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her work. The president of the college later confirmed it and I took over her sociology classes. I didn't take over all her work, just the sociology classes that came in the late afternoon and someone else took over the rest of it. A lot of the people who attended were public school teachers or parochial school teachers who were taking those courses for advancement as well as some others who were just young and working for an A.B. degree.
That was a very rewarding experience because I found I knew more than these people who were older than I was. It was a very exciting experience for me, but I'm very vague about it really. I just remember the shocked faces of the nuns when we studied Summer's Analysis of the Family as an Institution..
The Consumers' League I'm not vague about because that was my job. I became the secretary of the New York State Consumers' League. The National Consumers' League was a national organization and it had state subsidiary organizations which were all linked together. The purpose of the Consumers' League was to improve the working condition of laboring men and women by every means known for the prevention of ill health, poverty, so forth and so on. Josephine Shaw Lowell, John Graham Brooks, Florence
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