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 [[File:Luella Clay Carson.png|thumb|400px|center|PHOTOGRAPH BY OSCAR MAURER

Dr. Luella Clay Carson, president of Mills College, California, the only woman's college on the Pacific Coast. An educator of wide experience, and the author of a text-book used in Wellesley College and the public schools of New York City]]

EARNED but modest, brilliant but unassuming, efficient but unselfish, with respect for men and reverence for God" is Dr. Luella Clay Carson's characterization of the ideal woman. To the furtherance of this ideal she has given her life work, first as dean of women in the University of Oregon, and for the past four years as president of Mills College in California.

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