Manlius School - Haversack Yearbook (Manlius, NY)

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HE SUCCESS OF THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN DUE IN GREAT PART TO ITS LOCATION, FAR REMOVED FROM THE DISTRACTIONS AND EXCITEMENTS OF A LARGE CITY. If THE IDEAL SCHOOL MUST MAKE ITS HOME IN THE QUIET HILLS, CLOSE TO NATURE, AND FAR REMOVED FROM THE ARTIFICIAL CONDITIONS OF CITY LIFE. IIIF PARENTS ARE GOING TO SEND A BOY AWAY TO A BOARDING SCHOOL, THEY SHOULD SELECT A SCHOOL'THAT IS AS FAR DIFFERENT FROM A DAY SCHOOL AS POSSIBLE. lf A COUN- TRY SCHOOL SHOULD BE IN THE COUNTRY, ON A FARM SUR- ROUNDED BY FARMS, IN THE HILLS AND HILLBOUND. ,THERE SHOULD BE PLENTY OF WILD, ROUGH COUNTRY FOR A BOY TO EXPLORE, AND WOODS, WATERFALLS AND LAKES. IF A SCHOOL CANNOT BOAST OF THESE ADJUNCTS, THERE IS NO NECESSITY OF SELECTING A BOARDING SCHOOL AT ALL, AS A CITY SCHOOL WILL DO QUITE AS WELL. QITHE FREEDOM FROM TEMPTATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AROUND MANLIUS, THE GOOD AIR AND PURE WATER, ARE SOME REASONS WHY WE PREFER TO HAVE CITY BOYS COME TO US INSTEAD OF MOVING THE SCHOOL NEAR THE CITY. lf WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS A GREAT PART OF EDUCATION TO TEACH A BOY TO LOVE NATURE AND WE ARE HAPPILY IN ONE OF THE GARDEN SPOTS OF THE COUNTRY. NO SCHOOL COULD BE LOCATED IN MORE BEAUTIFUL HILLS THAN IN THIS SPOT IN CENTRAL NEW YORK, IN THE VERY HEART OF WONDERFUL GEO- LOGICAL FORMATIONS AND VARIETY OF LANDSCAPE. lf THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE ACRES OF SCHOOL LAND ARE LARGELY LEFT IN THE UNTRAMMELLED WOODS OF THE TIME OF THE ONONDAGA INDIANS. SUFFICIENT HAS BEEN CULTI- VATED FOR ITS CAMPUS, ATHLETIC FIELD AND ITS GOLF COURSE SO THAT A BOY MAY BE CLOSE TO NATURE RIGHT IN HIS SCHOOL HOME. II THE EFFECT OF THIS IS TO TEMPT A BOY OUT INTO THE OPEN. THIS TAKES HIM OUT OF HIMSELF AND WITH THE FREE AIR AND FREE LIFE HE IS FAR MORE AMENABLE TO OUR SIMPLE SCHOOL RULES AND FAR MORE READY FOR WORK THAN A BOY OF THE PLAINS OR THE CITY.

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l a MAN LIUS HE Manlius School is located among the hills of Central New York, eleven miles from Syracuse. The buildings are on high ground with excellent natural drainage. The immediate locality, as well as the region surrounding it, is extremely healthful. The completeness, fitness and beauty of the school plant are evidenced by the illustrations in this book. There is every provision for the comfort and happiness of the boys. The grounds are extensive, comprising one hundred and twenty-five acres, including woods, campus, and athletic fields. It was founded as Saint John's in 1869, and for thirty-nine years it has been under the management of its present Head, Who, with the assistance of trained specialists and veteran teachers, has brought the school to the high degree of success and excellence which it now enjoys. Manlius is essentially a college preparatory school, working under the most favorable conditions for study and character building, and the fact that the military regime is superposed thereon does not detract from as complete and successful education as may be had in institutions where the military character is-lacking. It is a fact that the precision and effi- ciency of the educational side is enhanced by the greater regularity of our methods. The military life of the school is in its atmosphere, and con- serves time rather than wastes it. The drills and exercises do not conflict with the recitation or study hours in any Way. T ' At Manlius it has been from'the first the law and method of govern- ment to appeal, through a military system, to what is best and loftiest in the pupil-to his honor, his veracity, his candor, his self-respect, his loyalty, rather than to fear or comfort or popularity or promotion, or any material reward. What is right or true or generous or beautiful in itself is the first question. This rule unites liberty with obedience, courage with refinement, and right conduct with scholarship. Self-government is the best of all governments in the junior republic as well as in the great one. We foster the expression of the principles that We inculcate. The idea comes to us from the English schools, but our experience is that American boys need a stronger and more clearly defined system of self-government than the English. They have often been more 9