DIGGING DEEPER

I've just finished a section of my new book. It tells the story of my father's experience at the Groton School and I'm calling it SLACK AND WITHOUT FORM, a phrase lifted from one of the Headmaster's reports to my grandparents about their son's lackluster academic performance.   Most of this essay is based on letters between my father and his parents as well as the correspondence between the Rector Endicott Peabody, the head of Groton and my grandfather.  To my surprise, my grandfather did...