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PILLSBURY BEQUEST DRAWS FIRE FROM FEMINIST SPEAKER

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A sleeping dog was somewhat rudely roused last Saturday night, January 24, at the Massachusetts Business and Professional Women's dinner in the Hotel Bellevue, when Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, notable militant and feminist, touched on the subject of the late-lamented scrubwomen. She suggested that the $25,000 which was left the University by the late A. E. Pillsbury to combat feminism, should be devoted in part to returning the scrubwomen to their homes, in accordance with Mr. Pillsbury's wish that "college authorities create and develop sound public opinion against impairment of the family by taking women out of the home.

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