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...Mark's, punished and rewarded socialite children, dealt tactfully with agitated parents, wangled needful endowments from graduates. After being graduated by Amherst in 1885, attending the Union Theological Seminary and Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge), he was ordained an Episcopal minister. For five years before being called to the headmastership of St. Mark's, he taught at Groton School, old-lime St. Mark's rival. Every St. Marksman knows that the football jerseys of "Grotties" are laterally striped in black and white. Should the Groton game be won, crepe is hung upon a stuffed zebra at the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Twill | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

When urbane Dwight Raymond Meigs resigned his headmastership in 1922 Mr. Wendell became treasurer of The Hill School. Dr. Boyd Edwards, pastor of the Hillside Presbyterian Church, Orange, N. J., became headmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To School! | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Edwards resigned his headmastership last winter. His action surprised and bewildered many younger alumni. Abundant, thereafter, were false rumors. Facts known were that there had been several excited meetings of the trustees, that Dr Edwards had offered his resignation voluntarily more than once, that finally the debates ended in amity. To the younger alumni it was enough to know that Dr. Edwards was now headmaster of Mercersburg, and to remember that The Hill School is also The Hill School Corporation, that financial reasons are often inscrutable and equally often sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To School! | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...schooled at Andover himself, going on to Amherst, Yale (where 60% of all Andover boys have gone) and Andover Theological Seminary. Soon after he began teaching at the school in 1897, he coached the baseball team, an office which he kept up for eleven years of his headmastership. The founder of the school set forth that Andover was to teach "the great end and real business of living," but many a boy who remembers both Stearns the coach and Stearns the friendly, gentlemanly, informal chapel speaker, will boil that long phrase down to diamond parlance: "There is no short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schooling | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...classed together as being "schoolmasters" rather than "educators." Character-building, not marks, is their mutual aim. Dr. Gamage relinquished the headmastership of St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y., after 14 years' tenure, took with him three close associates, founded the Pawling School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Heads | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

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