Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Hill now has 480 boys, a first-rate faculty of 60, a campus spread across 187 acres of sweeping lawns and collegiate-Gothic buildings overlooking the Schuylkill Valley. The man who has kept The Hill growing: James I. Wendell, a onetime Wesleyan track star who came to The Hill...
How to Begin. For 23 years, Headmaster Wendell has led The Hill at a lively clip. To the school's solid classical curriculum he has added streamlined methods and equipment, from remedial reading classes to wire recorders for language teaching. He insists that each boy learn how to work...
Their day begins promptly at 7:30, when Headmaster Wendell arrives in the great dining hall to say grace before breakfast. By 8:50, the boys are swarming into classrooms for courses in. Cicero, chemistry, math, religion. They are not expected to have much trouble: the very first course a...
McNaughton's rigorous schedule still sets a fearful example for young reporters. While others ride Washington's social whirl, he finds few things urgent enough to prevent him from settling down in his library between 9 and 1 o'clock each night. His favorite reading: Oliver Wendell...
Behind him was a bright, strange and blasted career, begun with great promise: he had been law clerk to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, lawyer in the New Deal, an assistant in the State Department, and, for a moment of front-page eminence, secretary general to the San Francisco founding convention...