Word: schoolmarm
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...bustling, buoyant Carmelita Chase Hinton in 1935 decided to quit the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass. and start a school of her own. The Bryn Mawr-trained daughter of an Omaha editor and art patron, widow (with three children) of a Chicago lawyer, Mrs. Hinton was no ordinary schoolmarm. And as a disciple of John Dewey, she intended to found no ordinary New England boarding school...
School for Hope, by Michael McLav erty. A quietly lilting story of how a bachelor schoolmaster and a young schoolmarm overcome a jealous sister and a family jinx (TIME, July...
...Truth in the Night (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951), McLaverty found the makings of tragic dignity in a nagging wife and common scold. In School for Hope, he plants a young schoolmarm's heart with love and self-confidence after thawing out its dark doubts and fears...
Miss Isobel MacDonald, an energetic Scottish schoolmarm, spent a year in Manhattan teaching English and history at a flossy private grade school for girls. Back in Britain last week, she summed up her experience in a BBC broadcast. Her central theme: it was a "fight to the finish...
...typical schoolmarm fifteen years ago was her own janitor, boarded with a local family, earned $867 a year. After questioning 4,200 rural schoolteachers, the National Education Association decided that times are changing. In 1952 she was apt to have her own home, drive an automobile, make $2,484. Today's teachers, male or female, have also shown progress in another respect. "In 1936-37," said the N.E.A., "from 26.6 to 31.8% . . . were married. Now only 25.3% are single." ¶ To provide that air of studied insouciance that Ivy Leaguers are supposed to enjoy, the Harvard Coop has started...