PHILLIPS liXETER ACADEMY 
 
 IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 
 
 A HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 BY-CHARLES H. BELL 
 
 EXETER, N. H. 
 
 WILLIAM B. MORRILL, PRINTER 
 
 Ncfos-lLrttrr Iprcss 
 
 1883
 
 PlIKKAToKY 
 
 Tins sketch has been prepared by the desire of the Trus- 
 tees ol' the. Academy, in anticipation of the hundredth anni- 
 versary of its foundation, and to preserve in the security of 
 print facts liable to perish. It is based in great part on rec- 
 ords and other authentic writings; and though absolute free- 
 dom from error is not to be expected, and matters of inter- 
 est may have been omitted, yet no pains have been spared 
 to avoid mistakes. 
 
 The \\riter acknowledges his obligations to several persons' 
 for information and materials ; and especially to the Rev. 
 Dr. Phillips Urooks, for the loan of correspondence between 
 Dr. John Phillips and his brothers and nephew. 
 
 For the opinions expressed in these pages the writer alone 
 is responsible.
 
 PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE FOUNDER. 
 
 A hundred years ago, there stood on the Northern side of 
 Water street, nearly opposite the site of the present town 
 hall in Exeter, a somewhat stately dwelling-house, of the 
 architectural st3'le of the olden time, and surmounted with a 
 hipped roof. From time to time afterward it underwent 
 various transformations, none of them for the better, and 
 finally disappeared, within the memory of the present gener- 
 ation, to make way for modern business structures. 
 
 Tliis was the Phillips mansion, and its early occupant was 
 the Founder of the Academy, in Exeter, which bears his 
 name. 
 
 John Phillips was the second of three sons of the Rev. 
 Samuel Phillips of Andover, Massachusetts, where he was 
 born, December 27, (o. s.) 1719. His great-great-grand- 
 father was the Rev. George Phillips, a native of England 
 and a clergyman, educated at the University of Cambridge, 
 who emigrated to this country in the year 1630, in company 
 with Gov. Winthrop and others. He brought with him his 
 son Samuel, who in due time graduated at Harvard College, 
 and was settled in the ministry at Rowley, Massachusetts, in 
 1G51, and died there after a pastorate of forty-five years, at 
 the age of seventy-one. His son Samuel was a goldsmith, 
 and passed his life in Salem, Massachusetts ; and left a son 
 Samuel, born there in ir>90, a graduate of Harvard College
 
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 iii L 706, the minister of Andover from 1710 to his death in 
 1771, who wa> tin' father of the Exeter Founder. 
 
 John 1'Iiillips was a promising boy, precocious and fond of 
 learning. 1'nder his lather's tuition he was enabled, before 
 lie was twelve years of age, to enter Harvard College, and 
 he received his bachelor's degree in 1735, some months be- 
 fore lie was sixteen. For a time after his graduation he was 
 employed in teaching a school in his native place, and pur- 
 sued also the stud}' of medicine and of theology. Wliile yet 
 a young man lie was admitted to the ministerial oflice, and is 
 said to have been esteemed "a devout, zealous, animated and 
 pathetic preacher." Some of the sermons which he prepared 
 were long preserved, and perhaps are still in existence ; and 
 there is n-> doubt that he might have been settled over a 
 parish at an earl}' age, had he not felt a reluctance to it. A 
 delicacy of the lungs is believed to have been a cause of this ; 
 and later, after he had listened to the eloquent "VVhitclield, 
 he felt a distrust of his capacity to realize his ideal of a 
 Christian minister. 
 
 He probably first appeared in Exeter, between May and 
 August, 1741, and opened a "private classical school," 
 which he continued for a year or two, and then took charge 
 of the town school for an equal period. He came to be rc- 
 liarded as a permanent inhabitant of the province of New 
 Hampshire in 1743, when his name first appeared upon the 
 list of rate payers. He was then assessed the modest sum 
 of four shillings and two pence ; he lived to become the 
 wealthiest citizen of the town. 
 
 The same year he took a step which operated to fix his 
 residence permanently in Exeter. He married, on the fourth 
 of August, Mrs. Sarah, "relict" as the phrase was, of Na- 
 thaniel Gilman, Esq. She was a daughter of the Uev. Sam- 
 uel Emery, of Wells, Maine, and was a lad} T of many vir- 
 tues, as will appear by a letter of Mr. Phillips to her grand- 
 daughter, to be given hereafter.* Mr. Gilman, her first 
 
 * Appendix A.
 
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 husband, was a person of education, and is credited by tra- 
 dition with having borne the sobriquet of '( Jentleman Nat." 
 He left this widow and three children to inherit a fortune, 
 large for those times, of seventy-live thousand pounds, old 
 tenor. Mr. Phillips at first aspired to many the eldest 
 daughter, but she preferred another ; and thereupon he pro- 
 posed to the mother, who accepted him. Though then- was 
 something of a disparity in their ages, she being forty-one, 
 while he was only twenty-four, yet the marriage was doubt- 
 less a very happy one to both parties. 
 
 Mr. Phillips soon afterwards entered into mercantile busi- 
 ness, in which his industry, economy, methodical habits and 
 sagacity enabled him to gain great success. 
 
 Shortly after he made Exeter his home, a new religious 
 society was formed there, of which he became a member. On 
 the twenty-fifth of May, 1747, this society, by a committee of 
 seven prominent members, gave him a pressing invitation 
 to become their pastor, having been, as their letter assured 
 him, "heretofore satisfied of your gracious qualifications, 
 and more lately with your ministerial gifts." This language 
 would indicate that he had already performed some clerical 
 duty for the society ; but he was unwilling, for the reasons 
 already mentioned, to assume the responsibilities of a settle- 
 ment, and declined the invitation. But he long held the of- 
 fice of ruling elder, and as such in 1755 gave his assent, in 
 behalf of the "new gathered church," to the award of a mu- 
 tual council convened to compose the differences between 
 that and the older religious organization of the town. 
 
 Mr. Phillips, as might be supposed from his character and 
 habits, grew ere long to be a man of substance and weight 
 in the community. As he advanced in life there arose pre- 
 monitory symptoms of serious troubles between the British 
 government and the American colonies. The nullification of 
 the Stamp Act awakened apprehensions, in some minds, of a 
 general prevalence of lawlessness and anarchy ; and Mr. 
 Phillips, with others oi' the principal citizens of Kxeler. on
 
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 tlu- fifteenth of November, 17C.."). subscribed and published :in 
 agreement, (o this effect: 
 
 Whereas many evil minded Persons have, on account of 
 the Stamp Act, concluded that all the Laws of this Province 
 and the Execution of the same are at an End,~&c. There- 
 fore we the Subscribers do hereby Combine, Promise and En- 
 gage t< assemble ourselves together, when and where Need 
 requires, in aid of the Peace Ollicers, and to Stand by and 
 Defend them in the Execution of their respective Ollices, and 
 each other in our respective Properties and Persons, against 
 all Disturbers of the Public Peace and Invaders of Private 
 Property." 
 
 Apparently there was in the mind of Mr. Phillips, not far 
 from this time, a question whether he should continue his 
 residence in Exeter. His wife had died on the ninth of Octo- 
 ber. }'('>'>, and the gathering clouds in the political horizon 
 were alarming to a prudent and well-to-do man. But the re- 
 peal of the stamp act the next } T ear, and the appointment of 
 John Wentworth as the governor of the province, gave :i 
 more hopeful aspect to the future. Moreover Mr. Phillips 
 determined to enter into a second matrimonial connection. 
 The lady of his choice, whom he married on the third of 
 November, 17G7, was Mrs. Elizabeth Hale, widow of Dr. 
 Eliphalet Hale of Exeter, and daughter of the Hon. Ephraim 
 Dennett who had been a prominent citizen of Portsmouth and 
 a mandamus Councillor. This lady is represented as pos- 
 ing most estimable qualities ; she was a prudent, help- 
 ful and devoted wife to Mr. Phillips, whom she survived but 
 two or three years.* 
 
 He now began to be invested with ollices and trusts which 
 in those days conferred no small distinction. Gov. Went- 
 worth caused his name to be inserted in the Commission of 
 the Peace as early as 17G8, and continued it there as long as 
 the royal government endured in the province. In 1771, 
 1772 and 1773 he was elected a Representative from Exeter 
 
 *Mrs. Phillips died in September, 17M7.
 
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 in the provincial assembly. From 1772 to 1775 he sat :is n 
 Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Picas : and toward 
 the close of Gov. Went worth's administration he is under- 
 stood to have received the appointment of mandamus Coun- 
 cillor, but it does not appear that he ever acted in that ca- 
 pacity. 
 
 Gov. Wentworth, who was of a conciliatory disposition, 
 and fond of military parade, proposed to Mr. Phillips in 
 1770 the formation of a corps (T elite, to embrace many of the 
 principal citizens of Exeter, and to act as a body guard of 
 the chief magistrate. The plan was carried into effect, and 
 Mr. Phillips received the appointment of commander, with 
 the rank of Colonel. Nothing was spared to give distinction 
 to the corps. It was called by the name of the Exeter Ca- 
 dets : the uniform of scarlet and buff was rich and hand- 
 some, the cocked hats, and ruffles at the bosom and wrists 
 gave an air of superiority, at that time when dress meant so 
 much. The officers appeared in all the bravery of gorget 
 and sash, with sword and spontoon ; and a handsome stand 
 of colors rendered the equipment of the company com- 
 plete. 
 
 In September, 1770, his cxcellenc}- the Governor, his lady 
 and suite were present at the publishing of the commissions 
 of the officers, and dined at the house of Col. Phillips. 
 Again in 1772 the Governor attended a parade of '-his Ca- 
 dets," as he called them, and declared himself much gratified 
 therewith. Col. Phillips performed his military duties with 
 strict fidelity, and his command was often called together for 
 exercise, and was in an admirable state of discipline. P>ut 
 it contained a considerable proportion of those who, when 
 the impending revolution summoned men to take sides, be- 
 came "high sons of liberty," and on the morning after the 
 memorable day of Concord and Lexington, a goodly number 
 of the Cadets marched off for Cambridge, without orders 
 from their commander, carrying on their shoulders the bright 
 muskets which the royal governor had provided, to swell the
 
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 ranks of tin- army of colonists \vlio initiated thr siege of 
 Boston. 
 
 Although Col. Phillips was chosen liy his townsmen in 
 1774 a member of the C'oinniitt :-e of Correspondence, yet it 
 i> certain that ho took no active part in the American Revo- 
 Intion. Nor was this strange. Men situated as lie was are 
 not the stuff of which revolutions are made. lie had been 
 educated in a reverence for authority, and had felt no hard- 
 ship from the rule of the mother country such as to justify 
 resistance to it. He was in mature life, with an easy for- 
 tune and an assured position. He had nothing to gain, but 
 everything to lose, by a change of government. 
 
 It is time that the indiscriminate prejudice which has so 
 long prevailed against the loyalists of the Revolution, should 
 give place to more just and rational views. The men who 
 adhered to the crown from selfish or interested motives, and 
 contrary to their own sense of right, may indeed be justly 
 despised ; but those whose motives were honorable and 
 whose attachment to the mother country was genuine, con- 
 stituting a large proportion of the loyalists of the North at 
 least, deserve no stigma for acting with the courage of their 
 convictions. Col. Phillips however, could not be justly ac- 
 counted as a "tory." "From principle he disapproved of 
 the Revolution, but made no active opposition to it. He \v:.s 
 solicitous to preserve a state of neutrality in the contest, 
 and studiously avoided conversation on the subject, and, as 
 far as he was able, everything relating to it."* 
 
 About the time of the breaking out of the Revolution, Col. 
 Phillips ceased trading, and employed that part of his prop- 
 erty which was not vested in land, in making loans on inter- 
 est. By this time he had gathered much wealth, and as lie had 
 neither children nor needy relatives, it became a serious pro- 
 blem with him what ultimate disposition he should make of 
 it. It was not a new question. Descended from a line of 
 clergymen, educated in all religious observances, ami a pro- 
 
 *MS of GOT, I'linner.
 
 ACADEMY. 1 1 
 
 fessor of Christianity from the age of fifteen, he had been al- 
 ways accustomed to regard his property as accompanied with 
 a sacred trust. As early as when he was a teacher of youth, 
 he had recorded in his private memoranda this resolution : 
 "lieing sensible that a part of my income is required of un- 
 to be spent in the more immediate service of God, I there- 
 fore devote a tenth of m\' salary for keeping school, to pious 
 and charitable purposes."* And among the fragments of his 
 correspondence which have come down to our time, arc two 
 letters, one to each of his brothers, Samuel at Andover, and 
 William at Boston, both of whom were in prosperous 
 circumstances, which indicate how steadily the idea of 
 dedicating a portion of his possessions to benevolent and 
 charitable uses dwelt in his mind.f 
 
 The first considerable gifts which were made by Col. 
 Phillips in pursuance of this design, of which we have any 
 definite information, were to the infant Dartmouth College. 
 The Rev. Dr. Eleazer Whcclock, who had been at the head 
 of the Indian Charhy School in Connecticut, was about re- 
 moving it into New Hampshire, there to be erected by royal 
 charter into a college. Col. Phillips in 1770 subscribed a 
 considerable tract of land, seven rights in the new 
 township of Sandwich, to the funds of the institution, 
 upon the condition that it should be established at 
 Hanover ; which was done. Two years afterwards he 
 gave to the college the sum of 175, lawful money, for the 
 purchase of a philosophical apparatus, and the next year 
 the further sum of 125, to aid in "furthering the great 
 purpose of the institution," which was, primarily though 
 by no means exclusively, the education and Christian - 
 ization of the American Indians. In the year 1781 he 
 conveyed to the Trustees upwards of 4000 acres of land, 
 situated in several townships in Northern New Hampshire 
 and in Vermont, to be held for the use of the College, with- 
 
 *MS. ofGov. Plumer. 
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 out restriction- : and finally, in ITS'.) he added the sum of 
 t':!7 10s. upon condition that the College shonld con- 
 tribute lands to an equal amount, to be consolidated with 
 his former donation of lands, for the foundation of a pro- 
 fessorship of Divinity. The endowment thus constituted is 
 still known by his name, and yields an annual income of 
 about 8400. 
 
 Col. Phillips was chosen a trustee of Dartmouth College 
 in 1773, and performed the duties of the position with much 
 interest and punctuality until his resignation, by reason of 
 years and bodily infirmity, in 17!>:5. In 1777, the College con- 
 ferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 
 This was the second instance in which the institution had 
 granted that mark of distinction, the other 1 icing in the case 
 of Gov. John Wcntworth, "the father of the College." who 
 received it in 1773. 
 
 The next educational enterprise,* which engaged the atten- 
 tion, and received the benefactions of Dr. Phillips, was the 
 planting of the Academy in his native town. In the year 
 1777 the Hon. Samuel Phillips, Jr., of Andover. his nephew, 
 being familiar, no doubt, with the long cherished intentions 
 of his uncle and father, to make some special charitable u-c 
 of a portion of the fortunes which they had acquired, project- 
 ed the school which was afterwards incorporated as the 
 Phillips Andover Academy. The brothers John and Samuel 
 Phillips jointly endowed it, in 1778, with the means to begin 
 its work, and Dr. Phillips afterwards, by gift and by be- 
 quest, increased his gratuities to the institution to the amount 
 of about $31 ,000, thereby becoming its chief benefactor. He 
 served as one of the Trustees of that Academy during his life, 
 and after the death of his eldest brother, as President, and 
 displayed an interest in its affairs and management only 
 less lively and active than that which he felt in the latest and 
 
 *IIe is said also to have made donations to Princeton and to 
 Harvard College, and to have given money to aid the cause ot ed- 
 ucation, to towns in the vicinity ot lii- lioine.
 
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 most important work of benevolence, which crowned his 
 useful career. 
 
 This was Phillips Exeter Academy, which was exclusively 
 Dr. Phillips' own project. To the foundation and upbuilding 
 of this institution he consecrated the greater part of his for- 
 tune, besides giving to it his personal supervision as Presi- 
 dent of the board of Trustees during the last twelve years of 
 his life. His rare judgment of men and his cultivated busi- 
 ness capacity well supplemented the far reaching wisdom of 
 his plans, and the Academy prospered in its resources and in 
 its work. The Founder lived to see it established on a firm 
 basis, and giving assurance of that extended measure of use- 
 fulness which later generations have witnessed. 
 
 This great mission accomplished, he felt that his life work 
 was finished. He had considerably passed the ordinary pe- 
 riod of man's earthly existence, and was ready to be called 
 hence. His closing hours were ihus described by one who 
 knew him well.* 
 
 "His last illness was very short. He was seized with a 
 kind of fainting fit on Monclaj morning, from which he in 
 part recovered, so as to walk about the house, and was per- 
 fectly sensible and apprised of his approaching dissolution, 
 and spake of it to his friends with calmness and serenity, 
 and with apparent pleasure. And, according to information, 
 expressed himself in words to this effect : ' My work is done, 
 I have settled all my affairs, and have now nothing to do but 
 to die ; it is no matter how soon.' And retaining his reason 
 to the last, the next morning he died, April the 21st, 179"), 
 in the seventy-sixth year of his age." 
 
 All suitable honors were paid to his memory. The Trus- 
 tees of Phillips Exeter Academy chose one of their number, 
 the Rev. Benjamin Thurston, to pronounce a eulogy upon 
 the Founder, at the next annual meeting of the board ; a 
 duty which he duly performed to their approval. They also 
 
 *Tho Rev. Jonathan French, in a sermon preached on the occa- 
 sion of the death of Dr. Phillips, at Andover, Massachusetts.
 
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 voted that a copy. >f Dr. Phillips' portrait u elegantly decorat- 
 
 C(l" should IK- taken and placed in the Library of the Academy. 
 
 Thf body of Dr. Philliiis rests in the ci-mi'tery of the town 
 in which the most important share of his life was passed, and 
 upon til'. 1 marble monument which his associates in the trust 
 caused to In 1 erected over it. is inscribed an appropriate epi- 
 taph, composed by the accomplished Nathaniel A. Haven. Jr.* 
 
 A biography which records only the public -acts and exter- 
 nal life of its subject, is necessarily bare and unsatisfactory. 
 No one feels that he knows another, thoroughly, until he is 
 acquainted with his inner finalities, his private, domestic re- 
 lations, his personal peculiarities. An anecdote often throws 
 more light on character than an essay. 
 
 It is to be regretted that so few memorials of Dr. Phillips' 
 private life have descended to our time. There are snllicient 
 data perhaps to give ns an idea of the Founder; but of John 
 Phillips the man, we unfortunately have few authentic mate- 
 rials from which to fashion any adequate portraiture. 
 
 It is certain that he was not a popular favorite. The 
 children disliked to meet him because he so rigorously ex- 
 acted from them the outward marks of respect to which he 
 thought his years and position entitled him ;| for lie was 
 bred in a school in which reverence for superiors was insist- 
 ed on as the imperative duty of the young. His neighbors, 
 although they entertained for him a distant respect, evident- 
 ly did not love him. By nature and by habit he was reserved 
 and formal, and he had neither the ready adaptability that 
 interests its possessor in the concerns of others, nor those 
 companionable qualities which are so much valued by one's 
 
 *Appcndix C. A terse, and strikingly just epitaph proposed 
 for him was, "Without natural issue lie made poste.rily his heir." 
 
 tA venerable lady of Kxeter states thai il was Dr. Phillips 1 hab- 
 it in his later years, to pace up and down the platform before his 
 hoii>e, ;uul to insist that every boy who passed, should doll' the 
 hat. and every girl make a courtesy, to him. 
 
 Professor Iloyt relates that "he would not give a hoy a cherry 
 from his trees, unless the favor were asked with a low how. and 
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 associates. And, worst of all, ho was wealthy. a money 
 lender, frugal and saving to the very verge of parsimony. 
 Little wonder that traditions of niggardliness and of hard treat- 
 ment of the poor, should have sprung up about such a man.* 
 
 But beneath that cold exterior there beat a warm and be- 
 nevolent heart. The fragments of his correspondence that 
 remain, show the cordiality of his affection for those connect- 
 ed with him by the ties of consanguinity, and his thorough 
 appreciation of the womanly charms and virtues that render- 
 ed his home happy. His secret sympathies, too, went out 
 in an ever widening circle, to every creature in poverty and 
 ignorance, struggling for the light. He did not amass riches 
 for his own enjoyment or aggrandizement ; still less for the 
 avaricious pleasure of possession ; else he could never have 
 brought himself to part with the control of them during his 
 life, and especially after the age of acquisition was passed. 
 He had a high and noble motive for his accumulations. He 
 saved on principle, that he might give the more wisely and 
 effectively. His generosity sprang from no shallow inornen- 
 taiy impulse, nor were his thousands lavished for the sake of 
 popularity or notoriety. The charity that enshrines his name 
 was self-denying, systematic, catholic and of highest pur- 
 pose. 
 
 The painted portrait of Dr. Phillips in the possessio i of 
 the Academy, attributed to the characterizing brush of Stuart, 
 bears an expression of kindness and benevolence, blended 
 with shrewdness and sagacit}". Apparently it represents 
 faithfully his leading characteristics. The Hon. Josiah Quin- 
 cy, his connection by marriage, who in his youth knew Dr. 
 Phillips well, asserts that "he should never forget the patri- 
 archial sweetness of his countenance." And it is the testi- 
 mony of the Rev. Dr. Abiel Abbot, the historian of Andover, 
 also a personal acquaintance, that Dr. Phillips was "a sagn- 
 
 *Mr. Wendell Phillips is authority for the statement that an old 
 woman who had lived in the family of Dr. Phillips, said "he 
 was a good man, and he always soaked his back-logs in water 
 over night !"
 
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 cious observer of human nature, shrewd in his remarks : sel- 
 doin erred in judgment, and had much practical wisdom." 
 
 lie has sometimes l>een represented as belonging to the 
 sourest sect of puritans ; and it is true that he clung tena- 
 ciously to the narrow and rigid religious tenets in which he 
 had l>een educated; but it was with the intellect far more 
 than with the heart. In his practice he was in advance of 
 his time, in respect to religious tolerance. It was well said 
 of him that "his austere faith was softened \)y natural tem- 
 perament and by inherent kindliness of spirit." lie certain- 
 ly was ready to appreciate goodness wherever he found it, 
 and even if interwoven with religious dogmas which he could 
 not accept. The major part of his associates on the board 
 of trust, and the first Principal of the Academy, all not only 
 approved but nominated by himself, held theological views 
 to a greater or less extent at variance with his own. 
 
 On the whole it ma}* be said of Dr. Phillips that his foibles 
 were few and venial, while his virtues were numerous and 
 shining. He is entitled, not to the questionable commenda- 
 tion of having buildcd better than he knew," but to rank 
 with those benefactors of mankind, whose building, because 
 it was perfected at the cost of much study and sacrifice, 
 filled out the exact measure of their wishes.
 
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 II. 
 
 THE ACADEMY; 1781 to 1838. 
 
 Phillips Exeter Academy was incorporated by the Legisla- 
 ture of New Hampshire, by an Act which received the ap- 
 proval of the President of the State, the third of April, 1781. 
 It was a wise step on the part of Dr. Phillips to begin this 
 educational experiment in his lifetime, and while he was yet 
 of an age to take an active part in its direction. There w r as 
 little experience in the management of similar institutions for 
 him to profit by ; he was entering upon a field that was al- 
 most untrodden. The only precedents for his guidance were 
 to be drawn from the Phillips Andover Academy, which had 
 been chartered but a year before, and from the Dummcr 
 Academy at By field, Massachusetts, which, though it had 
 been in operation eighteen years, was yet unincorporated. 
 Accordingly the responsibility of shaping the project in its 
 inception, and of giving it the direction which was to conduct 
 it to ultimate success, fell chiefly upon the Founder, who for- 
 tunately possessed the knowledge and experience and fore- 
 sight which adinirabl}- qualified him for the task. 
 
