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...Prudence Kirkland (Peggy Conklin) at Westville, Conn, in the winter of 1778. bundling turns out to be a most unromantic procedure. Like fishing or travel, the idea is more exciting than the act. Or so finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard...
...they had a School At the beginning of their third year there were 29 pupils, five teachers, installed in an old farmhouse they had managed to buy. From the surrounding country, where George Washington skirmished with King George Ill's mercenaries, they took the school's name: Hessian Hills. More & more people heard of it. Since its founding, 30 families have moved to Croton to put their children in Hessian Hills. Some of the parents...
...Coons of Lord & Thomas (advertising), one-time Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Morris Greenberg of Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence and enthusiasm of the parents. Any feeling of competition is avoided; the child is to compete not against his fellows but against...
...January 1931 Hessian Hills School burned to the ground. The parents immediately got together to plan for a new school. With a larger enrolment (at present 63, ranging from 20 mo. to high school age) they would need a larger school, ultimately to cost $65,000. A new plan they got for nothing, from Howe & Lescaze of New York and Philadelphia, who wished to design a modern, functional school-building. Within a few months the Hessian Hills parents, organized as a non-profit-making corporation, had enough money to begin the first unit of the school, a long, low, glass...
...Hessian Hills parents meet fortnightly for discussion, monthly for work about the school. At their last meeting they questioned Dr. George Sylvester Count's of Teachers College about his proposal that school teachers "indoctrinate" their pupils with liberalism. Of the same intellectual bent if not in the same wage group, the Hessian Hills parents contribute more to their children's teaching than most parents...