C.M.FUESS CORRESPONDENCE BOX 12

N.E. Assoc of Colleges & Secondary Schools 36-42 about 30 items

CMF is elected a delegate to Coll. Entrance Exam. Board in 35. He is surprised when it pays his expenses to attend meetings. CMF is V.P. in 1941, becomes Pres. in D e c , 1941. Ref. to planning meetings, arranging speakers, etc.

N.E. Ass'n of Colleges & Sec. Schools 42-47 thick file

Financial statements, minutes of exec. comm. meetings, more planning meetings & arranging speakers.

N.E. College Entrance Certificate Board 34-48 11 lett.

PA applies for and receives certificate privileges every 4 years, list of approved schools, 1939.

N.E. Student Gov't Ass'n. 1947 i mimeo item

Unanswered invitation to join above organization with outline of its aims.

Newhaven Register 38-48 14 lett.

PA supplies annual lists of boys from the New Haven area enetering the school.

Newton, F. Maurice (PA '95) 10 lett.

ConlJ-butes money, books, & objets d'art to PA.

Newton, James Quigg (PA '29) 10 lett.

Newton gets annual reports on the winner of the Phillipian Prize, which he established.

N.Y. Herald Tribune 34-51 thick file

March 21,1937 rotogravure section carried 7 pictures entitles 'Andover Looks Back'. Much corres. about the Tribune's Conference on Current Problems, which CMF and some other PA people attended from time to time. CMF answers an inquiry in 1941 as to whether colleges should accept 'good leaders* even if their scholastic records are poor,—Never!i CMF and his more conservedve headmaster associates reject a plan of dignified advertising worked out by Miss Canfield of the Herald T.

N.Y. Military Academy 1946 2 lett.

In answer to a query, CMF states that the alumni assoc. raises $30-$40,000 a year for PA.

N.Y. Times 33-47 flfi about 60 lett.

Copy of CMF's article on modernization at PA, May 27, 1934. CMF offers to write an article on independent schools in wartime, and is accepted. Copy in the file. Effort to get NYT to carry Andover-Exeter sports news.

Nichols School 31-i8 48 abou^ 20 lett.

Questions about the teaching of Latin and history at PA; other routine stuff.

Noble & Greenough School 36-43 8 lett.

CMF defends his quotes in the Jan 15, 1941 Boston Globe about compulsory work camps.

Fuess corres. box

North Shore Country Day School 32-48 about ao lett.

Includes corres. with both the Winnetka and Beverly schools. Miss Swett (Beverly School) asks if PA can't take another Hebrew student. CMF: "It is just too bad about the little Jewish boy, but I can't very well blame Dean Lynde for trying to keep our school as predominately Aryan as possible. If ^AocU, we once start to open our doors freely to raembers of this race, we shall be 'Jg

overwhelmed by applications. As a matter of fact, we have hundreds each year as it is."# Ref. to the Andover cup, presented to the outstanding senior, scholastically. In answer to a question on how does PA get parents to pay promptly, CMF says "...out of the rather more than six hundred thousand dollars which we receive from students each year rather less than three thousand dollars J> remains uncollected in any given year." (Oct. 36) ^j< JA ?j*J^

Northfield Schools 33-48 about 50 lett. \ f o #*-$&^^s^fyjj&fy

"illet Eccles supplies a long report about methods of obtaining personal ^ information for files at PA.Asked if PA students will take part in a "Strike against war" in 1935, CMF doubts very mush whether such a movement could get get started in a school like ours. PA answers questions about hitch-hiking policy, iasxBH locks on student room doors, admission of returning veterans, and drafting of married teachers.

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Ref. to Amherst athletics. PA supports NCAA in 1945. CMF tells an'alumni that Christian Scientists are not mistreated at P A — "Phillips Academy has always been open to boys of every religious fatih and belief and ...we subject the undergraduates to no restrictions because of any unusual faith or belief." Ref. to New England School of Religious Education which met at PA in 44 & 45

Oberlin College 40-48 about 20 lett.

Routine.

Old Trail School 45 6 lett.

Adriance tries to outline admission criteria (1945) and lists schools to which PA sends boys who need less rigorous conditions.

Otis, Stuart Huntington 39-44 13 lett.

Recommended by Chicago friends as a replac/ebutn for Jim Sawyer, includes a resume.

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Oxham, Rev. Bishop G. Bromley 44^ 2 lett.

Thank you for a sermon given at chapel

Park School 40-43 5 lett. •'- ' * . * * - t. * * > Tit* * Routine, with reports of student progress

i *»< i * »*-Parks, Elton 37-40 10 lett.

CMF tries to figure out how to approach the A.W.Mellon Trust upon Parks' suggestion that he try for Teachers Fund contributions. Richarft Mellon, a nephew of the above, is a student at PA. CMF decides to wait for a better opportunity.

Fuess corres box 12 (3)

Parsons, Joseph 33-40 13 lett.

Suggests a tribute to Stearns at '33 commencement; CMF arranges it. Parsons contributes toward purchase of an antique silver pitcher given to Sawyer on his retirement. An ex-trustee.

Pawling School 35-41 about 10 lett.

routine—report of the Conference of New England & Mid Atlantic States Independent B o y ^ Schools Dec, 1941.

Pebble Hill School 39-48 20 lett.

CMF says in 41 that PA has no shortage of applicants. Routine, with reports on inp^yvidual students.

Peddie School 33-48 9 lett.

Routine

Pembroke Country Day School 1939 2 lett.

Inquiry about the value of master's living quarters for tax purposes.

Pennsylvania, Univ. of. 33-45 10 lett.

Routine

Perkiomen School 35-39 4 lett.

Ref. to workings of the senior council at PA

Perry, Dr. Lewis 1948 2 lett.

PA is to contribute*1000 to American Overseas Aid.

Perry, Shaw & Hepburn 34-46 thick file

Agreement between PA and above architects in 34 to build a new dorm and additions to the gym & infirmary, together with extenfijsjve comments byPSH lawyer. Reports of meetings of the building committee, and occasional notes from Tuttle, the engineers. Gym was postponed. Ref. to the Prentiss tablet supplied by Gorham for 217$. PSH prepare plans for a student Union in 44. Detailed estimates in 45. Discussion about a field house in 46.

