Among the first U. S. preparatory schools to divide its students into houses like those of Britain's public schools was Lawrenceville (New Jersey) which launched a "House Plan" in 1883 under its famed headmaster, James Cameron MacKenzie. So successful were the intimate residential houses that Lawrenceville sprouted from a small academy into one of the nation's most popular boarding schools, now educates some 550 boys from all over the U. S. Its atmosphere is sporty, informal, distinct from the inbred smallness of such schools as Groton and from the democratic bigness of...
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