 The Act of Incorporation provided "that there be, and 
 hereby is, established in the Town of Exeter and County of 
 Kockingham. an Academy for the purpose of promoting Piety 
 and Virtue, and for the education of youth in the English, 
 Latin and Greek Languages, in Writing, Arithmetic, Music 
 and the Art of Speaking, Practical Geometry, Logic and Ge- 
 ography, and such other of the Liberal Arts and Sciences or 
 Languages, as opportunity may hereafter permit, and as the
 
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 Trustees hereinafter provided, shall direct." Tin. 1 control 
 and government of tin- Academy were by the Act vested in 
 
 a board of Trustee^, not tnore than seven nor less than four 
 in number, of \vhoin one should bo the principal instructor, a 
 majority should lie laymen, and a majority not inhabitants of 
 Kxeter. The Trustees were empowered to fill all vacancies 
 that should occur in their own board ; and by a vote of two 
 thirds of their whole number, to remove the Academy from 
 Kxeter, if for canoes thereafter arising that course should, upon 
 mature consideration, be found needful, and establish it in 
 Mum; other placa in the State which the}- should "judge best 
 calculated for carrying into effectual execution the intention 
 of the Founder." And, finally, the Act of Incorporation 
 stipulated "that all the lands, tenements and personal estate, 
 that shall IK- given to the Trustees for the use of said Acade- 
 my, shall be, and hereby are. forever exempted from all 
 taxes whatsoever."* 
 
 Tlu 1 first board of Trustees was composed of the following 
 ueiitlemen : Dr. John Phillips, the Hon. Samuel Phillips, .Jr., 
 of Andover, Massachusetts, Thomas Odiornc, Esq., of Kxeter, 
 the Hon. .John Pickering, LL. D., of Portsmouth, the Rev. 
 David McClure, of North Hampton, and Major Daniel 
 Tilton, and the Rev. Benjamin Thurston, both of Kxeter. 
 The hist named gentleman was expected to be the prin- 
 cipal teacher of the school, and in point of fact, if tradition 
 is to be relied upon, did give instruction in it for a time, 
 before the fornr.il opening of the Academy. 
 
 On the ninth day of January, 1782, Dr. Phillips com- 
 pleted a conveyance to the Trustees for the use of the Acad- 
 emy, of his interest in a large number of tracts of land, sit- 
 
 *Somc alarmist, having with perverse ingenuity insisted that, 
 by virtue of this provision all property which had once been held 
 by the Academy would be forever after freed from taxation to 
 subsequent owner-;, the Trustee-;, by petition to the Legislature. 
 procured the passage of an Aet declaring that the exemption from 
 taxation was to continue only so long as the property should bc.- 
 lonjr to the Academy.
 
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 uatcd in various towns in New Hampshire, some of which be 
 owned in fee, and others were under mortgage to him to se- 
 cure the payment of moneys due. Although we have not 
 the means to compute the value of this gift, yet it undoubt- 
 edly was sullicient to meet all the probable requirements of 
 the Academy, for making a successful beginning, at least. 
 
 In his deed of conveyance Dr. Phillips embodied a series 
 of standing regulations, which he termed the "Constitution" 
 of the Academy, and which he directed should be read at 
 each annual meeting of the Trustees. It contained some- 
 what minute definitions of the duties of the several oilicers, 
 which were less familiar then than now, as well as many 
 practical suggestions of lasting value. The rule was there 
 inculcated, which has always silica been adhered to with sig- 
 nal advantage, that no pupil should board in any family not 
 licensed by the authorities of the Academy. The only re- 
 strictions of a religious character in the instrument were that 
 the Trustees and teachers must be Protestants ; and that the 
 principal instructor should be a member of the Church of 
 Christ, in complete standing, and professing sentiments sim- 
 ilar to those of the Founder in the Constitution expressed. 
 The Founder also reserved to himself the power to appoint 
 his successor in the board of trust, who, as well as his suc- 
 cessors after him, should enjoy the same right forever. This 
 Constitution lias of course been the constant guide of the 
 Trustees from that time to the present, in the execution of 
 their functions. 
 
 Dr. Phillips added to the resources of the Academy by 
 repeated acts of generosity, afterwards. On the twenty-ninth 
 of March, 1787, he made an assignment to the Trustees, of 
 promissory notes against various parties, to the amount ol 
 I* I, KM or thereabout; and on the twenty-fifth day of No- 
 vember, 1789, another assignment of property of a similar na- 
 ture, the value of which is not stated, for the special purpose 
 of affording aid to charity scholars "such as may be of ex- 
 celling genius and of good moral character." And by his
 
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 hist will, executed in 17*'.' and proved in 1705, lit- devised 
 two thirds of the residue of his estate. after small bequest. > 
 to his ri'latives, and a rather slender provision for his wid- 
 ow.* to Phillips Kxeter Academy: the other third being 
 <;iven to the Academy at Andover. 
 
 The various benefactions of Dr. Phillips to the Kxeter Acad- 
 cmy are estimated to amount in the aggregate to aliout $00,- 
 000. In the present era of vast acquiring and magnificent 
 giving, there is danger of undervaluing the bounty express- 
 ed by these comparatively modest figures. We need to bear 
 in mind that the worth of money, one hundred years ago, 
 was four fold greater than it is to-day ; that the Founder de- 
 voted to this object the major part of the accumulations of a 
 laborious and extraordinarily successful life ; and that no 
 endowment of a similar enterprise in the country up to that 
 time, approached this in magnitude. And, finally, in order 
 to estimate the value of the foundation aright, it is necessaiy 
 to consider what has since been accomplished by it ; to look 
 down the long line of alumni who have been enabled, through 
 the facilities which it has afforded, to attain distinguished 
 places in every important walk of life ; and to weigh the im- 
 petus which it has thus given to the scholarship, the litera- 
 ture. and the professional and business progress of the conn- 
 try and of the age. 
 
 The charter for the Academy obtained, and the necessary 
 funds provided, the next step was to determine the location 
 of the Academy building. And here arose a difference of 
 opinion, as has so often been the ease in the settlement of 
 like questions. Dr. Phillips, though apparently holding a 
 pretty decided opinion on the point, had the wisdom not to 
 take sides, and it was decided to place the school house on 
 a spot somewhat westerly of the present site of the Acade- 
 
 *The provision for Mrs. Phillips was increased, from the es- 
 tate, to her entire satisfaction, by the joint aetion of the Kxeter 
 and Aiulover Academies, in the proportion to their several intci - 
 c-ts in the residuum.
 
 ACADKMY. 21 
 
 my. ;uul on tlii' opposite hide ol' what is now culled Academy 
 street, lint is better known to the older Alumni by the less 
 elegant name of -'Tan lane." A modest edifice was accord- 
 ingly erected there, and was probably made ready for oc- 
 cupation, in part at least, early in the year 1783. 
 
 As Mr. Tliurston's health was found to be insntlieient to 
 admit of his assuming the oflice of preceptor, it next became 
 necessary to choose a person for that position. After due 
 inquiry, William Woodbridge, A. B., of Glastonbury, 
 Connecticut, a graduate of Yale College in 1780, was 
 selected- 
 
 It was thought titling that the inauguration of this new 
 seminary of learning, founded on a scale of unprecedented 
 liberality, should be accompanied by public observances ; ac- 
 cordingly the Trustees appointed the Rev. David McClure, 
 one of their own number, to deliver a discourse on the open- 
 ing of the Academy, and the Rev. Benjamin Thurston to 
 make an address to the new preceptor, on his induction into 
 otHce. 
 
 The first of May. 178o, was designated for the ceremonies, 
 ''and on that day," says a contemporary record, "the lion. 
 Founder and Trustees, with many other gentlemen and a re- 
 spectable auditory, attended in one of the meeting-houses 
 in this town. The exercises began with singing, a prayer 
 succeeded b}* the Rev. Mr. Rogers, and an Oration on the 
 advantages of Learning and its happy Tendency to promote 
 Virtue and Piety, was delivered by Rev. David McClure, A. 
 M ., with an Address to the Founder, Trustees and Preceptor. 
 The inaugurating ceremonies were performed by Mr. Thurs- 
 ton, a gentleman of the trust, with a particular address and 
 charge to the Preceptor. Mr. Woodbridge, the Preceptor, 
 then publicly manifested his acceptance of the important 
 charge, and pronounced an affectionate address to the Trus- 
 tees and auditory. A prayer was made by the Rev. Mr. 
 Mansfield, and the whole was concluded by singing. Each 
 part was performed with propriety and the solemnity sujtq,-
 
 _'_' iMiiu.ii's i.\i n.i; 
 
 hie to the occasion ; the whole to universal acceptance."* 
 In view of what the school has since grown to lie, it is 
 rather a striking contrast to look liack to the humble preten- 
 sions of its infuncv. 
 
 An unobtrusive school-house of two stories, of the dimen- 
 sions of a small dwelling, and divided into four rooms, not 
 all of which were finished, supplied limited accommodation 
 for forty students sometimes a much smaller number, and 
 this though the tuition was gratuitous, of whom two-thirds, 
 at least, belonged in Kxeter, and scarcely any out of its im- 
 mediate vicinity. The preceptor's salary was 100 per an- 
 num, and the compensation of his single assistant was pro- 
 portionally less. There was no regular course of study, but 
 the pupils pursued such branches and formed such classes, 
 a> were found most convenient. It was thought worthy of 
 m.'iitioi) in the records, that a bell "to summon the students 
 to their exercises" xvas presented in 1784 by Gen. Henry 
 Dearborn of revolutionary fame, and other gentlemen of 
 Kxcter; and that an electrical machine was given by the 
 I Ion. Phillips White, of South Hampton. Such petty charg- 
 es as the cost of wood and candles were apportioned by a 
 tax among the students, and he who did not pay his share, 
 forfeited the privileges of the Academy until his deficiency 
 was made good. And as late as in 1788 we learn that there 
 were but two pupils in the school who had "looked bexond 
 common reading and spelling, into the nn*steries of Latin." 
 Truly this was the day of small things. f 
 
 Mr. Woodbridge continued to act as Preceptor of the Acad- 
 emy something over five years. In June, 1788, he announc- 
 
 MI-. Mc( 'lure's oration \\'a.s published at the time, together 
 with the charter of the. Academy, in a Ho. pamphlet. It was an 
 excellent production, though not exactly brilliant. No better 
 illustration could be given of the change which a century lias 
 wrought in men's itleas of the requirements of such an occasion, 
 than the comment of an eloquent divine of our day, after reading 
 the oration: "I rejoice to know that there was a- time when 
 men dared to be dull." 
 f Appendix \).
 
 ,\< AUK.MV. 23 
 
 ed to the Trustees his intention of resigning his position in 
 the ensuing October, because of his u low state of health.'' 
 There is reason also to think that the dwindling of the num- 
 ber of new pupils during the later years of his sta}'. some- 
 what discouraged Mr. Woodbridge in his .hopes of building 
 up a great school. 
 
 Inquiry was therefore set on foot for some one with the 
 needful qualifications to supply the place of Mr. Woodbridge. 
 Fortunately the Trustees succeeded, with little delay, in find- 
 ing a young man whose subsequent career showed him to 
 have a wonderful adaptation for the duties required of him. 
 Sometime in August, 1788, Benjamin Abbot, a native of 
 Andovcr, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard College 
 of that year, was secured for the preccptorship of the Acad- 
 emy, and on the twenty-second or twenty-third of the same 
 month entered upon the duties of instruction and govern- 
 ment of the school ;* Mr. Woodbridge rarely visiting it af- 
 wards, although his connection was not formally severed un- 
 til the fourteenth of October following. Here commenced 
 those relations between Benjamin Abbot and Phillips Exeter 
 Academy which endured for half a century, with the result 
 of elevating the institution to a rank unsurpassed in this 
 country, and of making its master, as an educator and gov- 
 ernor of youth, an exemplar even to our own time. 
 
 The prospects of the school began at once to brighten. 
 Order and method were introduced. The young preceptor 
 infused his own quiet force into the boys under his charge, 
 and the results were soon manifest in the increase of their 
 numbers. In the first year after Mr. Abbot's arrival as 
 many new pupils were admitted as had been added in the 
 three preceding years. But he was a man of singular pru- 
 dence, and declined to connect himself permanently with the 
 school until he had proved his value. . It was not until Octo- 
 ber, 1791, that he formally signified his acceptance of the of- 
 fice of Preceptor, and this upon the understanding with the 
 *M$. letter of Charles Folsom.
 
 2 I IMIII. I .11- I \l II i; 
 
 Trustees that either party should be at liberty to dissolve the 
 connection, upon giving reasonable notice. II is salary \vas 
 raised to the sum of five hundred dollars per annum, and his 
 assistant. John P. Ripley A. !>., received two hundred dollars. 
 
 In a very few years the situation of the Academy demand- 
 ed an increase of accommodations tor the students. The 
 original building was small and unsuitable, and the need of 
 a larger and more commodious one became pressing, as the 
 school augmented. It was, therefore, determined in 17'.K> to 
 erect "a new building for the use of the Academy." 
 
 The committee for carrying the plan into execution was ju- 
 diciously constituted of two members of the board of Trustees, 
 the Hon. Samuel Phillips, .Jr.. and the Preceptor : the Treas- 
 urer, the Hon. John Taylor Oilman : and two public spirited 
 citixens of the town, the lion. Oliver Pea body and Col. Na- 
 thaniel Oilman. They were empowered to procure a build- 
 ing to be erected, of certain specified dimensions on the 
 ground; of the height of two stories; the materials to be 
 brick or wood ; and vt with or without a porch and belfry as 
 the committee, after advising with the Trustees present, should 
 judge best." The location of the building was wisely left to 
 the determination of the committee, with the concurrence of 
 the resident Trustees. 
 
 The new edifice was completed in the year 17'Jl. It was 
 constructed of wood, with a belfry and without a portico. 
 and at a cost of between seven and ten thousand dollars. 
 With some additions at a later period, it fulfilled its purpose 
 well until the generation which witnessed its building had. 
 with scarce an exception, passed off the stage. 
 
 Dr. Phillips, who survived to see the institution he had 
 planted, flourishing with a healthful and secure growth, died 
 in 17'J"). In the execution of the power he had reserved to 
 himself in the Consitution. to name his successor in the board 
 of trust, he had by a written appointment designated the 
 Hon. John Taylor ( lilman for the ollice, who accepted it . and 
 long and assiduously performed its dutio.
 
 A< AI'I.MY. L'.'i 
 
 III March, 17!7, it was voted l>y the Trustees that any stu- 
 dent who had been a member of the Academy lor six months 
 and should appear on examination "to have made valuable 
 improvement in the Latin and Greek languages. Arithme- 
 tic, practical (ieometry, Logic, Geography, Philosophy and 
 Astronomy," or in any two or more of those studies, and had 
 sustained a good moral character, should lie entitled to a 
 certificate thereof, signed by the President and Preceptor. 
 with the seal of the Academy affixed thereto. 
 
 There is extant, in the 3'outhfnl handwriting of Lewis 
 ('ass. in after years the distinguished Senator, Foreign 
 Minister and Cabinet Officer, a copy of the certificate which 
 was granted to him by virtue of the foregoing vote, on his 
 leaving the Academy. It is in these words: 
 
 "PniLLii's EXKTIM; ACADEMY. 
 
 "The Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy, with a view to 
 encourage Industry, Science and Morality, have determined 
 that certificates may be granted to students in certain cases. 
 Be it therefore known that Lewis ('ass has been a member of 
 the said Academy seven years, and appears on examination 
 to have acquired the principles of the English, French, Latin 
 and Greek languages. Geography, Arithmetic and practical 
 (ieometry : that he has made very valuable progress in the 
 study of Rhetoric, History, Natural and Moral Philosophy, 
 Logic. Astronomy and Natural Law; and that he has sus- 
 tained a good moral character during said term. 
 
 "In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands, and 
 allix the seal of said Academy, this second day of October, 
 one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. 
 
 'JOHN T. G i I.MAN. 
 "BKN.IAMIN AP.IJOT." 
 
 This certificate sheds some light upon the fashions of work 
 done in the Academy at that early day. Lewis ('ass was 
 born in 17*2 ; he therefore became a pupil when he was ten. 
 and quitted the school when he was seventeen years of age.
 
 That there could have been anv curriculum embracing a sev- 
 en year-' course of study is out of the question : he must 
 therefore have pursued his way alone, or in such company as 
 chancr from time to time brought him. The range of sub- 
 jects, too. was certainly for the time, very remarkalile : a 
 fortunate circumstance for Cass. who had little opportunity 
 afterwards to add to his academic training. 
 
 In the year 1 'Sox a very decided forward step was taken 
 in the organization of tin- Academy. The qualifications for 
 admission with a view to an Knglish education were defined, 
 and apparently considerably raised : the head master was 
 ve-tcd with the title of Principal : a professorship of Mathe- 
 matics and Natural Philosophy was established, with a compe- 
 tent salary; it was voted expedient to reduce the number of 
 classes and to establish a uniform system of classification, to 
 lie effected by the Principal and Professor; and an appropri- 
 ation of fifty dollars annually was made, to be distributed in 
 the shape of rewards or prizes to those students who should 
 excel in Mathematics, Writing. Knglish composition, and in 
 knowledge of Latin.* Ebene/er Adams, A. M. was chosen 
 as the first Professor. 
 
 t'p to this time all the instruction in the Academy had been 
 furnished to the pupils gratuitously, the only charges upon 
 them being some trifling contributions for special purposes. 
 But in the year I*')!', the Trustees, in view of the increasing 
 expenses of the institution, in accordance with the known 
 expectations of the Founder, and in order that they might be 
 enabled to extend aid to the usual number of students on the 
 foundation, voted that it was necessary to require payment 
 from those of sullicicnt ability, for their tuition. This change 
 however, it was found expedient to postpone until the first 
 of January, 1*1:.': after which date the sum of twelve dol- 
 lars per year, or three dollars per term, became payable, for 
 tuition. 
 
 The mansion house on Water street, in which Dr. Phillips 
 
 *A]>l>enilix E.
 
 A( AI>K.\n . ZV 
 
 had resided, came into the possession of tin 1 Ac:idi>niy upon 
 the death of his widow, and was occupied by the Principal 
 until about 1X11. A year or two previously the Trustees 
 had caused a dwelling- house to k> built lor the use of 1'n - 
 fessor Adams, nearly opposite the Academy grounds ; but ns 
 he soon afterwards left the io\vn. Dr. Abliot liecame its lii>t 
 occupant, while the Kev. Ilosea Ilildreth. who in 1X11 suc- 
 ceeded Professor Adams in the Mathematical chair, took 
 possession of the Phillips house.* 
 
 In 1X17 the Kev. Isaac Ilurd, then about to be settled 
 over the second parish in Exeter, received the appointment 
 of Instructor in Theology . It had been unquestionably the 
 original expectation of the Founder to make theological in- 
 struction a part of the regular course in the Academy; with 
 the idea, possibly, that a seminary for the education o!' stu- 
 dents for the religious ministry would eventually grow out of 
 it. as has been the cas^ in the sister institution at Andover. 
 Accordingly, in 1790, during Dr. Phillips' lifetime, the Rev. 
 Joseph Buckminster was elected, by the Trustees, Professor 
 of Divinity in the Academy, with a salary equal to that of the 
 Preceptor. But he declined the of lice. 
 
 No other person was chosen in his stead : but for many 
 years afterwards appropriations were made by the Trustees 
 from time to time, of 11101103*8 to defray the expenses of stu- 
 dents in divinity, who pursued their studies under the direc- 
 tion of neighboring clergymen, such as the Kev. Jesse Ap- 
 pletou, of Hampton, the Kev. Joseph Buckminster, of 
 Portsmouth, and the Kev. Daniel Dana, of Xewburyport. 
 
 *It is related, as an indication of the change which time pro- 
 duces even in small places, that Dr. Abbot and his family re- 
 moved tn their new abode with reluctance, because, besides being 
 in the midst of the sands, it was out of the way of all their friends 
 and neighbors. Exeter lias since yielded to the law that "all 
 towns grow to the westward." and the house is now nearly in the 
 centre of her inhabitants. In the more than seventy years of its 
 existence, it has sheltered but two families, -those ol the first 
 two Principals. The venerable widow of Dr. Sonic occupied it 
 up to the time of her decease, the ninth day of May. INS:!.
 
 28 nnu.li-> 
 
 who were named by the Trustees as committees tor the 
 purpose. 
 
 It may b;> added here that n<> further attempt \vas made 
 during the life of the Founder, or afterwards, to establish a 
 professorship of Divinity, and that Mr. Ilurd ceased to hold 
 the post of Theological Instructor in the year is: 1 ,'.). Since 
 that time there has been no special teacher of religions 
 science in the Academy, but it has been treated as the duty 
 of the regular instructors to form the Morals." to use the 
 language of the "Constitution," as well as to "enlarge the 
 Minds of the youth committed to their care." 
 
 The standing and popular estimate of the Academy had. in 
 the year 1X18, risen so high that it became necessary to 
 define anew the course of study, to draw a strict, line of dis- 
 tinction between the English and classical departments, and 
 to adopt more stringent regulations in respect to the recep- 
 tion of pupils. 
 
 Candidates for admission were required thenceforth to fur- 
 nish evidence of their good moral character, and to give as- 
 surance of their intention to remain at the Academy until 
 they should complete the usual routine of preparation for 
 college, or the established course of English study. The 
 time fixed for their admission was at the beginning of the 
 term next succeeding the annual meeting of the Trustees in 
 August; provided, however, that any one found duly quali- 
 fied, might lie received at advanced standing, at the discre- 
 tion of the instructors. The department of languages was 
 to comprise' three classes, or N^ears, for preparation to enter 
 college, and an advanced class to prosecute the studies of 
 the first collegiate 3'car. The course of English study was 
 also to occupy three years. Theological instruction was to 
 be given by the Rev. Mr. Ilurd, and sacred music was to be 
 taught, a fund of 8101)0 having been bequeathed by the lion. 
 Nicholas (iilman in 1*11, the income of which was to be ap- 
 plied to that object. A permanent assistant teacher was also 
 engaged, at an annual salary of six hundred dollars.
 
 The particular studies aii'l text bo:>ks for cadi year. l>oth in 
 th C'.MS ;ical and th: 1 English c >urso, w.-iv at this time specifi- 
 cally designated, and will lie given in th" Appendix, for tin- 
 purpose of comparison with tin 1 work required at the present 
 day.* 
 
 In 1x21. the convenient accommodation of thc-studcnts re- 
 quiring additional spa;-;' in th: 1 sell >:>! building, wind's of a 
 single story were allixed to the eastern and western ends 
 thereof, each containing a school room of ample size. They 
 added much to the symmetry of the structure, as well as to 
 its convenience : and the appearance of the building as thus 
 extended, is well remembered by most of the older Alumni. 
 
 Thus improved in organization and in accommodations, the 
 Academy for years kept on the even tenor of its way, ever 
 changing, yet the same. The number of students was usual- 
 ly fixed at seventy, and varied little from it. At length Dr. 
 Abbot, lie had received the degree of Doctor of Laws. 
 honoris causa, from Dartmouth College in 1811, who was 
 blessed with a vigorous constitution and up to this time had 
 enjoyed almost uninterrupted health, began to feel the effects 
 of his long continued labors and responsibilities: and in the 
 year 1832 made application to the board of Trustees for 
 some respite or relief, submitting to them the question whcih- 
 cr his resignation would be acceptable. They were unwill- 
 ing that he should sunder his connection with the Academy, 
 and made an arrangement with him, whereby by lessening 
 the number of students, and confining them rigidly to the 
 fixed classes, the Principal was relieved of a portion of his 
 labor. This arrangement continued until l<S:ii;, when at the 
 request of Dr. Abbot an additional instructor was appointed, 
 for the purpose of exempting him from the larger portion of 
 his active duties. For the last }'ear or two of his service as 
 Principal his attendance at recitations was limited to two 
 quarters of days in each week. 
 
 The close of the half century of Dr. Abbot's charge of the 
 
 * Appendix V.
 
 rU> run. 1. 11- I \i TI i; 
 
 school now drew near, and ly the desire of many of his old 
 pupils he postponed his retirement until that period should 
 be completed. All united in the opinion that the termina- 
 tion of a career so long and so Anally honorable and useful 
 should be marked by' public manifestations worthy of the oc- 
 casion. A Committee of Arrangem .Mils, consisting of a num- 
 ber of gentlemen of note, Alumni of the Academy, made all 
 the needful preparations for holding what was appropriately 
 termed the "Abbot Festival," and appointed the twenty-third 
 of August, 1838, as the day of its occurrence. 
 
