So-year-old Graduates
Three sisters, Mary, Isabella,^. and ■Nancy^Blackbutt, who are agedl respectively 89, % 86; and 78 years, recently graduated together, from the Maine" University, U.S.A. These ladies .aid not receive any education in their childhood, and they could not road' ot write until they were in the fifties. Entering the university four years agoj they passed'all the1 examinations'mth success. Mary won a doctorship of philosophy, Isabella graduated, in arts, and Nancy qualified as a solicitor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 21
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75So-year-old Graduates Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 21
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