@peyton_farquhar : I love that you care enough to notice. (How did you know that that was not a test for the sharp-eyed?) It wasn’t. Oh, no. I didn’t.
@wildpotato: Here’s the official St. Grottlesex… all of the above plus St. Mark’s. And it’s St. George’s and St. Paul’s.
“The term is a portmanteau of the St. part of St. Paul’s, St. Mark’s, and St. George’s, then part of Groton, an extra t, and then ended with Middlesex…... founded in the mid- to late nineteenth century for well-to-do Episcopalian boys (excepting nondenominational Middlesex, founded in 1901), and were consciously styled as the American equivalent of famous English public schools (for example Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Shrewsbury, Winchester, and Rugby).
In contrast, the so-called academies, such as Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and Milton, were generally founded in the late eighteenth century as places to “combine scholarship with more than a little Puritan hellfire” and, originally, were often the first educational step in preparing men for the Puritan ministry.”