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-By Kenneth M. Pierce.
Private schools are no longer the province of the rich. More divorces, the emergence of the middle-class one-parent household and the increase in two-income families have helped create a whole new crop of parents ready to make almost any sacrifice (boarding schools cost between $5,000 and...
- By Kenneth M. Pierce.
*Edmund Lynch was the first of Merrill's many partners, who over the years included Edward Pierce, Anthony Cassatt, Charles Fenner, Alpheus Beane and Winthrop Smith. Cassatt's name was dropped from the firm's name in 1941, and Smith replaced Beane in 1958.
It looks like a small college. And with its 93 buildings, its $47 million endowment and its 108,000-volume library, the institution on tree-lined Front Street in rural Exeter, N.H., is better equipped and endowed than many colleges. But Phillips Exeter Academy, which celebrates its 200th birthday this...