 It was au event to be remembered by every one who wit- 
 nessed it. A beautiful summer day enabled all to enjoy the 
 exercises without discomfort, and the number of persons as- 
 sembled, considering the limited means *of transportation at 
 that dak', \va> >urprising^ It was estimated that nearly four 
 hundred of the Alumni were present, besides a scarcely less 
 number of strangers who had not enjoyed the privileges of 
 the institution. 
 
 At eleven o'clock in the forenoon, in accordance with the 
 programme, a meeting of the Alumni was held, in the Acad- 
 emy yard, about the eastern wing of the building. Daniel 
 Webster was appointed chairman, and Charles Folsom and 
 Oliver W. B. Peabody, Secretaries. The exercises wen- 
 opened with a prayer by the Rev. Dr. John G. Palfrey. Mr. 
 Webster then explained in a brief and impressive address 
 the object of the meeting, and read the communication of 
 Dr. Abbot to the Trustees, in which he apprised them of his 
 intention to retire from the office of Principal, and their re- 
 sponse thereto.* ITc also read an interesting letter from the 
 Rev. Dr. Daniel Dana, of Ncwburyport, long a member of the 
 board of Trustees, who was unable to be present on the occa- 
 sion. 
 
 The Hon. Leveret t Saltonstall, chairman of the'Committee 
 of Arrangements, then submitted a report in their behalf. 
 He said their efforts had been directed in four several ends. 
 
 *Appendix G.
 
 ACADKMV. 31 
 
 all designed to do honor to the venerated Principal on his 
 surrender of the duties which he had discharged so long and 
 so ably; first, to secure a gathering of the Alumni, at the 
 Abbot Festival ; second, to obtain a painted portrait of Ur. 
 Abbot, to be placed in the Academy ; third, to procure a 
 handsome piece of plate to be presented to him as a token of 
 respect from his old pupils ; and fourth, to found and endow 
 a permanent scholarship in Harvard College, as a memorial 
 of Dr. Abbot, and to bear his name. All these purposes the 
 Committee had succeeded in accomplishing, except the last, 
 and they had the assurance that in due time that also would 
 be effected. 
 
 The Report concluded with a Resolution expressing in 
 terms of gratitude and affectionate regard the sense enter- 
 tained by the meeting of the inestimable value of the faith- 
 ful and long continued services of Dr. Abbot. The Resolu- 
 tion was advocated with feeling and eloquence by the Rev. 
 Henry Ware, Jr., Gov. Edward Everett,* the Rev. J)r. 1'al- 
 frey, Judge Peter O. Thaclier, and the Hon. Jonathan Chap- 
 man, and was unanimously adopted. 
 
 At the close of these preliminary exercises the Alumni re- 
 paired to the hall of the Academy, and there paid their res- 
 pects to the venerable recipient of the honors of the day. 
 
 At the hour of half-past one in the afternoon a procession 
 was formed and marshalled to the dinner table. A blessing 
 was asked by the Rev. Dr. John II. Morison. After the 
 meat, Mr. Webster, who presided, addressed the company 
 in an appropriate, eloquent and touching manner. It is 
 much to be regretted that his remarks, which occupied an 
 hour in the deliver}', were not reported with sufficient fulness 
 to give us any adequate idea of their scope or merit. From 
 the journals of the day this imperfect account is obtained. 
 
 "We have often heard Mr. Webster, but never on an}' 
 
 *Gov. Everett's remarks on this occasion are reported in full, in 
 his elegant, expansive style, in one of the volumes of his collected 
 works.
 
 ClIll.l.ll-S KM I I !: 
 
 occasion when In- appeared to better advantage than on this. 
 IIi> \v:is emphatically eloquent and truly himself. Ilrnol 
 only drew tears from tlu 1 venerable m:!!i in whose honor 
 \ve had assembled, but from very many of the numerous au- 
 dience." 
 
 "lie rec:illed the attention of the assembly to the olijeets for 
 which they h:id met. He recurred to the services which had 
 Iteen rendered, during his lonu term of arduous duty, by their 
 re.-pected friend now retirinii from the Held of active service : 
 passed a ulowinn; culo^inm upon the character and worth of 
 the accomplished instructors of youth of whom he described 
 their friend as a conspicuous example: and dwelt at consid- 
 erable length in a series of just remarks and forcible illustra- 
 tions, upon the importance to the welfare of the community 
 of judicious systems of instruction, and the labors of able 
 and faithful instructors of youth. lie concluded by an 
 affectionate address in the name of his fellow students to 
 their Preceptor, and by presenting him a pie; e of plate 
 (which had in the meantime been placed before him.) as a 
 token of their regard."' 
 
 This was an elegant and massive vase of silver, bearinu 
 an inscription commemorative of the occasion. 
 
 Dr. Abbot rose to reply. Foreseeing that the trying na- 
 ture of his position would incapacitate him for making an 
 
 "In the process of arrau^in^ the considerable collection of Mr. 
 Webster's papers, presented al'ler his death by the lion. I'eler 
 Harvey to the New Hampshire Historical Society, a couple of 
 folded sheets were found hearing the indorsement, "Kxeter 
 Academy Celebration." It was a disappointment to find that 
 when opened they contained not even the heads of Mr. Webster's 
 address, but onl^y the two following Latin quotations which he 
 undoubtedly introduced therein, and which were singularly appo- 
 site to the occasion. 
 
 Arceliat emu ab illecebris peecanlinm, pra-ler ipsius bonam 
 integr&mque oaturam, <|iiod statim parvulus sedeni ac mairisti-ani 
 Stnmorum Massiliam liabuit, locum (Jra-ea comilate et provin- 
 ciali ])arsimonia inixtum ac Itenc compo>itnm." 
 
 "Mihi ille detur pner i|iiem laus exeitet, i|uem gloria juvet, 
 (|iii victus lleat. Hie erit alendiis ambiln. Inme mordebil olijur- 
 patio, Inme honor exeitabit, in hoe desidiam mmqiiam vereli r."
 
 \< \HKMY 83 
 
 extemporaneous response, he hud committed what In- wished 
 to say. to writing ; but he found when the critical moment 
 arrived, that his emotions were too great for utterance. (iov. 
 Everett with ready sympathy came to his relief. ' -Breth- 
 ren," said he, "the voice that has never i'ailed for a day. in 
 lifty years' teaching, now falters ;" and receiving the manu- 
 script from his old master's hand, he read its contents, with 
 characteristic grace and impressiveness, to the assembly. As 
 might have been expected from their author. Dr. Abbot's ac- 
 knowledgements were eminently suitable to the occasion, 
 modest, grateful and dignified. 
 
 Then sprang up a friendly rivalry between the eminent 
 Alumni present., who should most gratefully express his sense 
 of the worth of their old Preceptor, and of his own personal 
 indebtedness to him. Other gentlemen also, some of whom 
 had been his associates in the duties of instruction, and some 
 who knew him only by his works, united with the Alumni in 
 bearing testimony to his excellences as a teacher and as a 
 man. 
 
 If laudari a laadatis viris be any compensation for a life- 
 time spent in the discharge of high and onerous duty, then 
 must Dr. Abbot have felt abundantly repaid for the pains he 
 had bestowed upon the generations who had been under his 
 tutelage, when he found himself the subject of so hearty, 
 sincere, discriminating eulogy from men of the character of 
 Edward Everett, Nicholas Emery, John (J. Palfrey. (Jeorge 
 Lunt, John P. Hale, Jonathan Chapman, Alexander II. Ev- 
 erett. Peter (). Thatcher, (lideon L. Soule, Henry Ware, Jr., 
 Prentiss Mellen, Charles S. Daveis, Caleb dishing, Ichabod 
 Nichols, and others who took part in these' i xercises. 
 
 But perhaps nothing that was said attracted more atten- 
 tion than the opening remarks of the venerable Judge Jere- 
 miah Smith : '-I can claim a distinction which belongs to no 
 other man living. You were Dr. Abbot's scholars. I was 
 his teacher." "I then thought him. and have since found 
 him. exactly titled for the station in which Providence placed
 
 PHILLIPS KXKTKR 
 
 him." It was while Dr. Abbot was pursuing bis preparatory 
 studies at Andover, that the speaker, then an assistant in tin- 
 Academy there, enjoyed the privilege of speeding on the 
 pathway of learning, the youth, who was now, after accom- 
 plishing his useful and meritorious life work, about to quit 
 the seem- of his labors and his triumphs. 
 
 Three odes were composed for this occasion, and were 
 sung from printed copies, during the exercises, by the entire 
 company, with feeling and expression. One of them, which 
 was again sung, thirty-four years afterward, on a similar oc- 
 casion, when the dedication of the new Academy building, 
 was substantially united with the Farewell to Dr. Gideon L. 
 Soule on his retirement from the Principal's chair, and may 
 therefore fairly be considered as the Academy Song, is here 
 given.* 
 
 SONU I'Olt TIIK A1WOT FKST1VAI.. 
 BY KEY. HENKY WAKE, JK. 
 
 Tune, "<S'a/((/y and Jenny." 
 
 From highways and byways of manhood we come, 
 And gather, like children, about our old home; 
 We return from life's weariness, tumult and pain, 
 Kejoiced in our hearts to be schoolboys again. 
 
 The Senator comes from the hall of debate, 
 The Governor steps from the high chair of State, 
 The Judge leaves the bench to the law's wise delay, 
 Kejoiced to be schoolboys again for a day. 
 
 The Parson his pulpit has left misapplied. 
 The Doctor has put his old sulky aside, 
 The Lawyer his client has turned from the door, 
 And all are at Exeter, schoolboys once more. 
 
 Oli, glad to our eyes are these dear scenes displayed, 
 The halls where we studied, the fields where we played, 
 
 *For the other two odes, see Appendix II. One of them is said 
 to have been written by Mr. Abel F. Hildreth, an old pupil, and 
 long the respected head of the 1'inkertou Academy in Derry, New 
 Hampshire. He was present on this occasion, and no doubt led 
 with his powerful and well trained voice, the singing of the sev- 
 eral pieces,
 
 \< ADEMY. 85 
 
 Tin-re is change there is change but we will not deplore, 
 Enough that we feel ourselves schoolboys ouee more. 
 
 Kiiotigh that once more our old Master we meet, 
 The same as of yore when we sat at his feet, 
 Let us place on his brow every laurel we've won, 
 And show that each pupil is also a sou. 
 
 And when to the harsh scenes of life we return, 
 Our hearts with the glow of this meeting shall burn ; 
 Its calm light shall cheer till earth's schooltime is o'er, 
 And prepare us in Heaven for one meeting more. 
 
 In the evening Dr. Abbot's house was thrown open and 
 crowded with ladies and gentlemen, anxious to pay him their 
 respects ; and a soiree was held at the Squamscott House. 
 The ceremonies of the day were in every respect worthy of 
 the extraordinary occasion, and afforded complete satisfac- 
 tion to the friends of the Academy.
 
 ;ili mil. I. II- I.M.TI.K 
 
 III. 
 
 TIIK ACADKMV ; l.s:'.s to l.s,s:i. 
 
 Al'lcr Dr. Abbot's resignation \vns linally accepted, the 
 Trustees unanimously made, choice of (lideon L. Souk', A. 
 M.. Prof esspr of Ancient Languages, as his successor. He 
 
 had been for more than sixteen years an associate of Dr. Ab- 
 bot in the corp.s of instructors, and by reason of the impaired 
 health of the latter had practically exercised the powers o!' 
 Principal lor some time prior to his election, lie was there- 
 fore perfectly familiar with the methods and the traditions of 
 the institution, and no immediate changes in the administra- 
 tion, worthy of note, occurred on the transfer of authority 
 from the old to the new head of the school. 
 
 The English department, which had been instituted as a 
 distinct branch in 1808, was deemed, forty years afterward, 
 to have: diminished in importance. The number of acade- 
 mies and high schools in the country, where English studies 
 could be conveniently pursued, had in that period greatly in- 
 creased. For this reason, and because also in that division 
 of the Academy '-not one for the last seven years had com- 
 pleted the course of study prescribed," the English depart- 
 ment, as a distinct feature of the school, was discontinued. 
 This, however, was not construed to debar any individual 
 members of the Academy who might choose to do so, from 
 prosecuting a more complete course of study in the English 
 branches than that included in the ordinary preparation for 
 college,
 
 ACADEMY. :> / 
 
 It luid always been the aim of the Trustees, from the open- 
 ing of the Academy, to render the charitable aid provided by 
 the Founder, of the highest possible utility to those who en- 
 joyed it. In the earlier days, when the cost of the necessa- 
 ries of life was small, the allowance made from the founda- 
 tion to indigent students, was sufficient for their comfortable 
 subsistence. But as the number of students increased, while 
 fewer of the families resident in the town were willing to re- 
 ceive them as boarders, and the cost of living steadily ad- 
 vanced, it was at length found that the sum allotted to each 
 beneficiary was wholly inadequate to his support. The Trus- 
 tees, therefore, determined to establish at the charge of the 
 Acadeni}*, a dormitoiy and commons hall for the members of 
 the school of limited means, by which the expense of living 
 should be reduced to the minimum. The experiment was 
 lirst made in the building owned by the Academy on Spring 
 street, which had formerly been the printing establishment 
 of the Messrs. Williams. Here the rooms were rented for 
 a merely nominal sum, and the board was furnished at the 
 exact cost. The result of the experiment was so satisfac- 
 tory that in 1852 the Trustees voted to erect a more suitable 
 and capacious building for the same purpose, in the Academy 
 grounds. It was completed and opened for use in 1855. It 
 was constructed of brick, and contained rooms for fifty young 
 men, with a dining hall and other needful accommodations ; 
 and cost about twenty thousand dollars. The name of 
 Abbot Hall was appropriately given to it. The building has 
 fully answered the uses for which it was designed. Every 
 room in it has been constantly occupied, and the inmates 
 have been enabled to live with entire comfort at about one- 
 half the ordinary charges of the boarding houses. 
 
 The size and importance of the school, and the number of 
 its instructors, seemed now to demand a more systematic 
 administration ; and it was thought expedient, in 1857, to in- 
 vest the Principal, Professors and permanent instructors with 
 the powers of a regular Faculty. This arrangement has ever
 
 38 I'I1IU.I1'> l.Xl.TKK 
 
 since boon maintained, and lias been I'ound to conduce to 
 harmony, to uniformity in discipline, and to higher respect 
 for authority, in the school. 
 
 It was in the year 1857 that an application was made to 
 the Trustees to modify the regulations of the Academy so fai- 
 ns to allow girls to be admitted as pupils. It is not known 
 whether the project met the approval of any members of the 
 board, for the petitioners, upon learning that it was strongly 
 objected to by some of them, thought proper to withdraw 
 the application. 
 
 The year 1858 witnessed a notable innovation in the 
 Academy. Up to that date the pupils had been required to 
 do the greater part of the preparation, as well as the recita- 
 tion, of their lessons in the school-rooms, which necessarily 
 confined, them therein for five or six hours on every week 
 day, Wednesday and Saturday excepted, when the sessions 
 were abbreviated about one-half. Besides being irksome to 
 both teachers and pupils, this method was objectionable on 
 sanitary grounds ; but probably another consideration had 
 much weight with the authorities of the Academy in induc- 
 ing them to change it. 
 
 The plan of keeping the pupils under constant sur- 
 veillance had never been practiced in this Academy. All 
 the liberty that was consistent with good discipline had al- 
 ways been granted them. They were treated as little like 
 children, and as nearly like men, as their conduct would war- 
 rant. The habit of self-reliance and self-government had 
 been so thoroughly inculcated by these practical lessons, 
 that the authorities felt justified in putting the students upon 
 the footing of those in more advanced institutions. Our 
 colleges and professional seminaries required the presence 
 of their students only at recitations and prayers, and per- 
 mitted them to pass the remainder of their time at their 
 rooms. In Phillips Academy, at Audover, the older part of 
 the pupils, at least, enjoyed the same privilege. It was not 
 doubted that equal freedom might be allowed all the students
 
 ACADEMY. 39 
 
 of this Academy, without danger of abuse. The former rule 
 was therefore relaxed, and "stuctying out of school," by 
 young and old alike, was introduced. It has proved, to 
 all concerned, teachers and learners alike, a great physical 
 relief, and has operated in no way to the detriment of the 
 isuhool. The character and quantity of the work done under 
 the new regime have fully equalled, if they have not exceed- 
 ed, the former standard. 
 
 In the year 1859, Professor Joseph G. Hoyt, who had 
 been connected with the Academy in the department of 
 Mathematics for nearly eighteen years, resigned the position, 
 to accept the office of Chancellor of the Washington Univer- 
 sity at St. Louis. 
 
 In the year 1862 the Rev. John Langdon Sibley, long the 
 excellent Librarian of Harvard College, laid the foundations 
 of a separate charity fund, which, by subsequent additions 
 and stipulations, was to be allowed to accumulate, by adding 
 the yearly interest to the principal, until it reached the 
 amount of 8100,000, after which the income was to be applied 
 within certain restrictions, to the aid of students of the Acad- 
 emy, "of poverty and merit." The endowment was to be 
 known by the name of the "Sibley Charity Fund," and was 
 to be regarded as a memorial of the donor's father, Dr. Jon- 
 athan Sible,}*, a native of New Hampshire, and long a resi- 
 dent of Maine, from whose accumulations it was in part 
 derived. He had always deeply sympathized with young 
 men struggling to obtain an education, and was especially 
 grateful to this Academy for the assistance which it furnished 
 his son in his preparation for College. The Trustees accept- 
 ed the gift with the stipulations annexed to it. The fund 
 now amounts to about $34,000. 
 
 On the night of the seventeenth of December, 1870, the old 
 Academy building, which was erected in 1794, and enlarged 
 in 1821, was destroyed by fire. It had long been felt to be 
 inconveniently small and unsuitable, for the increasing num- 
 ber of students ; but its proportions were architecturallv
 
 40 PHILLIPS l\l 111; 
 
 harmonious, and it was so associated in the minds of 
 thousands of Alumni with the pleasant period of their 
 school-days, that its disappearance, caused a pang in many 
 a breast. 
 
 But not a moment's doubt rested in the minds of the friends 
 of the Academy, of the readiness of grateful and philanthrop- 
 ic hearts to do more than make good the loss. Three days 
 after the catastrophe, a committee of the Trustees published 
 a statement of what was needed to enable the Academy to 
 replace the former building with a new and more convenient 
 one, and an appeal to the Alumni and friends of the school 
 to contribute the means for the purpose. The call was 
 promptly responded to, and immediate subscriptions enabled 
 the committee to proceed with the work of rebuilding, with- 
 out delay, and the whole needed amount of nearly $50,000 
 was seasonably obtained.* 
 
 The new building was completed in the early part of 1872. 
 It was placed nearly on the spot where its predecessor for 
 more than three-quarters of a century had stood. It was 
 designedly made not unlike that, in its general outlines, but 
 its material was brick, its dimensions were much enlarged 
 and many improvements introduced. Altogether the new 
 home of the school was far more elegant, commodious and 
 suitable than the old. 
 
 By a general understanding, and without the expenditure 
 of any special effort, the opening of the new edifice, erected 
 by the munificence of those who loved and valued the Acad- 
 emy, was to be made a red-letter day in its calendar. The 
 occasion in fact possessed a double interest, for it also com- 
 memorated the completion of the semi-centenary of Dr. 
 Soule's continuous service in the Academy. The venerable 
 second Principal had sought to be relieved of his charge at 
 this time, but, at the instance of the Trustees, consented to 
 
 *Among the many noble contributions for this object, it is iuter- 
 ot ing to note that the largest one of $10,000, was irom William 
 Phillips, Esq., of Boston, a kinsman of the Founder.
 
 ACADEMY, 41 
 
 hold his ollice, though freed from its more onerous duties, 
 for a }*ear longer. 
 
 The new Academy building was dedicated on the nine- 
 teenth day of June, 187*2. The Trustees had designated the 
 Rev. Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, President of the board, to de- 
 liver the dedicatory address; and the gathering of Alumni, 
 invited guests and others, to witness the ceremonies, 
 was imposing. The exercises of the morning were held in 
 the new and spacious Academy hall, which was thronged. 
 A number of gentlemen of distinction were placed upon the 
 stage, while portraits of the Founder and of other benefac- 
 tors, trustees and teachers, gathered in great part by 
 the exertions of one of the Alumni,* looked down from 
 the walls. The Rev. Dr. John H. Morison opened the 
 exercises with an appropriate pra}*cr ; after which the Rev. 
 Dr. Peabody delivered his admirable address, which is acces- 
 sible in print, and needs no further notice here. 
 
 In the afternoon a procession was formed, and marched 
 to the town hall, where the dinner was served. The Rev. 
 Dr. Palfrey presided at the tables, and in due time invited 
 the attention of the company to the intellectual part of the 
 feast. He pronounced a merited encomium upon the wisdom 
 and philanthropy of the Founder, and exhibited some inter- 
 esting relics of him, which had been presented by his 
 family. Announcing as the first sentiment, to be drunk in 
 pure water, "the memory of the Founder," he called upon 
 the oldest graduate present, the venerable John Swasey. of 
 Bucksport, Maine, who made a happy response. 
 
 Wendell Phillips, the well known orator and reformer, was 
 then introduced, amid acclamations. He said that his rela- 
 tionship to the Founder was so distant, that he could speak 
 of his endowment of the Acadenry without a pang, and of 
 his virtues as frccl}' as if they adorned any other name. 
 He adverted to Dr. Phillips' rigid econonn' in his personal 
 
 ."The lion. Benjamin F. Prcscott, since Governor of \>w 
 Hampshire.
 
 42 I'M i i.i. i rs KM: MI; 
 
 expenses, and of his liberality to the clergy, which he illus- 
 trated by pertinent anecdotes. He applauded the example 
 so early set by the Phillips family, of employing their wealth 
 for the enlargement of the means of education ; but admired 
 still more the faithfulness of the Trustees of the Academy 
 who had accomplished so great results, not only without 
 diminution of the fund, but while increasing it to twice its 
 original dimensions. More is required of us, he said, than 
 of our fathers, on account of our present opportunities; we 
 shall not do as well as they did, unless we surpass them. 
 He lamented that the earl}' fashion of uniting work with 
 stud}* was not still preserved. There is now too much book 
 education and too little practical education. He lamented 
 also, the timidity that prevailed among the educated men of 
 America. They no longer lead the people, but are dragged 
 along by the people. If the scholars of the conn-try had 
 done their duty, there would have been no civil war, with its 
 enormous debt. He trusted that when the next victory shall 
 be won for reform, the victor will not have it in his power 
 to * ay to the American scholar, as Henry IV said to Crillon 
 after one of his great battles "w n'y etais pas" "such a 
 day as we had, and you not there !" 
 
 The next sentiment was in honor of the venerable Princi- 
 pal, Dr. Gideon L. Soule. His health at this time was so 
 feeble as to have precluded him from attending the exercises 
 of the morning, but he felt that he could not be absent from 
 this fraternal festivity. He acknowledged, in a brief but 
 felicitous speech, the honor conferred upon him, and then 
 apologized for being compelled to withdraw. The entire 
 company rose and saluted him with cheers as he retired from 
 the hall. 
 
 President Paul A. Chadbonrne being called upon, respond- 
 ed in a brief review of his school days at Exeter, in which he 
 paid a high tribute to the influence of Dr. Soule as an 
 instructor, and declared that the Latin lessons he had learned 
 at the Academy he never could forget.
 
 43 
 
 To a sentiment complimentary of the board of Trustees, 
 the lion. Amos Tuck, one of the oldest members, made a 
 fitting response. He passed in review the work of the Acad- 
 cm}- during the years that he had been concerned in its gov- 
 ernment, and pointed with gratification to the improvements 
 which had been introduced ; instancing the thorough classifi- 
 cation of students ; the clothing of the permanent instructors 
 with the powers of a Faculty, and the dispensing with the 
 attendance of the pupils in the school rooms for the purposes 
 of studj*. 
 
 The Hon. George S. Hale, the youngest in office of 
 the Trustees, was then called on, and after giving some pleas- 
 ant reminiscences of his student life, he concluded with an 
 original poem, which is reserved for another place in this 
 volume.* 
 
 Brief remarks were also offered by Prof. Francis Bowen, 
 by the Hon. Jeremiah Smith, a Trustee and the son of the 
 earlier Trustee of the same name ; by the Rev. Dr. Roswell 
 I). Hitchcock, of New York ; and by Principal Tilton, of Phil- 
 lips Andover Academy. 
 
