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Some new schools bid for fame and favor by adding a progressive wrinkle to Education's old face. But New Hampshire's three-month-old Cardigan Mountain School boldly reached back for ideas almost old enough to be new again...
...Cardigan's catalogue said that annual tuition (including board) would be $1,100 -and be sure to bring "one dustpan, one mop, one broom." Cardigan wanted its students (sixth through ninth grade) to know that they would have to use their hands as well as their heads. There were other schools where the boys also had to make their own beds, wait on table, clean their rooms. But Cardigan's chores gave city kids a taste of the country. By last week, heading home for Christmas, Cardigan's 27 youngsters (aged eleven to 16) were old hands...
Hills & a Home. Cardigan's Headmaster William Brewster, 53, also runs a conventional prep school near by (Kimball Union Academy). Two years ago a friend, Dartmouth Alumnus Harold ("Hap") Hinman, took him to see a deserted estate near Canaan, N.H., with Canaan Street Lake at its doorstep and the New Hampshire hills at its back. To help Brewster and Hinman start their school, Dartmouth College, which owned the estate, sold it to them for next to nothing. Well-to-do New Englanders (among them: Vermont's U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the Boston & Maine's President Edward...
Sawing & Skiing. Work details at Cardigan are voluntary; goldbricks who shirk them get a cold shoulder from their buddies, but no other punishment. Cardigan officially frowns on "highly competitive sports [which] do more harm than good" for younger boys, gives them plenty of hiking, fishing, skating and skiing instead. On its 140 acres, the school also owns an old mill with a water-driven saw, where students will make furniture under the eye of a teacher who used to be foreman in a furniture shop...
...Cardigan boys live in the 112-year-old Canaan Street Lodge, once a white-porticoed stagecoach stop. Classes are held there too. Cardigan believes in the three Rs, leans hard on individual instruction: there are five teachers for its 27 boys...