Conway Hall Preparatory School - Log Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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The Faculty Rev. George Edward Reed, S. T. D., LX. D., President. Born 1846. A. B., Weselyan University, 1869; A. M., 1872; S. T. D., 1885; UL. D., Lafayette, 1889. Student at Boston Theological Seminary, 1869-70. Stationed at Wil- limantic, Conn., 1870-72; St. Paul’s, Fall River. 1872-75; Han- sen Place Church, Brooklyn, 1875-78; Stamford, Conn., 1878-81; Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, 1875-78; Stamford, Conn., Church, 1884-87; Trinity, New Haven, 1887-89; Presi- dent of Dickinson College, 1889 — . He has written many ar- ticles on the religious and social questions of the day for the leading papers and magazines. Traveled in Europe, 1878; extensively in the West, 1886; and since throughout many portions of the United States as a lecturer and a preacher. Member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, The Anthropological Society of New York, The Institute of Christian Philosophy, and other organizations of Philosophy and Reform. William Albert Hutchison, Ped. D., A. M., Head Master. Born, 1864. Ph. B., Dickinson, 1892; A. M., 1895; Dr. of Pedagogy, 1908. Student at Harvard, Chicago University and University of Pennsylvania. After serving twice. 1892- 4 and 1896-8, as Assistant Vice-Principal of Pennington Seminary, he became Principal of East Maine Seminary, 1898-9; then, Vice-Principal of Darlington Seminary, 1899- 1900; Vice-Principal of Hudson River Institute, 1900-2; Vice-Principal of Syracuse Classical School, 1902-4; and in 1904 began a most successful and masterful career in Conway Hall. G. Alfred Kline, A. M., Vice-Head Master. Born, 1880. B. S., Dickinson, 1907; A. M., Dickinson, 1908. Student Assistant in Chemistry and Physics, Dick- inson College, 1906-7; Department of Mathematics and Physics, Conway Hall, 1907-08 — . Marvin Garfield Mason, A. Eh, Master of Greek and Latin. Born, 1881. A. B., Dickinson, 1906; Department of Greek and Latin, Conway Hall, 1906-7-8 — . Charles Wesley Hadden, A. M., Master of Lrench and German. Born, 1883. Colgate Academy, 1902; A. B., Colgate, 1906; O. B. K., A. M., Dickinson, 1908., Department of French and German, Conway Hall, 1906-08. George Irvin Chadwick, A. M., Master of History and English. Born, 1881. Prepared for College at Port Jervis, New York, High School. A. B., Yale, 1904; A. M., Yale, 1905; A. B., Dickinson, 1906. Department of History and Eng- lish, Conway Hall, 1906-7-8 — . Charles Lowe Swift, Master of English. Born, 1878. Dickinson, ' 04. Reporter, special writer, Sunday editor, Baltimore Herald, ’03, ' 04, ’05. Special dramatic writer, Baltimore News, editorial writer, Balti- more Telegram, ’o5-’o6. Magazine contributor, correspond- ent for New York Sunday Tribune, ’06, ’07. Instructor in English, Conway Hall, 1907-8 — . Clayton Edward Hunt, B. S. in E. E., Master of Mathematics. Born, 1885. Prepared at Windham High School, 1903; Brown University, 1908. Instructor in Mathematics, Con- way Hall, 1908 — . Erederick William Old, A. M., Master of Latin. Born, 1883. Graduate Central High School, Philadel- phia, 1901; A. B., Haverford College, 1905; A. M., Harvard, 1906. Tutor at Westave,” Virginia, 1907-8. Instructor in Lat ' n, Conway Hall, 1908 — . 9

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History of Conway Hall Conway Hall, nee “The Grammar School, was born on September twelfth, 1783. A slender child of frail constitu- tion, few of the colonials who had a speaking acquaintance with it, cherished the thought that its existence would last for more than a few years at most. True it was, that it had a sturdy parent of bluest blood and finest nerve in Alma Mater Dickinson, but in the little old Carlisle of that day there didn’t seem to be sufficient nourishment to rear the child to the age of maturity. Numerous nurses and various changes of diet were its portion during the first fifty or sixty years of its childhood, but it continued to pine under each of these until a wise gathering of hoary headed trustees got together and frankly discussed in an earnest heart to heart, the true condition of the fragile ju- venile. The final analysis of the problem was precipitated when one wiser than his fellows said, “What this child needs is not so much a change of diet and nurses as one steady nurse with the same kind of diet. Thereat he named one, George Edward Reed, doctor as well as nurse, whose good preaching and better practising were making themselves substantially evident in the eastern end of the land. Investigation was followed by negotiation with this nurse-doctor, and not long hence he was on the spot, ad- ministering to child and to parent. Both grew amazingly, but the child ' s clothes soon grew so tight that they had to be let out and patched, until taking pity on the discomfort of the youngster, the Doctor found a generous friend in the philanthropic Andrew Car- negie. The latter’s interest in the growing youth prompted him to donate $65,000 for new apparel, provided that its name might be changed with its clothes. Thus in the year 1904, the child was reclothed and re-baptizecl Con- way Hall as a tribute to Mr. Carnegie’s friend, Moncure Daniel Conway. Now the stripling school, which formerly clung to the parent institution for support, has in its new clothes and surroundings grown so sturdy that it has begun to con- tribute to the support of the older institution. Under the immediate and fostering care of Dr. W. A. Hutchison, it has forged to the fore, out of its former class and into the class of the biggest and strongest secondary schools in the country. It has wrestled with and thrown nearly all of its burliest rivals, it has developed in every part, and with a body firm and lusty, filled with true sporting spirit and loyalty, it bids fair to stand first in its class by the time it reaches its majority. 11