 The Rev. John Langdon Sibley, who was now for the first 
 time publicly announced as the donor of the generous fund, 
 recently presented, for the aid of students of poverty and 
 merit, was called to his feet. He modestly explained the 
 motives which induced him thus to dispose of his patrimony, 
 as well as to supplement it from his own earnings ; and stat- 
 ed that it had been his design not to have his name known 
 in the transaction, but it was found that the secret would not 
 be kept, and he had yielded to the persuasion of friends of 
 the Academy that the announcement should be made on this 
 occasion. Mr. Sibley's statement was listened to with the 
 deepest interest, and was one of the most touching incidents 
 of the day. 
 
 The Song which had been composed b}* the Rev. Henry 
 Ware for the Abbot Festival, and sung there thirty-four years 
 
 * Appendix I.
 
 44 run. i. irs KXKTKIC 
 
 before, was then executed liy the company under the loader- 
 ship of Mr. Sililoy : and the exercises were closed. 
 
 In the evening a promenade concert and dance at the town 
 hall, brought the day to a happy termination. 
 
 In the year 1873, Dr. Sonic, having now completed more 
 than half a century's duties in the Academy, and having 
 retained the office of Principal for the last year only because 
 the Trustees "would not let him go," definitively resigned 
 his position. In accepting his resignation, the Trustees 
 voted, "that the President be requested to express to Dr. 
 Sonle the grateful sense entertained by the board, of the 
 value of his long continued services, and to re-quest him to 
 accept the title of Principal Emeritus of Phillips Kxetor 
 Academy." 
 
 Albert Cornelius Perkins, A. M., was. elected to fill the 
 vacancy occasioned by Dr. Sonle's resignation, and entered 
 upon his duties at the beginning of the }-ear 1873-74. He 
 was a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1 *,">'., 
 and received from his alma mater the degree of Doctor of 
 Philosophy in 187!). 
 
 There was found in the year 1873 a scarcity of suitable 
 rooms in the town for the accommodation of the members of 
 the Academy, who were 3'earl}' increasing in number. To 
 meet this want the capacious brick building originally known 
 as the Sqnamscott House was purchased by the Trustees, 
 and fitted up as a lodging and boarding house for students. 
 Its name was changed to "Gorham Hall," in memory of the 
 late Dr. David W. (Jorhain, long a useful and respected 
 member of the board of trust, 
 
 Several rooms in it are reserved for transient guests, with 
 an eye especially to the convenience of relatives and friends 
 of the boys attending the Academy. 
 
 In 1874 the capacity of the Academy to furnish help to 
 students of restricted means, was much augmented by the 
 bounty of Jeremiah Kingman, Esq., a gentlemen of property 
 in Harrington, New Hampshire. By his will he constituted
 
 ACADEMY. 45 
 
 the Academy his residuary legatee ; the income of the 
 bequest to be applied annually to "the support of indigent 
 meritorious students attending said Academy." From 
 this source the sum of nearly $40,000 has been added 
 to the resources of the Academy, which is termed the 
 "Kingman Fund," and is kept separate from the general 
 assets of the institution. 
 
 During the year following, Woodbridge Odlin, Esq., of 
 Exeter, impressed with a conviction of the value, especially 
 to the youth of his town, of an English course of instruction, 
 offered to the Academ}' a donation of $20,000 for the pur- 
 pose of founding a professorship of English in the school, 
 to be known by his name. This of course implied the revi- 
 val in the Academy of the English department, which had 
 been for many years discontinued. There was some differ- 
 ence of opinion among the Trustees, with regard to the 
 advisability of restoring a distinct branch of instruction, 
 which had been found, on a former experiment, in a great 
 measure to have lost its attractions for students ; but on 
 mature deliberation they decided to accept the generous pro- 
 posal of Mr. Odlin, and the English department was rein- 
 stated. 
 
 In 1879 a friend of education, who desired that his name 
 should not be publicly announced, completed a donation to 
 the general fund of the Academy of ten thousand dollars ; 
 of which one-half had been forwarded two years previously. 
 The presentation was accomplished through the medium of 
 the Hon. Amos Tuck, a member of the board of trust. 
 
 In the succeeding year Henry Winkley, Esq., of Philadel- 
 phia, a gentleman well known by his generous contributions 
 for worth} 1 objects, sent to the Trustees his second gift of 
 five thousand dollars, making the sum of ten thousand dol- 
 lars in all, to be used "for the benefit and purposes of the 
 Academy as they might think best." 
 
 This outline sketch of the rise and century's progress of
 
 40 i-im.i.ir- K.M.I i i: 
 
 Phillips Exeter Aeademy would hardly be complete without 
 :i picture of it as it is at tin- present time. 
 
 Kxternally it has undergone vast changes iVom its first 
 estate. The number of instructors has trel>led: that of the 
 pupils has quintupled. The one plain scanty building has 
 expanded into three, of imposing dimensions. the Academy 
 proper, architecturally elegant, and furnished with every 
 desirable convenience, Abbot Hall and (iorhain Hall, hand- 
 some and .commodious houses for boarding and lodging a 
 hundred students. An ample }"ard around the main build- 
 ing, and a spacious "campus" a third of a mile distant, fur- 
 nish abundant room for all out-door games and amusements. 
 
 The inside has changed no less than the outside. The 
 school which at first was scarcely superior to those in the 
 districts of a country town, has now become a seminary for 
 advanced, and specially thorough, instruction. It would be 
 hazarding little to say that the graduates of our highest insti- 
 tutions a hundred years ago, were not so accurately drilled 
 in their classics or their mathematics, as are the Exeter boys 
 who have gone through the course of preparation for admis- 
 sion to college to-day. 
 
 In fact the school has taken on man}* of the features of a 
 college. All the students belong to the regular yearly classes, 
 of which there are four in the classical, and three in the Eng- 
 lish department. The) 1 are designated in the college fashion 
 as Juniors, Seniors, &c., the title of the members of the pre- 
 parator}' class being characteristically abbreviated to "Preps." 
 
 The permanent members of the board of instruction are 
 organized into a Facult}-. with the powers vested in such a 
 body by our colleges. The}' hold their regular weekly meet- 
 ings, and" after consideration and deliberation together, decide 
 all questions of discipline, &c. 
 
 All the pupils study in their own private rooms, and meet 
 in the school building only for prayers and recitations. The 
 .fact that the}- are freed, while at their studies, from the irk- 
 some confinement of the school room, and arc neither under
 
 ACADEMY. 47 
 
 the eye of a teacher or a monitor, nor expected to repress 
 every sign of impatience of restraint, tends to give them a 
 stronger sense of independence and self-reliance. During 
 the hours assigned for study the}- are required to remain in 
 their own rooms ; and punctuality in attendance at recita- 
 tions and prayers, is of course insisted on. 
 
 Phillips Exeter Academy is not a reformatory ; nor does 
 it profess'to furnish attendants for feeble-minded youth. It 
 aims to make its pupils thorough and accurate scholars in 
 the branches which it teaches, to see that they are kept free 
 from evil influences, and to direct and encourage them to 
 virtuous and manly principles. No vicious lad, who is liable 
 to contaminate his associates, is allowed to remain an hour 
 in the school. The Halls and the boarding houses are under 
 the control of the Faculty, so that every instance of irregu- 
 lar or improper conduct therein is promptl}" reported to 
 them. Without hampering the boys with a thousand pett}' 
 restrictions, they are thus able to learn the character, the 
 habits, the needs and the dangers of each. If a boy lacks 
 the power of self-command to keep him from continually fall- 
 ing into serious harm, this is not the place for him. His 
 masters are ready to do much for him, but they cannot 
 act as corks for him to swim with. The youth who cannot, 
 or will not, keep fairly up with the studies of his class, must 
 either go back into a lower one, or migrate elsewhere. 
 
 But those young men or boys who are willing to make the 
 most of their powers, receive here every encouragement. 
 Their instructors feel and cultivate a personal interest in 
 every one of them. They consult with them freely, respect- 
 ing their plans and difficulties, and are enabled by their 
 experience to give them valuable practical help. Numbers 
 of the prosperous men of our country regard the counsel, not 
 less than the instruction, which the}" received at the Acade-' 
 my, as the foundation of their success in life. Exeter prides 
 herself no less on the manly, than on the scholarly character 
 of the young men whom she has trained.
 
 4* rim. i. iiv- i.M.TKit 
 
 The beneficiary systi-ni of the Academy is administered 
 upon a plan which is believed to combine the greatest prac- 
 ticable good, with the least admixture of evil. All pecuniary 
 assistance to students is based upon the united considera- 
 tions of restricted means, nnd merit in its widest signiliea- 
 tion. It is not intended merely to enable young men to 
 enter the clerical profession, or an}' single line of useful- 
 ness ; nor may it be claimed by all whose moral or 'religious 
 character is immaculate. It is intended to operate as a 
 reward and an encouragement to good principles and good 
 conduct, diligence and scholarship, and is never conferred 
 until the results of at least one term of study have shown 
 the recipient's fitness ; and is 3*early re-adjusted, that it ma}' 
 be a continuing force.. 
 
 The combined bounty of the Founder and of Mr. King- 
 man maintain twenty "foundation" scholarships, each yield- 
 ing $GO per annum, or a little more than a dollar and a half 
 a week during term-time. These are assigned to the most 
 deserving pupils in all the four classes. There are also four 
 special scholarships, the gifts respectively of the Hon. 
 George Bancroft, of the Rev. Dr. Charles Burroughs, of the 
 Hon. Nathaniel Gordon, and of Miss Martha Hale, daughter 
 of the lion. Samuel Hale. They are known by the names of 
 their several donors, and are of the yearly value of from $70 
 to $140 each. They are usually divided between the two 
 higher classes. Free tuition is afforded to all the recipients 
 of scholarships, as of course ; and to about double the num- 
 ber of other students, whose circumstances are thought to 
 require it. Abbot Hall contains accommodations for fifty 
 boys, und the rent of rooms there, being trifling, and the 
 price of board being adjusted to cover the mere cost, the 
 maintenance of about one-fourth part of the whole school is 
 thus reduced to the lowest rate of expense. 
 
 The problem how to make young men beneficiaries, with- 
 out sapping the foundations of their manliness and sell- 
 respect, has never arisen here. There arc no invidious dis-
 
 ACADEMY. 49 
 
 tiuctkms drawn between the rich and the poor, either by the 
 authorities, or what is more important, among the students 
 themselves. Every advantage which is afforded by the 
 school to one class, is open to all. And it is a fact, equally 
 remarkable and honorable, that those who receive assist- 
 ance from the funds of the Academy, are not even known 
 by am' distinctive name. 
 
 The record shows that a very large proportion of the dis- 
 tinguishod men who have studied in the Academy were bene- 
 ficiaries. And as Exeter owes so much of her celebrity to 
 her charity-Scholars of the past, she is never like!}- to under- 
 value those of the present. 
 
 In its religious character, Phillips Exeter Academy is 
 completely unsectarian. The directions of the Founder con- 
 cerning the orthodox}- of the Principal, and the Protestanism 
 of the Trustees and instructors, have been implicitly obeyed, 
 and his personal example of tolerance of theological differ- 
 ences has not been overlooked.* 
 
 The boys who attend the school have been bred in various 
 forms of belief, and no attempt is made to proselyte them to 
 any other. The}' are at liberty on . Sundays to attend the 
 church of whatever denomination they, or their guardians 
 direct ; but attendance on divine worship somewhere, is 
 obligatory on all. Prayers and scripture reading are daily 
 exercises of the school ; and virtuous conduct and respect 
 for the ordinances of religion are sedulously inculcated by 
 the instructors, by precept and example. 
 
 *It is proper to state that though Dr. Abbot's theological views, 
 in his later life, are admitted to have differed widely from those 
 entertained by the Founder, and though it has been repeatedly 
 atlirmed that such was the case in the Founder's lifetime, yet the 
 latter assertion lias recently been denied.
 
 .~M> PHILLIPS EXKTKR 
 
 IV. 
 
 TJIK INSTRUCTORS. 
 
 WILLIAM WOODURIDCE, the first Preceptor of Phillips 
 Exeter Academy, was a native of Glastonbury, Connecticut, 
 and was born on the fourteenth of -September, 1755. He 
 was the son of the Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge, the minister of 
 that town, and was the fifth in lineal descent from the Rev. 
 John Woodbridge, who emigrated from England to this 
 country. William Woodbridge graduated from Yale College 
 in 1780, and elected teaching as his occupation, though he 
 also qualified himself for the duties of a minister of the 
 gospel. 
 
 It was probably Uurwagh family relations who lived in the 
 vicinity of Dr. Phillips, that Mr. Woodbridge became known 
 to him. A cousin of the Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge was the 
 wife of the Rev. John Clark, a fornter minister of the first 
 parish in Exeter, and, after his decease, married the Rev. 
 John Odlin his successor in the same charge. She was the 
 mother of several children, whose homes were in and around 
 Exeter. 
 
 The infirmity of Mr. Woodbridge's health, while he was 
 the Preceptor of the Academy, did not suffer him fairly to 
 show what he was capable of accomplishing. A new school, 
 under an invalid master, could hardly be expected to thrive. 
 Yet notwithstanding this serious check upon his capacity for 
 useful exertion, the Trustees undoubtedly held his merits 
 in high regard. The Resolution which they adopted, upon
 
 \< AIM.MV, ~>l 
 
 accepting his resignation, may be relied on as the more sin- 
 cere expression of their real sentiments, as it was passed 
 before commendations of parting officials had degenerated, 
 into mere matters of course : 
 
 "Resolved, that the thanks of this board be given to Mr. 
 Woodbridge for his faithful services and unwearied exer- 
 tions, while Preceptor of Phillips Exeter Academy, to instil 
 into the minds of the youth committed to his care, the prin- 
 ciples of* Piety and Virtue, as well as to instruct them in use- 
 ful knowledge ; and as he has declared it inconsistent with 
 his health and sense of duty to continue longer in that rela- 
 tion to the Academy, this board wish him the high reward 
 of observing satisfactoiy fruits of his past labors, and that 
 his services, in whatever sphere he may hereafter move, may 
 be crowned with distinguished usefulness." 
 
 Mr. Woodbridge, after leaving Exeter, was associated 
 with his sister in the charge of an academy for young ladies 
 in Medford, Massachusetts, and followed his profession of 
 teaching through life, uniting with it from time to time the 
 functions of a preacher, also. 
 
 AVhile living in Exeter he married Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Deacon Samuel Brooks. In his later }'ears he contributed 
 articles for the "Annals of Education," of which his son 
 William C. Woodbridge, the well-known geographer, was 
 the editor. Though his health was feeble, yet he attained 
 great age, and died in Franklin, Connecticut, the twenty- 
 seventh of March, 183G, "an honored teacher of fifty years' 
 standing." 
 
 The successor of Mr. Woodbridge in the immediate charge 
 of the Academy, must have been known personally, as well 
 as by repute, to the Founder. He was a native of the same 
 town, and lived in the same parish, wherein the father of Dr. 
 Phillips was pastor for sixty years ; and was prepared for 
 college at the Academy in Andover of which the Doctor was 
 the chief benefactor and a punctual and observant Trustee. 
 We have the assurance, too. that it was at the immediate
 
 52 1'11IU.I|'> K.XKTER 
 
 of the Founder that Mr. Abbot received his invita- 
 tion to Exeter. 
 
 BKX.JAMIN AHBOT was the son of John Abbot, of Andover, 
 Massachusetts, ami was born there on the seventeenth of 
 September, 17G2. Five generations of the family had lived 
 in the town ; his father and grandfather were captains of the 
 militia, when that ollice was a proof of courage and capacity ; 
 his lineal ancestors in the next two removes were both dea- 
 cons of the church ; all were resolute, pious men, of vigor- 
 ous make, who lived long in the laud. 
 
 l>enjamin worked upon his father's farm until he was 
 twenty years old, and then resolved to acquire a college edu- 
 cation. He prosecuted the study of Latin at the infant 
 Academy in his native town, where he became a pupil of 
 Jeremiah Smith, then an assistant teacher there, with whom 
 he was destined in after years to be associated in the board 
 of control of the Academy in Exeter. He graduated from 
 Harvard College in 1788, with high credit for his "scholar- 
 ship and moral worth," and the Salutatory Oration was 
 assigned him at Commencement. In the following August 
 he entered upon his duties in Phillips Exeter Academy. 
 
 Nature had gifted him with qualities which singularly 
 fitted him to be a tutor and governor of youth. The blood 
 of his ancestors seems to have blended their several excel- 
 h'lices in his veins. He was accustomed, in after years, to 
 attribute his professional success to his observance of the 
 rule, suaviter in modo^fortiter in re; which in his case might 
 not unaptly be translated "deacons' words, captains' deeds." 
 Though inflexibly just, he was only too happy to temper 
 justice with mercy, whenever it would not be subversive of 
 good discipline. He was never over ready to take notice of 
 ;i fault that might be passed by without harmful consequenc- 
 es. It was a favorite remark of his that "it was a great 
 accomplishment to know how to wink ! " Probably many a 
 boy attributed to his teacher's want of observation, what 
 was really the result of merciful voluntary blindness,
 
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 Thoiiiih he shrank from causing nain to the lowest crea- 
 
 o * 
 
 tare, yet in those instances where punishment was really mer- 
 ited, he inflicted it without flinching- In the happily rare 
 cases in which he had to deal with a vicious or depraved lad, 
 he administered a lesson, both to mind and body, that served 
 as a wholesome reminder of duty. He was not the man to 
 spoil the child, in such cases, by sparing the rod. In gener- 
 al, however, he governed with the least possible display of 
 authority. In the school-room, a look, a tap on the desk, or 
 a shake of the forefinger was enough to recall the wandering 
 attention of the most wayward, and lix it upon the business 
 of the hour. But govern he did, and that most effectually. 
 Modest and retiring as he was with regard to matters uncon- 
 nected with his peculiar province, *'no admiral on the quarter- 
 deck of his flag-ship was, more than he in his school, the 
 impersonation of decision, firmness and authority."* 
 
 From his first appearance at Exeter, he devoted himself 
 wholly to his school. He is represented by those who knew 
 him as a young man, to have been even then distinguished 
 for maturity of judgment and power of command. He took 
 no part in political affairs, or in neighborhood differences ; 
 he had no ambitions beyond his chosen vocation. He set an 
 example of industry and persevereuce which could not fail 
 to have lasting weight in the minds of his pupils. He stud- 
 ied the profession to which he devoted the long round of fifty 
 years, with care and comprehension, and welcomed every 
 substantial improvement in its methods. Not content with 
 knowing the management of other academies, in our own 
 country, he instituted particular inquiry into the conduct of 
 the great English public schools, to which Exeter has been 
 thought to be assimilated. 
 
 His scholastic acquirements were quite abreast of his time. 
 No doubt the standard of scholarship was a different one at 
 that day from what it now is. We are very much in fault if 
 with all that modern research and criticism have done for us, 
 
 *Thu liev. Dr. Morison.
 
 54 rilIU.ll 1 > I.XKTKK 
 
 we htivi- not reached M higher level. Dr. Abbot was un- 
 doubtedly as learned and accurate a scholar in his age. as 
 arc the best of our educators in ours. An authentic anec- 
 dote gives an idea both of his philological attainments and 
 of his impressive style of imparting information. One of his 
 best pupils, John P. Robinson,* presented him his exercise 
 in writing Latin, one da}', for correction. Dr. Abbot 
 returned it, with a single word marked as erroneous. Rol>- 
 insoii consulted grammar and lexicon, and racked his brains 
 to lind out the mistake he had committed, but all in vain ; 
 and was at last obliged to take back the exercise to the Doc- 
 tor, with the confession that he could not discover in what 
 the fault lay. "Robinson," replied the Doctor, '"words arc 
 like men ; none but gentlemen are found in gentlemen's com- 
 pany." The difficulty was solved ; and the pupil probably 
 never afterwards forgot what was due to classical Latinity. 
 
 Dr. Abbot's moral influence over his disciples was the very 
 best. He had a simple reverence for all that was good, and 
 a transparent honesty of soul, which none about him could 
 fail to remark and to respect. It took a bold, bad boy to 
 attempt to deceive or to wrong him. All others felt that the 
 Doctor was so genuine!} 1 good that it was a shame to take 
 any advantage of him. And he, in his turn, treated his 
 pupils with all possible courtesy, kindness and confidence. 
 
 He ruled by love rather than by fear. lie had the art of 
 getting very close to the boy*, and without any surrender of 
 dignity : near, yet afar. When he administered a reprimand. 
 it never rankled. Every lad, not absolutely incorrigible, 
 felt that he had a friend in "the Doctor." 
 
 His manners were such as would become a nobleman. 
 Courteous as he was dignified, he dolled his hat in response 
 to the greeting of the lowliest person he met. As he walked 
 down the aisle of the school-room, bowing graciously to the 
 
 *The same who was afterwards satirised by Lowell, in the 
 "IJigelow papers:" 
 
 -.I.. Im I' 
 Robinson lie." etc,
 
 A< ADK.MV. .). 
 
 right and left, his appearance so impressed every pupil, that 
 the memory of it will never fadeaway. It made generations 
 more mannerly. 
 
 Dr. Abbot was twiee married. His first wife was Hannah 
 Tracy Emery, of Exeter, who lived but two years after their 
 marriage. Their only child was John Emery Abbot, who 
 graduated from Bowdoin College, studied divinity, and was 
 ordained the minister of the North church in Salem, Massa- 
 chusetts. He died, deeply lamented, in 181!). 
 
 Dr. Abbot's second wife was Mary Perkins, of Boston, who 
 survived him several ydars. Their children were Elizabeth, 
 who married Dr. David W. Gorham, of Exeter, and Charles 
 B. Abbot who resided in Glenburn, Maine. Dr. Gorham 
 was for a long period one of the board of Trustees of the 
 Academy, and after his decease his son Dr. William II. Gor- 
 ham served for a time in the same capacity. 
 
 Dr. Abbot's life was prolonged until the twenty-fifth of 
 October, 1849, when at the age of eighty-seven years, he was 
 gathered to his fathers. 
 
 GIDEON LANE SOULE, the second Principal, was born in 
 Freeport, Maine, the twenty-fifth of July, 1796. He entered 
 the Academy in 1813, and after remaining three years, was 
 admitted to the junior class of Bowdoin College, where he 
 graduated in 1818. He then became an assistant teacher in 
 the Academy for above a year, after which he entered upon 
 a course of professional study, but in the year 1822 he 
 returned hither as a member of the corps of instructors, was 
 subsequently appointed Professor of Ancient Languages. 
 and on the withdrawal of Dr. Abbot in 1838, Principal of the 
 Academy. 1 larvard College conferred upon him the honorary 
 degree of Doctor of Laws, in 185G. 
 
 Dr. Soule had the advantage of a fine person ; he was tall, 
 perfectly erect, and his air was dignified and commanding. 
 His features were bold and handsome, his voice well modu- 
 lated, his smile winning. His temper was equable, and his 
 self-control was rarelv disturbed.
 
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 Liki' Dr. Abbot, he possessed peculiar tjualilications for 
 tin- position of chief of a great school. Many of his prede- 
 cessor's methods lie carried along into his own practice, 
 though his cooler tciuperainent caused, perhaps. :i more per- 
 cept ilile distance between him and his pupils. Hut he under- 
 stood well how to appeal to their better and nobler instincts. 
 and had confidence in their general rectitude of intention. 
 Hi- never lost consciousness of the fact that boys were men 
 in miniature; and, looking forward through their present to 
 their future, always made a point of treating them in manly 
 fashion. lie had a remarkable store of anecdotes, from 
 which he used to draw illustrations to enforce his teachings. 
 Here he never missed his aim. His happy allusions and 
 scholarly, clean cut sentences sent home to the understand- 
 ing of the densest and least attentive of his Hock, many a 
 wholesome truth that outlasted the memory of Latin and 
 (Ireek, in its salutary influence upon the life and character. 
 
