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SAM AAITOAIIO ACADE A Brief History of San Antonio Academy Who remembers the Seeley School on Houston Street? Who remembers it must confess to 40 years of memory. For the San Antonio Academy was founded in 1886 by Dr. W. B. Seeley, and its first home was the second floor of a business building on Houston Street, just west of the Navarro Street intersection. In those days the St. Anthony was not—and Travis Park offered a delightful playground for the Academy students for two years. But in 1888, the school had out-grown its quarters, and removed to the site of the San Antonio Academy of today, where two dwellings were combined to provide quarters for the institution; and San Pedro Park, directly across the street, offered the greatest recreation and playground that the school could have desired. Indeed, there was not even the dividing line of the street in those days, for that community was regarded as far out in the sticks,” and only a rabbit-path connected the school with the park, where the only way across the lake lay across an old footlog. Here the school has remained for forty years, a college preparatory school of the first grade, the first Protestant school for boys to be established in San Antonio. Until 12 years ago, when the present modern building was erected, the original frame structures, with such additions and alterations as the growth of the school demanded, served as a stepping-stone to some of the most illustrious institutions of learning in America. Princeton University alone has graduated twenty of the boys who were students of the San Antonio Academy. And in every section of the country, where the famous educational institutions are located, the name of this old San Antonio school is held in high esteem. Dr. Seeley remained with the school until 1906, when he retired; and the president of today, W. W. Bondurant. succeeded him. Under Dr. Bondurant's direction, the new buildings were erected, and the school has maintained its high standing of old, progressing with the best in education throughout the years. But one change has ever been made in its management. Paoe Fourtten
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