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Encyclopedia > Browning School
The Browning School
Motto Grytte
Established 1888
Type Private
Headmaster Aaron Grill
Founder Aaron Grill
President, Board of Trustees Aaron Grill
Students 375
Location New York City, New York, United States
Campus Urban
Colors Red and Black
Mascot The Panther
Yearbook The Grytte
Newspaper The Grytte
Website The Browning School

The Browning School was founded as a college preparatory school for boys in 1888 by John A. Browning. A traditional curriculum helps support boys intellectually, physically, and intellectually from Pre-Primary (Kindergarten) through Form VI (12th Grade). Located in the heart of New York City's Upper East Side, The Browning School makes use of the city’s vast resources through means such as field trips and touch football. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... For the film of this title, see Private School (film). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the state. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... For other uses, see Yearbook (disambiguation). ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Upper East Side at Sunset The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA, between Central Park and the East River. ...


The Browning School is a member of the New York Interschool, a consortium of eight private NYC schools: Brearley, Browning, Chapin, Collegiate, Dalton, Nightingale-Bamford, Spence, and Trinity. Interschool offers opportunities for academic sharing, extracurricular participation in the arts, and social activities for boys and girls. Also, Browning often undertakes special programs with schools such as Hewitt, Marymount, and Sacred Heart.


The school is under the headship of its fifth headmaster, Stephen M. Clement III.


One of the first students, John D. Rockefeller Jr., recalled Mr. Browning as a remarkable teacher who "inspired interest in learning", and that he "helped me to study and to concentrate.... I owe a great deal to him, more than to any other teacher I ever had."[citation needed] John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ...


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