Groton School The Quarterly • Fall 2017 The Quarterly • Fall 2017
Mr. Peabody, Mrs. Peabody, fellow Grotonians, and friends of the school: It has been a long time—thirty-one years—since I sat down in the graduating form, and the Rector is just the same.[Mr. Peabody]: A little hard on the Rector. [Governor Roosevelt]: I was going to add that Mrs. Peabody looks even younger. I think I am a believer in relativity. The other day there was an article published about a graduate of the school and it told something about his schooldays and mentioned the fact that Groton School was founded in 1792 [laughter] and that we had historic buildings here. Well, we have. We have historic buildings and we have great traditions. And s a matter of relativity. When I came here the oldes iving graduate was still the same oldest living gradu ate we have got Forgotten today. Why, he had been out of scho Prize Day Speech ten years! And I thought of him as a very old man And in those days we had already, ten or twelve year after the school was started, traditions; one boy, for nstance—I think it was one of the Adamses—was walking in his sleep in Brooks House dormitory one
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