Education: Reasonable

Eight years ago a boy named Brevoort Hood was expelled by Tabor Academy for smoking within the town limits of Marion, Mass. His father, Charles C. Hood of Ridgewood, N. J. not only denied that Brevoort had smoked but, having paid $1,200 for his son's tuition that year, he felt that since the boy was sent home in March he should get some money back. Tabor Academy explained that Father Hood had agreed to forfeit whatever money he had paid Tabor in the event his son should for any reason "sever his connection" with the school before the end of the...

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