Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many former Crimson stars will be found in the Alumni line-up Among them are E. W. Mahan '16, R. W. Fmmons '21, G. N. Abbott '14, Lee Todd '26, and N. C. Curic...
...mystery surrounding gruff, impetuous, well-loved Dr. Mather Almon Abbott's resignation as headmaster of Lawrenceville School (TIME, Feb. 21), remained a mystery. And Dr. Abbott, withdrawing his resignation, remained headmaster. Whatever it was that had prompted the resignation?an offer from another school? a quarrel with the trustees over a four-year-old medical supervision policy??was kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville...
...boys had heard nothing, even the assistant headmaster was amazed, when Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of famed Lawrenceville (N. J.) School, was reported by President John Nixon of the Board of Trustees, to have resigned. The Rev. Mr. Nixon assigned as cause Dr. Abbott's disapproval of a four-year-old policy of medical supervision. He also mentioned "a very flattering offer . . . made Dr. Abbott by another school with strong financial backing." Dr. Abbott only said: "I love this place. ... I dare say nothing. I have no money." There was an air of mystery...
...sharp-eyed newsgatherer saw that Dr. Abbott's name and pledge for $1,000 headed a posted list of subscribers for a new Lawrenceville dormitory. It was tangible evidence to bear out Dr. Abbott's gruff, nervous statement: "I have put eight years of ceaseless devotion into it, trying to make it the best school in the country...
Eight years ago Dr. Abbott was "Bott" Abbott to Yale oarsmen- their head coach in 1918-19. In 1917 he had organized the Yale Naval Unit. Before that he was famed as a professor of Greek and Latin at ultra-conservative Groton School, to which he went, with his bride, in 1897. Further back are his Nova Scotia birth, his training at King's College (Windsor, N. S.) and Worcester College, Oxford...