 Dr. Soule was probably conservative by nature; he was 
 certainly so by position, for that necessarily comes of the 
 responsibilities attending authority. Yet his experience in 
 dealing with youth, and his recognition of the advance of 
 ideas in successive generations, induced him to countenance 
 changes which might have alarmed a more timid pilot. l"n- 
 der his administration the students made a great forward 
 stride in self-government. They wen- given to understand 
 that they were not to be held amenable to an)' written code, 
 lint were to conform their conduct to the common law of 
 right and propriety, recognized by every member of an 
 enlightened community. And it was while he held the reins 
 of government, that the radical innovation of allowing all 
 the students the privilege of preparing lessons in their own 
 rooms, unwatchcd by tutors' eyes, was introduced. Not- 
 withstanding the amount of freedom that had always been 
 allowed the members of the school, there is no doubt that 
 this experiment caused some anxiety. No doubt, too. the 
 Principal was somewhat influenced in his course by the
 
 ACADEMY. 37 
 
 younger :ind more adventurous spirits that were his coadju- 
 tors in the Academy". But it argues well for his clear vision 
 and for his capacity for progress, that he yielded his concur- 
 rence in novelties, which successful experiment has demon- 
 strated to be improvements. Time has fully justified the 
 forward steps which he sanctioned, and the greater liberty 
 accorded the students has awakened a response, in the 
 increase of manliness and self-respect in the school. 
 
 As an instructor, especially in his chosen department, the 
 ancient classics, Dr. Soule's qualifications and success were 
 of the highest. In the Latin language and literature, to 
 which he gave special attention, he was pre-eminent. His 
 thorough knowledge, his critical exactness, his cultivated 
 taste, enabled him to make the study of the authors of anti- 
 quity a pleasure, instead of a task, to his pupils. "In this 
 department," it has been justly said, "he left his brilliant 
 record in all our colleges." No better work, no more thor- 
 ough training presented itself for examination from any 
 quarter, than that which was accomplished under his imme- 
 diate inspection. 
 
 It was a crucial test of Dr. Soule's capacity, that he was 
 chosen to follow Dr. Abbot, whose success had been so unex- 
 ampled, and who was regarded with such deference, not to 
 say reverence, by the community. A man of inferior parts 
 would have been dwarfed by the comparison. But the two 
 men had certain important qualities in common ; scholarship, 
 the gift of command, and especially that fine influence which 
 springs from innate courtesy and sense of justice. Both were 
 gentlemen, not merely in their manners, but in their hearts. 
 They set the example In- words and acts, of Christian kind- 
 ness and honot&ble sentiments, united with perfect urbanity. 
 They inspired their pupils not only with the love of learning- 
 but with an appreciation of the graces of character and of 
 the amenities of refined life. 
 
 It is the unanimous verdict that Dr. Soulc wielded with 
 equal vigor and success, and that too, over a widening field.
 
 58 rilll.I.M's KXKTKH 
 
 tin- authority which his predecessor had employed to such 
 excellent purpose. Heartily and justly as the pii|iils of the 
 earlier Principal acknowledged their obligations to him for 
 his agency in developing whatever was best in their nature, 
 those who studied under his successor recogni/.e the value of 
 A/'x services and inllueiice with no less gratitude and fervor. 
 To both is the Academy indebted, in equal measure, for its 
 past glories and its present elliciency 
 
 Dr. Sonic married Klixabeth Phillips Kmery. of Kxeter. 
 who survived him. to the age of more than eighty-eight years. 
 They had three children who reached adult age: Charles 
 Kmery Soule, Assistant Surrogate in New York city ; Nicho- 
 las Emery Soule, who studied the profession of medicine, 
 but afterwards was the teacher of a classical school in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio; and Augustus Lord Soule, formerly a .Justice 
 of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts and now counsel of 
 the Boston and Albany Railroad corporation in Boston. Dr. 
 N. E. Soule has for several A'cars been a Trustee of the 
 Academy. 
 
 Dr. Soule died in Kxeter on the twenty-eighth of May. 
 l.sT'.'. In view of the event, the Trustees adopted the fol- 
 lowing Resolution : 
 
 "Resolved, That the Trustees place upon the record some 
 expression of their regard for the character of the deceased, 
 and for the services he rendered to the Academy. His devo- 
 tion to the interests of the school was unwavering. lie 
 brought to the work of instruction and government, earnest 
 zeal, fine literary culture, love for young men, a nice sense 
 of honor and integrity, dignity and courtesy of a high order, 
 fidelity and generosity. These traits he applied with wisdom 
 and success to the interests of the young men under hiscare. 
 His love for the Academy and his concern for the welfare of 
 it ended only with his life. His name is cherished with affec- 
 tionate veneration, and the reputation which the school ac- 
 quired under his management is his fitting monument. The 
 Trustees desire to express their S3*mpathy with the widow
 
 ACADEMY. 09 
 
 and family of the deceased, and to join them in loving 
 respect for his memory." 
 
 On the eighth of June following, the Rev. Dr. John II. 
 Morison delivered, in the second church in Exeter, n dis- 
 course, commemorative of the excellent qualities and servic- 
 es of Dr. Soule, which was published at the expense of the 
 Academy. 
 
 HOSEA IIiLDRETir, who was the second Professor of Math- 
 ematics and natural Philosoplry in the Acadeim*, and held 
 that post from 1811 to 1825, deserves more tha'i a passing 
 notice. He was one of ten children of Timothy Hildreth, 
 and was born in Chclmsford, Massachusetts, in the year 
 1782. Like not a few other men who have risen to distinc- 
 tion, his course in life was marked out for him by an acci- 
 dent. In his youth he received an injury to one of his arms, 
 which b}- disqualifying him for manual labor, turned his atten- 
 tion to study. He graduated from Harvard College in iso.~>. 
 and prepared himself for the ministry, and, it is said, was 
 always fonder of preaching than of teaching. In addition to 
 his work of instruction in the Academy he supplied the pul- 
 pit of the second parish in Exeter from 1813 to 1817, when 
 the Rev. Isaac Hurd was installed there. And when he 
 quitted the Academy, in 1825, it was to assume the charge 
 of a religious society in Gloucester, Massachusetts. 
 
 Professor Hildreth's influence in the school was very posi- 
 tive and very salutary. He possessed decided traits of char- 
 acter ; strong convictions and a resolute will, united with 
 much learning and ready wit. He was the projector of the 
 Golden Branch Society, which, under his administration, no 
 doubt acted as a keen stimulus to study and to the desire for 
 improvement. His countenance bore the impress of his orig- 
 inality and humor, so that the eccentric Robert Treat Paine 
 declared that it might lie "cut up into a thousand epigrams." 
 
 After officiating for about eight years as the minister of 
 Gloucester, Mr. Hildreth took the office of Secretary <>!' the 
 Massachusetts Temperance Society, which he filled with elli-
 
 00 riiiLurs EXETER 
 
 eicncy and xeal. and ended his useful life at Stirling, Massa- 
 chuaelts, tin- truth of. Inly. 1 *;>.">. He was tin- author ol' sev- 
 eral productions of merit; among them of "a Hook for New 
 Ilainpshire Children," which fora iiiunber of years held its 
 place in the schools of the State, as :i juvenile text-book, 
 and passed through several editions. 
 
 1'rol'cssor Hildrcth married Sarah McLeod. of Boston, 
 who survived him more than thirteen years. They had seven 
 children, of whom the three sons, Richard. Samuel T., and 
 Charles II. Ilildreth were all nKMiib-rs of tlr.> Ac.idemy. 
 The eldest of these was the distinguished editor and hi>tor- 
 ian. None of them is now living except the youngest son, 
 Dr. Charles II. Hildreth, of Gloucester, Massachusetts. 
 
 JosErii GII-.SON HOYT, who filled the chair of Mathematics 
 in the Academy for nearly eighteen j'cars, was bom in Dun- 
 barton, New Hampshire, on the nineteenth of January, lsif>. 
 His father was a plain farmer; but his mother was a gifted 
 and ambitious woman. I'ntil he was sixteen years old, he 
 was employed upon his father's farm, so that he was unable 
 to attend school more than three months in the year, lint 
 before he was eighteen he began to study with a view to a 
 collegiate education. For five winters he taught country 
 schools to obtain the means to carry out his design. lie 
 entered Yale College in 183G, and graduated with high credit 
 in IS 10. He was then employed as a preceptor for a year : 
 and in IS 11 was called to Phillips Exeter Academy. While 
 here he gave instruction in Greek, as well as in his own 
 special branches; and in all showed himself possessed of 
 much learning, originality and genius. He was full of lire 
 and enthusiasm, and had the art of inspiring his pupils with 
 no little of the same. Not content with performing his aca- 
 demical duties, he manifested a deep interest in everything 
 that was transpiring around him, and in the great world, 
 lie was a reformer, and a politician. In 1850 he was chosen 
 a member of the Convention called to revise the Constitution 
 of New Hampshire: and in 18">8 he became an aspirant for
 
 ACADEMY. Cl 
 
 Congressional honors, but failed of the nomination, by a 
 narrow margin. He was enthusiastic in even* scheme of 
 improvement in the town of his residence. "For some years 
 he was a member of the Superintending School Committee, 
 and his reports upon the condition of some of the schools in 
 the outlying districts, brimming over with his quaint humor, 
 are racy reading to-day. 
 
 The ardor of Professor Hoyt's temperament, while it gave 
 him efficiency and readiness, perhaps detracted somewhat from 
 the soundness of his judgment. He could occupy no conser- 
 vative ground ; he must be in the advance or nowhere, in 
 even* movement. He had little patience with the caution 
 which felt its way before moving ; and had no dread of 
 innovations. But in later years, after he had taken upon 
 himself the responsibility of a great educational institution, 
 there is reason to believe that he realized more than ever 
 before, the security that resides in a discreet conservatism. 
 Had his life been protracted, he would probabl}- have car- 
 ried on the development of the great work which he assumed, 
 Avitli undiminished force, but with the circumspection gained 
 by experience. 
 
 In December, 1858, he accepted an invitation to the Chan- 
 cellorship of Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, 
 and entered upon its duties at the beginning of the next 
 year. In July, 1859, Dartmouth College honored him with 
 the degree of Doctor of Laws. He had occupied his new- 
 position for scarcel}* two years, before his health began to 
 give way. He tried eveiy means to regain it, but without 
 success, and at length on the twenty-sixth of November, 
 18G2, he sank into the grave. 
 
 Professor Hoyt married Margaret Chamberlain, of Exeter, 
 who, together with four, it is believed, of their five children. 
 is still living. 
 
 In selecting the foregoing from the roll of instructors for 
 special notice, because the}* have occupied the prominent 
 positions, and have been longest connected with the man-
 
 i:\i-.n-.u 
 
 agcment of the Academy. the re is no disposition to under- 
 rate the value of the services <i!' others, of character and 
 accomplishments scarcely if at all inferior. \vlio have also 
 exerted their full share of influence in shaping t!ie course. 
 and adding to the celebrity of the school. It is doubtful if 
 any institution in the land can boast so extraordinary a suc- 
 cession of teachers, as Exeter has enjoyed. Year after year. 
 the most brilliant and promising young men of their time. 
 after taking high honors at College, seem, as a matter of 
 course to have put tlu-ir talents and their scholarship at the 
 disposal of Kxeter.* 
 
 Daniel Dana, Nathan Hale, Alexander II. Everett. 
 Nathaniel A. Haven. .Jr.. Xathan Lord, Henry Wan-. .lames 
 Walker, Joseph Hale Abbot, Theodore Tebbets, not to 
 mention others of the distinguished dead or of the distin- 
 guished living, were men of high mark, and exerted a power 
 for good in the Academy. Indeed it is cause for much con- 
 gratulation and thankfulness, that this institution, founded 
 in the pure spirit of charity and philanthropy, has so wonder- 
 fully escaped the dangers of misrule and no rule, throughout 
 its life of a century, and has been so uniformly fortunate in 
 the selection of those to whom its authority and its work- 
 have been delegated. 
 
 The present board of instruction consists of the following 
 members : 
 
 AI.IJERT C. PKKKIN- 1'h. I). Principal, and Odlin Professor 
 of English. Dr. Perkins is a native of Topslield, Massachu- 
 setts, and a graduate of Dartmouth College. Before coming 
 to Kxetcr lie was an instructor in the Phillips Andover Acad- 
 emy. and in the Danvcrs High school : and for ten years Mas- 
 ter of the < Miver High school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. 
 He has resigned his post of Principal, and at the close of the 
 present school year will take the charge of the Adelphi Insti- 
 tute in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 A. WI;M\VOI;TH. A. M. Professor of Mathcmat- 
 
 *For a list of Instructor* -<< Appendix .1.
 
 ACADEMY. Go 
 
 ics. Professor \Yent\vortli is a native of Wakcfield, New 
 Hampshire, and a graduate of Harvard College ; and has 
 now been connected with the corps of instruction in the Acad- 
 emy for twcnt3*-fivc years. He is the author of several text 
 books in Mathematics, which have been extensively intro- 
 duced in the higher seminaries of the country. 
 
 Uu.vDi'.i i;v L. CILI.EY, A. M. Professor of Ancient Lan- 
 guages. Professor Cilley was born and bred in Exeter, and 
 graduated from Harvard College in 1851). Ever since that 
 time he has been an instructor in the Academy. His special 
 attention of late years has been given to the Greek language 
 and Literature. 
 
 OSCAR FAUI.IIABER Ph. D. Instructor in French and in 
 German. 
 
 JAMES AUTIII i; Ti FTS A. 15. Instructor in Latin and in 
 English. 
 
 CK LYMAN KITTI;KIH;E, A. B. Instructor.
 
 G4 riui.ur.s KXKIT.K 
 
 V. 
 
 THE ( )n K KKS. I')|;M:I \( IOKS and An MM. 
 
 Of the mam" able and public-spirited men who, 'in various 
 ways, have lent their aid to elevate the Academy to its pres- 
 ent dignity, the limits of this sketch will admit only of con- 
 cise notices of a few. The number of Trustees, in a century, 
 has not exceeded forty, and their terms of office have aver- 
 aged more than seventeen years each. Their services have 
 of course been nncompensated, except by the satisfaction 
 derived from witnessing the growing usefulness of the insti- 
 tution under their care. The fidelity of their conduct, in 
 managing the pecuniary resources of the Academy, lias been 
 the subject of just encomium. 
 
 OLIVKI; I'KAIIODV, an early and deeply interested member 
 of the board, was the son of a farmer, and was born in Ando- 
 vcr, Massachusetts, the cradle of so many of the early friends 
 of the Academy, on the second of September, 1753. At the 
 age of twenty he took his bachelor's degree at Harvard Col- 
 lege ; and, having completed the study of the law in the 
 office of the Hon. Theophilus Parsons in Nuwburyport. 
 Massachusetts, he established himself in Exeter, about the 
 year 1781. 
 
 He soon rose into prominence. The year 17*'.i saw him 
 Solicitor for the County ; and the next year. State Senator 
 and Judge of Probate. In 17!>3 and 17JM lie sat again in 
 the Senate, the latter year as President thereof. He then 
 filled the office of Treasurer of the State for nine vear.s. In
 
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 he received the appointment, ol' Sheriff of the County 
 for live years ; and in 1813 he was again President of the 
 Senate. The same year he was commissioned a Justice of 
 the Court of Common Pleas ; and remained upon the bench 
 until 181(5. Three times he was chosen an Elector of Presi- 
 dent of the t'nited States. 
 
 Judge IVabody. in addition to natural powers of a high 
 order, possessed the learning and cultivation which fitted him 
 to discharge the duties of the many important stations to 
 which he was preferred, with dignity and credit. Though 
 an excellent lawyer, he had no liking for contention, and was 
 seldom concerned in litigated causes in the Courts. Nature 
 formed him for popularity. Handsome in person, graceful 
 in manner, with a mild temper and a social disposition, he 
 won the confidence and good will of all. He took great 
 pleasure in societ}*, and was the father of an interesting and 
 accomplished family. William B. O., and Oliver W. 15. 
 Peabody, his twin sons, were students, and afterwards teach- 
 ers, in the Academy ; his only daughter was the wife of 
 Alexander II. Everett. 
 
 Judge Peabody was chosen a Trustee in 1 7 ( J4 and con- 
 tinued in the board for thirty-four years, the last twenty-two 
 of which he was also the Treasurer. 
 
 He died in Exeter, on the third of August, 1831. 
 
 JOHN TAYLOK GILMAX was born in Exeter, the nineteenth 
 day of December, 1753; received a common school educa- 
 tion, and was bred to commerce and trade. On the morning 
 after the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington, he marched as 
 orderly sergeant of a company of active Whigs, to Cam- 
 bridge, to render aid to the cause of his country. He did 
 not long remain in the field, for his services were needed 
 for the performance of equally patriotic duties at home. His 
 father, Col. Nicholas Gilman, the Treasurer of New Hamp- 
 shire', was one of the most trusted and influential supporters 
 of the Revolution, and required the assistance of his efficient 
 son in providing the needful means to enable the State- to
 
 I'.ii 1-1 1 ii. 1. 1 r.- KXI.TKI; 
 
 meet thi' exhausting calls that were made upon her for men 
 and money. In tin 1 last two years of the Revolution tin- 
 son was a delegate to the- Continental Congress, the 
 youngest, hut not tin 1 least influential member. In the year 
 IT'.M he was chosen to the ollice of Governor of New Ilamp- 
 shiiv, anil his administration was ><> generally acceptable 
 that he was retained in the position by successive re-elections 
 until ISO."). Again in 1S1'{ hi- was recalled to the executive 
 chair, and served for three years more, so that he held the 
 oilice of (Governor no less than fourteen years in all. 
 
 ( lov. ( lilmau's patriotism and honesty were above ques- 
 tion, even by his political opponents, and his capacity for 
 business is proved by his constant employment in public 
 affairs. He was appointed by Dr. Phillips to succeed him as 
 Trustee, and occupied the position, greatly to the advantage 
 of the Academy, from 1795 to 1827, when, on the ground of 
 advanced }'ears, he resigned it. By virtue of the privilege 
 reserved by the Founder to himself and his appointee, (iov. 
 Gilman might, if he had thought it expedient, have designat- 
 ed the person to succeed him in the trust ; but in a written 
 communication, characterized by his usual sound sense and 
 judgment, he declined to exercise the power, (iov. Gil- 
 man was President of the board from 179C to the time of 
 his resignation ; and Treasurer of the Academy from 17!>.'i to 
 1806. 
 
 He was deeply interested in the welfare of the institution, 
 and spared no time nor effort in its behalf. During the thir- 
 teen years that he acted as Treasurer, he refused all com- 
 pensation for the service ; and in 171)1, when it was deter- 
 mined to erect a new school building, he generously present- 
 ed to the Academy two and a quarter acres of land, in a 
 most eligible part of the town, as the site for it. 
 
 ()!' his four daughters the eldest married Nicholas Kmery. 
 an early instructor in the Academy, who became afterward- 
 a Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine. 
 
 <M>\. (lilman died in Kxeter. August thirty-first. l.S^'S.
 
 \< \HKMY. <>/ 
 
 DANIKI, DAN \ was born in -Ipswich, Massachusetts, the 
 twenty-fourth of July. 1771. lie graduated from Dart- 
 mouth College in the class of 1780, and was employed as an 
 instructor in the Academy for about three years. He then 
 studied divinity, and was settled as a minister, successively 
 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and in Londonderry. New 
 Hampshire ; and afterwards over another parish in New- 
 buryport. In the } - ears 1820 and 1821 he occupied the 
 oilier of President of Dartmouth College. As a preacher, 
 a theologian and a ripe and thorough scholar, he deservedly 
 maintained a high reputation. 
 
 Dr. Dana was chosen a Trustee of the Academy in l.sOD, 
 and for thirty-four years discharged his duties with regulari- 
 ty and fidelity. He regarded the Academy as a nursery of 
 learning and virtue, which demanded his utmost care and 
 solicitude. The records of the Trustees bear abundant tes- 
 timony to his willing and useful labors to promote its inter- 
 ests. His well-spent life was brought to a close, the twenty- 
 sixth of August, 1859. 
 
 JI:I;I:MIAII SMITH was a native of Peterborough, New Hamp- 
 shire, born the twenty-ninth of November, 1759. He enter- 
 ed Harvard College, but after a brief stay there, volunteered 
 as a soldier in the Bennington campaign, where he received 
 a wound. He completed his collegiate course at Rutgeis 
 College, in New Jerse}', in 1780; then studied law, and was 
 soon hailed as a rising man. He made his mark in the Leg- 
 islature and in the Constitutional Convention of his native 
 State in 1791-92, and afterwards in the Congress of the Unit- 
 ed States, where he sat for the term of six years. His abili- 
 ties were recognized by his appointment to other offices of 
 honor and responsibility by the Executive of the Nation and 
 of the State, but it was probably as Chief Justice of the Su- 
 perior Court of New Hampshire that lie vrfls most distinguished. 
 He held the oil ice from 1802 to 1809, when he resigned it on 
 account of impaired health, and again from 1813 to 181G, 
 when a reorganization of the Courts took place. In the
 
 I'l.-* IMIILI.irs KXKTKK 
 
 interval between his two terms oi' judicial service. In- was 
 elected for a year as ( io\ ernor of the State. 
 
 About 1820 Judge Smith retired I'm in active business. 
 His life was prolonged inure than twenty years afterwards, 
 however, and his powers of mind were never dimmed. He 
 continued, until within a year or two of his death, to occupy 
 his beautiful mansion on the western skirt of the village of 
 Kxetcr, sin-rounded by his family and friends, universally 
 respected, interested in affairs, enjoying his books, in a green 
 and happy old age. 
 
 He was chosen to succeed Gov. Gilman as a Trustee in 
 1828, and was made President of the board in 1830. He 
 resigned the position in 1812, when by reason of his removal 
 from Exeter, and of bodily infirmity, he felt himself incapaci- 
 tated for the performance of further duty. He also filled the 
 office of Treasurer during the same period. His services to 
 the Academy in various ways were of the greatest value. 
 Through his encouragement many young men of promise 
 were enabled to partake of the advantages of the school, of 
 whom some became distinguished. His professional knowl- 
 edge and his wise counsels were always a shield of safety to 
 the institution. 
 
 Judge Smith died in Dover. New Hampshire, the twenty- 
 lirst of September, 1842. His son, of the same name, was 
 afterwards, for some years, a Trustee. 
 
 S.\MfKi. HAI.K was born in Harrington. New Hampshire, 
 in the year 17'J3. His grandfather was the famous Major 
 Hale, long master of the Grammar school in Portsmouth, and 
 his father was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He 
 graduated from Bowdoin College in 1814, and began the 
 Mudy of divinity at the Theological School in Cambridge, 
 Massachusetts. But his health being found too uncertain to 
 admit of his undertaking pastoral duties, he was advised to 
 adopt more active employment. For a time- he resided in his 
 native place, from which his fellow citizens elected him their 
 Representative in the Legislature ; and afterwards he remov-
 
 ACADEMY. G9 
 
 ed to Portsmouth, where he engaged in mercantile business. 
 About the 3'car 1842 he fixed his residence in Rollinsford, 
 New Hampshire, and there passed the residue of his life, as 
 a manufacturer. 
 
 Mr. Hale inherited an active temperament, and a love for 
 letters. He is described by one of his associates in the 
 board of trust* as "a man f singular vigor and energy, wise 
 in counsel, prompt in action, of liberal culture and literaiy 
 tastes ; and though always crowded with business of his own, 
 always ready to give his time and best thought to the inter- 
 ests of learning." 
 
 He was chosen a Trustee in the 3 T ear 1831 ; and in 1868 
 was promoted to the presidency of the board ; a position from 
 which he was removed by death in December, 1869. 
 
 The Hale scholarship was established by the liberality of 
 his daughter, Miss Martha Hale. 
 
 CHARLES BURROUGHS, born in Boston, Massachusetts, the 
 twenty-seventh of December, 1787, was a graduate of Har- 
 vard College in the class of 1808, and, as a minister of the 
 Protestant Episcopal denomination, was rector of St. John's 
 church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for nearly fifty years. 
 He was long identified with several benevolent and literary 
 institutions, by his gifts thereto, and his services in their 
 management. 
 
 Receiving his election to the board of Trustees of the 
 Academy in 1835, he was chosen President of the same in 
 1844, and continued in that capacity until his death in 1867. 
 A courteous gentleman, an accomplished scholar, filled with 
 the spirit of kindness and humanity, he was specially drawn 
 towards this fountain of learning, and as has been aptly said, 
 held it "as second in his affections only to the church of 
 which he was for more than half a century a loyal presby- 
 ter." 
 