Phelps, William Lyon 39-42 7 lett.

Ref. to a possible school song for PA. A friend of CMF.

Phi Beta Kappa Associates 41 6 lett.

CMF is asked twice to join, he replies: "Th£ only objection I have to becoming a Phi Beta Kappa Associate is the fact that, so far as I can tell, I shall be asked to contribute one hundred dollars a year for ten years to the PHi Beta Kappa Foundation."

PA Post Office Station 35 1 lett.

pros & cons of a proposed substation in basement of old faculty club.

Phillips, Hon. William 37-48 7 lett.

Xs£K CMF asks Phillips as a rep. of the founding family to contribute to Pension fund in 37. He sends $50. Phillips recommends Tucson as a vaction spot.

Polytechnic Elementary School 47-48 6 lett.

Routine, with individual student reports.

Fuess corres t box 12 (4)

Pomfret School 42-48 16 lett.

Pqmfret is looking for a math & science teacher in 1943 (so is everyone else) CMF suggests checking the high schools in Conn., where there are often good teachers glad to escape to a school like Pomfret. CMF recommends 2 of his English teachers for job at Pomfret (Brown & McCarthy)

Potter, James T.^ 35-40 12 lett.

Ref. to the Potter Prize/for public speaking—he wants to discontinue it in 1940 since no/»ne listens to the speech anymore, and CMF is unable to dissuade him. '

Preachers lists 36-47 about 25 items

Annual lists of chapel speakers with honoraria from 1933-47. Some corres. with various guest speakers.

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Princeton University 42-48 very thick file

Dean Heermance talks to PA's Princeton candidates about accelerated program (Jan '42)Corres. about scholarships.Princeton declines to accept several PA applicants in April '43. CMF is a close friend of Pres. Dodds of Princeton, & they exchange friendly corres. & golf stories. CMF gives him a golden retreiver puppy. In 1946 ^odds laments an expected deluge of returning GIs—"You are fortunate in being an educator and not the manager of a three-ring circus." More scholarship recommendations.

Princeton University 33-41 thick file

Ref. to secret society proposed by Carl Hamilton ,^?hich "file see7 CMF dies not want to encourage it. CMF advises Princeton not to make 3$TS of latin a requirement for entrance.(Jan 35) Dean Eccles writes to protest silly rulings of P. that schfiyarship applicants take special exams together with College Boards. William Shand leads his freshman class at Princeton, and the alumni council awards PA $100 worth of books for the library. CMF resolves to honor Shand in a "forceful and dignified way." (Oct. 37) DeLong Scholarships for 2 PA freshmen at Princeton established in 1938. Davis Scholarships ($600/yr for one Andover grad) established 1939. Thorough analysis of ability & financial need of various candidates for scholarships at P. (May, 40) In Dec. 1940 CMF, although he doesn't think anyone could call him a prude, sees a pattern of moral disintegration in the country.

Private Schools Ass'n of the Central States BI-42 10 lett.

CMF agrees to support a national ass'n of private schools to lobby against legislation which could hurt them.

Punahou School 1941 8 lett.

CMF is invited to a centennial celebration in summer, 1941, but is unable to go. Putney School 42-47 5 lett.

Routine. Ref. to Victory Corps

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Phillipian stuff, including constitution of the board. Bequest oflPeaslee of $1000: handwritten codicil reduced the amount to $560, but it is not legally binding. PA graciously agrees to accept only the $500. (39) CMF recommends Roger Higgins for a job at Miss Porter's School

Radio Program 43-48 7 items

Script of program Phillips Academy hour Nov. 11, 1943 (actually £ hour) A letter of pppreciat.on. Introduction to first broadcast, Nov. 1, 1943. List of faculty moderators & topics for 1945. Same for 1947 & 48.

Ratcliffe, Harland R. 33-34 about 25 lott

File deals with Boston Evening Transcript corres. Press release on New Andover Plan (33) eliminating Latin requirement. Ratcliffe does small PR jobs for PA and would like to do more. CMF says in 33 that he hopes to be headmaster for only one year so he can get back to writing books.

Fuess corres Box 13 (2)

Rectory School 33-41 9 lett

Routine stuff with ref. to individual students.

Reed, Kenneth S. 40-44 8 lett.

The Amherst Alumni Ass'n of Oregon HCXH asked to select scholarship students for PA. ,

Refugee Children 40-41 about 25 lett. L>c^5^\i^

Coires. with AEStearns, now heading the]US Committee for the care of European Children and enjoying it very much. CMF: "Frankly we are all up here very much in the dark bbout the refugee children and function which we ought to play. If you do have two or three more who seem likely to fit in, we can take them, but the sooner the better. Just at present we have eight or ten boys reposing in the Infirmary awaiting assignment, and we engaged only two or three days ago the Bell house at the corner of Morton and Bartlet Streets to take care of the overflow." (Sept. 1940) another letter, Sept. 1940, gives an even clearer picture of the stituation at PA. Boston H e r ald article on 4 British guest students at PA (Oct. 40) Draft of letter CMF sent to 17 wealthy PA supporters asking for funds to support refugee students.

Reilly, John S. 1944 one letter

Thanking CMF for his letter of sympathy in the death of his sonjsheridan, killed in Holland.

Retirement Fund Campaign 1937 very thick file

List of New England Alumni in 1937. Ref to#compjiling. lists, of pan, prospective, contributors. Plans to raise$750,000..Lansing Reed is Chrman of the Executive*Comm. Wm. Flagg is exec, director, tentative budget for^campaign of 24¥weeks totals, $25,339. Lists of members of various committees.,Big dinner held in.N.Y.C., March 12, 1937. Discussions of various approaches to jrealthy%prospects.t,CMF moves around the country making speeches & attending dinners. List of non-alumni parents of PA students invited to March 12 dinner. (3i single-spaced pages) Interim report in April by Lansing Reed says things aren't going as well as expected, about $287,000 so far. Special radio broadcast, May 22, 1937 on NBC. Script included. CMF announced in June that $525,000 had been raised.

