Tag: education

All The King’s Men – The Catholic Thing

Sitting atop his ivory wall, the pedantic egghead Humpty Dumpty tells Alice that any word he uses means “just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different…

A Century of Catholic Education

In 1896, Episcopal clergyman John Byron Diman founded St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. It became one of the so-called Saint Grottlesex schools, that name being a portmanteau of St. George’s, St. Mark’s, St. Paul’s, Groton, and Middlesex:…