Beyond New England

Temperantia
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:07:16 +0000

Not all were “sorry sons of privilege.” Some were the beneficiaries. Often these schools were affiliated with a branch of a Protestant church. My grandfather was the son of an Episcopal minister. He and his two brothers attended an Episcopal school for free as was the custom at the time. He became a successful businessman and when the school discontinued the practice of free tuition for children of the clergy he endowed a scholarship that covers the tuition of many children of ministers every year. I attended a different school, Kent, that was founded by an Episcopal monk who introduced a sliding scale tuition so that access was not limited to the rich. The amount of financial aid granted today, relative to the size of the endowment, remains among the highest of all boarding schools.