Beyond the Bubble: Deerfield CSGC Travel Programs
Over spring break, 67 Deerfield students participated in five trips through the Center for Service and Global Citizenship (CSGC) around…
Reforming Gender Meetings
Deerfield Gender Meetings, which facilitate the space to share stories of how gender affects Deerfield experiences, have usually appeared in…
From Sumo Wrestlers to Color Blindness: TEDxDeerfield 2024
On February 10, 2024, Deerfield Academy’s ninth annual TEDxDeer-field event featured ten speakers who spoke on the theme of “Discovery.”…
Recent Changes in College Testing Policies
To mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, for the past four years many colleges have switched to test-optional admissions.…
Eric vs. Anna: Argument of the Century
A: On January 25th, 2024, Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith underwent the first execution by nitrogen hypoxia –…
Why Close Reading Is Overrated
We’ve all been there: scratching our heads, scratching in annotations, and scratching the cover of a classical text like Othello…
Why We Want to See the
For about three minutes on April 8, from 3:26 p.m. to 3:29 p.m., the sun will go completely dark in…
The Pervasive Privilege of a Boarding School Education
On one particularly dull evening, I decided to type “Deerfield Academy” into the search bar of Google. When I am…
Witness Stones: Stories of the Enslaved in Deerfield
On October 22, 2022, Historic Deerfield unveiled 19 Witness Stone memorials along the mile long Old Main Street. The historic…
Math Meets Construction: Wareham ’24’s Sundial
This fall, keen-eyed observers might have noticed a new addition on campus: a sundial outside the Simmons dorm. On October…