Reiss, John R. 37-42 4 lett.

Routine Alumni Fund matters

Rigby, Henry B 48 one will

An inept bequest of little use to PA unless money can be used for more general purposes.

Ringer, Wilfred H. 44-47 7 lett.

Nothing much. Rippowam School for boys 40-43 less than 10 lett.

routine. Riverdale Country School 33-47 about 25 lett.

routine. Rivers Counry Day School 34-44 10 lett.

Routine with ref. to in(|Mfvidual students.

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Roberts, Arthur S. 39-46 6 lett.

Gives an autographed copy of*America, promises a Windsor chair once used by Squire Farrar, former PA treas.

Robinson, Lucius W. 40-44

Ref, to a student from Benn. who left PA under less than amicable circumstances, 4lso an exchange with L.E.Robinson, unrelated^ is I/cfrtt's £/e.

Robinson, 0. P. 46 6 lett.

Concerning the attempted attack on an Abbott student by the son of a PA employee named Flanagan.

Rochester, University of 27-39 8 lett.

AES gives some information on the new carillon and how it is recefvdjed by students & nearby residents.

Rogers, Edith Nourse 1937-46 about 15 lett.

CMF helps in her campaigns for Congress, and writes about various legislative matters.

Rollins College 32-46 about 40 lett.

Mostly routine, and mostly about the visits of Rollins' president, H. Holt, to PA.

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Romford School 40-42 11 lett.

Reports of the progress of Romford students at PA.

Roxbury Latin School 33-48 13 lett.

CMF gives Buel Trowbridge a glowing recommendation for the post of headmaster of Roxbury Latin, he apparently didn't get the job. CMF advises James Conant, a trustee, in another search for a headmaster in 46. A good ref. for G.G. Benedict.

Rugby School 37-48 about 50 lett.

Student exchange: A.M. Andrews to Rugby, Garnctt & Viney to PA. "Garnett is about to start as a candiate for our American Football this afternoon, with the faint fear in lis heart that he may by killed, but with the courage that distinguishes all the Anglo-Saxon race." Garnett makes the first team, quite an acheivement, and does well scholastically, too. Towy Myrddin-Evans is the Rugby student for 1938-39. CMF arranges for Hugh Lyon, headmaster, to come to the US in Oct. 39. extensive correspondence arBanging details of trip which are all cancelled in Sept. Patrick Grove-White, a Rugby exchange student turns out to be a little eccentric. Lyon finally comes th the US in Mayf «/?.

Rumsey Hall School 34-48 about X 25 lett.

Routine school corres.

Russell, Samuel M 35-42 9 lett.

Alumni affairs, and the granting of a special certificate to Russell, who left school as an upper-middler to go to college and thus was not entitled to receive a PA diploma.

Ruston Academy 46-47 6 lett.

requests for infonnation from a school in Havana, Cuba.

Rye Country Day School 33-47 about 25 lett.

CMF lists Fessendnn, Fay, & Eaglebrook as three schools which he would recommend as good sub-prep schools. Complaint about the administration of PA entrance exams at Columbia in 1945, somewhat justified. Routine reports of progress. Interesting letter (Dec. 1946) from CMF in reply to a very critical one from Rye Country Day's headmaster (not in file, unfortunately) which apparently thoroughly denounced PA & all its policies.

R Misc about 20 lett.

Long letter from Henry Rankin '70, describing PA in the days of Samuel Taylor, mostly the courses he took and ihe philosophy of eduaation at the time. He suggests that CMF contact Charles F. Thwing '70 for his recollections of PA. Ref. to students from the Riverside school. Alexander Royce gvies a total of $1500 to PA

ft. Sagendorph, G. A. 45-48 8 lett.

Not much. St. Bernard's School 40-46 11 lett.

Routine, with some individual student reports.

C. M. Fuess corres. Box 14 (2)

St. George's School 36-51 thick file

A friendly corres., especially after W. Eccles becomes headmaster in 1943. Interest in tax exemptions for tuition payments. Eccles1 $10 prize is won in 1944 by Frank Jones, a Hegro from S. Carolina, "...a very remarkable young fellow, rather better than any one of the Jackson trio...." About the problem of taking back instructors on leave of absence during the war—Eccles has a man who expects to come back in the middle of the year and find his place waiting— CMF is astonished. "If I were sitting with you in front of the fire, I would probably say, 'If I do take the man back for a few months, I shall certainly find enough on him to drop him at the end of the year'." (Jan '45) Ref to PA's mid-winter commencement. Scarborough, St. George, & PA all interested in the services of Fritz Allis, soon to be discharged from the Navy. Eccles is looking for staff in 1946 and asks for recommendations from CMF: "...I have not filled openings in English, Mathematics, French and/or Spanish, German (careful.') and Latin (careful.'.')" CMF replies "I am sorry you will not let me make recommendations of. some teachers already on my staff, for I should like to find openings for two or three of my more mature masters. Unfortunately, you are too wise a bird to be taken in with rubbish." CMF is pleased with two French AFS students in 47.

St. James School 39-48 about 20 lett.

Routine.

St. Louis Country Day School 39-46 about 50 lett.

Routine reports of individual students progress. CMF regrets that St. Louis cannot join the New Eng. Assn of Colleges etc.— it wants to be certified by that body in order to escape the tyranny of the Missouri State Board of Certification.

St. Mark's School 33-48 about 50 lett.

Curricula are compared, ref. to CMF's "new plan" in 1933. Ref. to PA's haphazard sabbatical policies.(Sep 1939) questions & answers on faculty salaries at PA, Ref to summer program in 1942. St. Mark's @hjs the same problem as many other schools in 1946, it is forced to let go good teachers to make room for returning veterans. CMF, overloaded with staff hemself. is unable to help out.

Salisbury School 34-46 ifaxEkxfxi* 10 lett.

