Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point to the speech of James L. Barton, guiding spirit, who said that none can understand the vast scope of the missionary enterprise of this one denomination unless he has seen the far-flung work of its departments of evangelism, education, philanthropy, sanitation and hygiene, literature, industry, uplift of womanhood...
...means of acquiring information on public questions is greater than that of any of their critics. Their moral purpose is the moral purpose of their respective Congressional and Senatorial districts or States. They constitute the safest exponent and barometer of the hopes, and ambitions of the manhood and the womanhood and the childhood of this great republic...
...Congress at Graz, Austria, charged that French authorities in occupied Germany had forced German municipalities to place German women and girls at the disposal of French troops for immoral purposes. Said Dr. Jung: "What other nation is in the frightful position that it is forced into prostituting its own womanhood at the behest of a foreign Power? The behavior of the occupation authorities is an outrage on civilization...
Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass. Founded 1881 as an incubator for Wellesley College matriculants. Headmistress: Helen Temple Cooke. Specialties: "The highest ideals of womanhood, Thorough Scholarship, General Cul ture." In the college town of Wellesley, Dana Hall girls can be distinguished from the Welleslilassies by the hats they are oibliged to wear when walking...
...small way" by Sarah Porter, sister of P'resident Noah Porter of Yale University (1871-1886). "She gave to hundreds of the best-born women of the land that poise and stability of character, that combination of learning and good manners, which is a mark of the noblest American womanhood." Farmington, whose course is indefi- nite in length and character, has a reputation for distinction of dress and deportment. It caters to "the finer families." Its product is rather the perfect lady than the trained mind. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Porter Keep are in charge...