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Six days per week, students, whose number never exceeded about 200, were required to assemble after breakfast and listen to 20 minutes of recorded music. Selections were mostly
European romantic and classical music, chosen by a very limited number of faculty, who provided brief commentary. On
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Only a portion of this extensive, largely forested property, which ranged from the summit of West
Stockbridge Mountain to the shore of the Stockbridge Bowl, was developed as the school campus. The Maeders retained title to the remainder of the land at the time of their purchase. Following the
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Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, a Boston physician whose 1975 manslaughter conviction for performing a legal abortion was overturned on appeal in a landmark test of medical, legal, religious and political questions surrounding abortion in the United States, died Monday in
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For a brief period in the 1970s immediately following Maeder's retirement in 1971, and during the directorship of Thomas Newman, the
Berkshire Folk Society performed monthly on winter evenings. During this period, visiting artists included
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concern) for about $ 1.35 million, while extensive areas to the north and south of the former campus that were previously held by the Maeder family as forest and meadows had been subject to residential subdivision and development.
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and had egalitarian aspirations, but his school also attracted numerous students from wealthy New York area families. Maeder did a significant amount of student recruitment from an apartment he maintained in
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the shut-down of many small boarding schools in New
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