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Expensive ($1,400), Episcopal St. Paul's School, which is strong on hockey and respectability, has been headed by a churchman ever since its founding in 1855. Last week the trustees of the Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge...
Both the new headmasters are practicing partisans of the kind of muscular Christianity for which the independent schools have long been famed. St. John prepped at Choate (six St. Johns have taught there), played hockey for Yale, was ordained an Episcopal priest, served as a Navy lieutenant commander (civil affairs) in Europe. He returned to Choate to take up "teaching and preaching...
...proposed student activities center garnered 53 percent of the nearly 2500 ballots cast, while a hockey rink and a scholarship fund received 18 and 16 percent respectively...
Thaxter Swan '45, chairman of the Council's extracurricular activities committee, explained that many voters were confused both by the placing of the hockey rink and auditorium together on the ballot, and ignorance of the fact that the proposed activities center would include a theater. Write-in votes for a theater, as well as ballots marked for auditorium on which the hockey rink was crossed out, were added to the activities center total, Swan said...
Yardling extroverts dwelling in the Wiggleworth Halls turned their attention to hot money last night, and reaped the rewards of the iniquitous. Armed with hockey gloves, pliers, and an electric grill, several '50 men gaily passed a quiet eventime heating pennies and tossing them to the sidewalks below...