 Dr. Burroughs by his will bequeathed to the Academy as 
 a last testimony of his regard, the sum of $1,000, for the 
 
 *Tlie Rev. Dr. Peabody.
 
 70 run in 1 - i. \KTKK 
 
 foundation of tin- scholarship which is known by his name. 
 
 I).vvn W. (iouiiAM, was a native of Canandaigua, New 
 York, and was horn in the closing year of the last century. 
 At the age of lift ecu he was admitted to the Academy, and 
 in 1*17 he entered Harvard College, graduating in due course 
 in 1*21. He studied the profession of medicine, and took 
 up his residence in Exeter. He was naturally drawn more 
 closely to the Academy, from the fact that he became the 
 son-in-law of Dr. Abbot. He was elected a Trustee in l.siL 
 and remained in the board until his decease in 187:> ; being 
 succeeded therein by his son, Dr. William H. (ioYham. 
 
 Dr. (iorham was remarkable for methodical business hab- 
 its and >ound discretion; qualities which were of essential 
 value, ill his connection with this trust. His advice was 
 much relied upon by his associates, in all matters relating to 
 the school, and he cheerfully gave his personal supervision 
 to a great number of details that needed a constant and 
 watchful eye. 
 
 The venerable widow of the first Principal, as long as she 
 survived him, resided with her daughter in the family of Dr. 
 (Iorham. 
 
 AMOS TUCK was a native of Parsonsfield, Maine, born the 
 second da} f of August, 1810. He lived on his father's farm 
 until he was seventeen, and then prepared himself for col- 
 lege. Graduating from Dartmouth in 1835, he chose the pro- 
 fession of the law, and in 1838 began the practice in Exeter, 
 in company with the Hon. James Bell, who was for some 
 time a member of the board of Trustees. Their profession - 
 al business for many years was one of the largest in the 
 State. Mr. Tuckjsoou became interested in political matters, 
 lie was one of the leaders in the revolt against the democrat- 
 ic party, inaugurated by the Hon. John P. Hale, (a distin- 
 guished Alumnus of the Academy. ) and, after having served 
 in the State Legislature, was, in 184G, chosen a Representa- 
 tive in the Congress of the Tinted States. He retained his 
 j by >ucci-ssivc re-elections. f.r six years.
 
 ACADEMY. 71 
 
 Hi 1 . Tuck was a prominent member of the ''Pence Con- 
 Congress, "assembled in 18G1 , to devise measures, it' possible, 
 to avert the war. President Lincoln, who had been a fellow 
 member of Congress with him, upon his accession to office, 
 gave Mr. Tuck the appointment of Naval Officer at Boston, 
 and upon the expiration of his commission in 1865, re- 
 appointed him. 
 
 Mr. Tuck came into the board of Trustees in 1853, and 
 continued there during the remainder of his life. He was a 
 devoted friend of the Academy, and freely gave it the benefit 
 of his legal knowledge and of his wide business experience. 
 He was always interested in the subject of education, and 
 had seen much service as a member of boards of trust of 
 other institutions, so that his counsel and assistance were of 
 peculiar value. This was so well understood that he was 
 placed upon every committee of importance, with scarce an 
 exception, during the period of his connection with the Acad- 
 emy. And it was through his intervention, that the gift of 
 $10,000 was made to the general fund, by a friend, whose 
 name is withheld from publication by his own desire. 
 
 Mr. Tuck died on the eleventh of December, 1879, at Exe- 
 ter. The Trustees, in passing the Resolution customary on 
 the decease of an associate, recited the many and varied 
 wa}'S in which he had rendered efficient service to the Acad- 
 emy, and concluded with the emphatic assertion, "His 
 name is among the foremost to be transmitted in our records, 
 as friends and benefactors of the institution under our 
 charge." 
 
 Other names upon the roll of the Trustees, both of the 
 living, and of those whose earthly work is over, might fairly 
 claim a place in these pages, did space permit.* But it seems 
 proper not to dismiss the officers of the Academy, without 
 at least a brief mention of some of those, not Trustees, who 
 have had the immediate care of the fiscal concerns of the in- 
 stitution. 
 
 *For a list of the Ollicers see Appendix J.
 
 72 rim.up> I:\KTER 
 
 N KIII i was the son of the Rev. William Kelly, mid 
 was horn in Warner, New Hampshire, the seventh day of 
 March, 1780. At the age of eighteen he graduated from 
 Dartmouth College, and adopted the profession of law. lie 
 \\ MS admitted to practice in 1808, and opened his ofllce in 
 Northwood, whose citizens soon after elected him as their 
 Representative in the State Legislature. In 1814 he had a 
 year's 1 experience as editor of the Concord "Gazette," a news- 
 paper printed at the capital of New Hampshire. He 
 removed in 1831 to Exeter, on being appointed to the olliee 
 of Register of Probate, which he held until 1842. In 184G 
 and 1847 he was a member of the Executive Council of 
 the State. 
 
 Mr. Kelly always manifested a strong inclination for liter- 
 ature, and for historical study. After his removal to Exe- 
 ter he took the editorial charge of the "News-Letter," and ren- 
 dered the paper both entertaining and instructive. lie pos- 
 sessed a fund of quaint humor, with which he enlivened the 
 dryest subjects. A series of historical articles, respecting 
 the early persons and events of New Hampshire, which Mr. 
 Kelly published in the columns of his newspaper, were of 
 peculiar value, and evinced in a remarkable degree his wide 
 acquaintance with the subject, and his power of investing it 
 with interest and attractiveness. 
 
 Mr. Kelly acted as the Treasurer of the Academy from 
 1842 to 1855. He died on the third of November, 1860. 
 
 Bradbury L. Cilley, A. M., Professor of Ancient Lan- 
 guages, and for the past twenty-four years an instructor in 
 the Academy, is a grandson of Mr. Kelly. 
 
 JOSEPH TAYLOR GILMAX, a son of Col. Nathaniel Gilman, 
 of Exeter, was born on the twelfth of October, 1811. He 
 entered the Academy in 1822, and remained there for several 
 years, until his school education was completed. He then 
 became a clerk in bis brother's store, and in 1835 sailed for 
 China, and on arriving at Canton was taken into the employ 
 of the important mercantile house of Russell & Co. There
 
 ACADEMY. 73 
 
 he remained, for a lime as clerk, and afterwards as a part- 
 ner, until the year 1846, when he retired from the firm with a 
 competenc}', and returned to his early home. 
 
 Here he passed the residue of his life, in the house where 
 he was born ; interested in the cultivation of his extensive 
 farm, and in all that went on about him. His amiable dis- 
 position, kindness and courtesy secured him the regard of 
 all who knew him, and his knowledge of character, sagacitj' 
 and exact habits of business, rendered his co-operation 
 sought for, in man}" important enterprises. 
 
 He assumed the Treasurership of the Academy in the year 
 1855, and performed the duties until within a few months of 
 his decease, which occured in 18G2. In accepting Mr. Gil- 
 man's resignation the Trustees requested the President to 
 assure him of their high appreciation of "the good judgment^ 
 fidelity, accurate business habits and courtesy which he had 
 manifested during the whole term of his office as Treasurer." 
 
 S. CLARK BUZELL was a native of Northwood, New Hamp- 
 shire, and was born the eleventh of June, 180G. At the age 
 of thirteen he was admitted to the Academy, and when he 
 had reached nineteen, was engaged in a mercantile house in 
 Boston, where he remained eleven }*ears. He then returned 
 to his native town, but removed in 1852 to Exeter, and 
 resided there the remainder of his life. He received the 
 appointment of Treasurer of the Academy in 18G2, and 
 resigned the office after having filled it for eighteen }*ears. 
 
 He was methodical in his habits, and prudent and faithful 
 in a remarkable degree. The Trustees, on his withdrawal 
 from office, passed a resolution that "the President express 
 to Mr. Buzell their thanks for his services, and a sense of 
 their great value." 
 
 The first gift of money to the Academy, after the death of 
 the Founder, was a legacy from the Hon. Nicholas Oilman, of 
 $1,000, the income of which was to be applied to the instruc- 
 tion of students in vooal music. 
 
 NICHOLAS OILMAN was a brother of Gov. John Tavlor
 
 74 i-mu.ii's I.XKTEU 
 
 (iilman, horn in Exeter, the tliinl of AuiriiM. 17.'..'). On 
 attaining his majority he entered tin- army, and >erved 
 through the Revolutionary war. the latter portion of the 
 time as Assistant Adjutant (ieneral. In this capacity he 
 took the account of the British prisoners on tlio surrender of 
 Cornwallis at Yorktown. 
 
 Col. Gilman was long in public otlice. He was a delegate 
 to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788, and a mem- 
 ber of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the 
 I'nited States ; a Representative in Congress from 1789 to 
 1797. and a Senator of the United States from 1805 to his 
 death in 1814. His person was handsome, his manners were 
 polished, and he possessed many accomplishments. 
 
 JEHKMIAII KIN<;MAN. one of the principal benefactors of the 
 Academy, was a native and life-long resident of Harrington, 
 New Hampshire, where he died in 1872, at the advanced age 
 of about eighty years. He was by occupation a fanner, a 
 man of good natural ability, and of more than average edu- 
 cation. In his later years he read much, and took more 
 interest in books than in tilling the soil. In his younger 
 days he represented his native town in the Legislature of the 
 state. 
 
 He was interested in educational matters, and at one time 
 supported a school in Barrington for those pupils who had 
 advanced beyond the ordinary studies of the district schools. 
 It is probable that his attention was specially directed to 
 Phillips Exeter Academy by the successful career of his 
 nephew. Professor Sylvester Waterhouse, (now of Washing- 
 ton University, St. Louis, Missouri,) who was a member of 
 the Academy from 1847 to 1850. 
 
 JOHN L.\x<;no\ SIIU.KV was born in Union, Maine, in 1804. 
 He was fitted for college in the Academy, and completed his 
 course at Harvard College in 182.5. For two years after, he 
 was assistant in the College Library, then studied for the 
 profession of the ministry, and was ordained as pastor of 
 the parish at Stow, Massachusetts, in 1829. but remained
 
 ACADEMY. 75 
 
 there only four years, when he returned to Uis old post in 
 the College Library. In 18">G he was promoted to the posi- 
 tion of chief librarian, which he continued to hold for about 
 twenty years. He was a faithful and devoted oilicer, but 
 found time to do no small amount of historical and literary 
 work besides. lie published in 1851 a history of his native 
 town ; he was editor and proprietor of the "American Maga- 
 zine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge ;" he expended 
 a large amount of labor upon the cataloguing- of Harvard 
 College, and has issued two capacious volumes of biographi- 
 cal records of the early graduates, a marvel of patient and 
 industrious research. 
 
 Mr. Sibley's father, a country physician and farmer, 
 bequeathed him the sum of about five thousand dollars, the 
 accumulations of a life of industry and frugality. This 
 legac} r the son preserved untouched, and presented it, a 
 monument of filial affection, to the Academy by whose bounty- 
 he was provided with the means to pursue his studies. lie 
 largely added to it from his own means, so that now the 
 aggregate has reached nearly seven times the amount of the 
 original nucleus. 
 
 WOODBRIDGE ODLIN was an Exeter man by birth and by 
 residence. His family was connected by marriage with that 
 of Mr. Woodbridge, the first Preceptor of the Academy, and 
 he doubtless owed his Christian name to that circumstance. 
 He acquired the chief part of his education at the Academy, 
 having entered it at the age of twelve ; and he maintained 
 his interest in it through life. Beginning his business career 
 as a painter and manufacturer of carriages, he engaged sub- 
 sequently in the wool trade, in which he became skilful and 
 prosperous, and acquired a handsome fortune. 
 
 Mr. Odlin was a man of pronounced views. lie had a 
 ready speech and an impressive manner, and addressed public 
 meetings with much effect. He was repeatedly ch'eUMl to 
 fill public positions, in the legislature and the like, and 
 always acquitted himself with credit. In all good works he
 
 7T> PIIIU.II'S KXKTKi: 
 
 took his full share, and proved himself a liberal and public 
 spirited citizen. 
 
 Remembering how much lie was indebted lor his own 
 instruction to the English department in the Academy, lie 
 undoubtedly saw its discontinuance with regret. He there- 
 fore determined to devote a generous sum to its restoration. 
 The trustees accepted his gift upon the conditions that he 
 annexed to it, and the English course is now permanently 
 reinstated in the school. 
 
 Mr. Odlindied the twcnty-.'ourth of April. 187'., at the age 
 of seventy-four. 
 
 HENRY WINKI.KY is a son of William AVinkley, of Har- 
 rington, where he was born in 180G ; and lived upon his 
 father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He 
 then went to Boston "to seek his fortune," and obtained 
 employment there from a dealer in crockery and china ware. 
 He was afterwards engaged in the same business in New- 
 York, and finally in Philadelphia, where he became the chief 
 of a large wholesale and importing house. About thirty 
 years ago he retired from business, having been highly suc- 
 cessful in the accumulation of property. Since then he has 
 continued to make Philadelphia his residence, but has trav- 
 elled extensively, in this country and in Europe. AVithin 
 the few past j'ears, he has distributed large sums of money 
 among institutions of learning in New England. 
 
 The temptation to devote an extended chapter to the 
 Alumni, is only controlled by the want of sufficient space. 
 They number above five thousand, and represent nearly 
 every State and Territory of the Union, besides a fair 
 proportion of foreign countries. It would be ai> inter- 
 esting task to enumerate those among them who have 
 attained prominence in some of the various departments of 
 human effort. The list would assuredly be a long one. and 
 would include many men of national repute, some whose 
 fame has spread wherever civilization extends. 
 
 The Academy includes among her earlier sons, especially,
 
 ACADKMV. / ^ 
 
 an extraordinary group of eminent men. That Webster and 
 Cass, Everett and Dix, Palfrey and Sparks and Bancroft 
 should have appeared at a single school in the space of fif- 
 teen years, is indeed wonderful. And yet, proud as Exeter 
 must be of these great names upon her roll, their greatness 
 cannot of course be attributed exclusively, or, indeed, in 
 an}' very great degree, to the effect of her training. No 
 doubt they profited much by the lessons of her able and 
 interested instructors and mentors, and found the rugged 
 pathway to learning made pleasanter, through the halls of 
 Exeter, and smoother to their feet. But men of their excep- 
 tional powers would have achieved eminence with an}* train- 
 ing perhaps with no training. 
 
 A school is fairly to be judged by its fruits ; not by a few 
 isolated cases, but by what it has done for the great body 
 of those whom it has assumed to discipline and instruct. 
 The average scholarship of its pupils, their command of 
 their powers, their habits of application, their love for learn- 
 ing, their ambition to excel, their manly attributes, courtesy, 
 kindness, truthfulness and honor, are all elements to be 
 weighed in assigning to the school which nurtured them its 
 true place in the scale of merit. The judicious friends of 
 Phillips Exeter Academy, while making no claims of its 
 superiority over other admirable and better endowed schools, 
 are content to submit its pretensions to this test. And they 
 believe that the examination papers and merit rolls of our 
 colleges, and the records of our professional seminaries, as 
 well as a survey of those employments in the field of active 
 life in which thorough early training most tells, will show 
 that the men who have undergone Exeter drill, and formed 
 themselves by Exeter traditions, have taken places second 
 to those of the graduates of no other American school.
 
 7* riiiLLir> i MM 
 
 VI. 
 
 THF, RECREATIONS. 
 
 It has been remarked that Exeter exhibits fewer class so- 
 cieties and other associations for diversion, than most other 
 schools of equal magnitude. There is perhaps some truth in 
 the statement ; but it is not to be inferred from this circum- 
 stance that the students do not enjoy an abundance of rec- 
 reations. Although the impress of work is visible every- 
 where, yet amusements receive, and have always received, 
 their full share of attention from the school. 
 
 One of the earliest recreations of the students of which any 
 record remains, was derived from the voluntary performance 
 of military exercises. This began shortly before the close 
 of the last century, and as Lewis Cass, then in the Academy, 
 was prominent in the movement, it is not unlikely that he was 
 one of the authors of it. This is rendered more probable 
 by the fact that his father was at that time an officer on 
 active duty in the arm}-, and by the aptitude for the martial 
 profession which the son subsequently evinced. 
 
 The first definite information that we have of a military 
 organization in the school, is on the occasion of the obse- 
 quies of President Washington, in 17IM). The land was tilled 
 with mourning, and every city and town and hamlet paid 
 honor to his memory. The Legislature of. New Hampshire 
 was in session in Exeter, when the intelligence of his death 
 was received. Resolutions of warm admiration for the virtue 
 and patriotism of the deceased, and of profound sorrow for
 
 ACADEMY. 7!> 
 
 the country's bereavement, were adopted by both Houses, 
 and it was voted that the Executive and the Legislature 
 should jointly give their attendance at the religious exercises 
 to be performed in the town, on the occasion. 
 
 Accordingly at the appointed hour, the Governor, attended 
 by the Council, together with the .Senate and House of Rep- 
 resentatives, marched in solemn procession to the church, 
 where appropriate religious services were held. The proces- 
 sion was preceded by "a military escort formed of the stu- 
 dents of Phillips Exeter Academy, in uniform, with proper 
 badges of mourning." Lewis Cass was the commander of 
 the corps. And in acknowledgement of the service, the 
 Legislature caused to be printed one hundred copies of Wash- 
 ington's Farewell Address, and of the record of their own 
 action on this occasion, and ordered that a copy of the same 
 should be given to each of the students of the Acadeni}'. A 
 few copies of the publication, a duodecimo of thirty-six 
 pages, are still extant. 
 
 The students' military corps, took to itself, perhaps from 
 this occasion, the name of "the Washington Whites." The 
 uniform adopted by its members consisted of a frock and 
 pantaloons, doubtless of some white material, with a corres- 
 ponding cockade and plume. The officers wore each an 
 epaulet, the captain on the right shoulder, the subalterns on 
 the left. The company usually numbered forty or fifty pri- 
 vates ; the officers were a captain, three lieutenants, an 
 ensign, four sergeants and a clerk. They ordinarily parad- 
 ed in public three or four times in each year, and performed 
 escort duty for the Trustees at their annual meetings. The}* 
 appeared several years on the Fourth of July, when that 
 anniversary was publicly observed in the town ; and twice 
 turned out to escort Gov. Oilman, and once to escort Gov. 
 Smith, into town, on their return from "election." 
 
 The corps embraced, in the course of its existence, a goodly 
 number of lads who grew in after life to be men of note. 
 Three of these, at least, are still living ; viz. George Kent,
 
 80 I'll i i.i. 1 1-> i.xi.TKi; 
 
 Alpheus S. Packard and George Bancroft. Besides these, the 
 roster of the company bore the not unknown names of Nath- 
 aniel A. Haven, Jr., George Washington Storer, William 
 Plumcr, Jr., James II. Duncan. Edward Everett, Charles 
 Folsoni, William Willis, John S. Sleeper, John G. Palfrey, 
 William B. O. and Oliver W. B. IVabody, Kiehard Ilildivth, 
 Jonathan P. Cashing and Gideon L. Soule. President 
 dishing was a captain, and Principal Sonle a lieutenant; 
 and the latter used to describe with enthusiasm the excellent 
 drill and the soldierly appearance of the company, in its 
 palmy da3~s. 
 
 The military ardor, which was probably kept alive by the 
 war of 1812, gradually declined after that was over, and by 
 the year 1818 had reached so low an ebb, that the organi/a- 
 tion of the Washington Whites was abandoned. And though 
 attempts were repeatedly made, in later years, to resuscitate 
 the company, they were attended with no lasting success. 
 When the Southern Rebellion broke out upon the country in 
 1861, the great body of the students, in common with the 
 youth of the entire North, formed themselves into drill-clubs, 
 and practiced the rudiments of the military art. Of course 
 the major part of them were too young to enter into actual 
 service, but a considerable number, who were of proper age, 
 marched from the school to join the Union army. They 
 were escorted, with ever} 1 mark of honor, by their fellow 
 students, to the train which was to bear them to the field, 
 and departed amid the cheers and God-speeds of their com- 
 panions. 
 
 A chapter of deep interest might be written upon Phillips 
 Exeter Academy in the war. Her gallant sons performed 
 their full share of patriotic service on every battle field ; 
 man}' of them sealed their devotion to the cause of their 
 country with their life blood ; and not a few attained high 
 command, and wrote their names by deeds of daring, and 
 by martial achievements, on the enduring pages of histoiy. 
 
 With the dissolution of the military company in 1818, a
 
 ACADEMY. 81 
 
 new subject arose, to turn the students' ideas into a more 
 pacific channel. Under the encouragement of Professor 
 Ilildrcth, the Golden Branch Society was instituted; and 
 lads once ambitious only to excel in the exercises of the sol- 
 dier, now panted to be admitted, with the chosen few, to 
 the arcana of the new nrystic fraternity. 
 
 The design of the societ} r was the very commendable one 
 of associating together the more diligent and aspiring of the 
 students, for social and intellectual improvement. Its plan 
 contemplated the election of new members by the society, from 
 each successive class, in a certain ratio. For more than fif- 
 teen years the society went on, recruiting its numbers in this 
 way, without difficulty. But as the election to membership 
 carne to be regarded as a desirable distinction, it is not strange, 
 that, honestly as the power may have been exercised, jeal- 
 ousy and dissatisfaction sometimes manifested themselves 
 among those who were left out. No overt demonstration of 
 these feelings was made, however, until the year 1837. 
 That was about the time when the anti-masonic excitement 
 pervaded the community, and rendered wise men foolish, on 
 the subject of secret associations ; so that even the harm- 
 less Phi Beta Kappa society of our colleges was compelled 
 in deference to the popular clamor, to surrender the dread 
 secret hidden under its cabalistic initials. 
 
 This jealousy of secret societies manifested itself in the 
 Academy by an organized opposition to the Golden Branch. 
 A number of the students, some of them above the average 
 standing, declared hostilities against the society, taking 
 exception not only to its secrecy, but also to its arrogant 
 pretentious in styling itself the Golden Branch, as if to imply 
 that the remaining branches of the Academy were of inferior 
 metal. They also complained of the arbitrary manner of 
 choosing its members, and of their lack of courtesy to the 
 other students. 
 
 Another society was formed by the malcontents, based, 
 no doubt, on more liberal principles, and avowedly set up in
 
 82 PHILLIPS EXETER 
 
 opposition to the Golden Branch. The ollieers of the new 
 society published in a pamphlet an address to the members 
 of the old one, which being considered disrespectful in its 
 tone to the authorities of the Academy, the offenders were 
 removed from the school. A part of their number made such 
 acknowledgements that they were allowed to return; the 
 others went their way. A reorganization of the Golden 
 Branch was one of the results of the affair; and since that 
 time it has maintained no such secrecy as to offend the most 
 scrupulous. 
 
 The Golden Branch still nourishes, and occupies a room 
 in the main Academy building. It holds its regular weekly 
 meetings for literary exercises, and possesses a library of 
 considerable size and value. It is not, however, the only 
 society of its class in the Academy. Within a few years the 
 G. L. Sonic Literary Society has been established, and is in 
 successful operation. A room in the Academy is assigned 
 to this Society, also, where its meetings are held, and its 
 library, now of respectable dimensions, is deposited. 
 
 In the earlier days of the Academy, games of marbles 
 were much in vogue. The larger boys were then not above 
 carrying their pockets full of the common yellow clay pellets 
 which were the stakes of the game, with a few choice white, 
 or striped "alleys," to be used as projectiles. It was not 
 considered infra dig., for even a senior to "knuckle down" 
 to a game on the earthen sidewalk, and the cry of "no fudg- 
 ings" was enough to restrain the most lawless from violating 
 the rules of the ring. But marbles seem to be numbered 
 with the things that were ; it is man}' }'ears since the}' disap- 
 peared from the Academy. 
 
 Football and hand-ball have kept their place among the 
 sports of the students from the very first; though the rules 
 of play with them, have been much changed of late years. 
 Haifa century ago football was the simplest of games, and 
 every l>oy in the school who was capable of running, could, 
 often did. take part in it. Some, of course, by natural
 
 ACADEMY. 88 
 
 powers and by practice, acquired a great superiority over the 
 rest, but no student was so awkward or so unskilful that ho 
 was debarred from playing. 
 
