Word: taftmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hopkins and The Gunnery. But the Taft job looked better: a no-frills school stressing math, Latin, plain hard work, with Taft family money to keep it improving. In Cruikshank's years, this formula has educated more than 2,000 boys, most of them rock-ribbed Republicans, though Taftmen also include such fugitive Democrats as New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Academically Yale-feeding Taft is as solid as ever, with 40% of its boys taking advanced placement college courses. It is rich enough (endowment: nearly $2,500,000) to have a first-rate faculty...