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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the notion of "muscular Christianity" which the school promotes.[/quote]

Is this for real?  I find this creepy (after reading the Wikipedia entry).  Can any other STA parents comment on this?  [/quote]

Lots of prep schools tout muscular christianity, like Groton School, prep school for generations of Roosevelts, all good examples of muscular christianity.

From Groton Schools wiki:

"Peabody served as headmaster of the school for over fifty years, until his retirement in 1940. He instituted a Spartan educational system that included cold showers and cubicles, subscribing to the model of [b]"muscular Christianity[/b]" which he himself experienced at Cheltenham College in England as a boy. Peabody hoped to graduate men who would serve the public good, rather than enter professional life. The school's motto, "Cui Servire Est Regnare," taken from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, translates as "whose service is perfect freedom," (an excerpt of the longer, "O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom;"), emphasizing the goals of its founder."[/quote]

Seems vestigial for Groton also.[/quote]

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