 The games of bat-and-ball in former years were various, 
 but the most popular were '-four old cat" and base ball. The 
 latter alone survives to this day, and in a very changed con- 
 dition. In these games, as in football, no special expert- 
 ness was then requisite to enable one to join. A very large 
 proportion of the students participated in the sport ; and the 
 old residents will readily recall with what regularity Fast day 
 used to be devoted to the base ball of the period. 
 
 But those games have greatly changed their character in 
 latter da\~s. The process of evolution has transformed the 
 simple into the complex, the easy into the difficult, the 
 healthful recreation into a tour deforce. No more are these 
 amusements open to the whole school ; they are now practi- 
 cally confined to a small number of picked and trained 
 athletes. It is not an edifying spectacle to a man of old- 
 fashioned prejudices, to see half a score of muscular young 
 fellows, in fantastic costumes, having all the play (if such 
 tough work can be called by that name) to themselves, while 
 a hundred or two of their school fellows sit around the cam- 
 pus, during a whole afternoon, with no other occupation than 
 to gaze at them. If the purpose of school games is, as it 
 has generally been thought to be, to furnish amusement com- 
 bined with healthful exercise, it certainly seems that those 
 should be preferred, which do "the greatest good to the 
 greatest number." And it is a satisfaction to see that a 
 reaction has apparently begun in the school, and that 
 games are now introduced, in which every bo}', without spec- 
 ial training, can join, and have his share of fun, and of action 
 as well. 
 
 The English public school game of "hare and hounds" 
 has been occasionally attempted at Exeter, but not with 
 entirely satisfactory results. Neither the climate nor the 
 face of the country is so well adapted for it here, as in Eng-
 
 84 PHILLIPS EXETER 
 
 land. Moreover the violent exercise of rnuning, over con- 
 siderable distances, has never been practiced in this country 
 to any great extent. 
 
 Boating has become a rather popular amusement for a 
 number of years past. The "salt river" affords an oppor- 
 tunity for excellent practice. A boat club is maintained 
 in the Academy, crews are carefully selected, and coached 
 after the approved method. Their boats are the work of the 
 best builders, and it is an inspiring sight to watch the crews 
 pulling, with their measured stroke, up and down the chan- 
 nel. Boating, however, as it is at present conducted, though 
 it furnishes excellent exercise, is too expensive an amuse- 
 ment to be generally indulged in. 
 
 The bicycle, too, is a rather costly machine, and its use is 
 therefore somewhat limited. This is not to be regretted, for 
 though as a means of locomotion it is rapid, and enables one 
 to take an airing with facility, yet as a method of obtaining 
 bodily exercise it is very defective. The lower limbs, no 
 doubt, have enough of it, but the constrained position of the 
 upper part of the body cannot but be injurious. No one 
 desires to become round shouldered or flat chested, even if 
 he is satisfied with the abnormal muscular development of a 
 kangaroo. 
 
 Exeter has never been disgraced by the practice of "hax- 
 ing." In former times, there were certain ordeals which new 
 comers were obliged to undergo, but they were only rough, 
 never brutal. Two of them are alluded to by the venerable 
 Col. George Kent, in his versified account of the sports of 
 Exeter, three-fourths of a century ago.* One of these \v:is 
 "shinning up" a bare post in the Academy ; and though this 
 would have been only a pastime to those light active boys, 
 who seem to climb as naturally as squirrels, yet it must have 
 been a serious trial to some of the clumsy ones. 
 
 "Scrubbing" was the other ordeal. When the first snow 
 of the winter came, every new boy had to be washed in it. 
 
 Appendix K.
 
 A<'AI>KMY. *.") 
 
 Jf he was a wise urc'liin he submitted to $he operation kindly, 
 and escaped with M comp:ir.'itively gentle handling. l>uf if 
 he resisted, so much the worse for him. A do/en strong 
 arms held him fast, while his face was diligently scrubbed 
 with the newly fallen Hakes (not unmixed with sand or grav- 
 el) until the unfortunate wight, with tingling cuticle, and 
 eyes full of tears, was lain to beg for mercy. 
 
 Winter was the season of many amusements. Skating on 
 the river, and coasting, especially when the snow was cov- 
 ered with a (-rust that would bear the weight of a boy and 
 sled, wei'e favorite pastimes. Snowballing, in former times, 
 was not confined to the occasions when a fresh downfall or a 
 thaw rendered the snow temptingly plastic, but was a busi- 
 ness that lasted the season through. Forts of solid frost- 
 work used to be erected, which were the objects of attack 
 and defence, in a very creditable imitation of genuine war- 
 fare. 
 
 There is a tradition of one snow fort in particular, built 
 not very long after the termination of the last war with Great 
 Britain, which was of unprecedented strength and magni- 
 tude. On its lofty battlements a sentinel student kept watch 
 and ward by night and by daj', lest the hostile town boys 
 should capture it by a sudden onslaught. A bell crowned its 
 summit, to sound an alarm to the garrison, should danger 
 threaten. Evciy student felt in honor bound to do his duty 
 manfully as a defender of this citadel of his order. A store 
 of ammunition was provided in the form of snow balls s soak- 
 ed in water and frozen to ice, so that when impelled by stal- 
 wart arms, they were little less to be dreaded than veritable 
 bullets. 
 
 Perhaps this eternal vigilance and these bellicose prepara- 
 tions impressed the town boys with a wholesome dread of 
 assaulting a work as apparently impregnable, in which they 
 were likely to get more bruises than glory ; on that subject 
 tradition is silent. .Hut the fort if it were ever captured, was 
 not demolished. Through the long winter it stood in unim-
 
 86 rim. UPS KXKTKH 
 
 paired solidity : tin- gentler breath of spring failed to sap its 
 icy foundations: and even summer, with its sunshine and 
 tropical showers, seemed lor a while' powerless to cope- with 
 this frosted nionument of si ITU winter's reign ; so that it was 
 not till the 1 sultry heats of July, Unit its last vestiges disap- 
 peared. 
 
 And then it was found that from the spot where those too 
 solid walls had stood, every trace of vegetation had van- 
 Nied. All that remained to tell where the great snow fort 
 had been reared, was a wide circular tract of dead sand, in 
 the midst of the beautiful greenery of the Academy yard. 
 Xor diil the memory of the icy fortress perish in a single 
 year. Springs came and summers went, and still no blade 
 of grass enlivened the dull gray of that charmed circle where 
 once stood the memorable structure. Every new boy. as he 
 wonderingly inquired the cause of this strange phenomenon, 
 listened tirrectis auribus, to the strange explanation fur- 
 nished by his more sophisticated companions, and ga/ed 
 upon this indisputable evidence of departed glories, with the 
 interest and with the faith, of a juvenile Schliemann. 
 
 This chapter might be indefinitely prolonged. The rec- 
 ollections of the "old boys" would afford the materials 
 for a volume, upon the pastimes of former generations of 
 pupils; and an abstract of the contents of "the Pean.'' 
 would disclosed the number of secret societies known by 
 Greek initials, of associations for religious, political, literary, 
 musical and various other purposes of amusement and im- 
 provement, which the students at this time maintain ; among 
 which, and worthy of special mention, is the list of editors 
 of "the Exonian," a newspaper for several years past issue d 
 weekly during term time, devoted to college and academy 
 new-, and conducted with marked ability, taste and judgment. 
 
 But these things would swell this sketch far beyond its 
 allotted size ; and an allusion to one pleasant custom of the 
 Academy, now for many years fallen into desuetude, must 
 tiring it to a close.
 
 \CADKMY. 87 
 
 annual exhibitions of the Academy were formerly 
 occasions of great interest to the school and to the town and 
 vicinity. For them elaborate preparations were made ; and 
 the number of delighted spectators was limited only I)}' the 
 capacity of the Academy hall. Ushers, of resolution, and of 
 muscle, too, were indispensable to repress the. eagerness of 
 outsiders to rush in before the dignitaries had been deco- 
 rously placed in the scats of honor assigned to them, as well 
 ns to preserve order during the performance of the exercises. 
 Every youth who was honored with a part, entertained a full 
 sense of his importance ; and the audience regarded "the 
 Doctor," at whose nod the exercises proceeded, as if he were, 
 as indeed in a sense he was, the monarch of all he surveyed. 
 
 It is interesting to scan the old "orders of exercises," at 
 those exhibitions. The very earliest ones, in which might 
 probably be found the names of some of those whose subse- 
 quent career reflected most luster upon the Academy, are 
 not now to be found. In that of seventy-six years ago, the 
 "Salutatory Oration in Latin" was assigned to Edward 
 Everett, and a part also to Nathaniel H. Carter, whose prema- 
 ture death precluded the complete fulfilment of his early 
 promise. In the exhibition of 1814, Jonathan P. Gushing 
 and Gideon L. Soule took part ; and in 1818 "a Poem" was 
 recited by Thomas "W. Dorr, afterwards noted for his con- 
 nection with the popular movement in Rhode Island which in 
 1842 was termed rebellion, but would probably be thought 
 deserving of a milder designation, at present. In 1822 
 appeared Richard Hildrcth, of literary and historic fame ; 
 in 1823 Alpheus Crosby the learned professor, John P. Hale 
 the eminent advocate. and Senator, and John H. Warland 
 the poet editor, whose abilities have scarcely received due 
 recognition. 
 
 In the later orders of exercises a greater number of names 
 are met with, which happily arc not yet "starred." And in 
 1825 and 1826 are found those of Charles W. Woodman, 
 Luther D. Sawyer and Hamilton E. Perkins, who, notwitlj-
 
 88 nm.i.ii-s I.NI.TKK 
 
 standing considerably nunv tlian hall' a centiir\ has paed 
 over their whitening heads since they performed upon the 
 stai;v !>!' Mxeter. are coiilidently expected to unite, with their 
 seniors a> .we'll as their juniors, in celenrntiiiLf. with all their 
 youthful enthusiasm, the centennial birthday of Phillips 
 Kxcter Academv.
 
 .\r\KK.\n. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A, page (!. 
 
 I.KTTKi: FROM JOHN PHILLIPS To MKS. .JosiAIl .I!.M\N. 
 
 .\MM>VKK. December 17. 17i!.". 
 
 Mv DKAK Mus. (in. MAN: I am calmest charmed with the 
 beautiful and animated lines with which you have favored 
 me. I have been ardently wishing for your dear grandmoth- 
 er's picture, and you make me happy in presenting me there- 
 with. Methinks the lovely person lives in yon. and that the 
 old mansion house is once more enlivened and ornamented 
 with the living image of its late inhabitant. Your fondness 
 for my return minds me of her anxiety for me when absent, 
 and the sweet welcome which her faithful heart discovered in 
 her countenance, as well as with her lips, when she received 
 me. Her tender concern, quick sensibility and just resent- 
 ment upon the appearance of anything injurious to my per- 
 son or character, your feeling heart lias dictated, and your 
 read\ T pen described in the most lively manner. 
 
 I.ut I forbear ; I consider you are yet living, and may you 
 live long to make my friend happy in your copying after an 
 example which it is your laudable ambition to imitate. 
 
 I take this opportunity to express my thankfulness for 
 the favor I obtained of the Lord when the wife of my 3-011111 
 gave her hand with her heart to so unworthy a person, who 
 appears to himself to have been but as a foil to make her 
 excellent 1 :' more resplendent. He who kindly gave, hath 
 taken. I bless his name but my breast heaves my heart 
 still bleeds ; the image is too deeply impressed to be eilaced. 
 Is she dead? Oh, she yet speaks; her works speak for her; 
 her Sarah rises up and calls her blessed. Her husband, 
 also, (whilst he laments his own grievous failings) praiseth 
 lu-r and praiseth God for his undeserved goodness in blessing 
 him with such a consort a consort so amiable, cheerful, fru-
 
 HO rim ,I.IP> i \i M i; 
 
 gal. wise, prudent, peaceable, meek, modest, neat, diligent . 
 careful, contented, of such steady conduct, strict virtue :uid 
 exemplary piety, so apparent in the constant discharge of the 
 various duties of the Christian life and in the prospect of 
 death ho\v remarkable serene and submissive to the will of her 
 Father which is now done. And what remains but that we 
 al>o be subject to his will, and have our conversation where 
 we doubt not she is, and endeavor to become followers 
 of Christ as she was. and followers of her and all those 
 who, through faith and patience, are none to inherit the 
 promise. May her offspring be the blessed of the Lord, and 
 her and my dear namesakes find their names written in the 
 Lamb's book of life. 
 
 Which is the prayer of 
 
 Your ever lovinu. 
 
 j. P. 
 
 B, page 11. 
 
 LLTTKKS cil .IOIIN PHILLIPS TO MIS P.KOTIIKKs. 
 To S.VMfKL rilll. I. IPS. 
 
 KXI/IT.I;. May iM, 17G2. 
 
 DKAK 15i:< >ri[i:i; : As I hear you are relieved from a part of 
 public business, which necessarily engrossed much of your 
 time and attention, you have now more leisure to employ 
 your thoughts and cares upon the very important proposal 
 yon made, of a united effort in our family, for doing some 
 special service for God. Pray let me know Father's and 
 Brother's thoughts thereon, and what your present appre- 
 hension is. 
 
 It appeal's by a public advertisement there is a new Socie- 
 ty incorporated at Boston for the purpose which, you remem- 
 ber I told you, laid most upon my mind. Pray write me 
 what to yon has an encouraging or discouraging aspect upon 
 that scheme. Our parents designed and educated nstoscrve 
 Christ personally in the work of the ministry; our time has 
 been otherwise employed ; our other labors by his blessing 
 succeeded. May our ( iod ha ve the fruits of them for the 
 carrying to an end the same blessed work by such whom he 
 shall please to -end. 
 
 (Extract ) To WILLIAM PHILLIPS. 
 
 KXKTKIJ, June 2, 17G2. 
 I would gladly know who was chose President and who are
 
 \< ADKMV. Ill 
 
 the principal members of a Society lately incorporated in 
 Boston for sending the gospel among the heathen, (as I sup- 
 pose, having only seen an advertisement in the Boston 
 paper,) whether the gentlemen who arc at the expense of 
 this service belong to this country or Great Britain : to what 
 nations or tribes are the missions, and who the missionaries. 
 I am the more inquisitive as I apprehend a service of this 
 nature is of the utmost importance, and, if under due regula- 
 tions, ought to be greatly encouraged, not only by particular 
 persons, but by the several governments, since Heaven has 
 granted us such marvellous successes. 
 
 Has Christ subdued our enemies around us, and shall we 
 not unite our endeavors to bring them under his yoke ? Grat- 
 itude, my Brother, gratitude to our beneficent Lord requires 
 it ; compassion for the souls of our fellow-creatures calls for 
 it. AV r as there ever a more open door, or a people less 
 excusable if so great a work (heretofore too much neglected) 
 should not now be generally promoted, with cheerfulness and 
 zeal ? 
 
 C, page 14. 
 
 EPITAPH ON THE KOUNDKK. 
 
 JOHN PHILLIPS, LL. D. 
 
 Founder of the Phillips Exeter Academy. 
 
 An Associate Founder of the Phillips Academy in Andover, 
 
 And a liberal benefactor of Dartmouth College, 
 
 Died 
 
 April 21, 1795 
 aged 75 }'ears. 
 
 Actuated by his ardent attachment to the cause of Christianity 
 He devoted his wealth to the advancement of 
 
 Letters and Religion. 
 
 His appropriate monument are 
 
 The institutions which bear his name. 
 
 D, page 22. 
 
 While preparing these sheets for the press the writer was 
 favored by the Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, of Boston, with a 
 bundle of old bills incurred by the three sons of Mr. Moses 
 Grant, while attending the Academy in the years 17!S and 
 17!)!). They boarded in the family of Deacon Samuel 
 Brooks, a highly respectable citizen of the town, at the cost 
 of 12 per week, which apparently included lodging and
 
 '.'J run. i. IP- i \i 
 
 washing also They were tinder tin- cl.ar.ii' of Mi'. IVter 
 Thacher. .Jr.. who is presumed to have In en the same person 
 whose name now appears in the catalogue as an instructor in 
 IT'.K 1 . with the middle initial of "O," and was afterwards the 
 lud^e of the Municipal Court of Boston. 
 
 Next to the l>oard Mil. the' largest item is for dancing les- 
 sons irivcn by M. Kenard. bcin.u' ">"> for a year's instruction. 
 It appears, therefore, that in those early days of the Acad- 
 emy, dancing was not considered incompatible with study. 
 The only books nicMitioned as purchased in Exeter, are Latin 
 ( irammar.s. .Ksop's Fables. M HSC'> (ieo^rapliy. Young's 
 and Kntick's Dictionaries, and the Village Harmony. 
 "Hunches of quills," and "papers of ink powder" amou<> - the 
 items, remind us of the dillicnlties under which our ju'rand- 
 fathers had to labor in order to obtain the materials for 
 writing their beautiful and elaborate letter--. A charge for 
 "tackling the skates" shows that the students of that day 
 practiced the exhilarating exercise of skating on the river: 
 while "cash to Mrs. Taylor for making a uniform" carries us 
 back to the primitive ai{e. lonu since outgrown. when 
 younu'^ters did not disdain to allow their <rarments to be 
 fashioned by women. 
 
 !;, pa-e -2i]. 
 
 There is preserved amonu the .papers of the Academy a 
 list of the students who were awarded pri/.es, during the 
 ei'_rht years that this vote of the Trustees continued in force. 
 The number varied in different years, from eiuht in 1-so!) 
 to two in 1.S13. Two of the recipients, at least, are still 
 living; (leor^e Kent, who in 180!) was adjudged entith-d to 
 three dollars for the highest improvement, made amonu' the 
 members of certain specified classes, in Latin and (Jreek. 
 "particular I'eii'ard bciii!i had to accuracy and correctness ;" 
 and (leoriie IJancroft who in 1*12 carried oil' the pri/.e of four 
 dollars, as "the scholar who most distinguished himself in 
 oonstrninu ami parsing the (Jreek and Latin landmines." 
 llis reward appears to have been <jiven him in the form \ a 
 book. "Elements of Criticism ;" and it may be inferred from 
 his subsequent career that he made a ;_M>od use of it. 
 
 A few of the written exercises prepared for competition 
 have been preserved, evidently on account of the beauty of 
 their execution. They are specimens of Latin composition : 
 and while we may fairly hope that the students of our own 
 time can boast an equal proficiency in the laminate, yet we
 
 despair of ever again seeing in the Academy such perfect 
 calligraphy. Three of the pieces are the work ol' lads who 
 carried the same haliils of carefulness and linish. if not the 
 same heaiitit'nl penmanship, into the work of their later years, 
 
 by which their names have been rendered famous, vix : 
 Charles Folsom. -lolin G. Palfrey and .lared Sparks. 
 
 F, page -211. 
 
 LIST OK STriMKS. ADOl'TLl) IN ISIS. [N TIIK At . VDKMY. 
 CLASSICAL IM.rAUTMKXT. 
 
 For tlu i First Year : 
 
 Adam's Latin Grammar ; Liber Primus, or a similar work : 
 Viri Romani, or Cesar's Commentaries ; Latin Prosody : 
 Exercises in Reading and making Latin ; Ancient and Mod- 
 ern Geography : Virgil and Arithmetic. 
 For the Second Year : 
 
 Virgil ; Arithmetic and Exercises in Reading and making 
 Latin, continued ; Yalpey's Greek Grammar; Roman His- 
 tory: Cicero's Select Orations: Delectus; Dal/el's Collec- 
 tanea Gr;eoa Minora ; Greek Testament: English Gram- 
 mar and Declamation. 
 
 For the Third Year : 
 
 The same Latin and Greek authors in revision ; English 
 Grammar and Declamatioy continued: Sallust : Algebra: 
 Exercises in Latin and English translations, and Composi- 
 tion. 
 
 For the Advanced Class : 
 
 Collectanea Gneca Majora : Q. Horatius Flaccus ; Titus 
 Livius ; Parts of Terence's Comedies : Excerpla Lalina, 01- 
 such Latin and (ireek authors as may best comport with the 
 student's future destination: Algebra: Geometry: Ele- 
 ments of Ancient History ; Adam's Roman Antiquities, etc. 
 
 F.Mil.ISII DKI'AKTMEXT. 
 
 For admission into this department the candidate must be 
 at least twelve years of a<i'e, and must have been well 
 instructed in Reading and Spelling; familiarly acquainted 
 with Arithmetic, through Simple Proportion with the excep- 
 tion of Fractions, with Murray's English Grammar through 
 Syntax:, and must be able to parse simple English sentences. 
 
 The following is the course of instruction and study in the 
 English Department, which with special exceptions, will 
 comprise three years.
 
 !>I I'lIM.l.ir- I.XMTI; 
 
 For tlu First Year : 
 
 English (irammar including exercises in Reading, in Pars- 
 iu-j; and Analy/ing, in the correction of bad English ; Pnnc- 
 liiMtion and Prosody: Aritlnnctic : (leography. :ind Algebra 
 through Simple Kquations. 
 
 For the Second Year : 
 
 Knglish (irammar continued: Geometry: 1'hme Trigo 
 noniet ry and its application to heights and distances: men- 
 suration of Sup. and Sol.: Klenients of Ancient History: 
 Logic: Rhetoric; English Composition: Declamation and 
 e\erci>es of the Forensic kind. 
 
 For the Third Year : 
 
 Surveying: Navigation; Elements of Chemistry and Nat- 
 ural Philosophy . with experiments; Klenienls of Modern 
 History, particularly of the United States : Moral and Politi- 
 cal Philosophy, with English Composition, Forensics and 
 Declamation continued. 
 
 G, page 30. 
 
 1>U. Al'.l'.OTs' LKTTKK ol KKSKJKATIOX. 
 
 To the honorable Board of Trustees of Phillips Exeter Acad- 
 emy: 
 
 Gentlemen: It is now fifty years since under your direc- 
 tion I commenced the government and instruction ol' Phillips 
 Exeter Academy. Age and infirmity admonish me that it is 
 time to retire from a scene of labor and responsibility which 
 is better suited to an earlier period of life, and may lie more 
 successfully sustained by younger men. At the close of this 
 long period of active service it is a satisfaction to me that I 
 leave the institution where my strongest sympathies and 
 uninterrupted labors have been employed, in a comparatively 
 prosperous condition. 
 
 If in any measure the objects of the pious Founder have 
 l>een attained, and the reasonable expectations of the public 
 satisfied, much is to be attributed to union in counsel and the 
 constant aid and support of the Trustees, and I cannot on 
 this occasion omit to express my grateful obligation to the 
 Hoard wlio.se uniform kindness and courtesy I have ever 
 experienced, and which have greatly contributed to alleviate 
 the toils and anxieties of a long life. 
 
 I have now, gentlemen, to repeat the desire that my con- 
 nexion with the institution as Principal may terminate at the
 
 AC A DEM V. '->.") 
 
 end of the present term, and that a successor be appointed to 
 supply the place. And at the close of my labors permit me 
 to express my best wishes for your personal happiness, and to 
 assure yon of the continuance of my fervent prayers for the 
 future prosperity of the institution. 
 
 With great respect and all'eclion, 
 
 I am your obedient servant, 
 
 BKX.IAMIN Ar.r.oi . 
 
 KKSOl.rriOX OF THE TUISTI.I.S. 
 
 Voted, unanimously, that the Trustees cannot accept the 
 resignation, as the}' now do, of a long tried oflicer without 
 expressing their deep regret at ^hc dissolution of the connec- 
 tion which has so long and so happily subsisted between 
 them. It is now fifty years since Dr. Abbot was placed,- in 
 the lifetime of the Founder, at the head of the instruction of 
 this Academy. It is personal!}' known to some of the pres- 
 ent members of the Board that the Founder, during the 
 remaining seven years of his life, entirely approved the con- 
 duct of the Principal, as did also those who have successively 
 exercised the office of governors and visitors of this Acad- 
 emy. 
 