Routine

St. Paul's School 33-48 thick file

3 PA students occasionally go to St. Paul's for the weekend & vice versa, routine exchanges of inform^ion—PA does not force its boys to wear hats & overshoes in winter (Nov. 39)the schools exchange CEEB code numbers. CMF recommends W. Clark for a music post at St. Paul's. Ref to the problems of drafting 18-yr olds before they can graduate. PA does not plan to give credit for Marine basic training toward a diploma. Ref. to PA-St.Paul's hockey game in Madison Square Garden.

Saltonstall, Leverett 42-47 about 30 lett.

CMF writes the Gov. *s Armistice Day proclamation in 1942. He activj ejy supports Saltonstall's various campaigns.

Fuess corres box 14 (3)

Saltus Grammar School 39-47 5 lett.

Discussion of the definition of "scholarship" and financial aid: some schools distort the meaning of the word " ..by allowing parents who may not really need assistance, but who are in a dickering frame of mind, to practically 'write their own ticket' in order to get a boy from a remote area or one with desirable connections of one sort or another." (j.Adriance, 1947) Needless to say, PA doesn't operate that way.

Sanford, Charles H. 34-43 12 lett.

Alumni affairs in Syracuse

Santa Barbara School 37-48 7 lett.

Mostly looking for staff. Sat* Sargent, Porter 33-48 thick file

Although PA does not advertise, it carries an announcement in Sargent's Private Schools out of CMF's high regard for his work. Corres. about systfn^s of education in U.S. & England, comments on Sargent's baoks on education.

Saturday Evening Post 38-47 about 25 items

Honry Pringle is slated to write an article for the SEP in 1947 CMF writes letters of appreciation on the publication to all concerned. The article brings in a number of inquiries & applications, and many favorable letters.

Save the Children Federation 46-48 about 15 lett.

CMF serves briefly in the N.E. board.

Scaife, J. Verner 37-42 4 lett.

CMF asks Scaife how best to approach the Mellon Foundation for money.

Scarborough School 43-45 15 lett.

CMF suggests candidates for vacant heacunastership.

Schauffler, Harry 43-44 8 lett.

CMF edits a pamphlet on property insurance.

School for the Feeble-minded in Andover 33-35 10 items

PA and Abbott vigorously opposed the stale's plans to build a school for the mentally retarded in Ballardvale. When PA alumni put up $10,000 to reimburse the state for what it lost when it dropped its option, PA is accused of bribery. The Rennies, who lost several crops while the fate of their land was being decided, feel that PA owes them about $17,500. PA trustees feel they owe about nothing.

Schweppe, Mrs. Richard 35-40 6 lett.

Letters of condolence to wife of deceased PA alumnus.

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Selective Service system 42-51 6 items

CMF gets a clarification (?) of the relative importance of various subjects in deciding the draft status of teachers.

Sewickley Academy 37-46 14 lett.

Routine, with reports of individual student progress.

Shady Hill School 40-42 10 lett.

Routine, with reports of individual student progress.

Shady Side Academy 35-48 about 25 lett.

Corres. with ref. to specific students. Also, CMF helps the headmaster who is looking for staff. "When I want a man of rather unusual ability, I turn first of all to the agencies at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and usually find somebody of experience and ability."

Shattuck School 34-47 6 lett.

An Andover grad is Principal.

Sherman. Kenneth 36-46 6 lett.

CMF recommends Sherman, andover Sup't of Schools, for a job in Melrose.

Shore Country Day School 43-47 6 lett.

Routine, with reports of individual students.

Silver, Henry 35-42 8 lett.

PA '68 exchanges occasional notes with CMF.

Singer, Dr. Isidor 34 6 lett.

Originator of the Jewish Encyclopedia. CMF declines an offer to collaborate on an encyclopedicfdictionary. of' th^Engilsh language. ^ t i t f t

Slade School34-48 about 20 lett. .

Slade is interested in forming a non-profit counseling agency to help parents send their children to the right schools.

Slattery, Mrs. Charles 43

One letter concerning moral rearmament

Smalley, 61arence 45-46 6 lett.

An employee is forced by ill helath to leave PA, and receives a pension.

Smith, A. W. 44-45 about 20 lett.

Complete story of CMF1 a Golden Ret^Jffer . •

Smith, Mary Byers 34-45

CMF recommends fiction representing the American scene for "Books Across the Sea"

Smith, Samuel 32-43 8 items

Material relating to the composing of "America"

Fuess corres box 15 (2)

Smith, Wilbur John 46-48 about 30 lett.

Admission forms, teachers reports, references. Smith is accepted as a scholarship student in '46 on the basis of glowing recommendations—he is not a scholar.

Snow. Franklin, 1945-46 8 lett.

A N»Y. alumnus whose ancestor was Samuel Turrell Armstrong , PA trustee.

Social Security Act 1939 about 30 lett.

CMF opposes a Federal bill to extend Soc. Sec. to privately endowed institutions and to levy unemployment tax on them, and is ready to appear before Ways & Means committee, but the bill is pigeonholed.

,-* Souther*, Miss Marguerite 43-46 6 lett.

She requests names of PA grads going to Harvard & MIT for the Eliot Hall dances. Spaulding, Huntley 34-47 about 30 lett.

CMF tries to intje'st Spaulding in funding various projects} the remodeling of Pearson Hall, and the building of a hobby shop* His excess funds are tied up elsewhere, unfortunately. i( friendly corres., CMF & the Spauldings play golf & vacation together. He does give $1000 for remodeling Peabody House. Spaulding is Gov. of N. H.

Staunton Military Kx* Academy 36-47 11 lett.

PA answers request for infonaation on various subjects, particularly the number of studeHAs taking French.

Stearns, Arthur F. 33-37 11 lett.

Al Stearns* brother. He has a school in Mt. Vernon, N. H. and gets referrals of PA dropouts.

Stearns, Claudia Hatch 42-45 5 lett.

CMF helps a young writer. File also contains unrelated letters from Thomas W. Streeter.

Stearns, Frank W. 33-39 about 30 lett.

Literary corres. Stearns helps CMF with suggestions and occasional sources of material for his biographies, esp, Coolidge. Stearns pledged $50,000 to a fund for PA raised by Mr. Cochran out of friendship for him "...more than I ought to have subscribed." CMF sends his draft chapters to Stearns for comments. He smooths the way for a CMF interview with Henry Stoddard, who does not think a college type can write a good biography of Coolidge. CMF enjoys finding mistakes in W.A.White's biog. of Coolidge.

