Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Murray Forbes of Boston made a fortune in China before he was 24. Back home again, he built the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, acted as a Lincoln secret agent in the Civil War, and in 1885 opened a school near Boston. He called it Milton Academy, after the town, and after a school that had once flourished there. Last week Milton gave a dignified party to celebrate its "150th" anniversary...
...Milton's 2,500 graduates include 15 Forbeses, four Cabots, eight Coolidges, five Saltonstalls, nine Welds. Most Milton alumni go to Harvard, and State Street (Boston's Wall Street) is full of them. Besides the proper Bostonians, Milton's roster includes Poet T. S. Eliot, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Diplomat William Phillips, Dr. (and ex-All America) Barry Wood, Principal William G. Saltonstall of Exeter. The manufacturer of Thayer's Slippery Elm Lozenges, the designer of three America's Cup-winning yachts, and a British M.P. are all old Miltonians. On Admiral Byrd...
Unenforced Obligations. Miltonis really three in one: a coed elementary school, a girls' school, a boys' prep school. Upper classes are strictly separated by sex, but Milton boys & girls share a library and observatory, play an annual baseball game together. The combined enrollment...
...those who board in, the Milton school day starts at 7 a.m., when "yellers" run down the halls acting as human alarm clocks. Smoking is forbidden except for first-classmen (seniors), parents are advised to keep weekly pocket allowances to 75?, and there is a compulsory Saturday sewing-hour for Milton girls. Unlike many New England prep schools, Milton has no required religion courses. But Headmaster Arthur Bliss Perry, 49, son of Harvard's famed scholar Bliss Perry, and a Milton teacher since 1921, tries to impress on his well-bred boys & girls "the obligation of the unenforceable...
...democratized" admissions policy that has abandoned specialized entrance examinations and emphasized National Scholarships and geographical distribution. On the other is the half of each Freshman class that still comes from private schools, about 60 percent of this half ordinarily being graduates of Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Milton, and others of the "Grottlesex" schools. This dichotomy is not uniquely Harvard's, although it is uniquely marked at Harvard. It is a split that exists in some degree in many of the nation's colleges, and probably to a significant degree in other eastern universities. But where other colleges manage...