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Last year's recipient of the award was the "Grotonian" of Groton School, with honorable mention going to the magzines of Fountain Valley School and Choate School...
Winner this year of the Advocate Trophy presented to the best preparatory school literary publication in America was the "Choate Literary Magazine" of Choate School. In making the award the editors of the Advocate gave special mention to the "Milton Orange and Blue" of Milton Academy and the "Grotonian" of Groton School...
...surveying the contribution made by the selected schools to the government, either past or present. The sum total of twenty-seven United States Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, and one President (out of twelve selected school's) should cause a blush to come to the face of every loyal Grotonian were it not for the inescapable fact that the American government, by its fundamental structure and development, has much more to do with the situation than any failure on the schools themselves. A government of forty-eight particularistic and jealously provincial states is hardly likely to be made...
Groton is an inbred school. When a son s born to an old Grotonian, the happy news is wired to the Rector, who enters the child on the list of favored applicants. Result is that out of a student body permanently fixed at 180 boys, 94 are sons of alumni. Brighter than these are apt to be the ten boys admitted each year by competitive examination. Groton's scholastic standing is high, partly because it drills for College Board Examinations...
Keppel prepared for college at Groton and was there a news editor of the Grotonian and chairman of the Year Book Board. He will appoint the heads of the art, business, editorial, and photographic boards of the Red Book, subject to the approval of a committee of upperclassmen. These choices will be announced some time next week, and the date of the competition for positions on the various boards will be definitely set for some time after the Christmas vacation...