Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finch. Famed private school principals throughout the country are Miss Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...
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...
...Manhattan, a policeman was assigned last week to guard a gingko tree in City Hall Park from vandals who believe a piece of gingko brings good luck. The tree, a gift to the city from some Buddhists, was personally planted by Mayor James John Walker...
...foremost German psychologists, Dr. Kurt Koffka, will lecture on "Machines, Life, and `Gestait' " on Wednesday evening at Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the American Association of University Women...
Five chairs at Harvard, two in the Department of Chemistry, two in the field of History, and one in the Theological School have just been filled, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. The new incumbents of these chairs have all been professors at Harvard for a number of years...