Saint Grottlesex
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The term Saint Grottlesex refers to several American boarding schools in New England that have become associated, in the popular mind, with educating the wealthy and political elite. Frequently, these schools send their graduates to the nation's most prestigious universities. All schools are members of the prestigious Independent School League.
The schools are:
The term is a portmanteau of the St. part of St. Paul's, St. Mark's, and St. George's, then part of Groton, an extra t, and then ended with Middlesex. The St. Grottlesex schools were founded in the mid- to late nineteenth century for well-to-do Episcopalian boys and were consciously styled as the American equivalent of famous English public schools (for example Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Shrewsbury, Winchester and Rugby). In contrast, the so-called academies, such as Andover, Exeter, Deerfield and Milton, were generally founded in the late eighteenth century as places to "combine[] scholarship with more than a little Puritan hellfire" and, originally, were often the first educational step in preparing men for the Puritan ministry.[1] The term's first written appearance is in the tongue-in-cheek satirical reference book, The Official Preppy Handbook.[citation needed]
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Footnotes
- ^ Cookson and Persell, Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools (Basic Books, 1985).
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