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...classes. If anyone bothered to look above the awning that says "Delicious Roast Beef," they would notice the remnants of a sign that once read "Manter Hall School." Few of those who frequent Elsie's realize that the building above their heads has served as everything from a boys' prep school to a Harvard tutoring academy...
Today, Manter Hall is a private high school. Robert J. Hall, the director and the driving force behind the school, describes its curriculum as "a straight and traditional college prep program," focusing on math, science and foreign languages. The coeducational school has 50 students and ten full-time teachers. Hall says that Manter Hall's chief strength is its small classes, which range in size from "four or five to a maximum of ten or twelve." "Students can really benefit from this extra attention," he notes...
From 1886 to 1930, Manter Hall served as a combination prep and tutoring school. Originally founded on the former site of As You Like It at Mass Ave. and Holyoke Street, the all-boys prep school had boarding facilities on the top floor. In 1927, the school moved to its present location...
...last Saturday there I was mixing it up with the same crowd that had been the nemesis of my junior high school autumns. We were making cryptic comments about all the prep alumni who were on hand, cracking the usual F. Scott jokes which go over so well at Princeton games and stumbling over the words of Fair Harvard...
...original Harvard candidates, 20 were graduated from prep schools, 16 play a varsity sport and 16 belong to a Final Club...