Word: hotchkisses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fine books in fine formats have long been the fancy of Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., automobile man's son. At Hotchkiss and Roxbury Schools he edited a newspaper, a comic magazine, a literary magazine, annuals. Last year at Dartmouth he helped to found The Five Arts (TIME, May 19). Last week young Chrysler gave the Press careful first facts about his new Cheshire House, Inc.,*publishers of fine books in $10 bindings. Cheshire House will not operate for profit. Once a month, from its offices on the 57th floor of Chrysler's father's Manhattan skyscraper...
...Rich School (plant value: $800,000). But no such embarrassment is suffered by big-boned, energetic Headmaster John Wayne Richards, called "Big Dick" by younger faculty members and his 207 boys when out of earshot. Seventeen years ago he left the faculty of Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Conn.) to succeed William Mather Lewis-now President of Lafayette College-as L. F. A.'s Headmaster. He brought Hotchkiss ideas about running a successful school; new boys even became known, Hotchkisswise, as "bo-jacks." A Yaleman, he started sending his boys to Eastern colleges. L. F. A.'s future brightened...
...students of Choate School Wallingford, Connecticut has been awarded the CRIMSON Cup for general excellency during the past year. The award was established by the Senior Editors of the CRIMSON from the Class of 1926; it was won three successive years by the Choate News and by the Hotchkiss Record last year...
...composed of R. S. Morison '30, formerly president of the CRIMSON, P. M. Sweezy '31, the present president, and E. L. Belisle '31, managing editor, examined three successive issues of papers submitted by 17 preparatory schools. The Mercersburg News, published by the students of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, the Hotchkiss Record, and the Exonian, from Exeter Academy; were given honorable mention...
...winner of the competition surpassed its competitors in almost every division of the paper. The editorial columns of the Exonian were considered to be of especial merit, while the news columns of the Hotchkiss Record were among the very best in the field. The Mercersburg News, working with a smaller circulation than some of the other papers, impressed the committee because of its general high standards in both news and editorial departments. The photographic and advertising divisions of the papers were largely over-looked because of the varying conditions and sizes...