Montclair Academy - Yearbook (Montclair, NJ)

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mnntdair Arahpmg ?Hiatm'g In 1887 Mr. J. G. MacVicar was engaged by a few prominent Montclair men as a tutor for ten boys. The first winter the number was increased to twenty-six; a small school building was purchased and the Montclair Academy launched. In 1888 the site of the present School was purchased, and a recitation building was erected. During the next decade much more ground was acquired and the athletic field was laid out. Bradley House was built in 1894 and in 1901 the Recitation Building was enlarged and the Walden House dormitory completed. The Rand Swimming Pool was then added to the gymnasium structure which had been constructed in 1890. In the summer of 1909 the new Academic Building was erected. Since its establishment thirty-five years ago, the school has been under the direction of the same Headmaster, and several of his staff of assistants have been with him the greater portion of this time, while many of the Alumni and present pupils have received their entire education at this school. These facts have given to the school a personality and character of its own, have led to the establishment of certain traditions dear to the hearts of the students and have exerted a strong inhuence for good in their lives.