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...front of the headmaster's quarters in Hundred House one day last week Dr. Endicott Peabody stepped into his limousine, rode out through the gates of Groton School. In similar fashion, dozens of times each year, "The Rector" starts out for New York and Boston to marry old Groton boys. This time he was bound for Albany where, next evening, he was guest of honor at the 71st convocation of the University of the State of New York...
Though they call him "Peabo" behind his back, most "Grotties" consider their Rector the awesome model of a fine New England gentleman. No U.S. headmaster has called forth more reverent tributes. Sample: '"As long as I live his influence will mean more to me than that of any other people next to my father and mother."-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class...
...Peabody has made no bones about Groton's being a school for the upper class. Among this class Groton found early favor. To it went Higginsons, Whitneys, Harrimans. Rogerses, Morgans. Theodore Roosevelt sent three sons and some plain words: "I was glad to hear the Rector when he asked you to be careful not to turn out snobs. Now there are in our civic and our social life very much worse creatures than snobs but none more contemptible...
...Spartan within. Boys still wash up in tin basins at long soapstone sinks where hot water taps are few. Neither boys nor masters enter the infirmary without a faint feeling of shame. Endicott Peabody at Cambridge was a great oarsman, and exercise at Groton is "almost a sacrament." The Rector permits tennis and golf but he encourages the rough team sports. Until rivals raised too loud a clamor, he and many masters played on the school teams...
Groton is an inbred school. When a son s born to an old Grotonian, the happy news is wired to the Rector, who enters the child on the list of favored applicants. Result is that out of a student body permanently fixed at 180 boys, 94 are sons of alumni. Brighter than these are apt to be the ten boys admitted each year by competitive examination. Groton's scholastic standing is high, partly because it drills for College Board Examinations...