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Article: Exeter's Asian Connection It has made a big dent in an old Yankee prep school as the St. Grottlesex circuit seeks to diversify
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1991
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EXETER, N.H. -- George Plimpton, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV,
the ghost of Robert Benchley, and one hundred more of that long line
of illustrious graduates would think they were someplace else, not
the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy. In their time it was an
autocratic Yankee school, mandatory chapel, Latin required, sink or
swim, and no girls.
The paths from chapel to gym were populated by white boys of a
similar social, moneyed and educated Eastern class. Now almost half
the students are girls, and more than a third are, in the current and
correct phrase, "students of color." Most numerous of these are 220
Asians and Asian-Americans who constitute a full 22 percent of the
school.
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