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St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige of the job.

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While a youthful Professor of Social Science at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., he was offered the headmastership shortly after his 27th birthday.

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Dr. Gamage relinquished the headmastership of St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y., after 14 years' tenure, took with him three close associates, founded the Pawling School in 1908.

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Endicott Peabody, a living legend at 87, retired from Groton's headmastership in 1940�to a new house just off the campus.

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But he is an exception; and besides, he did not stop an assistant master long; he got a headmastership pretty soon.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec