Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Malcolm Clay, Milton, Massachusetts--Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts...
This unusual old school, a sort of Dixie Eton, sits aristocratically in the Virginia hills seven miles across the Potomac from Washington. Older than St. Mark's, St. Paul's, Groton, Hill and Hotchkiss, this home of traditions older than four U. S. wars looks down on the Capitol and the Washington Monument. On its list of old boys, living and dead, is many a name prefixed by Robert Edward Lee, many another famed old Southern name: Pinckney, Stuart, Randolph, Bryan, Cocke, Fairfax, Carter, Kinsolving. When Northern troops occupied the school buildings in the Civil War, virtually...
When his Paris taxicab bumped into another, the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, 81-year-old founder and headmaster of Massachusetts' socialite Groton School, who educated and performed the marriages of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and most of the Roosevelt children, went to a hospital with three broken ribs...
...Peabody knows everything that the boys do, and nothing is done without his permission. Furthermore, we do not have that kind of an attitude. There is no phalanx of problem children and no overnourished, overclad boys at Groton. Most of the boys don't have a town and a country house...
Last month the trustees thought they had found their man: Rev. John Crocker, 38, studious, absentminded, enthusiastic high Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...