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...Mariner Aitken a gentle rebuke for being ignorant of one of the oldest hoaxes of navigation, mid-ocean mail delivery.? ED. Salem's Witches Sirs...
...England was a grim, stern place 250 years ago. Hard-faced captains and Governors tolerated no compromise among their followers and preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled. Occasionally some of these men, their wives or daughters were painted for a posterity which was quick to forget them. Last week in the Worcester Art Museum a collection of such portraits was put on show. Lent by many a learned institution or lately found in many a dusty New England attic, the pictures were a ghostly recollection of pomp and triviality in the late American...
...bench." Stern was the face of Governor John Endecott who could abide neither tobacco nor people who needed haircuts and who once mutilated the English flag in order to destroy the "Popish" cross of St. George. Captain George Curwen, who in 1651 was licensed to sell "strong water" in Salem, scowled from a cracking canvas. He once remarked: "As a man dresses, so is he esteemed." He dressed well until he died in 1684, a rich property owner. Governor Thomas Dudley's face revealed the harsh Puritanism which won him praise and honors but never affection. Sniffing heresy...
...elect of Education John Ward Studebaker. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Board Chairman Walter J. Cummings of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. New Jersey College for Women (New Brunswick, N.J.) Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . D.F.A Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Dean Luther Allen Weigle of Yale Divinity School . . . . . . . . . S.T.D. Roanoke College (Salem, Va.) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing...
...Glover, of Littleton, West Virginia. A.B. (Salem College) 1927; A.M. (West Va. Univ.) 1932; Principal, High and Grade Schools, Littleton, W. Va. Frederick H. McKelvey, of Charleston, Ill. A.B. (Univ. of Ill.), 1930. Principal, Junior High School, Charleston, Ill. Albert W. Purvis, of Truno, Nova Scotia. A.B., (Univ. of New Brunswick) 1931. Instructor, Provincial Normal College, Truro...