 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collegiate Education: ROCKNE, Knute Kenneth, American football coach: b. Voss, Norway, March 4, 1888; d. near Bazaar, Kans., March 31, 1931. Brought to the United States by his parents at the age of five, he grew up in Chicago. After graduating from high school he worked as brakeman and mail clerk to obtain funds for a collegiate education.
SAINT THOMAS, College of, a Roman Catholic liberal arts college for men, in St. Paul, Minn., founded in 1885 by Archbishop John Ireland. The campus contains some 45 acres, with instructional buildings in collegiate Gothic. Bachelor's degrees are conferred in arts and science, and master's degrees in arts and education. Summer and graduate courses are open to women. The school colors are purple and gray.
RADCLIFFE COLLEGE, a college for the education of women, affiliated with Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Its forerunner was the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of- Women, organized in 1879 to provide systematic instruction for women by professors and instructors in Harvard. This society was incorporated three years after its organization, and by 1894 it had proved so successful that it was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and empowered to grant degrees.
|
|
|
|
