Word: hotchkiss
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Luce and Hadden, classmates out of Hotchkiss and Yale, succeeded because they understood this truth: history may be complicated, as life is complicated, but the business of storytelling is simple. The young men said in their prospectus that their creation would be judged by "how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers." Sort the world into stories and carry them (facts, personalities, ideas, images, dramas, quirks, gossip, the details and energy of life) from Out There, where things happen, to In Here, inside the reader's consciousness, where stories turn into wonder, entertainment, cautionary experience...
Luce spent the next seven years ensconced in all-male, all-white, overwhelmingly Protestant institutions of the American upper class: first Hotchkiss, then Yale (where he joined that bastion of the Establishment, Skull and Bones). Luce was active in student journalism in both schools--and in the process formed an intimate relationship with Briton Hadden, the classmate, friend and frequent rival with whom he would found TIME. Having encountered America first as an abstraction, Luce encountered it after 1913 as a member of a self-proclaimed enlightened elite, among boys and young men trained from an early age to think...
...when Luce and Hadden set out in 1923, three years out of Yale, to create a journalistic institution of their own--a new weekly newsmagazine that they had begun envisioning while still undergraduates--they did so not to break from the norms of the world they had known at Hotchkiss and Yale; they did so to bring those norms into journalism. They would not simply report the news; they would interpret it for those who did not have the time, the energy or the knowledge to interpret it for themselves. And Luce especially had a sense of what would become...
...Edey and Lilly, fellow black studentsat Hotchkiss had such a strong sense of communityand activism that neither woman feels particularlycompelled to explore their racial identity throughblack organizations at the College...
Edey explains that the Black And HispanicStudents Association at Hotchkiss performed manyof the same functions that the BSA does atHarvard. She and Lilly both agree that after fouryears of intense and thorough discussions on racein high school they have extensively exploredtheir ethnic heritage...