Word: northrops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since the days of Founder John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, for headmasters Roxbury Latin School has always picked New Englanders. Last week the Roxbury trustees took the breathless step of electing a Westerner to succeed their late Headmaster Daniel Varney Thompson. They chose George Norton Northrop, 52, Wisconsin-born English teacher, onetime headmaster of Manhattan's Brearley School, and headmaster of Chicago's comparatively upstart Latin School (founded 1888) until he resigned last February because of financial troubles (TIME, Feb. 13). The appointment of Headmaster Northrop, urbane and unprofessorial, was pleasing to one Roxbury alumnus, Headmaster...
...Strawns, Ryersons, Simpsons have gone to Chicago Latin School. Privately founded and run until 1926, school and building were somewhat suddenly sold out from under the parents of 200 pupils. They organized to keep it going, erected a building on the North Side. For headmaster they got George Norton Northrop, a baldish, well-bred, unprofessorial gentleman, collector of paintings and fine furniture, who had taught at Wisconsin and Minnesota Universities, been headmaster of New York's smart Brearley School for six years. Headmaster Northrop stipulated that eventually there should be annuities and sabbaticals for professors, good salaries, an honest...
Depression was the chief cause for Headmaster Northrop's departure from the Latin School. Mr. Northrop disapproved of the trustees' apparent desire that he be a financial as well as academic headmaster. Last week he pointed out that the school's chief competitor, progressive Francis W. Parker School, has a rich patroness (Mrs. Emmons Elaine, daughter of the late Cyrus Hall McCormick), charges about half the Latin School tuition ($450 up). Headmaster Northrop's salary was cut to $10,000. The annuity plan, by which he had induced several teachers to come to the school...
While his retirement was making news last week, sneak-thieves entered Headmaster Northrop's North Side apartment, filched $15,000 worth of his wife's jewels...
...difference. She hopes for big things from Eugene Ormandy, the youthful, enthusiastic conductor who was called to Minneapolis suddenly last year vice ailing Belgian Henri Verbrugghen (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Last week the despaired-of season opened with a concert at the University of Minnesota's Northrop Auditorium. It was an occasion for champagne. Pretty, sparkling Lily Pons appeared as soloist...