Texas Military Institute - Crusader Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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’WHWH fW) .A foreword oo the T'fonor of a ( reat Z3eacber S555iir This volume is dedicated to the honor of a great teacher, Professor Seeley, founder of the San Antonio Academy, which in a sense is the forerunner of the Texas Military Institute. The old 'grads’ speak of him yet in tones of such genuine affection and with tributes to his fine ability to arouse in his students a love of learning and a genuine desire to know more of the great events and the great men of past times. Life in those days was slower and simpler—so the old ‘grads’ say. Athletics were not organized. Field days and baseball games were not planned weeks ahead but just happened. Lovely sponsors in attractive uniforms simply were not. Yet they tell us that Professor Seeley by the spell of his personality developed fellowship among 'his boys’ and bred in them the spirit that made ‘Seeley’s School’ (as it was often called) the outstanding institution in that remote day when Prof. B. was a very young man. The direction given by the sterling character of Doctor Seeley has resulted —with the assistance of Dr. Bondurant in the center, Prof. Culver and Prof. Meyer in the wings—in San Antonio Academy and the Texas Military Institute, of which we are so proud today. JOHN C. CARRINGTON. X 2 X

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Dr. W. B. 5eeley xxxx Graduate from Princeton University in the class of 1879, Master of Newark Academy, Newark, New Jersey, for three years, W. B. Seeley came to San Antonio in the year 1886, and founded the San Antonio Academy. This school he conducted with marked success until he moved to California in 1906, where he is now living in the City of Los Gatos. Dr. Seeley is a scholar of splendid attainments and a convincing teacher. But of all else he is a man. He has always been one of those delightful spirits who spread happiness wherever they go. He is tender, true, loyal and absolutely lovable. Modest and unostenta-cious. He is likewise just and generous. These qualities have so endeared him to the students who studied under him, that through the years their affection for him remains a rich and elevating influence in their lives. “His life is gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature stands up And says to all the world 'This is a man'.’’ To him this Volume is respectfully dedicated. X ■» X