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You may want to consider upgrading this article to conform to Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools. Davodd 07:58, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

Also, someone should integrate the relevant information from that article then remove it. mat334 | talk 10:37, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

It would be nice if the notable ulumni had the year and maybe the date of the reception of the award in front of it, and sorted by the date.

According to the Groton Website, in the past five years, Georgetown University is among the colleges where the most Groton graduates matriculate. Someone keeps removing this information. If the information on Groton matriculations is to be presented, it should be accurate and complete or not presented at all. It should not reflect one person's biases toward any specific college. Just the facts, please.

Presumably the reference to the disambiguation page for Trinity College should be to the NESCAC/"Little Ivy" institution in Hartford - Trinity College (Connecticut). Can someone with better knowledge than me confirm this and make the necessary change.--Lang rabbie 12:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing --Lang rabbie 15:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] ISL size -- Fixed

Roxbury Latin is actually the smallest school that competes in the Independent School League. Of course, Groton, being co-ed, has slightly fewer boys, but this is not what the article states. I believe the article should be changed to clarify this point.

[Partly because the number of students is smaller than any other ISL school, Groton often finds itself at the lower end of the standings in the larger ISL sports (i.e., football, hockey).]

Middlesex School is the same size as Groton School so I don't think one can conclude or infer that Groton is at a disadvantage due to size. St. George's and Lawrence Academy are similar in size as well.

I was wondering if the Abuse Allegation section should be made into a section of the history page? this would be in line with other school articles (eg. Scotch College Smbarnzy 07:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Athletic Rivalry

Someone, (for his/her own obscure reasons,) continually removes the article's reference to Lawrence as one of Groton's athletic rivals... Until he/she can substantiate why--and I can tell you from experience, having graduated from Groton six years ago that he/she can't--I will re-post it and it will remain.

[edit] Lawrence

Having graduated in 2002, I never once considered Lawrence Academy a rival. Although the school is in the same town, our only traditional rival is St. Marks

[edit] References

This article lacks alot of direct references within the text, if this article is ever to become a GA it is going to require these references (eg. Aquinas College ) Smbarnzy 07:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. It's right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.189.118 (talk) 04:25, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alphabetization of alumni

...why in the world are they sorted alphabetically by first name? Jessicapierce 16:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abuse allegations

While the abuse allegations are of course valid in the article, they should come with a source (newspaper article etc.) --Mbimmler (talk) 16:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Source added. Accurizer (talk) 12:30, 29 March 2008 (UTC)