Word: humes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton...
...Hume had had no easy time. He first tried his idea in partnership with another Catholic educator named Jesse Locke. But Locke and Hume (not to be confused with the 17th-and 18th-Century British philosophers) failed to hit it off. Then Nelson Hume met Catholic Capitalists Henry O. Havemeyer (railroads) and the late Clarence Mackay (Postal Telegraph), got an $8,000 stake to start his school. He named it for his baptismal saint, Edmund of Canterbury...
...they offered special prayers to St. Michael, escaped without a single case of the flu. The school later installed a $7,500 stained-glass window in honor of St. Michael and the "Canterbury saints." For his "outstanding work in Catholic education" Pope Pius XI two years ago made Dr. Hume a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great...
Otherwise, Canterburians (tuition and board: $1,500) lead a normal prep-school existence. On their campus are no priests or monks; 77% of them have gone on to non-Catholic colleges. Headmaster Hume (known to Canterburians as "the Doc") makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a Canterburian puts on a dark blue or grey suit, white shirt and black shoes (Eton collars and patent-leather pumps were discarded about ten years ago) for tea. Canterbury boys get no demerits, but for good behavior they get two extra days off at Christmas and Easter vacations. Few Canterburians...
...Black Hills Players were on their first extended tour (by automobile) of big U. S. cities, as far afield as New Orleans. Into the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium they drew audiences of 4-5,000. Josef Meier, as usual, played the Christus. His wife, a former Chicago girl, Clare Hume, was a handsome Mary. Their two-year-old daughter Johanna, who had the sniffles at one performance, was the infant Jesus. No applause was permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause for a solemn...