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...Barnard, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve followed up President Nicholas Murray Butler's diatribe on youthful manners (TIME, Oct. 8) with these remarks to freshmen: "Perhaps the manners of girls may be better than boys, from what I've heard said about them. Nevertheless there is room for improvement. Don't grab plates of cake at a tea, as I've seen college girls do. Don't elbow your way into an elevator. It may be exhilaration or mob psychology that makes you behave in such a way, but whatever it is you girls must remember that...
Turning from manners to voices, Dean Gildersleeve declared: "Barnard is going to give you a chance to improve your voice. They say that American women's voices are notoriously bad. It's not the climate that is to blame. It's something we have just drifted into...
Such were the surface qualities, coating innate efficiency, ambition and commonsense, which Helen Rogers of Appleton, Wis. carried out of Barnard College 31 years ago. She wanted to teach, but Elisabeth Mills Reid, handsome, gracious wife of Editor Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, wanted her as social secretary. Wisely she chose Miss Rogers. When President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 sent Whitelaw Reid to the Court of St. James's, Secretary Rogers went along. There she met the Reid's fun-loving Son Ogden, just out of Yale. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who had a deep affection...
...meeting of private school headmistresses, at Manhattan's Spence School. Standing: Mrs. Ordway Tead of Katharine Gibbs School; Miss Valentine Chandor of Spence. Seated: Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve of Barnard College; Mrs. Roosevelt of Todhunter School: Mrs. Reid...
...room-mate was a "little upset" last year at the prospect of being so intimate with the heastie, but this year's neighbors seem to take it in good part although the plot may thicken if Barnard's enterprising snake-fancier his wish to add an eight-feet pine snake and a bos-constrictor to his little family...