"Dean of the College, Radcliffe College from 1914 to 1920. Born in 1877. Degrees: BA Radcliffe College 1899, PhD Johns Hopkins University 1924. Died in 1943.
Bertha graduated from Radcliffe College and later served her alma mater as Dean of the College. She earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1924, writing A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island which was published in 1970 as part of the mental measurements monographs series." (A History of the Conference of Deans of Women, 1903-1922, J. Gerda, 2004)
Cambridge Chronicle, Jan 24, 1914
"MISS BERTHA M. BOODY DEAN
The associates of Radcliffe college announced the election of Miss Bertha May Boody, '99, as dean to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Mary Coes' death. Her home is at 61 Gotham avenue, Brookline. Miss Boody was born in Brookline, February 26, 1877. She received her bachelor of arts degree in Radcliffe in 1899 and a master of arts degree from Columbia university in 1912. She studied one winter in the American School for Classical Studies in Rome and one summer in the University of Cambridge, Eng.
For nine years she taught in thee Cambridge School for Girls, formerly the Gilman School; for two years in Miss Madeira's private school in Washington; and has for two years been head of the Charlton School in New York.
Miss Boody was treasurer of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association from 1902 until 1905 and served as second vice-president of the association from 1905 until 1907. In October 1912, she was elected as an associate of Radcliffe College for three years on nomination of the alumnae."
1925 Aug 20 Montgomery Times
"Here's bad news for proud Nordic parents. One hundred per cent American children aren't a bit smarter than little Poles, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians and Lithuanians. The conclusion is that of Dr. Bertha M. Boody, who for two years applied psychological tests to children representing 25 nationalities while they were being held in the detention headquarters at Ellis Island. Dr. Boody found that children of the various nationalities, taken in haphazard lots from the school maintained at Ellis Island, did just as well on the tests as the selected groups of American children."
Bertha graduated from Radcliffe College and later served her alma mater as Dean of the College. She earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1924, writing A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island which was published in 1970 as part of the mental measurements monographs series." (A History of the Conference of Deans of Women, 1903-1922, J. Gerda, 2004)
Cambridge Chronicle, Jan 24, 1914
"MISS BERTHA M. BOODY DEAN
The associates of Radcliffe college announced the election of Miss Bertha May Boody, '99, as dean to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Mary Coes' death. Her home is at 61 Gotham avenue, Brookline. Miss Boody was born in Brookline, February 26, 1877. She received her bachelor of arts degree in Radcliffe in 1899 and a master of arts degree from Columbia university in 1912. She studied one winter in the American School for Classical Studies in Rome and one summer in the University of Cambridge, Eng.
For nine years she taught in thee Cambridge School for Girls, formerly the Gilman School; for two years in Miss Madeira's private school in Washington; and has for two years been head of the Charlton School in New York.
Miss Boody was treasurer of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association from 1902 until 1905 and served as second vice-president of the association from 1905 until 1907. In October 1912, she was elected as an associate of Radcliffe College for three years on nomination of the alumnae."
1925 Aug 20 Montgomery Times
"Here's bad news for proud Nordic parents. One hundred per cent American children aren't a bit smarter than little Poles, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians and Lithuanians. The conclusion is that of Dr. Bertha M. Boody, who for two years applied psychological tests to children representing 25 nationalities while they were being held in the detention headquarters at Ellis Island. Dr. Boody found that children of the various nationalities, taken in haphazard lots from the school maintained at Ellis Island, did just as well on the tests as the selected groups of American children."
"Dean of the College, Radcliffe College from 1914 to 1920. Born in 1877. Degrees: BA Radcliffe College 1899, PhD Johns Hopkins University 1924. Died in 1943.
Bertha graduated from Radcliffe College and later served her alma mater as Dean of the College. She earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1924, writing A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island which was published in 1970 as part of the mental measurements monographs series." (A History of the Conference of Deans of Women, 1903-1922, J. Gerda, 2004)
Cambridge Chronicle, Jan 24, 1914
"MISS BERTHA M. BOODY DEAN
The associates of Radcliffe college announced the election of Miss Bertha May Boody, '99, as dean to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Mary Coes' death. Her home is at 61 Gotham avenue, Brookline. Miss Boody was born in Brookline, February 26, 1877. She received her bachelor of arts degree in Radcliffe in 1899 and a master of arts degree from Columbia university in 1912. She studied one winter in the American School for Classical Studies in Rome and one summer in the University of Cambridge, Eng.
For nine years she taught in thee Cambridge School for Girls, formerly the Gilman School; for two years in Miss Madeira's private school in Washington; and has for two years been head of the Charlton School in New York.
Miss Boody was treasurer of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association from 1902 until 1905 and served as second vice-president of the association from 1905 until 1907. In October 1912, she was elected as an associate of Radcliffe College for three years on nomination of the alumnae."
1925 Aug 20 Montgomery Times
"Here's bad news for proud Nordic parents. One hundred per cent American children aren't a bit smarter than little Poles, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians and Lithuanians. The conclusion is that of Dr. Bertha M. Boody, who for two years applied psychological tests to children representing 25 nationalities while they were being held in the detention headquarters at Ellis Island. Dr. Boody found that children of the various nationalities, taken in haphazard lots from the school maintained at Ellis Island, did just as well on the tests as the selected groups of American children."
Bertha graduated from Radcliffe College and later served her alma mater as Dean of the College. She earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1924, writing A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island which was published in 1970 as part of the mental measurements monographs series." (A History of the Conference of Deans of Women, 1903-1922, J. Gerda, 2004)
Cambridge Chronicle, Jan 24, 1914
"MISS BERTHA M. BOODY DEAN
The associates of Radcliffe college announced the election of Miss Bertha May Boody, '99, as dean to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Mary Coes' death. Her home is at 61 Gotham avenue, Brookline. Miss Boody was born in Brookline, February 26, 1877. She received her bachelor of arts degree in Radcliffe in 1899 and a master of arts degree from Columbia university in 1912. She studied one winter in the American School for Classical Studies in Rome and one summer in the University of Cambridge, Eng.
For nine years she taught in thee Cambridge School for Girls, formerly the Gilman School; for two years in Miss Madeira's private school in Washington; and has for two years been head of the Charlton School in New York.
Miss Boody was treasurer of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association from 1902 until 1905 and served as second vice-president of the association from 1905 until 1907. In October 1912, she was elected as an associate of Radcliffe College for three years on nomination of the alumnae."
1925 Aug 20 Montgomery Times
"Here's bad news for proud Nordic parents. One hundred per cent American children aren't a bit smarter than little Poles, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians and Lithuanians. The conclusion is that of Dr. Bertha M. Boody, who for two years applied psychological tests to children representing 25 nationalities while they were being held in the detention headquarters at Ellis Island. Dr. Boody found that children of the various nationalities, taken in haphazard lots from the school maintained at Ellis Island, did just as well on the tests as the selected groups of American children."
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