Repplier
Americannoun
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Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Repplier could not be disputatious if she would.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual account of missionary activity but admits finally: "Mere Marie was fundamentally humorless."
From Time Magazine Archive
We know beyond any doubt that average children in or near adolescence do seek the kind of information that Miss Repplier denies having thought about.
From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus
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