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...first college graduate to be first lady of the land, but the first college sorority woman to possess that honor is Grace Anna Goodlove Coolidge. Before her. Mrs. Hayes, a graduate of Wesleyan Female College at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Cleveland, a graduate of Wells College at Auburn, N. Y., were college women. But Mrs. Coolidge is a graduate of the University of Vermont, 1902, and a Pi Beta Phi. In fact she is a charter member of her chapter which was organized in her home. (The President is a Phi Gamma Delta of Amherst...
...went through their parts admirably . . . On entering the Church, both fall on their knees and touch the floor with their foreheads, and afterwards move about to different quarters of the Church to bow before the images and kiss the holy relics?a maneuvre which they both executed with great grace. The ceremony of the Coronation itself is very pretty, the Emperor first putting the crown (which is enormous, and I should think priceless from the mass of jewels it contains) on his own head, and then lifting it off and touching with it the head of the Empress, when...
...children of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer, in an Italian landscape, the little girl costumed as a gypsy and reading the palm of the little boy, five years old, dressed in a red satin Van Dyck suit. The picture is full of childish grace and animation...
...hinted at rather than asserted; but the implication is (as it was in This Freedom), "Back to the home!" But Bread succeeds where This Freedom failed: in its fidelity to the actual conditions of life and its lack of sweetie-sweetiness. A long book, crammed with detail, written without grace, without style, with little humor ?but highly readable...
...Louise Stanley, dean of home economics at the University of Missouri, was appointed by. Secretary Wallace to head the newly established Bureau of Home Economics in the Department of Agriculture. '. She will be the third woman bureau chief in the Federal Government, the others being Grace Abbott and Mary Anderson, heads of the Children's and Women's Bureaus of the Department of Labor...