AN OLD

NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL

A HISTORY OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY

ANDOVER

BY

CLAUDE M. FUESS

With Illustrations

The Elm Arch

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

1917

 

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTORY
II. A PURITAN FAMILY
III. THE FOUNDERS
IV. THE FOUNDING OF A SCHOOL
V. AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PEDAGOGUE
VI. PEMBERTON, THE POLITE
VII. THE DECLINE UNDER MARK NEWMAN .
VIII. THE FOUNDING OF ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
IX. THE REGENERATION UNDER JOHN ADAMS
X. ZION'S HILL, AND ITS MEN AND WOMEN .
XI. AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT: THE TEACHERS' SEMINARY
XII. A SCHOLAR-POET: OSGOOD JOHNSON
XIII. THE REIGN OF "UNCLE SAM" TAYLOR
XIV. STUDENT LIFE UNDER "UNCLE SAM"
XV. THE SCHOOL AND THE HILL IN THE MID-CENTURY
XVI. THE INTERREGNUM: FREDERIC W. TILTON
XVII. CECIL F. P. BANCROFT: THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION AND REFORM
XVIII. THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER DR. BANCROFT
XIX. THE DAYS WHEN "BANTY" RULED
XX. THE END OF AN ERA
XXI. STUDENT SOCIETIES AND ENTERPRISES
XXII. SOME BASEBALL STORIES
XXIII. FOOTBALL AND ITS HEROES
XXIV. THE LURE OF THE GAME
XXV. PHILLIPS ACADEMY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
XXVI. CONCLUSION
ILLUSTRATIONS

DEDICATED

TO

ALFRED LAWRENCE RIPLEY
CHARLES HENRY FORBES
JAMES COWAN SAWYER
ALFRED ERNEST STEARNS

EACH IN A DIFFERENT FIELD
A BUILDER OF THE MODERN PHILLIPS ACADEMY

 

PREFACE

IN the preparation of this book material has been gathered from many sources, a large part of them documentary. Fully two hundred graduates of the school have generously sent anecdotes and reminiscences of their days on the Hill. I am especially indebted to Dr. William A. Mowry for the loan of a collection of papers relating to Dr. Taylor's administration; and to Miss Agnes and Miss Gertrude Brooks of North Andover, for permission to investigate the correspondence of various members of the Phillips family in their possession. Mr. Markham W. Stackpole, with whom I have frequently consulted, has read my manuscript entire and has offered a great deal of valuable criticism. To Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Mr. Alfred L. Ripley, and Professor James Hardy Ropes, each of whom has taken the trouble to read the volume, I am grateful for important suggestions. Among the others who have gone over various chapters and have aided me by their advice are Mr. James C. Sawyer, Professor Henry P. Wright, Professor Charles H. Forbes, the Reverend C. C. Carpenter, Mr. George T. Eaton, and Mr. Laurence M. Crosbie, of Exeter, New Hampshire. My wife has had such, a large share in the planning of the book that it is useless to attempt to express my gratitude to her. It is difficult also to put into words my obligation to the Trustees of Phillips Academy, --- especially to Dr. Stearns, Mr. Ripley, and Mr. Sawyer, ---whose support in trying moments has been encouraging and who have never withheld assistance when it was needed.

C. M. F.
ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS,
January 1, 1917.


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