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Connecticut's hilly preen Litchficld County has seemed to two young Yalemen an ideal place to found preparatory schools. In 1893 Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations...
...covering University news for New York and Boston papers, managed the freshman swimming team, found time to win two Latin prizes. After graduation he taught at Gunnery and Hopkins, before starting his own school. In 1923 he married Edith Fitch, has one son, three daughters. As conservative as Horace Dutton Taft in educational policy, he will introduce no frills at Taft. 'keep it a stronghold of Latin, mathematics, plain hard work. His younger brother Harold, a onetime Taft student who graduated from Yale in 1931, inherits his job at Romford...
SOUTHERN CROSSING - Philip Rigg - Dutton...
GREEN MOUNTAINS TO SIERRAS-Zephine Humphrey-Dutton ($2.50). This record of the transcontinental motor tour of a Vermont painter and his wife makes pleasant reading, except for an occasional lapse into coyness. The Humphreys traveled for the winter on the price of their usual coal supply...
...JONES OF SCOTLAND YARD-Harry Stephen Keeler-Dutton ($2.50). A wordy, almost interminable, brain-addler is this sequel to The Marceau Case, presented as a complete dossier of photos, letters, cables, clippings...