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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sherman Aldrich Ayres Boal Dudley Cates J. F. Dammann, Jr. William B. Hale Cornelius Lynde Philip W. Moore Charles T. Mordock Eugene M. Stevens Willoughby G. Walling Harry L. Wells FACULTY AND BUSINESS STAFF Perry Dunlap Smith Howard E. A. Jones Julia B. Childs Mary E. Musson Katherine Greeley Janet Buck Headmaster Dean of Boys, Assistant in Administration Dean of Girls, Assistant in Administration Business Manager . . Secretary and Registrar Assistant Secretary J. C. Anderson Edith Bacon Nina F. Bailey K. V. Bollinger Blanche M. Brein F. E. Brooks Julia B. Childs Wesley Concidine David H. Corkran Mathilde M. Damazy Frances Ellison Ruth Fargo Alice Fyock Julia E. Gilbert Lillian Griffin W. Everett Grinnell Elizabeth H. Gundlach Esther Morton Lizah R. Hale Janet Harvey Howard E. A. Jones Arthur A. Landers Amy G. Loomis Edward G. Lund Gillian McFall Robert F. Millet Marion Montgomery Joseph B. Riddle Nan M. Rood Frances B. Sands Florence Droegmuller Marion W. Stoughton Lewis A. Taylor Margaret N. Taylor Ida C. Weid Wood 11
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THURSDAY EVENING Rin — tinnj — tin-tin! Rin — tinny — tin-tin-tin! Now all together on page 35! — And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts, His sisters and his cousins, Whom he reckons by the dozens, And his aunts. All right, basses, on page 36! — Boo — O — Oom — boom — O — boom — Boom — boom Boom! He polished up the handle of the big front door! Where are the tenors? All together now! — I thought so little they rewarded me, By making me a member of the Facultee . There! That ' s fine! We ' ll try some more next time. All of you bring your scores. No gentle reader, this is not the high school chorus rehearsing for the opera. It is merely the staid teachers of the North Shore Country Day School getting tuned up for their bi-weekly faculty meeting. All this preliminary discord of staccatto piano notes and quavering voices may develop into a production of Pinafore by the parents and teachers, far outshining their rendering of Trial by Jury last spring — but we doubt it! They now settle down to the business of the evening. Ladies and gentlemen, begins Mr. Smith, we have several announcements to make tonight but I can ' t make them now. Mr. Jones, the Committee on Programs for Faculty Meetings, is watching me, and his instructions are that we leave announcements until last, lest they crowd out the most im- portant part of our program. He has asked me to tell you something of my trip East where I visited several colleges that our students have attended, and they certainly are fine. All of the colleges say they want some more boys and girls like those. They wonder where we find them. Why, Miss Snod- grass, Dean of Admissions at Walters College, said it didn ' t matter if our girls flunked all their College Boards! If we said they were 0. K., they would take them in at once. But I ' ll tell you all about that later. Then we are to hear of the recent Progressively Educational Convention from Mrs. Childs, and about the Shady Name school from Miss Fargo, who visited there during their vacation. Before starting on these talks, however, there is one item on the program I forgot to mention at the beginning of the meeting but because of its importance we had better have it now. Mr. Jones is going to explain the new chart devised at the University of Chicago for recording and calculating the Para-Doxical Quotient for any pupil — Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones — I have passed around copies of this new sheet which we are finding most helpful in ascertaining the P. D. Q. of our pupils. You will notice it looks much like a stream-line graph. That red line down the middle is the Median or Mean Performance line. A check on the mean line indicates that the person is mean. A check on the left means that the person is meaner and a check to the right means that the person is meaner still — both inversely as the square of the distance. That is what makes it paradoxical, and is the secret of the effectiveness and usefulness of the Para-Doxical Quotient. This data is gotten by watching the pupil when he is asleep in morning exercise. We subtract the number of times he twitches his left ear from the number of times he twitches his right ear and divide by the product of his age in years by his height in centimeters. The result is his P. D. Q. Are there any questions? Mr. Taylor — I would like to ask if you have any records of Allen Ferry ' s P. D. Q. Mr. Jones, after putting on his glasses and consulting a card in the Sacred Box — We have three returns on Allen. One was .82, another was 1.68, and the last was .34. Mr. Taylor — Now I ask you! How can anyone with a P. D. Q. of only .34 be expected to tell the head of a logarithm from its tail? Mr. Anderson — It certainly shows up in his basketball too. Mr. Jones — That just goes to show the value of the convenience of the P. D. Q. chart. One difficulty we have experienced, however, is due to the lack of Lower School morning exercises. We can ' t expect to get valid results on the Upper School as long as we have so few Lower School programs in morning exercise. So for the sake of our records can ' t we have a better response from the Lower School ? This arouses a discussion about the need for quieter exercises, which is terminated by Mr. Smith with the announcement that it is almost nine o ' clock, with just time for some announcements before adjournment. He is sorry we didn ' t have time for other speakers and hopes we can hear them next time. Mr. Corkran announces that all articles for the new catalogue must be in by next Friday, as he plans to send the final copy to the press in about three weeks. Miss Ellison announces that all faculty members are required to dance on two feet at the coming Valentine Party, as the Physical Education Department refuses to take any responsibility in the matter. The meeting adjourns. 12
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