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Graduates of feeder schools such as Choate Rosemary Hall, Boston Latin, Groton, Milton Academy, Phillips Exeter and Phillips Academy in Andover have attended Harvard for centuries, and until recently they often made up a great majority of the College's student body...
While Ted Caplow '92 says that having Groton on his resume was definitely an eye opener, he says that made no difference when competing against his high school classmates...
When it is christened Aug. 11 at Groton, Conn., the new Trident submarine U.S.S. Kentucky will have a bottle of bourbon rather than bubbly bashed across its bow. "We don't drink much champagne in Kentucky," says Congressman Larry Hopkins, a Republican from the state who sits on the House Armed Services Committee. To avoid offending any of the Kentucky distillers, Hopkins' wife Carolyn will break a bottle filled with a blend of bourbons from all the state's producers. The Navy professes no major qualms about this departure from tradition.Says a spokesman wryly: "The spirit's the thing...
...weekend nights, when teenagers crowd the sidewalks, the left and the right, the hippies and the preppies and the punks, negotiate a peaceful coexistence. Often the snub-nosed Groton girls stand alongside the skate rats from Somerville High, all of them listening to the soulful entreaty of a street musician...
Whether we are talking about ethnic minorities, Groton grads, hockey players or Lit. majors, lack of diversity in housing hurts everyone...