Word: bluestockingism
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Boston's venerable Lowell Institute refused to admit its age. Last week it joined with six local colleges and universities to form the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council. The purpose: to broadcast learned lectures as a typically Boston bluestocking scheme of adult education. All seven Boston radio stations accepted...
The magazine was often hard to read, but-like Croly's tortured editorials, written in an agonized longhand-served its high purpose for 15 years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink...
One of education's great failures-made worse by war-is the way in which colleges turn out many students crammed in one professional field and ignorant of the rest. Last week Harvard's bluestocking sister, Radcliffe College, announced an experiment aimed toward correcting that failure.
The story: Walter Abel, a little bewildered by his fiancee Susan, assembles her former husband (George Brent) and a couple of other major influences on her career (Don de Fore and Dennis O'Keefe), in order to learn what is in store for him. In three long flashbacks they...
Baby Bluestocking. A somewhat precocious child was mother to this Ideal Woman. Little Miss Garson was high-strung, bronchitic, given to fainting spells, and ill at ease with her nasty little peers (who called her Ginger). At an age when the average young Neanderthaler is spelling out "I HATE BOOKS...