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...Democrats carried the urban colleges pretty well. Barnard, Columbia, Manhattan, and New York University all gave Roosevelt a 5 to 2 lead. De Paul in Chicago gave Roosevelt 1084 to Landon's 227. The University of Chicago gave Roosevelt a 2 to 1 preference, and also had the largest minor party vote, giving Thomas of the Socialists 143, and Browder of the Communists...
...student," purred lanky, smiling Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve to some 1,000 girls at the opening assembly of Manhattan's Barnard College last week, "who feels that she must agitate for a cause-and I hope we do have some-will please do it off the Barnard campus. We would rather not ask anyone to leave the college, for it is much more amusing to keep you all here...
That evening socialites and Union troops were swarming back to Washington in a panic. For five hours the battle had rolled back & forth across the valley and shallow, twisting Bull Run. Falling back with his Georgia brigade, General Barnard Bee had glanced up at Henry House plateau where an obscure Virginia officer named Thomas Jonathan Jackson was holding his ground against Union assaults, created an immortal nickname by crying "Look at Jackson! There he stands like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!" In mid-afternoon a fresh contingent of Joe Johnston's troops trotted up, charged with "Stonewall...
Died. George Arthur Plimpton, 81. publisher (Ginn & Co.), philanthropist, scholar (The Education of Shakespeare), for 45 years the able, money-raising treasurer of Manhattan's Barnard College; of pneumonia; at Lewis Farm, Walpole, Mass...
Grand old man of U. S. sculpture, 73-year-old George Grey Barnard, was courageously carrying on with the great Rainbow Arch of Peace which he hopes some day to give the U. S. public. Last month vandals broke into the abandoned trolley powerhouse in upper Manhattan which is Sculptor Barnard's studio, wantonly destroyed $17,000 worth of finished figures, left unharmed the full-scale plaster model of the Arch. Said Sculptor Barnard: "I must smile and learn to do better...