Word: northampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plopped behind a fence in the centre of Northampton, Mass., with many an old and ugly red brick building studding its wide, green lawns, Smith foots its sisterly class in beauty of architecture. But Smith girls are not envious. Smart though not notably intellectual, they study hard under a first-rate, liberal, largely male faculty, end their four years with well-furnished minds. They play equally hard-tennis, boating on Paradise Pond, singing in glee club, producing experimental plays and operas. At the cinema their hearts, like those of a million shopgirls, beat hardest for ruffianly Clark Gable. Since...
...William Allan Neilson, president of Smith since 1917, famed literary scholar, stanch liberal, editor-in-chief of the latest Webster's Dictionary. At 65 President Neilson is wise and witty, still likes to tease his tall, handsome German wife, look into almost everything that goes on in Northampton and the world...
...give you, therefore, this information so far in advance that you may dust off your bifocals and add a restricting clause to pressing contracts. You never can tell when the boys from West Haverstraw will start undraping, or when Mrs. Coolidge will depart chastely from Northampton. That sturdy village will present henceforth even greater inducements than in the past. And it will be interesting to see to what extremes the earnest debaters will carry their persuasions. We don't want to discourage these worthy fellows, but, personally we prefer to leave any experiments in the realm of nudity...
Another outbreak of bacillary dysentery was reported last week from Northampton, Mass. There, "however, the epidemic is thoroughly localized among the 1,800 infirm and insane inmates of the Northampton State Hospital. Their dysentery score: 7 dead; 93 infected...
...founder died at the height of his fame as a carriage maker 19 years before Mr. Inskip was born, 38 years before England ever heard of a Rolls-Royce. James Brewster, descendant of William Brewster, Mayflower Pilgrim, was a wagonmaker's apprentice at 16. He moved from Northampton, Mass. to New Haven, began making "Brewster wagons'' in his own shop. When they became famed, he branched out into