Education: Anniversaries

To the aristocratic Philadelphia suburb of Germantown last week went Mr. Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court, Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, and hundreds of their oldtime schoolmates at Germantown Academy. All one afternoon Germantown's "old boys" sat on the school grounds, watched a pageant of the Academy's 175-year history. Rightly they felt it a rare thing for a U. S. school to reach the age of 175.

In Boston last week a school...

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