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Sirs: I won a scholarship at "Miss Spence's School for Girls" [TIME, Feb. 3] and was educated there from 1910-17. After graduating I went back to teach Latin, English and History, thereby paying for my tuition at "swankless" Barnard...
...under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time Headmistress Chandor died last autumn Spence was again heading up. To carry on the good work the trustees last week picked as her successor and the school's fifth headmistress Miss Dorothy Brockway. Pretty, young (37), brunette Dorothy Brockway, graduate of swankless Barnard College, has for the past eight years been assistant supervisor at Miss Hewitt's classes. Practical Miss Brockway's pet policy is emphasizing citizenship, showing her pupils how the other 99% live. To this end she has made a practice of taking them to places which would...
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