CHAPTER 3 To Hotchkiss, to Yale, and to Arms OTCHKISS SCHOOL is magnificently situated on the rolling H Berkshire hills overlooking Lake Wononscopomuc at Lakeville, Connecticut. The enrollment when Hadden and Luce arrived there in 1913 was limited to 250 (it is now 375). Presiding over it was Headmaster Huber Gray Buehler, a pious, some thought sanctimonious, man known to the boys as “The King.” At the beginning of each school year he told the student body, “There is only one rule in this school: Be a gentleman”; and at least once a year he preached a stern sermon using as his text Matthew Arnold’s I sat, obedient, in the fiery prime of youth, Self-govern’d at the feet of law. No great admirers of Buehler in their schooldays, Hadden and Luce, on Buehler’s death in 1924, said of him in their fledgling Time: His reign was historic in the development of American public schools. Coming from Gettysburg, an obscure college town in Pennsylvania, achieving his first petty distinction as an author of Buehler’s Modern English Grammar, he was suddenly elevated 28