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Among the 2,300 men and women in the U. S. who run private secondary schools, unique is the position of Elliott Speer, 32, Princeton 1920; son of famed Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer. He not only conducts the largest private secondary institution in the land but as President of Northfield Schools (enrollment: 1,230) he heads two schools-Mount Hermon School for boys and Northfield Seminary for girls. These seats of learning face each other across five miles of wooded hills, separated by the Connecticut river near Northfield, one mile from the northern boundary of Massachusetts...
...disadvantaged boys and girls might receive a preparatory education at small cost. As the institution has progressed and expanded it has lost much of its early religious flavor. It now likes to be known as a purely educational institution, being at pains to make clear that the celebrated annual Northfield Religious Conferences are merely held on the school grounds during vacations, are not part of the school year. Northfield being needy and this its semicentennial year, there is now in progress a drive for $3,000,000 to increase faculty pay, provide a teacher-retirement fund, secure upkeep...
...Northfield's purpose is twofold: it provides an education for the worthy indigent, it supplements the public school facilities of backward communities. Each member of the community works some part of each day, earns 64% of his or her keep. Thus when Arthur Curtiss James gave Mount Hermon a gymnasium not long ago, the inmates turned out and filled, graded, drained, seeded a playing field which would have cost...
Married. Constance Speer, of Manhattan, daughter of Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer, sister of President Elliott Speer of the Northfield Schools (see p. 26); and Dr. Robert F. Barbour of Edinburgh, Scotland; in Lakeville, Conn...
...Harvard representatives at the Northfield Conference, which begins today and continues until June 21, will be J. H. Lane '28, Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and C. H. Wellman '32, of Deerfield...