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Reporting the Lake Forest Academy anniversary dinner you slipped up on the honor system...
...leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms. For this more-than-three-hours-long,* brilliant Mad-Hatter symposium on modern life is among the most difficult of Shaw's major dramas: garrulous, subterranean, exhaustive. But, skirting a forest of unintelligibility on the one side, and a swamp of tediousness on the other, Welles has cut a clean if slightly winding road, has achieved a capital production...
...down to dinners in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins. Little Lake Forest Academy (180 students), in a swank Chicago suburb, is remarkable not for its plant (valued at only $750,000) or ivied tradition (although it is one of the oldest prep schools in the Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason for last week...
...class periods, half of them allotted to study for the next lesson under supervision of the teachers, and for independent research by the students. The Richards plan is costly, requiring 40% more teachers, but last week Headmaster Richards reported it was worth the cost. Of the 242 boys Lake Forest has sent to college in the last five years, only three flunked out in freshman year...
William H. Baldwin Jr, a members of the Monthly business board, George H. Earle 4th, in college only 1935-36, 1936-37, Alan S. arrington, Charles S. Harvey, member of the Glee Club, William S. Knowles, a member of his Freshman soccer squad, Charles A. Meyer, crew squad, Forest W. Stearns, assistant Cambridge scoutmaster, Gardner N. Nichols, business manager of the Guardian, Thomas L. Talbot 2nd, Varsity crew squad, and Dudley Talbot, Varsity crew...