The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

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Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was once the college’s headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man “on the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who…created enduring schools through their very own individual energies, maintained them under their very own absolute rule, and left them perpetually imprinted with their very own personalities.” More than just a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, this can be a revealing have a look at the character of private school education in The us.

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