Word: wilbraham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...identify the college material early and to steer students to the schools best suited to them. At the same time, private prep schools are trying to persuade ambitious fathers not to think only in terms of big-name colleges. But, says Headmaster W. Gray Mattern Jr. of Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy, "It's difficult to convince the third generation Harvardman that his obviously unqualified son just won't be admitted. After a while, you get tired of talking and say, 'All right, go ahead and apply,' even though you know it's hopeless...
Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...
Perkins received his doctorate at mid-years in 1936, but what he describes as an "event of considerable magnitude" took place in between. He met Mary Baker Wilbraham, an English lady who was visiting in the country. Impressed, he gave chase, following the lady to England the next two summers, and in April, 1937, they were married. In the summer of that year, Perkins was appointed to the rank of faculty instructor...