The Archive · 1938

Peter Pan School

A British Education in a Cosmopolitan Atmosphere It is not everyone who is aware that there is a British-run school at 692 Rue Bourgeat which at times has as many as 100 scholars on its roll. This is Mrs. R. A. Taylor's Peter Pan School for children up to 15 years old. She gave it the name of Peter Fan because it aimed at giving an education to both hi and girls ie the spirit of Barrie's immortal creation.

Special attention is given to the teaching of languages—the children can study French, German, Russian, Chinese, the idea being that they shall not grow out of touch with their own tongues. At the same time a very English education is given with an English staff of teachers. The school has its own band!

There is a shady garden for games and drill, and many parents will like to know that the school will continue open in the mornings during the summer months. chorus girl definitely is not as scarlet as she is painted. Usually she is quite a pretty young person, literate, industrious, and clever."

Mrs, Frafklin D. Roosevelt: "Woman's intuition, unaccompanied by experience and trained judgment, is far more dangerous than a slow process of reasoning, for it leads to snap judgments, prejudices, and stubbornness."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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