Today, Groton School, with its princely $380 million endowment, pays zero property taxes to the town. This state of affairs exists because the School, as a nonprofit, is exempted by the federal government...

Few topics at Groton are mired in more controversy than the Dress Code. At a recent Groton Feminists meeting, students discussed the implications of the Dress Code in our everyday lives and reviewed the...

Shock. Excitement. Shock again. Nervousness. Shock once more. These were the emotions that ran through my head on the morning of April 17th—my first actually surprising Surprise Holiday. Once the shock...

Newton. Milton. Shakespeare. Franklin. Hawthorne. Emerson. Hamilton. Lincoln. Washington. Homer. Grant. Demosthenes. Caesar. Socrates. Dante. Goethe. Scott. Christopher Columbus. These are the busts on...

On April 23, 2018, Groton students in the second through sixth forms took an online survey about topics ranging from mental health, to drugs and alcohol, to academic pressures. The biannual Independent...

Starting April 12, 2018, daily emails full of environmental-minded memes and tips to go green began to come to the inboxes of Groton students and faculty. These emails were sent by the Sustainability Committee,...