Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honors," bestowed by King George at the request of the outgoing Conservative ministry. Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, fussy Home Secretary in the Baldwin Cabinet, whose battles against Prayer Book revision and sex novels have made him a national caricature, became Viscount Brentford. Viscount Peel (Rt. Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel), onetime Secretary of State for India, was gazetted an earl...
...Dean Pound's commencement address to the daughters of Eve at Wellesley he intimated that in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we have not partaken of what was forbidden, as did our first parents, but have merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable...
Elected. Dr. Henry Raymond Mussey, Wellesley College Economics Professor; to be managing editor of The Nation...
...expected that 63 delegates will be sent from Wellesley as well as representatives from Radcliffe, Tufts, Jackson, Boston University, Boston College, Salem Normal School, and Wheaton, and possibly from Yale, Mount Holyloke, and Smith as well as members of the Boston Y.M.C.A...
...other temporary officers are: R.L. Ruggles '31, Secretary-General; Marion Hunter, or wellesley, Assistant Secretary-General; Nathaniel Samuels '31, Chairman of Agenda Committee; and H.M. Biller, of Tufts, Chairman of Credentials Committee...