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...year before Andrew Jackson yielded the presidency to Martin Van Buren. and before California became a state, Ellen Scripps was born. In 1873 she helped her brother found a newspaper which was the first of today's Scripps newspaper syndicate. "Miss Ellen" always considered her wealth a public trust. She harkened to the faintest plea for a sound philanthropical cause. She has endowed hospitals, schools, given parks, community buildings...
Last week, in California, Miss Ellen celebrated her 92nd birthday. Many and sincere were her well wishers but none more sincere than the students and professors of Scripps College, which her money founded when she turned...
...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship is given by Mrs. Ellen C. Bonaparte. The preference in choosing the student to whom the award is to be made is given to students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship. The scholarship is awarded at the end of his Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in Government who, without regard to financial need, has the highest academic standing in that subject...
...Engaged. Ellen Borden of Chicago, daughter of John Borden, famed Arctic explorer, big game hunter and rancher; to Adlai Stevenson of Bloomington, Ill., grandson of Adlai E. Stevenson, U. S. Vice President during the Cleveland administration...
...stated by Forrest Izzard in Heroines of the Modern Stage that the father of Gordon Craig and Ailsa Craig, borne by Actress Ellen Terry, was Charles Wardell. Others have made this statement; many persons credit it. Let Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew...