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years? The chapter head is "College Days," and the reference appears on pp. 116-117: ". . . I wish I had not had those months as a 'law unto myself,' though nothing worse occurred in them than I have told, except that one night Maggie and I dressed up as two pirates...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services in Sanders Theatre tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock...
...George E. Thomas of Chicago refuted the story, circulated by women students at Northwestern University, that longtime President Frances Elizabeth Willard of the W. C. T. U. had once been caught with a half-burned cigaret (TIME, Oct. 5). Mr. Thomas revealed that a group of workmen on the campus conspired to plant a lighted cigaret in Miss Willard's room as a joke. They drew lots; the task of placing the cigaret fell to Letter Writer Thomas' father, Philip...
...Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry will conduct the services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in the Faculty Room of University Hall...