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40 ' l ' 5 f eases-fear-sazexzezzez zesx-K A'r 0 J A 'r Qs 0 o N I-llstorlcal Dedlcatlon HE history of The Phrllrps Exeter Academy rs closely connected with that of our country It was incorporated rn the year which saw the surrender of Comwallrs rt was organized when the statesmen of England and America were arranging peace, and rt was opened during the ratification of the treaty which freed the lrnrted qtates from the domrnatron of Great Brrtarn Our constitution 117811 antedates that of the United States 417875 and many of Exeter s graduates played important parts rn the early history of our country Both were founded on the same principles of freedom and toleratron The Founder John Phrllrps whose ancestors for three generations out of four had been ministers, was himself prepared for that office, but having a weak voice and possessing natural skill rn business he devoted himself to secular pursuits Yet relrgron was ever the kevnote of hrs lrfe, and thus rn 1781 he founded a school for boys rn Exeter to learn them the great busrness of lrvrng ' He made provision that the doors of the Academy ever be open to vouth of requisite quahficatlon from every quarter In 1783 the Academy was formally opened with an enrollment of fifty srx students under the guide of William Woodbridge, the first Preceptor In the first five years of the school the unwearred exertions of Woodbridge were baflied by hrs poor health Drscouraged and rn low health he desparred of ever making a great school In 1788, the year the people of the United States adopted their constitution, Fxeter found its great leader rn Benjamln Abbot who served the Academy well for half a century He was a scholar and a master of boys He taught with rnterest and enthusiasm and knew how to impart what he had learned Hrs education did not stop with hrs graduation from college but he Joined the procession and kept pace with the times Dr Abbot firmly believed the student should bear the laboring oar, and he never farled to put this belief into practice Perhaps the secret of hrs success as a teacher was due to the fact that he had the student prepare the lesson and the stu dent not the instructor had to answer the questions He won the esteem and respect of all by hrs genurne kindness and dignity He was always a gentleman, even to the youngest of his pupils msprrrng them with high mrndedness and courage to do right Under his leadershnp the school prospered The second Academy Building was erected and the hr ad master was vested wrth the trtle of Pnncrpal To Bemamrn Abbot must be attributed the character of the Academy as it rs known today On the lists of any American school there are no more illustrious names than for scholarship and the devotion of its graduates to church and state When Dr Abbot retired rn 1838 he was succeeded by Gideon I ane Souls who had alre ady been professor for sixteen years before he was advanced to the prrncrpalshrp As a ttacher he was neither original nor progressive, he merely accepted standards as he found them and held generations of school boys to their tasks At the opening of school each vear ht made a set spef ch meant to cover all forms of conduct without mentioning any special offences After urging the boys to remember at all times that they were Exeter gentlemen he would say 'l he Academy has no rules untrl they are broken But there rs one rule I wrsh to make whoever crosses the threshold of a brllrard saloon crosses the threshold of the Academy for the last time H was at his best rn the school room Hrs methods of government were Judrcrous calm and de crded Although a conservative himself he readily agreed to reforms suggested by others D Qoule was emrnently drstrngurshed as a drscrplrnarran Active but gentle, sympathetic and help ful, he was never underhanded, but always vigilant Always kind and approachable he yet never allowed any rnfrrngement of hrs dignity He had not any sympathv for the shrrker, but he was always a frrend of those who tried Hrs admrrustratron was uniformly prosperous Under his drrectlon Abbot Hall and the new Academy Building were erected, and the principal and the rn structors were made a regular faculty, with the usual powers of such a body Thus this first cen tury of the Academy history rs the story of two great men, and rn this period the school flourished and established itself as one of the best institutions of leamrng rn America The history of the Academy during the latter part of Principal Soule s life and for thirty years after his death, becomes the story of the lives and actrvrtres of two men, Professor Went- Sur qaszsuuuuu uzszauuuuuzaw' 1 ', . 0 0 Q 0 X Y . 3 . . . , , 3 ' , . . , . 1 3 I ' I u n I u . ll f U V I . . . , . . ,, . .I - - rr ' . . ,, . . . . . r I rl 1. ll fl , , ,. . . , , , . , . , , , 1 , sn , . v ' , , , . 