"Fifty Years On: Groton School 1884-1934" 1934 Ashburn, Frank Davis

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ASHBURN, Frank Davis

[225] pp.

Privately Printed at The Sign of The Gosden Head

1934

First Edition

10 3/4" x … Read more ASHBURN, Frank Davis

[225] pp.

Privately Printed at The Sign of The Gosden Head

1934

First Edition

10 3/4" x 7 1/2"

w/ armorial bookplate

Groton School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts. It is affiliated with the Episcopal tradition.

Groton School was founded in 1884 by Endicott Peabody, an Episcopal priest. Peabody was backed by Harvard president Charles Eliot and affluent figures of the time, such as Peabody's father Samuel Peabody, Phillips Brooks, William Lawrence, William Crowninshield Endicott, and J.P. Morgan: The school also enjoyed the patronage of the Roosevelt family, as Theodore Roosevelt was one of Peabody's close friends.

Peabody served as headmaster for fifty-six years. A proponent of "muscular Christianity," he instituted a Spartan educational system that included cold showers and dormitory cubicles instead of individual bedrooms. He successfully attracted the children of wealthy families, whom he hoped to toughen up through this program of "corrective salutary deprivation. See less