Word: hotchkiss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrews played prep school hockey at Hotchkiss. A varsity player his junior and senior years, Andrews did not anticipate playing Division One Hockey. "I wanted to play hockey in college, I wanted to be involved in a program, but I thought I'd be lucky if I had a chance to play varsity my senior year. I wasn't recruited anywhere and when I came to Harvard neither Timmy Taylor (formerly J.V. coach at Harvard and now head coach at Yale) nor Billy Cleary knew I played hockey," Andrews said in an interview last week...
...snarling village mastiffs; living with the long silences and terse exchanges on the trail; and the flora, fauna and overwhelming vistas of peaks and valleys at the top of the world. There are frequent outcroppings of autobiography as Matthiessen, scion of a wealthy New York family, graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale and a founder in the 1950s of the Paris Review, writes with painful openness of his wife's death from cancer the year before: "It is not hard to live with a saint, for a saint makes no judgments, but saintlike aspiration presents problems. I found her goodness...
Other first-line schools-St. Paul's (497 students, $46 million endowment), Groton (300 students, $17.7 million), Deerfield (558, $21 million), Lawrenceville (700, $24 million), Hotchkiss (478, $10.4 million), and Choate Rosemary Hall (920, $11.7 million)-have also sought a wider range of students. Limited resources, rather than any residue of snobbery, keep them from reaching further. Inflation has forced all of them into massive money-raising efforts and budget tightening. The admissions picture is more bullish, thanks partly to the declining quality of public schools. Applications are up at top prep schools, and the percentage of children...
...biggest change in New England boarding schools is, in a word, girls. Since 1970 Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton. Hotchkiss, Middlesex and St. Mark's have all gone coed. With the girls came the easing of once strict daily regimens. Traditionally, schools such as Groton and St. Paul's tried to imbue their boys with a "muscular Christianity" through spartan rigor in almost monastic isolation. Chapel at these Episcopal Church schools was required every day and twice on Sunday; supervision was so strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going...
...lawyers got into the act, clucking about what a mess Grandmother had left and how lucky Ditchley was that, thanks to their skill, the whole thing might not cost him too much. That made Ditchley worry about his own estate being picked clean, so he called on Thurmond Hotchkiss O'Mulvaney Garcia & Ginsburg, where a junior partner had a secretary copy a few paragraphs from a book and then presented him with a brand-new will and a bill...