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Those who read all their little pamphlets faithfully have noticed that the parietal regulations are becoming stricter. There was formerly a well known rule which said, "No young women unattended by an older woman as chaperon SHOULD be received in a student's room." This year the corresponding rule reads, "No young women unattended by an older woman as chaperon MAY be received in a student's room...
...Chaperon," by C. N. and A. M. Williamson...
...Chaperon," by C.N. and A.M. Williamson...
Before leaving the island, the teachers will divide themselves into groups as much as possible, each group being made up of friends and headed by an encargada or chaperon. This system is expected to add greatly to the health and comfort of the teachers and will simplify the arrangements for caring for them. During the summer the same salaries will be paid to the teachers as if they had remained in Cuba; and at the same time it is probable that the individual expenses will be very small. An emergency fund will be formed by contribution of each member...
...principal fiction of the number is the first installment of a two part story by Henry James, entitled "The Chaperon," a subject quite to Mr. James's taste. In it he delights in portraying the joys and sorrows of a highly conventional society...