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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006

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Galbraith taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973248 John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has...

Galbraith, Catherine Atwater

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Writer and wife of economics professor and diplomat John Kenneth Galbraith, Catherine Atwater Galbraith was born in Plandome, New York, the daughter of Charles and Alice Caroline Merriam Atwater. She graduated from Smith College and studied German as a graduate student in Munich. She married Galbraith in 1937; they had four sons, one of whom died at age seven. Catherine Galbraith was of inestimable value in managing the family's affairs and in supporting her husband's undertakings, whether at Ha...

Boston College

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In 1863, a charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts authorized five Jesuits of Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus to incorporate as “the Trustees of the Boston College.” Their South End school became the first chartered college to operate in Boston in September 1864, when twenty-two boys – with an average age of fourteen – enrolled and classes began. Enrollment was limited to boys but open to those of any religious background. The original grounds were cramped, consisting only of a ...

Jolane Baumgarten Solomon

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Jolane Baumgarten Solomon was born in New York City on September 23, 1927. As her parents separated when she was quite young and her mother was often unable to care for her, she spent a few years at the Pleasantville Cottage School, a school for orphans north of New York City. Her father died when she was ten and when she was thirteen she returned to New York to live with her mother, a bookkeeper. Her mother's mental illness made it impossible for her to continue working and she and...