Monday, Nov. 24, 1930

Helpful Parent

Young ladies at Boston University's School of Education were surprised, last month, to find a matronly woman suddenly in their midst, taking notes at lectures, living and eating at the Students' Union. Last week came the explanation. Student Margaret Gorton, studying to be a dramatic instructor, had fallen ill, would have to miss several weeks of classwork. Her mother, Mrs. James T. Gorton, wife of a Yonkers surgeon, had come to Boston not only to nurse her daughter but to interview Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde. She would do the girl's work for her, she explained, and relay it to the hospital. Dean Wilde consented. There is now no danger of Daughter Margaret's not receiving her degree, so well did her mother perform.

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