With illustrations. "Harriet Connor Brown [...] was the first woman to win a position on the university paper and the first to win the Woodford Oratory Prize (only one other woman has won it since). She was elected a Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded a year's scholarship in Berlin. Her life has been amazingly active. It is enough, perhaps, to mention that she taught German for a year; reported three national political conventions; [...] is vitally interested in various movements to abolish war." Green boards have rubbing along bottom edges, gilt and blindstamping on front and spine. Orange dust jacket is eye-catching with black and white illustrations. Some chipping along outer edges of jacket, clipped inside front flap. Top page edge stained orange to match jacket. On the side page edge, there is some imperfect page edges where the pages were initially separated after binding. Strong, clean.