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ALUMNI Realizing that a great deal of the present standing of our Academy is due to the way in which students and teachers of former days have wrought, we have attempted to make the Alumni section of this, our first annual, of special interest to the hosts of old friends of the school. We are sure that on this Anniversary year as we are endeavoring to increase our bounds and efficiency as an institution we can count on your loyalty and support. May the glimpses of our life at school this year awaken in your hearts mem- ories of your own school days and bring you back in person as well as in thought to The green retreats Of Academus. — The Editors. SOME OF THE BEGINNINGS OF SPICELAND ACADEMY LIFE As early as 1859 Spiceland Monthly Meeting School was feeling the impulses of renewed vigor as of springtime growth. The idea of permanency for the in- stitution was beginning to dawn upon the community. Some of its friends who bad caught the vision made a determined effort to replace their first frame school house, built about 1830. with a substantial brick structure. But sufficient means could not be secured at that time. Excellent timber was plentiful on every farm, and was not then a commercial commodity, of which the owners could contribute liberally toward a wooden building. A good two-story frame was the alternative, with the old bell atop that has since called us all to books. After the close of the Civil War the growth was quite marked and the ex- cellence of the work being done attracted patronage from remote localities. It was during this period that an addition was built to the south end of the two- story building mentioned above, the resulting building was in the shape of an L, known as the Old Frame Academy Building , which occupied the site of the present Public Grade School I ' .uilding. The girls dormitory, popularly known as the Asylum, was also built then to accommodate young ladies who wished to do light-housekeeping while attending school. A course of study was devised that was supposed to equip young men and women for the ordinary duties of life or fit those who wished, to enter college. The first catalogue we have was issued for the school year of 1 864-1865. For thirty-seven years the school had steered the course of a guarded reli- gious education from the a-b-c ' s, through the exact and speculative ologies, literature, and the dead languages. The method had been largely elective as to studies pursued ; all were irregulars. There was no class grouping along lines of similar work done ; no class spirit. If any hazing was to be done, some clique was at the bottom ; and not the under classman, but the principal, the likely victim. A new method was introduced, a new precedent established when two men, mature men of twenty-five or twenty-six years, one of them married, com- pleted the course and were duly graduated in 1870, with fitting ceremonies and proper dignity. About the same time a subscription of $3,000 was made as a nucleus for an
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