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Last week at Andover, Phillips Academy's shrewd Headmaster Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with "geese") adopted a collegiate custom by staging his school's first Alumni Day. To Andover's 162-year-old campus, glorious in sunshine and brilliant autumn foliage, came 175 old Andover boys. Oldest were a pair of survivors from the class...
...whether they altogether approved their school's transformation, were reassured when they learned that much of it had been contributed by an old boy they knew well, the late Thomas Cochran, who arrived at the school with 50?, worked his way through, eventually became a Morgan partner. Headmaster Fuess hastened to add that the school "really has not changed in spirit," told his proudest news: that last year 213 of the school's 700-odd boys had scholarships, that the captains of seven Andover teams are working their way through. Said he: "When you alumni come upon...
Said Wheaton College's President John Edgar Park: "He has done a delightfully artistic job at Smith." Complained Wellesley's youthful Mildred Helen McAfee: "Dr. Neilson is constantly held up to us as a shining example!" Revealed Andover's Headmaster Claude Fuess, who studied English under Dr. Neilson at Columbia: "I remember when he did not think so much of girl students. In fact, he discouraged them by keeping his office in a constant fog of smoke." Radcliffe's Ada Louise Comstock, who once served as Smith's dean, recalled a Neilson lecture...
Many prominent figures in education will testify, including President Stanley King of Amherst, President J. Edgar Park of Wheaton College, Headmaster Claude M. Fuess of Andover, and Miss Dorothy Waldo, head of Dana Hall School for Girls in Wellesley and President of the Massachusetts Private School Association...
Wigglesworth I-22--John C. Fuess '35 of Andover; Manager of Baseball...