Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the subject of a debate at Groton School became the subject of a difference between two New York columnists. In this corner, Gargantuan, dandy Lucius Beebe, who amiably considers Groton U. S. Educational Institution No. 1 because it stands at the top of the private school social scale. In that corner, Gargantuan, dowdy Heywood Broun, whose funny-bone never tingles pleasantly over reactionary boarding schools...
...This New York, his solemn column of social chitchat in the New York Herald-Tribune, Columnist Beebe reported: "It appears that the lads of the upper forms have their own debating teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorical tournaments without let or hindrance from their instructors. Their last jousting was due to fall . . . just before close of school for the summer. . . . It was only toward the end that the headmaster, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, learned the topic under discussion, descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping...
...flourishes among the baby carriages and second-run movie houses of The Bronx (see above), as well as among the stone villas of Newport, R. I., the studios of Old Lyme, Conn. But in summer colonies, exhibitions are likely to be as much social as artistic events, with tea served on the terrace, concerts played in an adjoining room, and summer visitors exchanging greetings in the gallery. Last week summer shows, in full swing from Southhampton, L. I. to Ogunquit, Me., surprised critics with their variety, the number of first-rate artists exhibiting, the high level of the work exhibited...
...authors talk learnedly of "core courses" (e.g., "learning about living," in which English, science and social science are combined), tell what they did every step of the way through the six years. When they came to a new subject (such as communication), they divided into small groups to tackle separate topics, sent individual members out to hunt the answers to questions about the origin of human speech, the telephone, printing presses. By senior year they had explored many fields that ordinary high-school students seldom know-Columbus slums. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the position of women...
While the home life of "Babs" Hutton made tabloid headlines last week (see p. 16) the genus U. S. Society Girl made another kind of copy. At University of Chicago, sober, 25-year-old Mary Elaine Ogden, no Social Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial...