Education: School Tuition

School Tuition

When Andrew William Mellon looked about for a place to send his boy Paul to boarding school, he chose Choate School at Wallingford, Conn, largely because of a sturdy, athletic scholar on its faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from...

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