Stearns, Harold C. 33-46 about 40 lett.

A Tg^^-friendly corres. with "Hook" Stearns, who wants (1938) to come teach English at PA, but CMF hasn't got a spot for him. He does keep hinting that as soon as a vacancy occurs, Stearns can have it. When it does, CMF says sorry, no. Stearns apparently- feels doublecrossed, and threatens to air his greivances. CMF: "When I took iny present job, I was well awRre that it would cost me a great deal in human companionship, for I could foresee that my duty as an administrator was bound sooner or later to conflict with my personal predilections....and now it has apparently made you feel that I am an

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Stearns, H. G., cont.

ungrateful friend. You are wrong, but I do not suppose that anything I can say or do will make you believe me." (March, 194l). Corres. resumes in 43, CMF recommends Stearns highly for other positions. CMF admits: "The business of the societies got itself a good deal muddled up, probably through my bad handling of the matter." (May,43) Never really ha^py in his jobs, Stearns finally winds up at MIT

Steinbach, Milton 44-46 10 lett.

A xxssrf friend and contributor to PA

HSSSBX Stevens, Horace N. 35-47 about 30 lett.

PA '91; author of a class newsletter. He hesitates to ask Viscount Kuki, an import4nt Japanese, to the 45th class reunion in 1936 fearing anti-Japanese sentiment. He organizes a cup to be awarded to the class who turns out the best percentage of attenaence at reunions. He publishes a booklet onjlhe class of '91,and there is ref to a record of the c^ss of '90 written by Alfred Johnson. Works hard as a fund-raiser

Stevens, Nathaniel 34-46 about 25 lett.

PA '76, a lifelong friend of the school. He gives $1000 for the tuition of an English 'guest' student in 1940, Gives a complete set of War of the Re iellion 149 vols, in 1940.

Stone, Chief Justice Harlan 33-44 8 lett.

Concerns CMF's history of Amherst.

Stuart, Kimberly 39-41 6 lett.

An alumni in Wisconsin.

Sturgis, S. Warren 35-47 9 lett.

Also R. Clipston Sturgis. Friendly corres. Mrs.

Sullivan, Cornelius J. 33 .7,lett. * Daniel

Offers a portrait of Webster for $1500 (later $1000) which CMF is unable to purchase. Also in file: several letters to Charles Stearns.

Sullivan, James W. 37 4 lett.

Concurns the suits brought againJjQ^ PA by William Rennie (see School for the Feeble-minded) which apparently lapsed.

Sundials 33-35 ftw lett.

Corres. concerning the inclusion of PA's arraillary sphere in an article in Scientific American. &4^**~<X'& tn fafrtdU. .

Swarthmore College. 33-41 9 lett.

Routine. Swedish exchanges 46 about 20 lett.

A report by Leonard James on the possible schools in Sweden to exchange with. School brochure (in Swedish). Edward Yost goes to Sigtuna, Jan Ehrnberg comes to PA.

Fuess corres box 15 (4)

Sedish Exchange — catalogs 45-46 two catalogs.

Swift, T. Dean 29-30 9 lett.

AES wries a long letter about the events of his headmastership to date in response to Swift's inquiries about senior housing. He is writing a biog. of Dr. Mackenzie of Lawrenceville, and is interested in his co-founding of the Headmaster's Ass'n with Dr. Bancroft.

S Misc. Letter from K. Scbtt, PA '30 inquiring about the circumstances of his father's

resignation from the Treasurer's Office, after an argument with Mr. Braden. He was apparently foreman in charge of grounds. CMF declines offer of an additional set of carillonic bells. Resolutions of Trustees ofi the estate of Ellen S. Forbes. A Boston bank takes title to 26 Morton St. (1944) which has reirxt restrictions on it dating back to its sale by PA in 1894. An old alumnus named B. E. B. Stokes has a few vitriolic comments about his years at PA (l94l) and about Latin in particular.

Tabor Academy 33-48 thick file

Info, on international schoolboy exchange. CMF declines taking part inii German exchange in 1935., but apparently took a German studetn that year. A lot of routine stuff.

Taft School 33-48 about 40 lett.

Routine. Frederick Johnson outssss outlines the course he teaches in map reading (July, 42) PA helps a Taft Trustee committee on curriculum reform.

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Tamblyn & Brown 30-34 8 lett.

Several offers of help from a professional fund-raising firm, all firmly declined by AES and CMF.

Taylor, Andrew S. 34-48 about 40 lett. A PA alumnus who drops a line to CMF now and then about van ous matters

including Latin, the Rosemary Hall choir (better than PA's), the advantages of suburban Conn, over N.Y.C., curing the common cold, & other weightly matters.

Taylor, Dr. Warner 43-48 9 lett.

An apparent very close friend of CMF who is in English Dept. at U of Wise. Ref to CMF's emotional problems in 43-44.

Texas Country Day School 38-46 7 lett.

Routine.

Thacher School 34-44 25 lett.

Routinej inquiries & exchanges of visits. Thacher is advised not to hire Holmes Boynton, former PA instructor.

Thacher, Thomas D. 38-47 4 lett.

A generous contributor to PA

Thayer Academy 40-45 5 lett.

Routine.

Thomas, Arthur A. 35-47 about 20 lett.

A complaint about political cont/nejt of a speech given to alumni dinner. Much concerning the 46th reunion of the class of 1897. Reports on the records of 1897 scholarship boys.

Thomas, Charles Swain 33-44 about 30 lett.

CMF declines to coirjnent on an essay "Sex in Literature", agrees to sevve on a committee to establish a Charles Swain Thomas fund for the teaching of English at Harvard. CMF contributes an article to a festschrift in honor of CST. Otner tributes.

Thomas, Harrison M. 41-42 5 lett.

A golfing friend.

Thompson, Beverley V. 35-40 3 items

An alumnus worries about a Suprpeme Conrt decision which might affect charitable contributions.

