Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Headmaster McOrmond of Westminster School made the point that the Modern Schoolboy is more studious than his predecessors because of "better equipment, better teachers, more incentives, more interesting material to work with and a more interesting and exciting world ahead...
...things the Headmasters talked about at Princeton. Just before going to their meeting, 18 of them had been asked to contribute to a symposium. With few exceptions (notably cautious "Rector" Endicott Peabody of proper Groton School) they had pondered and commented on the following hypothesis of the Modern Schoolboy, that "he is more studiously inclined, less given to pranks, with a greater sense of responsibility and capacity for self-government than his predecessors...
Some of the Headmasters commented fully. Others sketched briefly. But on one point they seemed unanimously agreed. The Modern Schoolboy is frank...
Headmaster Irvine "of Mercersburg interpolated ironically: "Each generation, of course, has its quota of loafers who will always be a Headmaster's hardest problem and who will make instructors earn their salaries," but he too thought the Modern Schoolboy works "more earnestly...
Again Headmaster McOrmond: "The modern boy still indulges, in pranks. It appears, however, that these pranks are now much less inclined to cause personal inconvenience to others, destruction of property, and to reflect the vandalistic instinct which characterized such pranks twenty-five years ago. The matter of hazing in a good school is practically non-existent...