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...Professor Seamus O'Casey, Dublin schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Erin Go Blah | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Miss Santi Ghose, daughter of the late Professor Debendra Ghose of Comilla College, and the other was Miss Sunity Chowdhuri, also an undergraduate. They presented a petition, asking that Mr. Stevens arrange a swimming competition among their classmates. "But my dear young ladies," smiled the Magistrate, "surely your headmistress is the proper person to consult in this matter. However, I will read your petition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bengal Pains | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...pedagog herself, Miss Charlotte obtained the services of Miss Christine Weyman, an able, experienced Scotswoman who is still Foxcroft's academic headmistress. Miss Charlotte's role was that of organizer, executive and setter of the school's atmosphere, director of its purpose. She put her girls into corduroy uniforms?dark green coats, tan skirts, white shirtwaists. In the evening Fox croft girls wear white crepe de chine, all alike, no chance for rich little girls to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foxcroft's Accolade | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...destroyed Hotel Waldorf Astoria of which Arbiter McAllister also approved, 500 Spence alumnae and their parents gathered for dinner. Yale University's President James Rowland Angell and Steelman Charles M. Schwab were speakers. The news was that the Spence School, now no longer privately owned, has a new headmistress: Miss Helen Clarkson Miller, onetime associate principal and History of Art teacher. She served during the War as director of Training School for canteen workers, and is now on many educational committees, among them the International Relations Committee of World Federation of Educational Association. She is successor to Miss Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Spence | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Should Bulgarian school teachers don uniforms varying in color according to the teacher's rank? Should, for instance, a headmistress wear royal purple, a primary school teacher baby pink, a teacher of science electric blue? Should the uniforms extend below the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Teacher in Uniform | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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