Th omps on, Raymond 41-44 7 lett.

Amusing & literate letters from a non-diplomaed alumnus in Fall River, "I think I shall send you a check... to show my complete confidence in you, especially in your sense of humor, I shall make out the check to James Gould. Further, to show my absolute faith in him, I shall make it out to James Gould, Treas." Thorn Mountain School 33-41 about 25 lett.

# A summer school anxious for PA referrals

Fuess corres Box 16 (2)

Thwing, Charles F. 33-37 about 40 lett.

PA X&i '71. Occasional gracious notes about articles in the Bulletin or report of a speech by CMF. Discussion of an autobiography which CMF urges Thwing to publish. Ref. to a biography of Prof. Park (who taught at PA?) by Foster.

Tillinghast, Charles C 37-47 11 lett.

CMF is upset in '42 at the possibility that Harvard, Yale, & Princeton may accept students in Feb. He & other headmasters oppose this and will do their utmost to"maintain the integrity of our Senior year." Not only would PA suffer financially ("This consideration, however, is sordid, and(middle probably ought to be dismissed."), but boys leaving in Feb. leave in the^siT of a term. CMF suspects that the colleges are really trying to get students for their Freshman year, rather than furthering the war effort. In 46, CMF admits that he is advising the lowest quarter of the graduating class to apply to less exacting colleges. He expects to accept between 25 & 30 returning servicemen, mostly former PA students. Confidentially, the situation in which some of our boys of Jewish ancestry find themselves, is a real embarrassment to me." (.WiC)

Tilton, William 35-40 5 lett.

Son of Frederick Tilton, after whom Tilton Hall is named.

Time Magazine 33-48 thick file

PA is the oldest incorporated academy; C.H.Forbes states "We know of no academy that was incorporated by a state legislature earlier than 1780.... Special attention is called to the claim to the title Academy as distinguished from school."An article on PA-June,33. Information about current affairs contest to be held.on campus in 1<|3® CMF denies report that scholarships are going begging for lack of applica(j/Tijs in 46.

Todd, Ellen 43 5 lett

Bess Fuess's cousin, who writes concerning the disposition of Bess's Colonial Dame pin.

Tome School 33-41 about 20 lett.

CMF's nephew accepts a position at Tome.in 36. CMF in ref to PA Board of Trustees: "We try, not altogether successfully, to keep a balance between idealists and realists, and we also try to balance bankers and business men with professional men." (Ap. 38) Headmaster resigns iik when Tome becomes a college and asks CMF for help in getting a new jpb.

Tomkins, Boylston 35-40 about 20 lett.

An alumni fund raiser who is puzzled because so few scholarsip students contribute anything. CMF doesn't understand it either. Tompkins also analyzes the careers of his class members after 25 years and finds that men who paid nothing for their education have accomplished little. He wonders whether "...over the years, Andover has been spending substattial sums to graduate a lot of men who might better have stayed at home." (Dec. 40) He supports a loan plan.

Tower Hill School 41-48 3 items

Text of a symposium including CMF on the place of boarding schools i"n the U.S. (48)

Fuess corres box 18 (3)

Tower, Walter L 33-35 about 20 lett.

Tower writes the chapter on athletics for CMF's History of Amherst.

Townley, Donald C 33-44 8 lett.

Ref. to alumni matters and the scholarships of the class of 1917.

Townsend School 41-45 8 lett.

Routine, with individual student reports.

Tuckerman, Bayard 36-40 7 lett.

CMF supports this Republican in his campaign for Governor's Council.

Tufts College 34-47 15 lett.

Pretty routine.

Tuition Plan 36-41 10 lett.

Unsuccessful attempts to sell PA on the Tuition Plan

Tuition rates of othe Schools 46-48

Replies from 14 schools to CMF's inquiry about their current rates.

Tutors and Tutoring schools 35-48 about 40 lett.

A collection of letters from schools & tutors looking for referrals.

Tuttle, Charles E. 33-35 5 lett

A Vt. publisher who supplies CMF with Coolidge info.

Tuttle, Marguerite 1942-43 about 20 lett.

PA declines to participate in a discreet advertising program.

Tyler, Morris 33-48 about 20 lett.

PA '20. Suggest that CMF hire more & younger teachers. File includes a letter from Victor Morris Tyler vehemently opposing the end of Societies. Morris writes in 48 suggesting that JMK deal with the split in the faculty between those who want PA to have closer teacher-student relations & those who want to continue the tradition of self-reliance.

Tyrell, Gerald" F. 44 5 lett.

CMF arranges for the Briti£sh Copnsul Gen'l in BostP to speak at PA

T Misc. thick file N

Clipping about the death of Stuart Travis, artist. PA paid expenses of his final hospital stay. (Jan 42) Letter from Treadway offering to take over management of the Phillips Inn in 1934. Letter from John Tucker concerning an Ohio Trust Fund. (47) Letter from Charles C. Towle PA '71, who was 4th in his class. (36) Ref to the Bobby Thompson Pond. Letters from C. Lloyd Thomas PA U4?) about the Phillips desk and papers, sold to PA for $150.

Union College 28-48 about 25 lett.

Union would like to see more boys from PA. CMF suggests setting up a scholarship similar to the Amherst-Andover one. ,

U.S.Dept. of Interior 33-38 5 items.

ifeeP9B& o n n u m t > e r o f pupils by subject in 1930 & 33. List of foreign student!

Fuess corres box 16 (4)

U. S. Government 39-48 thick file

Ref. to teaching of agriculture and the ma^tainance by PA of a forking farm in the 19th Cent. PA cancels spring vacation in 45 as a defense measure Assorted Govt forms and1 letters, House & Senate bills

U. S. Military Academy 42-44 2 lett

Re visits of Mr. Gould & Mr*. Sides and the PA football team to West Point

U. S. Naval Academy 45 2 lett.

Re visit of Gould & Sides to Annapolis. '

CORRESPONDENCE OF C. M. FUESS BOX 17

University School 34-45 about 15 lett

A«B.Darling outlines PA's blackout and air—raid propcedures (He is Air Raid Warden of PA) in 42. CMF lists the salaries of teaching staff in 1945.

