Word: foxcroft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millions who read the Hearst press the last phrase probably meant nothing. To Miss Charlotte Haxall Noland it was, though Colyumist Brisbane is notoriously free with his superlatives, an accolade. The Best Girls' School in the Land, her creation, is only 15 years old. Its name is Foxcroft. Only 75 girls may go there at a time, tuition $2,500 each per annum. Foxcroft has an elite waiting list...
Then she started a children's camp in Virginia. In 1914 she founded Foxcroft. The War probably helped her quite as definitely as it helped U. S. munitions makers, though differently. People were not sending their daughters off to school in Europe in 1914. Miss Noland got some specially fine daughters among her first Foxcrofters. Flora Whitney, whose turfwise family knew the Middleburg atmosphere, was an early and helpful matriculant. Novelist Rupert Hughes sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter...
Outstanding in the Midwest is Tudor Hall, Indianapolis, established by the late Miss Fredonia Allen "who brought Eastern culture to-the Midwest." Connecticut neighbors are Farmington, fashionable and not strict, and the Ethel Walker School where girls are seldom allowed to walk outside the gates. Virginia's Foxcroft stresses manners and sports, as does the more intellectual Rosemary in Greenwich, Conn. Westover in Middlebury, Conn., insists upon its selectivity. The Masters School at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., is proud of its social standing and religious training. Castilleja School in California is the most famed of Western girls' schools...
...Lect. Hall Mr. Mitrani, Sect. 6 New Lect. Hall Mr. Pillionnel, Sects. 5, 11 New Lect. Hall Mr. Raiche, Sect. 3 Memorial Hall Mr. Rouillard, Sects. 4, 8 New Lect. Hall Mr. Saintonge, Sect. 14 Emerson D Mr. Turgeon, Sect. 7 Emerson D French 26 Emerson A Geology 11 Foxcroft History 62 Emerson A Mathematics 9 Emerson J Social Ethics 15 Emerson A Social Ethics 28 Emerson A 2 O'clock (I) Economics 11 Emerson D Fine Arts 4a Robinson Hall Geology 18b Emerson D Government 6b Emerson D TOMORROW Anthropology 1 Sever 11 Chemistry 15 Harvard 5 Chemistry...
...Lect. Hall English 14 Sever 5 English 52 Anderson-Morris Sever 17 Otis-Wilkins Server 18 Fine Arts 3a Robinson Hall Fine Arts 5d Fogg Lect. Rm. French B Harvard 2 French 17 Harvard 5 Geology 5 Anderson-Phillips Geol. Lect. Room Picher-Zanetti Semitic Museum 1 Geology 10 Foxcroft German 2 Sec. III. IV Server 35 German 26b Emerson J Government 7b New Lect. Hall Greek A Sever 30 Greek 12 Sever 30 History 30b Abbott-Frothingham Harvard 5 Garson-Zion Harvard 6 History of Religions 3 Sever 30 Mathematics 13 Harvard 2 Music 3 Sever 11 Philosophy...