Education: Habits of Vigor

Francis Olmsted-Grubbs, fresh from Princeton University, got off to a bad start when he began teaching French at the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn. At his very first class, he caught his feet in a wastebasket and fell flat on his face. Later, the boys, with typical irreverence, began calling him "Fog." But as things turned out, Francis Grubbs soon gave the lie to his nickname. Last week, after 22 years on the faculty, he became the school's headmaster.

He thus automatically became one of the East's most important secondary schoolmen, for Loomis occupies a secure place among the nation's top dozen...

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