Valley Forge Military Academy 38-39 6 lett.

Routine. Information on history texts used at PA in 39.

Vermont Academy 3B-34 10 lett.

VA agrees to take students for prep for PA in 31. CMF recommends a couple of men for the vacant post of headmaster.

Vermont Life 47-48 8 lett.

Concerning a biographical sketch of Coolidge CMF wrote for V.L.

Vocational Research Bureau 37-47 thick file

PA is not interested in its aptitude testing procedures, although it takes some scholarship students recommended by the organization.

U-V Misc.

CMF writes to James R. Ullman, saying that he enjoyed "The White Tower", and perhps in retrospect he should have given him an A+ instead of B+ in English.

Warren, Dale. 35-36 6 lett.

CMF fears that Warren is no longer interested in what PA is trying to achieve

Washington & Franklin Award 33-49 about 25 lett.

Concerning the more or less annual presentation of a medal to the boy with the best average in American History by the Mass. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Wassookeag Summer School 34-48 about 20 lett.

Routine, with references to individual students.

Waterbury Republican 46 2 lett.

Routine, file also includes corres. with Watson, Seth W. whom CMF is unable to help advance in the army (43).

Webb School 32-44 10 lett.

In response to inquiry, CMF outlines PA's psychological testing & guidance programs. (39) CMF is cautious about supporting a. legislation to make tuition paid to private schools tax-exempt.

Webster, Edward J. 37-43 5 lett.

PA '09. CMF hopes he will follow through with a plan to endow a fund to be used for helping students in financial need, at the discretion of the headmaster. He plans to do this in his will.

Yfellington College 33-46 about 40 lett,

CMF looks for suggestions as he prepares to revise the curriculum*(33)

PA has an English boy, Stoker, thruogh the International Schoolboy Fellowship

Fuess corres. Box 17 (2)

Wellington College Cont.

Friendly corres., Fred Griffin goes to Wellington from PA, other exchanges. Interesting letter on the question of Jews at PA; CMF wonders if British schools would accept a Jewish exchange student. PA has 30-35 Jewish boys out of 690. "We shall never, I think, have a lagger percentage and I am trying to reduce it just a littfce. On the other hand, some of them make first-class students and real leaders, although ¥ery few of them are permitted to hold important social positions." (April 1936) Malim reports a few Jews in most British schools & ixxxXBxxx±±x£Kmx£xxsix less anti-Semitism than in the U.S. CMF replies that he will definitely not send a Jew as an exchange boy. "The pressure to get Jews into Andover is tremendously strong, especially from bankers among our alumni body, but so far we have been able tactfully to resist it." (May, 1936) More about exchanges, war conditions.

Wells, George B. 43-47 7 lett.

A contributor;an alumnus from Southbridge.

Wesleyan University 35-43 about 40 lett.

Ref. to the Olin Scholarships at Wesleyan. PA grads are better than the av. freshman at Wesleyan. Most of the corres. is with PA grad Wm. Swett. Some fefs. to the fraternity question

Western Reserve Academy 31-48 about 40 lett.

CMF does not see how any reputable school would tolerate the drinking of alcohol, even 3.2 beer. Dr. Eccles outlines means for enforcing standards of conduct in 1935. PA also suppli s information on leaves of absence, faculty salaries, art appreciation programs, and the tax status of housing provided ffnoj staff by the school.

Westgate, R. I. 44 one letter

A letter of resignation. "Faculty morale is low, and for the same causes, it is my belief, that have led me to look for another job, namely unreliable salary arrangements, little faculty government or consultation, and an unsatisfactory coordination of school studies and school discipline."

Whicher, George 35-45 about 10 lett.

Friendly corres. with an Amherst prof.

Win tten, Charles 0. Estate one will

Establishes the Whitten Fund.

Who's Who in America Material on PA men

Analyses of 300 men in the 34-35 (?) WWAn AMerica^ by occupation, class, residence, college. "A few interesting facts through the class of 1921" includes the fact that G.W. Dulany, Jr., '95, organized the Soc. for the Prevention of Calling Pullman Porters "George".

Wilkins, Col. Harold. 39-46 about 20 lett.

Misunderstanding cleared up; CMF was rude to Wilkins & hurt his feelings.

CMF admits that during Bess* illnes he has neglected his headmaster's duties.

When Wilkins is forced to retire in 1943 (he is 60) CMF offers him a post

Fuess Jcorres_w Box 17 .„.„.(toi. (3)

Wilkins, cont.

teaching chem or physics. It doesn't work out. CMF mentions a special program PA has preparing boys for Annapolis (1943) He offers Wilkins a job again in 1944: "I have never yet...failed to find some kind of a job for a competent man who really wanted it." Ref. th* the corres. of Wm B. Lawrence, which Wilkins wants to sell to L. of Congress. Also ref (otJ boys from Aiken School in Ga. Wilkins was an instructor at PA (early 20th Cent?)

William Penn Charter School 41-44 12 lett.

In answer to an inquiey, PA lists among its alumni in Feb, 44: 3 Brig. Generals, 10 Colonels, 26 Lt. Col, 71 Majors; 4 Captains, 2 Commanders, one Lt. Col & 4 Maj. in the Marines.

Williams College 34-47 about 40 lett.

CMF gets an honorary degree in 1935. He feels that Williams should accept boys with PA diplomas "at least until our judgment has been demonstrated to be fallible." CMF is upset that Williams rejected Harold Ward, who would have made a "first-class Williams undergraduate." Pres. Dennett's reply (Oct.8, 1935) shows CMF to have been on shaky ground. "I do not see how we can make a definite engagement that a boy who receives an Andover doploma can be sure of getting into Williams. He can't get into Harvard, Yale, or Princeton that way." He carefully explains why Ward was rejected as a poor bet to finish. CMF retires in disarray (Oct. 9, 35) but plans to watch Ward's career at college. ( he went to Amherst) The 4 PA students at Williams that year all do poorly, Discussuion of*"Williams grads. teaching at PA: Toots Tower, Blackmer, Gray Baldwin, & Barrows. Ref to 5 faculty houses built in 1936.

