Word: finches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That it is one of the few sports that can help the nation directly and immediately has been stated by Pres. Roosevelt and lesser government officials. The chief executive's office recently wrote to Commodore Howard A. Finch of the Interlake Yachting Association that "the continuation of yachting is encouraged by the Navy department, and many young men with yachting experience have joined the Navy and have there demonstrated the value of their previous training...
...Finch will give each new girl vocational tests. Girls who go in for painting will be required also to study commercial art; those who major in theater arts must study community recreation or radio. To see that its girls get jobs, Finch will establish a placement office...
Many a notable family on both sides of the Atlantic has sent its daughters to Finch-e.g., the Manhattan Whitneys and Lewisohns, the London Selfridges. Jessica, who divorced the school's namesake and married John O'Hara Cosgrave, longtime Sunday editor of the old New York World, created a new pattern for finishing schools: Finch girls spent half their time on academic work, half on painting, music, theater...
...Cosgrave used to have her girls chaperoned wherever they went, made them walk in Central Park every morning. They still take part in such urban sports as riding, swimming, tennis, dancing. Finch girls also take turns practicing housekeeping and interior decorating in a model apartment (Mrs. Cosgrave likes to tell about the Southern belle who once rushed excitedly into the dean's office and announced: "I've just cracked an egg"), visit settlement houses to tell children stories. They can take courses in income management, secretarial work, business...
Today young men may present themselves evenings at Finch's famed, chaste, grey stone entrance on East 77th Street and squire Finch's pretty girls around the town without a chaperone (at Finch a date is known as "the little man"). Mrs. Cosgrave does not expect her new plan to change the character of her school. Twinkles she: "Finch will continue to have snob appeal...