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...Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education of a Debutante | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Complete with patronesses, and with Jean Stowell Cullen, elected "Boston's most charming deb" by the Charlotte Cushman Club, as judge, the Winthrop Dance Committee will hold a balloon blowing contest at 2:30 o'clock today. Tickets to tonight's Dance will be given as prizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS BLOW BALLOONS | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

...they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which he has been exposed. "As T. S. Eliot said to me at lunch . . . ." If you are at all smart you will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

...these apologists home with their tails hanging low, if indeed they recall one whit of hesitation on their own part as of five months ago. Professor Munn has started the ball rolling with a force that may even neutralize and overbalance future Thursday distractions such as hour exams and deb parties. By coming, out in sincere, forthright fashion behind the theme that the "world is too much with us", Professor Munn gave embryo philosophers something to test their newly digested theory upon, and whether he was able to settle anything in their minds or not, he definitely aided in making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GETTING AND SPENDING . . . ." | 10/9/1937 | See Source »

Vagabonding is looked on with great favor by University officials, and the deb school looks like an open field for those who desire a snack of knowledge here and there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge to Have Debutante School As Paradise for Student Vagabonds | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

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