history of England), and a tin box for picnic lunches. When the two arrived in Paris, they met up with Helen LaMonte (who was traveling with young Gertrude Whittemore and a school friend) as well as a number of acquaintances (including Vladimir Zenzinoff) for sightseeing and social, sporting, and cultural events. In England the two toured the countryside in a chauffeur-driven automobile, meeting up with Theodate, John Masefield, and a Westover alumna or two. Mary had many appointments in London, including a luncheon with Lady Astor at her home, and a meeting with two Englishwomen, a Miss Low and a Miss Michello, who would both teach at Westover the next year.
As a result of all that Mary Hillard brought to her community of females in Connecticut, attending Westover was much more than simply getting an education from books. The year the school opened, a girl perceived that she was learning the art of living, and others throughout the years would echo her words. Accordingly, it was at graduation near the end of her reign when the headmistress proclaimed that “your diplomas are precious to you because they are sign and emblem not alone of mastery of courses of study successfully completed. They are sign and emblem of more than that—the hidden and secret message running through them … [of] your loyalty to radiant, glorious, immortal, unchanging spiritual values with their ‘power to quicken, quell, irradiate, and through ruinous floods uplift’ the souls of men.” The years under her tutelage had taught Bidda Blakeley, for one, “about beauty and honor and all the wonderful qualities of life,” she remembered. “And thank heaven I went there.”
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The Spirit of the School:Engaging Youthful Idealism
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