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Married. Louise Frances Gilman, daughter of Bishop Alfred A. Gilman of Wuchang, China; and Francis Stevenson Hutchins, head of Yale-in-China, son of President of Berea College William J. Hutchins, brother of Chicago University's Robert Maynard Hutchins; in Montclair...
Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, Ohio) Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...material on which that mind is made up. What Postmaster General Farley & Col. Howe are to President Roosevelt in the realm of practical politics Dr. Moley is to him in the realm of political practice. Raymond Moley has come far by his own wits since his humble birth at Berea, Ohio, outside Cleveland. His grandfather, Hippolyte Moley, was a Frenchman who went to Trinity College, Dublin, married an Irish woman. A precocious child, "Ray" Moley was reading Ivanhoe at 7. discussing the Trojan Wars at 8. At 19 he was graduated with a Ph.B. by Berea's Baldwin-Wallace...
Primarily for mountain folk exists Berea College at Berea, Ky. Only 7% of its 1,600 students are admitted from regions outside the Southern Appalachians. Half the students work their way through the Foundation-Junior High School, Academy and College, earn about 76% of their total expenses. No one is too poor to enter. A 16-year-old is not too young; a 63-year-old not too aged. Students are supposed to have $17 for room & board for the first term, but one girl was admitted with 63?. Tuition costs nothing. Berea's deficits are made...
...Labor" is a required course at Berea; during four years every student must work at least ten hours per week. There are standard courses also, from ABC's to A.B. and B.S. degrees. Visitors to classrooms are impressed with such imaginative hillbilly phrases as: "My home is way up the hollow where the valley snuggles in our little cabin," "I like to read what the goneby men have stored away in their lifetime," "a rage of anger," "the outdoingest feller," "the air from the falls keeps the flowers in motion all the time...