Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last chapter, "The Future Trend of the Private School," comes from the desk of the Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School. His points are three: let the schools declare their independence of college examinations, for they have a prime obligation to make able scholars; the first call for able scholars is the call of politics; the second, the call of science...
...relation with their boys and set out to see that each individual should have "such esthetic culture and accomplishments as shall tend to refine the manners and elevate the taste, together with careful moral and religious instruction." They were schools founded (St. Paul's was the model for St. Mark's and partly for Groton) to accommodate wealthy and socially scrupulous families. All have anxious and extensive waiting lists. Among Bostonians at least, Groton may be said to have achieved the loftiest prestige of this kind. Its graduates, "Grotties," are unmistakable. They boast: "A Groton man wires to Dr. Peabody...
...Peabody has been described as "an American with an English school and university training . . . an all round athlete, and yet a churchman; a scholar and yet a very graceful and sophisticated man of the world." Groton is his life-work as St. Mark's is Dr. Thayer's. The latter, "an accomplished churchman and a successful and tactful manager," took his chair...
Nine Champions Assault Dash Mark...
Burn will leave the mark tonight with Miller and the other short distance men. Whether Murchison will run or not was still doubtful late yesterday, according to B. A. A. officials. However, prominent among the field of luminaries besides Miller and Burns, are Clark, Intercollegiate champion while at Johns Hopkins, Morton, the Yale captain, who has once defeated Miller, and once been defeated by him; Bowman, the erstwhile Syracuse flash; Hussey, the Boston College Freshman who has been defeated twice by Miller in the past week, but who has gained international fame by his speedy spurts; perhaps Murchison, most brilliant...