Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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il IJ 13 LIJIXII A Q'f11Dl5A15'. 15 THE ADELPHI ACADEMY. l. Origin and Development.-The Adelphi Academy sprang from the school which was started by Mr. John Lockwood, in Septem- ber, 1863, at 336 Adelphi Street. In 1867 the present site of the Acad- emy was purchased, and the corner stone of the first building on Lafayette Avenue was laid by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, July 23, 1867. This building was formally opened for use on the fourth day of the following February. The numbers in attendance had in- creased more than forty-fold in live years. In December, 1869, the school was incorporated as H The Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn. The gentlemen who procured the charter and constituted the first board of trustees were William S. Woodward, Buckley T. Benton, Alfred S. Barnes, Alfred C. Barnes, William H. Wallace, Charles H. Noyes, Charles E. Evans, Henry W. Slocum, Samuel M. Mills, Thomas Vernon, Dr. Joseph C. Hutchison, Charles Hill, Enos N. Taft, Rev. Dr. William Ives Budington, john Davol, Charles Pratt, Samuel Crowell, Peter M. Dingee, Dr. Joseph B. Elliot, Samuel Wright, Truman I. Ellinwood. Q Many friends ofthe Academy came to its assistance, and in 1873 the Trustees built the western wing of the Academic Building. In 1880 the eastern wing was added by the generosity of Messrs' Charles Pratt and Hayden W. Wheeler, members of the Board of Trustees. Six years 'later the continued interest and liberality of Mr. Charles Pratt enabled the Trustees to erect the new structure on Clifton Place and St. james Place. It was ready for use in Septem- ber, 1888, and was named in honor of its principal donor, the Pratt Collegiate Building. While the Academy has owed, and does owe, so large an obligation to individuals, it is emphatically the creation and the property of the conxmunityin which it is. The list of its benefactors is long and widely representative. It has become a potent moral and educational in fluence in the lives of thousands of students

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14 PECKHAM, W. C ....... JLDELPIXII ACADISIXI 1'. PETT1T, H. S .... R.AXVSON, CHARLOTTE ..... REDDALL, FREDERIC .... .. ROBINSON, MRS. CORNE 406 Classon Avenue 132 St. James Place. 9 Clifton Place. Pouch Mansion, 354 Clinton Avenue 348 Grand Avenue. LIAS .... ROGERS, C. H. B .............. Rose, J. T ........... SAFFORD, JOHN SCOTT, SARAH SEELYE, B. P .......... SELDNER, RUDOLPH ..... SHARE, W. W ..... ..... SHIELDS, J. FRANK .... TODD, JENNIE B ........,..... VANDERcooK, MRS. M. E VANDERPOOL, EDXVIN C .... WATERS, MRS. H. M .... WEBSTER, W. T ..... . ..... WVEEKS, JEANNETTE D .... WUITTAKER, J. B ........ W1-IITTAKER, MARY W ..., ..,............ . .. .......... ..... . WiLLrAMS, JOHN P ...,. . WVKES, MARY L ..... 165 State Street. .402 Adelphi Street. CP. O., Adelphi Academyj 2'qf'S4N Aefxlfgg Hotel San Carlos, So. Oxford Street. 713 Greene Avenue. ....13l St. Felix Street. 217 Jefferson Avenue. 331 McDonough Street Hotel San Carlos, So. Oxford Street, 260 Greene Avenue. 278 Clifton Place. 70 St. James Place. ll Cambridge Place. 394-A Lafayette Avenue 79 Hanson Place. 496 McDonough Street 496 McDonough Street Richmond Hill. 104 Cambridge Place.

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16 A1DI5I.P'HI AC7AlDEA13'. from multitudes of Brooklyn homes. It has become a successful ex- ponent of that moral safeguard and character-forming force, co-edu- cation. Like all schools worthy of the name, the Adelphi com- mands, for the development ofits pupils, opportunities which far out- strip its financial powers. As with all live institutions, the more good it does, the more it sees that it desires to do. Its new buildings, itsgenerous equipment, and the disastrous fire of a few years ago, have imposed upon the Academy the burden of a debt which its friends should transform into the encouragement of an endowment. Principals of the Adelphi Academy Since lts Incorporation. 1869-70. JOHN Locicwoon, B.A., Columbia, '4S. 1870-75. HOMER B. SPR,-XGUE, HA., A.M., Yale, '52, 55, Ph.D., Univ. of N. Y., YSL 1875-83. STEPHEN G. TAYLOR, B.A., Dartmouth, '47, Ph.D,, Univ. of N, Y., '75 Died. March 20, 1884. 1883-92. ALBERT' C. PERKINS, B.A., A.M., Ph.D., Dartmouth, '59, '62, '79. 1892-93. JOHN S. CROMBIE, B.A., Mich. Univ., '77, Ph.D., Univ. of Minn., 113. Died, April 16, 1893. 1893--. Cl-I.-XRLES H. LFZVERMORE. B.A., Yale, '79: Ph.D., johns Hopkins, 'Bti ll. Departments of the Academy.-The Adelphi Academy pro- vides the means for a thorough and systematic education from the very beginning of school life to the time when the student is either equipped for the active work of tl1e larger world outside of school walls, or is ready, to enter upon the special training of university studies. The Academy intends, therefore, to present a complete school system in one group of buildings. There are live divisions of the Academy: The Kindergarten, the Academic Department, the Collegiate Department, the Art Depart- ment and the Department of Physical Culture The Kindergarten Course may extend through three years. It forms an admirable preparation for the work of the primary grades. Atraining- class for teachers, strictlylimited in numbers, is maintained in connection with the Kindergarten? Into the Kindergarten itself children who are at least four years old may be admitted. They have at For further information concerning this training class and its course of study, see beyond, p. 47.