United States or Japan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


Olympia Brown, State president, continued her speaking tours without cessation and was assisted by prominent outside speakers, including Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Colby, Dr. and Mrs. William Funck of Baltimore, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery and Mrs. Clara V. Laddey, who addressed the Germans. Miss Willis arranged a course of lectures in Milwaukee for Miss Jane Addams, Louis F. Post, Dr.

After 1914 it was published at Waukesha, before that at Brodhead, and was discontinued in 1917. Notable speakers from outside the State at conventions of the first decade were Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, the Rev. Florence Buck, the Rev. Marion Murdock, Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, Miss Jane Addams and Dr. Julia Holmes Smith.

Among the crowd was Larry Colby, who sought out Dick as soon as he arrived. "I've got news," he exclaimed. "Whom do you suppose I saw down in Cedarville? Josiah Crabtree!" "You are certain, Larry?" "Yes." "Where did you meet him?" "Down at the restaurant where he went for some ice cream. He was just paying for a lunch he had had when I came in." "Did you speak to him?"

To Clara Colby, July 22, 1895, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 842. N.d., Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 843. Ibid., pp. 844, 859. Ms., Diary, July 10, 1896. Sept. 8, 1896, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Shaw, The Story of a Pioneer, pp. 274-275.

Captain Putnam was to accompany the students on horseback, and the teachers had already gone off with the wagons. "Battalion, attention!" shouted Major Larry Colby, when the cadets were assembled on the parade ground. And the order was immediately obeyed. "Shoulder arms!" was the next order given, and up went every gun in unison.

These farmers reported that a strip of land between Colby and Rexford, about fifteen miles long and five miles wide, was blown out last season and in that territory not a single root of vegetation remained, and the top of the ground was as hard as the pavement on any street in Kansas City. The ground as far down as the plough went was completely blown away.

Why, I I actually thought that you were rather honored by having a Colby under your roof. I really felt that I was bestowing something of a favor on you!" "Terry, sit down!" He sank into a chair slowly. And she sat on the arm of it with her mournful eyes on his face. "Whatever your name may be, that doesn't change the man who wears the name." He laughed softly.

As they passed through Waterville, they saw the great shaded campus of Colby College, deserted for the summer except for a few students who were pursuing extra courses. "By golly, there's a pretty college there. I almost think I'd like to go there," remarked Dick. "Well, according to things as they now stand, we have a couple of years to think that over," said Garry.

It would be idle to relate all the things I tried, and failed in, until I began to think that the "something to do" was not so easy to find as I had expected. I made up my mind to settle at Upper Norwood, near Mr. and Mrs. Scott, who were more than good to me in my trouble; and I fixed on a very little house in Colby Road, Gipsy Hill, to be taken from the ensuing Easter.

On the question of our rights in mandated areas, Secretary Hughes adopted in whole the arguments which had been advanced by Secretary Colby in his note to Great Britain of November 20, 1920, in regard to the oil resources of Mesopotamia.