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Though not the oldest of the U.S.'s 250 country day schools (Baltimore's Gilman preceded it by ten years), Riverdale was an early model for a new group of schools that now includes some of the finest and most famed in the U.S.-Winnetka's North Shore Country Day, New York's Horace Mann, Philadelphia's Friends Central, St. Louis' Country Day and John Burroughs, Cambridge's Browne & Nichols, Wilmington's Tower Hill, Brooklyn's Polytech...
...Migawd," groaned Mr. Brown, "that you should say that to me." For if any one man has an intimate knowledge of the genus hokinsoniensis it is he. From Bronxville to Winnetka and from Wellesley to Butte Heights he has trod the boards with a dinner jacket for his buskin and a water pitcher for his scenery. The immediate result of his expeditions was the spread of the gospel of the drayma; a less immediate but just as laudable one in his newest book, "Accustomed...
...other Seniors elected to the Class Day Committee, in order of their total votes were: Vern K. Miller of Milwankee, Wisconsis and Winthrop House, Thomas Gardiner of Gardiner, Maine and Claverly Hall, John C. Finegan of Glucester and Winthrop House, Edward I. Rothschild of Winnetka, Illinois and Lowell House, George W. Webber of Des Moines, Iowa and Adams House, and Arthur T. Lyman, Jr. of Westwood and Claverly...
Wending his way up to 14 Plympton Street, Vag sobbed. How awfully sad it was! No more to see the genial conservative M.E., the boy who made Winnetka ill. The sporty lad from Milwaukee, the peerless peer from Cleveland, the genial South'n gennleman from Kentuck'. . . . The turnover of the Crime always made the Vagabond sad, but this was an especially unhappy night. He looked at his watch--4:12, time for a quick session with the pinball boards at Harry's Club. Man against machine, amateur against the elements, sucker against Gottlicb. Vag racked-up four frees...
...practically Sunless. Dealers tell their customers they are "trying" to get the Sun, while roadmen report large bundles not even opened. Suburban Chicago custom is to deliver papers at the back door. The Sun is left, when it is left at all, at the front door. When one Winnetka housewife asked for back-door delivery, the newsboy said he couldn't do it because the back stoop belonged to the Tribune...