Chicago to Roxbury

Founded in 1645, Roxbury Latin School is a privately endowed institution free to all boys living within the original confines of Roxbury, Mass, who pass its entrance examinations. Others pay $250 tuition. Next to Boston Latin School it is the oldest free secondary school in the U. S. Ever since the days of Founder John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, for headmasters Roxbury Latin School has always picked New Englanders. Last week the Roxbury trustees took the breathless step of electing a Westerner to succeed their late Headmaster Daniel Varney Thompson. They chose George Norton Northrop, 52, Wisconsin-born English teacher, onetime headmaster of Manhattan's Brearley School, and headmaster of Chicago's comparatively upstart Latin School (founded 1888) until he resigned last February because of financial troubles (TIME, Feb. 13). The appointment of Headmaster Northrop, urbane and unprofessorial, was pleasing to one Roxbury alumnus, Headmaster Samuel Smith Drury of St. Paul's School, who said: "Northrop is a teacher of light and leading. To me it seems possible that a man of his cultural insistence might lead a new era in the education of young boys."

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