Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...baths a week, nor entertain men in Engaged Parlor ("a kind of goldfish bowl"), nor go to chapel. They are almost a full year younger (17.8), two inches taller (5 ft. 5 in.), eleven pounds heavier (126), bigger around the waist, have nearly twice the lung capacity of the class of 1885. They may have men visitors in their rooms (afternoons), import Yale men for male parts in their plays, leave the campus weekends, even drink discreetly at Poughkeepsie bars. But Mrs. Allen says she failed to find a single Vassarite who ever went on one of the "gin picnics...
...water colors were given a room by themselves. Last week, before Chicago's big show had closed, Dehn opened his own exhibition at Manhattan's Weyhe Gallery, showed Manhattan gallerygoers that he had enough subtly colored Minnesota barns, Colorado skies and Mexican mountains to supply two first-class exhibitions at once. Manhattan's critics agreed with Chicago's: that Adolf Dehn's change of medium was a success, that in four years one of the fastest and best U. S. lithographers had become one of the fastest and best U. S. water-colorists...
...Simpson, plump, blue-eyed, precocious, moved to Indianapolis with her parents three years ago and joined the sophomore class of a private school for girls. Daughter of a cleaning-fluid manufacturer, she had got her elementary schooling in Plainfield...
Heredity told in Wellesley's annual hoop-rolling race (traditionally the winner is supposed to be first of her class to be married). It was won by lanky, pretty Martha Attridge, 20, whose mother captured the prize in 1907, and married (after nine years) the Rev. Thomas W. Attridge, onetime Princeton miler...
...were promptly nicknamed the Superbas-after Hanlon's Superbas, a famed burlesque troupe of that era. In 1916 and 1920, guided by beloved Wilbert ("Uncle Robbie") Robinson, the newly dubbed Dodgers (originally Trolley Dodgers, because Brooklynites were constantly dodging ballpark-bound trolleys) again proved the class of the league...