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Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except your ideas...
...Most Madeira girls go to good colleges (favorites: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr), marry comfortably, and send their daughters back to Madeira. Among past & present Madeirans: Paulina Longworth, Joan Morgenthau, Susan Saltonstall, Diana Hopkins, Laurette Soong (niece of Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...Miss Madeira has a simple definition of education: "Discipline of the mind." The headmistress disciplines Madeira minds on liberal arts, the Bible and public affairs (she teaches the last two subjects herself). Exams are tough, but no marks are ever posted. Miss Madeira believes, with Robert Louis Stevenson, that "the world must return ... to the word duty and be done with the word reward." She also drums into the girls two mottoes of her own: "Function in disaster" and "Finish in style...
...onetime Vassar actress, Miss Madeira still appears in student and faculty plays (some recent roles: the sultan in Arabian Nights, Two-Gun Dick in a Wild West show). Last week the girls put on a birthday performance of Miss Madeira's favorite scenes from Shakespeare and watched her cut an enormous cake. Then the headmistress, in a new flowered print dress, made a speech in praise of longevity ("Growing old is a delightful experience") and teaching ("A journey in the country of the mind"). Was Miss Madeira planning to quit? Said she: "I'm going to retire when...
...Madeira's tuition for boarders: $2,000 a year, plus extras. Next year...