Word: middlesex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middlesex School," says the catalogue, "is a boarding school for boys which accepts a limited number of students from the immediate vicinity as day boys. The School, which is in the country about three miles from the town of Concord, Massachusetts, was founded in 1901 by Frederick Winsor, who served as Headmaster until his retirement in December, 1938, when Lawrence Terry succeeded to the Headmastership. The enrollment for the year 1957-1958 is one hundred and ninety-four boys, from twenty-six states...
This catalogue description hasn't changed much over the years, except that recently the enrollment figure has increased markedly each year. But with the present figure, Terry says, the school has reached a "real limit." The limitation is partly physical: Middlesex's six "houses" and dining hall are becoming uncomfortably crowded...
...variety of sources. One of the advantages of the small school might seem to be the low faculty-student ratio (about one to eight this year). But this is not much different from many good, much larger schools, like Exeter, whose faculty-student ratio is almost the same as Middlesex...
Much depends, of course, on what advantage is made of this ratio. Unlike the facilities of most larger schools, most of the Middlesex faculty lives on or close to the school's campus. Each of the six "houses," which hold between 25 and 30 students, has quarters for a married master and at least one other instructor. The master, a senior faculty member, also acts as an advisor to the students in his dormitory. This task involves at least one conference every two weeks to discuss bi-weekly grade reports. But the master's job involves much more--seeing that...
...football team or editor of the school paper, then a smaller school, offering less competition, makes it more likely that a boy will be able to "find himself" in some activity. Of course the quality of the finished product is rarely as high as in a more competitive atmosphere. Middlesex cannot hope to compete with Andover or Exeter in football, nor can it turn out as impressive a newspaper or literary magazine, but there is not as much feeling of the need for such excellence...