Word: headmistresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Miss Tanner "the girls' Eton" was more interested in career-mindedness than muscle. The headmistress thought that "every woman should earn her place in the world, and should be able to give back in some measure all the world gives her." She encouraged Roedean girls to go on to a university (one in eight does, a high average in England), was pleased that many of the present crop planned professional careers-in medicine, law, music, art. By current-events classes, Miss Tanner tried to make the 367 girls conscious of the world outside, not long ago held special...
Roedean last week braced itself for the advent of a new headmistress. In her forties, tweedy Norah Horobin is a "Christian Socialist" and a lady of the likes of the Lawrence sisters. Miss Horobin is strong on discipline, science and sports, and already the word has spread to Roedean that she is "frightfully gamesy...
Said Mistress Sherman beith ill-amused. Said selecte headmistress beith ill-disposed. Said players beith ill-abused. So 'tis said...
Mistress Dean Sherman, the Dean Buck of Radcliffe, hath escorted two selecte prospective freshmen and their selecte headmistress, from a selecte finishing school to cast eyes upon "Bartholomew Fair" as acted upon by players of ye Idler...
What's all this business about youth movements? Just an excuse for going out at night and getting into trouble, implied sharp-eyed, energetic Helen Sheldon, longtime headmistress of Britain's Luton High School. Citing complaints from parents that their daughters are being led astray, Headmistress Sheldon last week plumped for a 7:30 winter curfew for girls under 15. "It is not the movements that are at fault generally," said she, "but the fact that no discretion is shown in choice, so that two or three things are undertaken at the same time. One activity and once...