Williams Hall Statistics & Reports, 32-48 about 50 lett.

One or two letters a year to the headmaster about the progress or lack of it of the boys in Williams Hall. Many of the individual reports are of boys with problems. Incident in 1942 when 3 boys tossed rocks at an engine in a Shwsheen quarry until they put it out of commission.—complete report.

Willisjon Academy 26-47 about 25 lett.

Routine. Eccles outlines PA exam prodedures in 1937. Ref to Samuel Williston, who spent 1 term at PA.

Wise, Harold 43-44 6 lett.

Routine corres. with a teacher associated with Fessenden. File also includes a letter from Harry Wrinht asking about how to prepare for a

secondary school teaching career. (1949)

Wood, Cornelius 40-47 3 lett.

CMF declines to be a member of American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Lett, of intro. for a Mrs. Waddington who proposes to chaperone a grojp of boys to Bermuda during Easter Vacation,

Woodberry Forest School 41-42 5 lett.

Outlines special war courses at PA (4l) AES is quoted as aaying that he was very interested in whether a candidate had taken many education courses, since he wanted no such man at Andover. Ditto CMF: "It is my opinion that only one man on my present teaching staff of ninety—three has had training

in a school of education, and he is certainly not one of our best instructors."

(Feb. 42)

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Fuess corres^ BOX 17 (&)

Wooster School 37 8 lett. Routine.

Worcester Academy 34-44 about 25 lett.

PA smoking regulation? in 39. Discussion of extra-curiric. activities in 1941. CMF expresses full confidence in the Treadway's management of Inn, School Commons, & N. And. Country Club. (4l) Routine inquiries & replies.

Worcester Polytechnic Inst. 33-45 about 20 lett.

Routine.

Wyzanski, Charles E. 42-43 10 lett.

Boston Federal judge who speaks at PA and gives books to the library.

W Misc.

Ref. to difficulties of E^ard White in 1943, involving the Watts Detective Agency. Reminiscences of Roland B. Whitridge, ±SSi PA '78, with information on the first Draper Prize contest. Eulogy for Jasper Whiting of the Tavern Club. Letter from Theodore Whitesell, a stranger who visited PA and feels he ought to tell CMF that he is not popular with the student body, and does not take a personal interest in the boys, being only interested in money. (1940) Ref. th PA's portrait of Howell Lewis, a copy of a miniature.(1938)

Yujale Daily News 33-46 about 15 lett.

Includes corres. with m e Univ. Press, and other Yale Publications.

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CORRESPONDENCE OF C. M. FUBSS BOX 18

Yale University 33^34 about 40 lett.

CMF writes to Dean Walden about PA boys doing poorly at Yale in freshman year; e.g. "This boy has a reocrd distinctly bad at Andover, and is the sort who is likely to cause trouble anywhere" (A. W. Bromfield)Complaint about a reference to Dr. Stearns in the Yale Bacord "in vefcy bod taste" (1934) Yale apologizes. CMF receives an honorary degree from Yale in 1934.

Yale University 1935-48 very thick file

Yale Andover scholarship awarded to Donald Henry in 35.List of boys from PA going to Yale in Sept. 35. Details of the arrangement with Yale for PA to use the Chronicles of America Photoplays, distributed by Yale U. Press. Report of PA applicants for aid at Yale in 1939. A Chronicles of America Photoplays teachers manual.Report of Yale health Dept of orthopedics condition of men from various prep schools in 1939. 50$ of PA grads havepoor posture. Also listed are skills in swimming, golf, & squash. More info, about scholarships. CMF writes letters for the World Student Service Funp\. CMF agrees to take back 100 copies of Philips Academy, Andover and 200 copies of Men of Andover in 1944. Plans to store them in G.W. Hall. Copy of Yale annual report 1945-46.

Yale Univ. Apointments Bureau 33-44 about 50 lett.

Mostly concenned with admissions to Yale & scholarships. Stearns writes to Yale personel bureau in 1931,discussing the possible replacement for Forbes when he retires (1931). He also suggests that Yale frosh have it too easy. AES is invited to discuss the quality of freshman teaching at Yale with the Dean

Yale University Board of Admissions 33-48 very thick file

Mostly routine. Yale reassures CMF that the admissions office is not letting papents see headmaster's confidential reports ofi their sons. List jOf scholarship winners at Yale, q^lsses 35-38, from PA. (1934) Detailed reports of individual students at Yale (l936)PA rates the new Yale admissions form as OK. Various letters about scholarships. More about scholastic

^ aptitude^tests —pramoted'by Yale, resisted by PA. List of"boys admitted, * rejected, and granted financial aid at'Yale in 1940.

Yale University --r Yale Club of Boston 33-48 about 30 lett.

Mostly"concerning the more or less annual awarding of the Yale Club Cup with some letters on Yale Club scholarships.

YMCA, International 1944 2 lett.

request for FA catalog.

YMCA — Student 33-47 thick file Student xm J. • . J. , h i student

What you might expect. #lso correspondence with the World Serivce Fund. XYZ Misc. 4 lett. * * * ' " *" *"

Ref. to Sid York Pool; Yale-in-China.

Fuess Corres box 18 (2)

Fuess Memoranda, Agreements, Figures 1936-48 thick file

Exchanges of notes with H. Hopper about bills and services. Memo about illness & retirement of Guy Eaton (oct-Nov. 39). Memos about permanent names for PA houses, and various small financial matters. Secretaries' salaries in 1940. Possible savings on expenses if school year is shortened 1 &r 2 weeks (1940) Proposal to remodel 5 houses to accomodate married teachers. Info, on proposals to purchase several houses in 1941. Grocery bills. Student waiters in Faculty dining room, since it is impossible to get waitresses (l94l) A report on the physical & financial expansion of the school under Jim Sawyer (1939). Unmarrieel teachers eating at the commons have not surrendered their ration books (1943) Memos on food service; buying & selling of various properties in and around PA. List of bills paid by the trustees for headmasters house, 1934-47. 8-page memo prepared by H. Hopper on the contributions of Thomas Cochran to PA.