On the Playing Fields of Dwight: School Scores New Athletic Complex
Manhattan’s private schools offer advantages that the bucolic boarding schools of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire cannot hope to rival: proximity to cultural institutions, the ability to buttonhole a vast assortment of dignitaries and artists for lectures at a moment’s notice, the comforts of living in one’s own well-appointed home rather than in a shared dorm room.
But operating an elite educational institution in the midst a metropolis presents a nettlesome problem: where to build the lacrosse fields, squash courts and swimming pools so central to the prep-school experience? Read More
