Word: lockstep
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...special attention to individual cases, never more than five boys to a class. To the tutorial system were added dormitories, rules, athletics, school spirit. To the various types of scholastic failures, make-up students, sickly and discouraged boys, was added the brilliant type who sought to escape the lockstep of his former school and get ahead on the double. It was a distinctly successful experiment, as proved by a high record in the college board entrance examinations of the past nine years and a constantly enlarging student body...