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...with the bald, freckled pate twinkled as he said: "I hope you won't applaud me when I finish this announcement. It might be misunderstood." Then Claude Moore Fuess (rhymes with peas) told his faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, that he was retiring-after 40 years, 15 of them as headmaster...
...afternoon, "Jack" Fuess sliced his way with more than his customary abandon around the country-club golf course, allowed only an occasional dreihunderttausend Donner-wetter to escape his lips. At 62, Fuess thought that he and Andover both needed a change. His old friend Lewis Perry had resigned as principal of nearby Phillips Exeter Academy,* and that had helped decide him. "My generation has done its job. If I stayed here long enough, I'd become...
Headmaster Fuess had, at least, been forthright. His first step was to abolish the compulsory classics; he found it "absurd to drive a boy with no aptitude for the subject two or three times through Caesar's Commentaries." He prefers to have only half his boys take Latin, "because they want...
Over My Dead Body. Historian Fuess made four years of history an Andover requirement, despite a trustee who said that U.S. history would be made compulsory only over his dead body. ("In three years," Fuess calmly recalls, "he "was in his grave, and American history was required of every senior.") Fuess argues that too many private-school graduates "feel that they have performed their civic duty when they have grudgingly paid their taxes and damned the Government...
Describing Andover at War, Headmaster Fuess observes that the private schools themselves are among the free institutions for which the nation is fighting. Says he: "The combined resources of the great private schools . . . must be devoted during the next few months to the winning...