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I :savannas 5 Aga nnneznnw- worth and Professor Crlley wrth Dr Soule they were known as The Great Trrumvrrate ' Of these three the greatest was undoubtedly George Albert Wentworth who early won the nrck name of Bull from hrs bull lrke strength and hrs habrt of roaring lrke a bull at shrrkers About hrm there grew up a tradrtron of mrngled savagery and tenderness of wrtherrng sarcasm and the mrld gentleness of a woman of brtrng personal remarks and of spontaneous ard and comfort to the srck and helpless A heavy delrberate man careless of personal appearance, and even tempered, he was always very sympathetrc wrth boys rn trouble and ever ready to pardon any schoolboy weakness Hrs close and lrfelong frrend was Bradbury Longfellow Crlley In the class room Professor Crlley was complete master of the srtuatron He was always punctual, gruff to those who drd not do therr best and rntrmrdated sometimes by hrs roarrng those of lrttle courage He heartrly hated affectatron and cant, he was outspoken hrmself even to the verge of rudeness Hrs bluntness was not due to hrs bad manners as many belreved for no one could readrly know hrm wrthout recognrzrng hrs srncerrtv Toleratrng nothrng short of the greatest attarnable perfec tron rn class work Wentworth and Crlley held the respect of all who sat under them The perrod from the resrgnatron of Dr boule rn 1873 to the apporntment of Dr Amen rn 1895 resolves rtself mto the story of three prrncrpals and therr herorc but qurte unsuccessful at tempts against the evrls whrch grew up at Exeter The first of these was Albert Cornelrus Perkrns who was unsuccessful because he followed so soon after the drgnrfied Dr Soule and he made a strrkrng contrast with hrs cowhrde boots and countrrfied arr, because he had been principal of a hrgh school and drd not understand the undercurrents and tradrtrons of prrvate schools and lastly because he was an old fashroned teacher and drd not know boys or how to manage them Next came Walter Qurncy Scott fresh from an excrtrng vouth rn the West, and he too drd not understand the machrnery of eastern schools rn order to remedy the troubles He called on polrce ard rn student conflrct and he had lrttle reverence for the tradrtrons and customs dear to all Exonrans ln 1888 he had drplomas grven to the members of the graduating class for the first trme and he devrsed the system of desrgnatrng as honor men those students who attained hrgh ranks rn thcrr studres But he suffered greatly from hrs lack of conventron The last prrncrpal mg He sought polrce protectron and hrred detectrves to find evrl doers rn the school He was rnstrumental rn burldrng horrle Hall and rn enlarging the Abbot Hall drmng room but farled to see to the expenses He made too many rules and rncurred the drslrke of students and towns purple alrke When rn 1895 Harlan Page Amen seventh Prrncrpal of the Academy accepted the prrncr palshrp he found the school low rn numbers and morale the Faculty discouraged and the publrc ready to condemn an Academv that had once held a hrgh positron among Amerrcan secondary schools lt was no lrght task but he assumed rt wrth a purpose and a strong wrll Dr Amen lard great stress on a strong Faculty for he realized that a school rs made not by rmposrng burld mgs but by the personalrtres of great teachers He hrmself was a magnetrc and thrrllrng teacher makrng every student feel he was the most hrghlv favored berng rn the world to have the chance to study Latrn rn thrs great old school He had the rare faculty of makrng Latrn seem real and vrtal He was a personal frrend to the student and a strong supporter of hrgh scholarshrp It was he who burlt up the Exeter that we know today He dred on November 9 1913 from an attack of apoplexv At a specral meeting of the Faculty, that year was voted to be called Dr Amen s year The school responded rn a way that rs characterrstrc of the best rn Exeter tradr tron If rt had not been for Dr Amen there would be no Exeter as we know rt today Erght months after Dr Amen s death, Lewrs Perry, Professor of Englrsh Lrterature rn Wrllrams College accepted the prrncrpalshrp at Exeter Dr Perry, erghth Prrncrpal of The Phrllrps Fxeter Academy graduated from Wrllrams rn 1898 At college he was engaged rn many actrvrtres berng especrallv fond of tennrs Under hrs leadershrp the Academy has gone forward smoothly on the foundation lard by Dr Amen And now one hundred and fifty years after the foundrng of the Academy, the school rs heavrly endowed and many dormrtorres and new burldrngs are being erected and planned for So rt rs with mrngled feelrngs of hope and fear we respectfully dedrcate thrs book to The Phrllrps Fxeter Academy not only to rts rllustrrous past but also to the promrse of a glorrous future X I , y y y v v v 1 k r v ' 'V ' v ' V v v A9 . 4: '1?-'L'. . , . 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