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Lloyd Clark had been headmaster of Kiskiminetas Springs School in Saltsburg, Pa. for only a few months when he got the jolt. It came in a casual conversation with Cornell's President Edmund Day at the Kiski-Cornell freshmen football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One at a Time | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Kiski has been good to us," said Day. "It gave us our football coach, Carl Snavely. But wouldn't it be wonderful if your boys were as interested in studying as they are in football?" The remark so upset Headmaster Clark that he could scarcely watch the rest of the game (his team lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One at a Time | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Kiski had indeed been good to many a U.S. college: it had produced more all-America football players (67)* than any other prep school. But to Headmaster Clark, that sort of reputation was suddenly disturbing. "Why," he kept asking himself, "can't we make our boys as interested in studying as they are in football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One at a Time | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Mathias, Olympic decathlon champion and the outstanding amateur athlete in the United States, visited Harvard yesterday during his vacation from Kiski Prep, Saltsburg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob Mathias Calls On Harvard But Won't Enter Here | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...Tulare, California, track star is definitely entering Stanford in September, but his headmaster at Kiski, Llyod Clark on Exeter classmate of William J. Bingham '16, thought it would be a good idea for Mathias to see some eastern schools before going west...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob Mathias Calls On Harvard But Won't Enter Here | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

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