Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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BRADBURY L. CILLEY. RADBURY LONGFELLOW CILLEY, A. M., was born in Nottingham, N. H., on the sixth of September, 1838. In 1842 the family removed to Exeter, where, in the autumn of 1851, he entered The Phillips Exeter Acade- my, which he left in 1855 to enter the Sophomore Class of Harvard College. He was graduated from Harvard with very high honors in 1858, when he was appointed an instructor in the Albany Academy, Albany, N. Y. In December, 1858, he was chosen professor of ancient languages in Phillips Exeter, and he entered upon his new duties in February, 1859. For over forty years, ff Brad, as we all know him, has taught in this school which he loves so well. Linked as he is to those who have made Phillips Exeter so famous, he is now active in the work which is raising the school to a still greater height of excellence and fame. We trust that to his forty years of service may be joined many more, and that his fondest hopes for Phillips Exeter may be fully realized, while he is yet in a position to enjoy the so well deserved results of his loving labor. II

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1781 1781 1781-2 1783 1783 1784 1790 1793 1795 1798. 1801 1809 1817 1818 1818 I822 1835 1838 1838 1838 1841 1849 HISTORIA MEMORABILIA. APRIL 3. The Academy incorporated. llmcmlman 18. The Constitution adopted. The first Academy building erected. FEBRUARY zo. The school opened by the Rev. Benjamin Thurston. MAY 1. The first Academy building dedicated and William Wood- bridge installed Principal. Colonel Henry Dearborn and other gentlemen of Exeter presented the Academy with a bell. Ot:'1'o111aR 15. Benjamin Abbot became the second Principal. Nov1:M1114:R 1 3. The Trustees vote to erect a new Academy building. AP1z1L 21. Death of John Phillips, LL.D., the founder. OC'1'o1sER ro. The Board of Trustees voted, That after the vaca- tion in April next no student in the Academy shall wear silk of any kind as a part of his dress, and that it be recommended to the students after that time to discontinue the use of gowns, and that it would be pleasing to the Trustees to see the dress of the Students less expensive, and in all instances, when consistent, composed of the manufacture of your own country. JULY 9. First annual school exhibition.. The first tuition fee levied. JUNE 16. Q The Rev. Isaac Hurd, pastor of the Second Parish, was elected Theological Instructor. JUNE 3. The English department is to consist of a three-years' COUISC. JULY 16. The Golden Branch Society is founded. APRIL 30. Gideon Lane Soule was appointed permanent instructor. AUGUs'1.' zo Daniel Webster elected a Trustee of the Academy. AUGUST 22. The resignation of Benjamin Abbot as Principal ac- cepted. AUUUs'1' 22 Gideon Lane Soule became the third Principal. AUGUST 2 3 Abbot Festival celebrated. AUGUST 19. The Trustees voted, That the Golden Branch should be merely a private one, with no secret or secrecy in their exer- cises or proceedings. Oc'm11E1a 25. Death of Benjamin Abbot. I2