Word: disciplinarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's headmistress would be Emma Barber Turnbach, former singing director and headmistress for the last ten years at quiet Dongan Hall on Staten Island, N. Y. Headmistress Turnbach, aged about 45, is short, scholarly, charming. A onetime graduate student at Chicago and Columbia, she is a middling disciplinarian, interested chiefly in music...
...McGraw grew older and fatter, he became more dignified. He remained irritable, a harsh disciplinarian. There was reported to be dissension between manager and players. First act of Manager Terry last week was to "give the boys a break." Said he: "They won't have to report to the park at 10 in the morning or go to bed at any certain hour. . . . All I'm to ask is that they play good ball...
...entrance requirement is revived by a current report of the Board of Admission. If states that the classical basis was first modified in 1904, when alternatives to a knowledge of Greek were first allowed. Though conceding that Latin has in the past performed "yeoman service" in the capacity of disciplinarian and wooder-out of the mentally unfit, the report contends that the removal of the Latin requirements at this time is not "letting down the bars" to slipshod scholarship. Rather, it is said, the resulting increase in the number of eligible applicants will make competition keener and standards of scholarship...
...partiality for race courses, and usually contrives to put a little on the loser. When he is traveling, his aversion to solitude at breakfast taxes the ingenuity of his secretaries, who have to provide a daily quota of guests at unseasonable hours. He is a Jew, not disciplinarian in practice, and he dresses with scrupulous care. Good American as he is, he prefers to buy his ties in London...
...Dean is unquestionably the chief point of contact between the student body and the administration, and it is perhaps unfortunate that most students meet him only in his capacity of disciplinarian. An unsympathetic person in that office can go far to destroy the good will of the students toward the faculty. Such a contingency is above all to be avoided...