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...freshmen were among the challengers. Two months after he swallowed the four-incher, Lothrop Withington and ten others, including Endicott Peabody II, complained that the Houses were rejecting the leaders of the freshman class and accepting mediocre upperclassmen. They were going to fight for a strict merit system...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Class of 1942 Had One Opportunity: War | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

...Class was not denied the more traditional routes by which to show its maturity. Coach Dick Harlow culled from it the best Harvard football team in a decade, including Endicott Peabody, Harvard's last All-American, Loren MacKinney, Captain Francis Lee and Charles Ayres. In their most brilliant season, senior year, they upset Dartmouth 7-0 and whipped Yale 14-0. As was customary, many of them were elected representatives to the Student Council...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Class of 1942 Had One Opportunity: War | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

Rude Indignities. Second Lieut. Jonathan Endicott Seabury, a Bostonian idealist and Ivy League mama's boy still wet behind the diploma, is another of Fort Pillow's defenders. He "asked specifically for a colored regiment," dreaming of how he could teach Negro troops "English or history or geography" and monitor the happy spirituals that he fancied they would sing around their fires. He is ill prepared for the reality he encounters: dirty, sly, half-slaves whom he must train to fire fieldpieces without live ammunition. Thus he hides the gradual erosion of his soul by secretly rehearsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Episode at Fort Pillow | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

After a mid-week shake-up with the third Varsity, the reseated JV (Bow, Phil Tonks; No. 2 A1 Keith; No. 3 Bill Endicott; No. 4 Fred Fisher; No. 5 Tom Hodges; No. 6 Bob Baker; No. 7 Vidar Jorgenson; Stroke, Garrett Olmstead; Cox, Bill Terranova) jumped off the line to a quick one-length lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews Dominate Regattas At Rutgers and Dartmouth | 4/24/1967 | See Source »

...need for schools which offered preparation for college, public education not being adequate enough nor tutorial education uniform enough to meet the universities' requirements. For this reason (as well as to convert boys into moral men, fit for the best banking houses and clubs of the Eastern Seaboard) the Endicott Peabodys of the world opened up their schools in forgotten corners of New England. There they provided a needed educational service for several generations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREP SCHOOLS | 3/15/1967 | See Source »

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