<p>Both schools are exceptionally beautiful.</p>
<p>To me, there are many similarities but with one fundamental difference. Deerfield, founded in the eighteenth century, somehow embodies the spirit of the new nation – democratic, egalitarian and forward looking; while St. Paul’s, founded in mid-nineteenth century, was, by then, looking more toward the great public schools of England as its model, and, as such, has less of an “American” feel and more of a class conscious one. ‘Aristocratic’ might well sum up what St. Paul’s was, and maybe still is, all about.</p>
<p>Now, I admit that there has been much cross-over of styles, so that you can find a good measure of both the democratic and the aristocratic at St. Paul’s and at Deerfield.</p>
<p>Not to mention that both have a dose of the proletariat too…but I’ll leave that for someone else.</p>