Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...
...befitted her destiny, Maria Bowen Chapin was well born, daughter of a Wickford, R. I. manufacturer. Behind her were a grandfather and great-grandfather who had been Governors of the State. Educated in private schools in Providence, Maria Chapin went to New York in the '90s, began to teach small groups of her friends' children. In 1901, with seven teachers and some 75 pupils, she founded Miss Chapin's School on West 47th Street...
This year, housed in a five-story Georgian building on fashionable East End Avenue, Miss Chapin's school has 45 teachers, 380 students aged 6 to 18. Though in 1932 she relinquished her position as headmistress to her partner and housemate since 1911, Mary Cecilia Fairfax, sister of the 12th Baron Fairfax, Miss Chapin's ideas and personality have continued to dominate the school almost as strongly as ever. Even her passion for historic dates is still gratified. Beginning at 2,000 B.C., Chapin girls march down the centuries by memorizing some five dates each week. Almost...
Though she kept her scholastic standards high, tall, energetic, forceful Miss Chapin was equally intent on giving her future social leaders character and poise. To that end she kept a hawklike watch over their lives, both in & out of school, developing an organization and discipline rivalling West Point's. Each Chapin girl wears a uniform, light or dark green depending on her age. Student proctors note and punish such lapses from decorum as running on the stairs. Each day begins with prayer, hymns, the chorus-recitation of a Bible verse by the whole school. Banned on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...
...first American disease." Butchers and trappers have long known that a strange sickness sometimes came from skinning rabbits. Beginning in 1907 various U. S. physicians described illnesses which they called "rabbit fever," "deer-fly fever," "a plaguelike disease of rodents." In 1912 Drs. George Walter McCoy and Charles Willard Chapin of the U. S. Public Health Service isolated a new organism from sick ground-squirrels in Tulare County, Calif., named it Bacterium tularense after the county. Not until 1921 did Dr. Edward Francis of the U. S. P. H. S. discover that all the variously-named illnesses were the same...