 The endowment of this charity is believed to be among 
 the most ample and liberal of its class in the United States, 
 and for that reason talents and qualifications rarely found 
 united in one man were required in the person charged with 
 the instruction and government. A clear and sound under- 
 standing, talents beyond the ordinary rate for acquiring, 
 and aptness in communicating instruction, an enlarged 
 knowledge of human nature, sagacity to discern the charac- 
 ters, capacities and dispositions of youth, accompanied by a 
 mild and equable temper and disposition of mind, suavity of 
 manners and above all a kind and affectionate heart, ready 
 at all times to put on the parent, regarding his pupils as 
 children entrusted by Providence to his care, all these qual- 
 ities and many others adapted to his situation, experience 
 has shown were happily blended in the man of their choice. 
 The present Trustees and man} 7 of their predecessors can 
 claim no merit in the appointment (that merit is chiefly to be 
 ascribed to the Founder) but only in a disposition duly to 
 appreciate the merits and conduct of their Principal, and 
 steadily to support his authority, to adopt such plans and 
 measures for instruction and government as experience should 
 have suggested to him as necessary and useful, and the uni- 
 form disposition to make his situation as easy and comforta-
 
 :H; run. i. ir- i \i n i: 
 
 Mr to him on tin- means placed at their disposal would allow. 
 Tlie records of tin- Academy abundantly show that tlic mo>t 
 cordial and a licet ion ate confldence has ever subsisted bet \vccn 
 the governor-- and visitors of the charity and the important 
 olliccr dialled with its internal direction and management. 
 
 It gives the Trustees unfeigned pleasure to lielieve that 
 this school has proved, and has been ever so regarded, as 
 one of the best in our country, and for the whole period of 
 Dr. Abbot'.- superintendence, assisted as he has generally 
 been by young nien of superior talents and liberal minds, 
 has sent forth scholars and gentlemen distinguished for their 
 classical knowledge and scientific attainments, some of whom 
 have completed their studies here. This furnishes the lies! 
 evidence of the usefulness of the institution and of the mer- 
 its of its instructors. 
 
 The Trustees cannot but ascribe much of the excellence of 
 this school, and its present well digested and matured rules 
 and usages, to the prudence and caution of its Principal, 
 avoiding on the one hand all rash and hasty experiments in 
 the delicate business of education, and on the other, evinc- 
 ing a constant readiness to avail himself of the new lights 
 shed upon this branch of knowledge at home and abroad. 
 It has been attempted here to lay the foundations deep and 
 broad, and to dispense none but correct and accurate instruc- 
 tion in all the branches taught . and as far as our sphere 
 extends, to make solid rather than shining scholars. 
 
 The Trustees have thus thought it to be a duty they owed 
 their late Principal to advert in brief terms to the cour-c of 
 education pursued in this Academy for the last twenty-live 
 years, and to express their full and entire approbation, and 
 also their determination to continue it. They Hatter them- 
 selves that the intentions and hopes of the benevolent Found- 
 er have been thus far. and will continue to lie. rcali/cd. 
 
 The Trustees in taking leave of their Principal, earnestly 
 pray that the decline of his now advanced years may be as 
 serene and happy as his long and faithful services have been 
 productive of the happiness and improvement of others. 
 His retrospection cannot fail to afford him the truest felicity. 
 They hope he will long live to sec and enjov the good fruits 
 of his laborious and well spent life.
 
 II. page 84. 
 3ONG, i"i; Tin. Ai:r.<>T .irr.n.KK. 
 
 Tuin , ". I"/'/ I. 'mil \'///c." 
 When after toil and wanderings loiii; 
 
 In many a distant land. 
 Around a lather's hearth is met 
 
 Once more the hoiiseliold hand, 
 IIo\v gratefully ascend the notes 
 
 Of mingled joy and prai>c : 
 While, sadly sweet, the thought returns 
 Of happy early days. 
 
 And here, a hand of grateful sons. 
 
 We, too, to-day have, met. 
 To bless the kind, paternal care 
 
 We never can forget; 
 To bless the hand that guided us 
 
 In Learning'.- pleasant way>. 
 And led us to the springs of Truth, 
 
 In those, our early days. 
 
 How fresh to-day come back the li.uht 
 
 And air of those bright years 
 When life and hope were yomijr, and yet 
 
 rndimmed by cares or fears. 
 ' Then, with united hearts and voice, 
 
 Together let us raise 
 One son.ii of joy. to celebrate 
 
 Our happy, early days. 
 
 Kuch voice be raised, each eye. to ble.-s 
 
 Our (juide, Instructor, Friend: 
 May Heaven's best y'ifts still wait upon 
 
 His life, till life shall end. 
 And may the tribute that we briny 
 
 Of filial love and praise 
 Hind, with a crown oflijfht. his brow. 
 
 Who blessed" our early days. 
 
 SONG, WK1TTKX F(>1{ TIIK FKSTIVA1, AT F.XF.TKK, 
 AUGUST -2:}. 1-S.'5S. 
 
 O'er the blue depths of ocean the mariner's sail 
 Like the win," of the sea bird, is bent to the yale. 
 And the sunbeam is ylancini;' in liifht on the foam 
 As hurries the tempest-tossed wanderer home. 
 Away with each weary remembrance of pain, 
 As he crosses the dearly loved threshold airain ! 
 Some faces are absent, once radiant and fair, 
 IJut the welcome and smile of a Parent are there. 
 
 And well may our hearts with fond memories burn. 
 To the scenes of past joys as once more we return; 
 Kind voices are silent. warm bosoms are chill, 
 }'>(\( the friend of our infancy welcomes us still! 
 The Friend, who once uuided the steps of our youth
 
 98 PHILLIP* I-.M.TI.I; 
 
 Along the bright pathway of learnini: and truth: 
 Cold, cold must those hearts he, those memories dim, 
 When they kiiullu uo more with aU'cction for him ! 
 
 Too .soon will this hour of enjoyment he gone; 
 Then, as the sad moment of parting steals ou, 
 Let us hreathe one kind wish Tor his welfare, before 
 We wander, perhaps to behold him no more. 
 He the mild light of peaee on his eventide shed, 
 And light fall the sorrows of age on his head ! 
 .May each blessing that friendship and gratitude rust. 
 Ou the pathway of virtue, he his to the last ,' 
 
 I, page 43. 
 
 HON. GEOHGE S. IIALt's POEM. 
 I. 
 
 The young lulus, midst the Trojan lire, 
 With steps unequal, followed his great sire. 
 His wandering o'er, the patriotic boy 
 Helped to biii lil up another, greater Troy. 
 
 n. 
 
 With steps unequal tho' we follow those 
 
 Whose wide spread fame each proud Alumuus knows, 
 
 Who made the glory of the days gone by, 
 
 And lived conspicuous in the Nation's eye. 
 
 Perchance our second Troy shall bear our fame 
 To future ages with some greater name, 
 Our Hector by some C;csar be outdone, 
 And Webster's glory have some greater son. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Deal' are the memories of the ancient shrine, 
 Who is not glad to say "And these were mine!'' 
 The morning greetings in the noisy Hall, 
 The jovial crowd that chased the flying ball. 
 
 v. 
 
 The rare events when boyish hands, set free, 
 Clapped for a bride or birth with eager glee 
 The hour reluctant, given to the broom 
 When Smith Secundus swept the Latin room. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The happy wanderings when spring was new, 
 The happy holidays that swiftly flew, 
 The record which we longed, yet feared to see 
 That told our parents what their boys might be. 
 
 VII. 
 
 But hours there are that graver thoughts employ,
 
 ACADEMY. 90 
 
 Signs of the man fast growing in thu boy; 
 Tin; hours of study and the thoughts of feme, 
 Stirred by the memories of some honored name 
 
 VIII. 
 
 For some the counting of the scanty store, 
 The anxious question, where to look for more, 
 How best to share of others' weary toil 
 And constant struggle with the ungrateful soil. 
 
 IX. 
 
 < Mi ! may these walls, we dedicate anew, 
 
 Still to the memories of the Past be true; 
 
 May sons succeeding sires still hold 
 
 The lengthening chain that binds the young and old. 
 
 x. 
 
 Still learn the lessons that their fathers learned 
 Win brighter honors than their lathers earned, 
 And crown the latter house their fathers raise, 
 With glory greater than the former days. 
 
 J, page 02. 
 
 LIST OK OFFICERS AM) IXSTUIVTOKS. 
 TRUSTEES. 
 
 1781 Hon. John Phillips, LL. I)., ........ ............. 1795 
 
 17x1 Hon. Samuel Phillips, LL.D., 
 
 1781 Thomas ( )diornc, ............................... 1 7'.M 
 
 17x1 Hon. John Pickering, LL.D, ...................... ix<2 
 
 17X1 Rev. David McChu-e, D.D., .................... 17x7 
 
 17X1 Rev. Benjamin Thurston, ........................ 1801 
 
 1781 Daniel Tilton, ................................ 1783 
 
 178:5 William Wooclbridge, A.M., ex ojficio ............. 178X 
 
 1787 Hon. Paine Wingate, A.M., ....................... ixo'j 
 
 1791 Benjamin Abbot, LL.D., ex officio ................. 1838 
 
 1794 Hon. Oliver Peabody, A.M., ...................... 1828 
 
 1795 Hon. John Taylor Oilman, LL.D., ............... 1X27 
 
 1801 Rev. Joseph Buckminster, D.D., .................. 1X12 
 
 1X02 Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., .................... 1X03 
 
 1x09 Hon. John Phillips, A.M., ....................... 1820 
 
 18iL> Rev. Daniel Dana, D.D., .................... ... 1M3 
 
 ixii!) Hon. Nathaniel Appleton Haven, A.M., .......... 1830 
 
 1812 Rev. Jacob Abbot, A.M., ......................... 1X3 1 
 
 1821 Rev. Nathan Parker, D.D ........................ lx:;:; 
 
 IXL'X Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL.D ....................... 1X12 
 
 1X:!1 Samuel Hale, A. M .............................. 1869 
 
 1X31 Hon. Samuel Dana Bell, LL.D ..................... 1838 
 
 lx.-,.-, Hon. Daniel Webster, LL.D ...................... 1852 
 
 1x35 Rev. Charles Burroughs, D.I)., .................. 1867 
 
 1X3X Benjamin Abbot, LL. D., ....................... 1844 
 
 ix:;x Gideon Lane Soule, A.M.. ex njfirio, ............. 1 S 73
 
 I' 1 !' IMIII.l.ll's 1 M.I I I, 
 
 IX|L> Hon. Jame> Hell. A. 15 ................... IS,',;.' 
 
 1M:! l!ev. .\niln-\v Preston Peabodv. D.D ............... 
 
 isll David Wood (Jorham. A.I',.. M.D .................. 1S7:1 
 
 Hon. Amos Tuck, A.M ......................... 1x7:1 
 
 is;,;; K ram-is IJowt-n. A.M ............................. 1x7:, 
 
 ixijs Hon. Jeremiah. Smith. A.M ........................ 1x71 
 
 1x711 Hon. George Silsbee Hale, A. B .................. 
 
 ]*7:\ Albert Cornelius Perkins, 1'li.D.. ./ <>tji<-i<>, ........ 
 
 1*71 William Henry (iorliaiu. M.D ....... '. ............ 1X7!) 
 
 1x7 1 .lost-pit Burbeen Walker, A.M ................... 
 
 1>7.' Kev. Phillips I5rooks, D.D. ....................... ixsu 
 
 1*7!) Nicholas Kmerv Soule, A.M.. M.D., ............... 
 
 1X71) lion. Charles lienry I'.t-ll. I.L.I). ............... 
 
 John Charles Phillipd, A.M ........................ 
 
 TREASURERS. 
 
 17x] Thomas Odiorne ................................. 17',);5 
 
 17!i:i Hon. .John Taylor (iilinan. LL.D., ................ Ixmi 
 
 Hon. Oliver Peabocly, A.M ...................... I*L'X 
 
 II, ,u Jeremiah Smith, LL.D., ....... ............. 1*1:.' 
 
 ]xf_' lion. John Kelly. A.M. ........................... I85fi 
 
 ]x;,;, Juscjdi Tavlor (iiitnan ............................ ixii-j 
 
 ixii-j S. Clarke Buzell, ............................... 
 
 ixsu Charles IJurlt-y ................................ 
 
 PHIXCIl'AI. IN>T1M( ll;s 
 
 17x:; William Wootlbritl^i-. A.M., I'nnjifnr, . , .......... 17xx 
 
 rt^i-. . 
 
 1788 tienjamin Abbot, LL.D., /'////.////// ................. ix;;x 
 
 ix.-^s Gideon Latae Soule, LLiD., " ............... lx7:i 
 
 1x7:! Albert Cornelius Perkins. Ph.D., /'r/nr>/,n/ ........ 
 
 iN-n;i CTOR8. 
 
 The ciilK'^iatc ili.-^n-es ( tlic Instructors and A.->i.-tniil Instruct- 
 th ,.-! \vliii-li lliry liiiil received at (lie time [' their several ;t|)|iniiitiiie)its. 
 
 ISMS Kbme/er Adams, A.M.. Pfdf. M//i. >ni<l Nl . /'////.. ixull 
 
 ixll Ho>ea Hil.lreth, A.M., /'//,/. Mull,, and \'il. 1'liil.,. l.s-J.-i 
 
 1X17 Pit'v. Isaac llunl, A.M., Theological Instructor, ..... ix;;:i 
 
 IXi'-j (iidtjon Lane Sonle. A.M., I'rnf. An'. /,HKt//ii/i *.. . . ix;lx 
 )XL'.") John Parker Cleaveland. A. P..'. /'/-/. Math. "><>/ A''//. 
 
 /'//// ............................. ' ............... isjii 
 
 Isi'C, Charles C. P. (iale. A.P,., /'/.,/". M<illi.<iml Xnl . /'////. lsi'7 
 
 IXL'7 Joseph Half Abbot. A.M.. Pn/. Moth.awl .\<tf. riiil. ;x:;:; 
 
 lx:l:l Fntneis Howen. \.\\.. /'/-,/; JA//A. ,i,,,l N<il. /'//// _____ is;;;, 
 
 lx:i;> William Jh-nrv Shackicml, A.B., /'/<-/'. Mu.lh. >n,,l 
 
 Hat. Phil., ................... ! ............ 1x12 
 
 l>:!'i Henry French, A. 15.. Inslriu-lnr i/i J.n//<///<it/i > ....... ls(ii 
 
 ls|n Nehemiah Cleaveland, A.M. /'/"/'. Ant. Ln/t</n</i *., ixti 
 
 ixii J(,seph (Jibson llovt. A.M.. I'm/. Mathematics., ---- is.v.i 
 
 lx|-_' Uiehaid Wt-iiman Swan. A. B.,Prof.Ant. /.<i//</'<n</<x !>.'! 
 
 ix.'il Paul Ansel Chadbonnie. A M.. I'mf. Ant. /^///'/"".'/' N 1 x.'rj 
 lx;>^ Theodore Tilt bet-. A.P... /'//'. An'l. l.nn<inn<i<* ...... 
 
 )s.",:'i Heiirv Stedman N'otirse. A.P,., /'/"/'. At/'. /.>i/t</t'<i>/<*
 
 \< \f>KMV. 101 
 
 1855 
 
 ( Jeoruv ( 'arid on Sa\\ \ er, A. 15., /'//'. An/ . L<n/<ii//n/ t -s 
 
 1858 
 
 I ,s:,.s 
 
 (leoi^e Albert. WenUvorlh. A. 15.. I'm/'. Mulln malir*. 
 
 
 1859 
 
 Bradbury Longfellow Cil ley, A.M., I'mf. Ani. l.<n<- 
 
 
 
 l/IKtl/l* .... 
 
 
 is?:, 
 
 Robert Franklin 1'cnncll, A.M., /'/<*/'. f.n/i/t 
 
 1882 
 
 
 \I>TAN i IN- n:i < , ous. 
 
 
 I7s| 
 
 Joseph Willard. A.M 
 
 1 7s.-, 
 
 1 7s.-, 
 
 Sal UK in ( 'liiisc. A. 15., 
 
 1786 
 
 1789 
 
 Joseph D:in:i, A.M., 
 
 L789 
 
 17S!i 
 
 Daniel I >:m:i, A.M 
 
 17H! 
 
 171H 
 
 John Phillips Kiplev. A.B., 
 
 1791 
 
 17! 12 
 
 llul'iis Ander>on. A.I! 
 
 1792 
 
 1792 
 
 Abiel Abbol, A. 15 
 
 1798 
 
 1793 
 
 ( 'harles < 'ollin. A.M 
 
 17D I 
 
 1794 
 
 Joseph Perkins. A.M 
 
 1795 
 
 17!>;. 
 
 Timothy Winn, A.M 
 
 1796 
 
 17% 
 
 Pete i- < ) \enbr id <je Thaeher, A.M . 
 
 1797 
 
 17! 17 
 
 Xieholas Lmerv. A.I) , 
 
 17D7 
 
 17! 17 
 
 (leorirc Win^-ate, A. 15 
 
 17D7 
 
 17117 
 
 William Crai"' A.M 
 
 1799 
 
 17D1) 
 
 Samuel Dunn Parker. A.M.,.., 
 
 1 SI II ) 
 
 1799 
 
 1 1 o ratio ( Jatcs Murnap, \ 15 
 
 1808 
 
 1801 
 
 Joseph Stevens Mue.kminster, A.B., 
 
 1808 
 
 180^8 
 
 Samuel Willanl. A. 15. , 
 
 I si I 
 
 1804 
 
 John Stiekiicv, A. 15. 
 
 isi ;, 
 
 1 SI 1 | 
 
 Ashur \Vaiv, A. 15 
 
 ! M 5 
 
 1805 
 
 Martin Luther Hurlbut. A. '13., 
 
 1805 
 
 1805 
 
 Nathan Hale, A.M., '. 
 
 1807 
 
 1806 
 
 Jaa/.aniah ( 'rosbv, A.M 
 
 1807 
 
 1806 
 
 Alexander Hill Kverett, A. B 
 
 1807 
 
 1807 
 
 Nathaniel Appleton Haven, Jr. A.B., 
 
 1808 
 
 1 XI is 
 
 IJeuben Washburn, A. 15., 
 
 L809 
 
 1809 
 
 Nathaniel Whitman A.M., 
 
 1810 
 
 L 8 10 
 
 Nathan Lord. A.M 
 
 1811 
 
 1810 
 
 .Jonas Wheeler. A. 13., 
 
 1811 
 
 1 s 1 1 
 
 Henry Holton Fuller, A.B.,.. .' 
 
 1 s 1 2 
 
 1812 
 
 Henry Ware, A.M., 
 
 1814 
 
 1814 
 
 James Walker, A.M. 
 
 1815 
 
 1815 
 
 ( ieoi'^-e (ioldtluvaite hi'-ersoll, A.M.., 
 
 IS 1C. 
 
 1810 
 
 \\' ill iam 1 5ou rue Oliver Peabodv, A.M., 
 
 IS], 
 
 1817 
 
 Oliver William Bourne IVahodv, A. 15 
 
 1818 
 
 ISIS 
 
 ( iideon Lane Sonle, A.M 
 
 1819 
 
 1819 
 
 Samuel Taylor Oilman, A. 15., 
 
 1 s-ji ) 
 
 1820 
 
 ( 'harh'S Lane Folsom, A.B 
 
 1822 
 
 1856 
 
 Jacob Abbot Cram 
 
 1857 
 
 1857 
 
 William Francis Bennett Jackson 
 
 1857 
 
 I860 
 
 ( Jrlando Mareellus l-'eruald , 
 
 1861 
 
 186J 
 
 Pa\ son Merrill 
 
 1862 
 
 1S7( 
 
 William Harrington Putnam, A. M 
 
 1871 
 
 1871 
 
 Kobcrl Franklin Pennell. A.B 
 
 1S7.3 
 
 1S7I 
 
 O<ear Faulhabcr, Ph. 1) 

 
 102 run. i. irs i\i 111; 
 
 1*7"> Frederick Timothy Fuller. A. 15 ls7s 
 
 .lames Artliur Tni'ls, A. 11., 
 
 i reorge l.\ in:in Kiltre.l^. f , A.I'. 
 
 K. iia^v 
 
 iv-p.ni->.'. l.y Col. (Jrnriiv Kent, to :in inquiry 
 the panics in use l>v the students, in 1SU7, when 
 he \v:is a im-mlter of the Academy. 
 
 I'm asked to say somcthiii;; of u'anie< ami <>{' sports. 
 That enjoyed the attention ol'yoiith ol'all sorts. 
 From the l>oy of thirteen to t In- man of I wo M-OIV 
 As wise at that a.i;e, iv his o\vn view, as more. 
 From Hawkes, I'.riu'ijs ami Sparks and from Piper and ('apron. 
 Down to us hardly fresh from our infantile apron. 
 Then- were customs initial not much toour boasi. 
 Such as forcing new comers to i.Tnn!> a liaiv po<t. 
 Shin up" without aid until reachini; the top 
 Ufa pillar co 11 si rue ted t he ceiling to prop, 
 Of the bi;; room in old Academical Hall, 
 Whose desks and walls answeied to many a scrawl. 
 \ "washing" and scrubbing the face of new comer 
 Was al>o in voyue at the c'ii.1 of each summer. 
 Prostrating tlie form in the first sheet of snow 
 That might give, of the winter, the veriest show. 
 .Through dint of the scrubbing unless by rare grace. 
 Leaving scare.: to recumbent his primitive face. 
 
 But pastimes and names ,r a much better sort 
 
 Lent aid to our out door and innocent sport, 
 
 Such as marbles and foot ball, cat, cricket and base. 
 
 With occasional variance by a loot race. 
 
 In manner old-fashioned, and not through change lickle. 
 
 Knowing nauirlit of rolal ion of modern bicycle. 
 
 And no living of kites, Mich a> stock markets show. 
 
 Where (he process is often -'a word and a blow,"- 
 
 A blow-np that ends in a sky-hiijh disaster, 
 
 'T.ulls" or "bears" left the victors, as each may be master. 
 
 P.ut why of these matters presume 1 hits to tell, 
 
 When all is already "as clear as a Hell," 
 
 To my honored friend living just by the same spot, 
 
 Where early in life my crude views I thus irot ! 
 
 To some ^reat extent panics obey the same rules, 
 
 As. in s|.rinir, the same alewives seem Leathered in sehooN 
 
 Many panics that at present in voijue may be found, 
 
 Have been by lou;; practice "run into the ground." 
 
 Ill naught I can say could I further enlighten 
 
 ur by <>\<l reminiscences. m,r intellects brighten: 
 
 So with /A/.v rambliiiLT scribble, you will please be content 
 
 And this tribute accept from your true friend 
 
 <;i:.>i:<;i Kr.vr. 
 Washington, D. C., May, 1S83.
 
 ACADKMV. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 r M.K. 
 
 Prefatory note. . . . . . . :'. 
 
 I. TIIK Foi M>KK. ......;"> 
 
 Phillips mansion : birth, parentage and ancestry of Founder; 
 education; studies medicine :ind divinity: :nid preache-: 
 removes to Exeter ; marriage: engages in trade ; declines 
 call to settle; trouble with (ireat Pirhain : agreement for 
 mutual protection ; second marriage : assumes oliicc : ap- 
 pointed Colonel: opposed to Revolution, but ivm:iins neu- 
 tral; devotes niie-tenth of earnings to pious uses: t^il'is | ( , 
 Dartmouth College: chosen Trustee; receive- honorary 
 degree; endows Academy in Andover ; I'ounds Phillips 
 Kxeter Academy : President of Trustees ; last illness and 
 death; honors to his memory ; epitaph ; character : benev- 
 olence and sagacity ; portrait: religious tolerance. 
 
 II. Tin: A.CADEM1 : 17s: 1 , to ls:!s. . . . .17 
 Incorporation, provisions o|' : exemption from taxes: Trus- 
 
 tees; Founder's gifts to Academy; Constitution: charity 
 fund; Founder's last will; value of endowment; location 
 of buildings; first Preceptor; opening ceremonies; school 
 in its infancy: resignation of Mr. Woodbridge ; accession 
 of Mr. Abbot : new buildings; Founder's successor in trii-l : 
 certificate of pupil's improvement ; reorganization in isos : 
 charge fqr tuition ; Principal's house ; Instructor in 'I'heol- 
 ojjy ; students in divinity; revision of studies in ISIS; 
 wings added to building ; Principal's duties lightened: he 
 resigns ; Abbot Festival; exercises; dinner: speech of Mr. 
 Webster; Dr. Abbot's reply : other speechc- : odes. 
 
 III. Tin: A.AI.IOM. !s:5s to lss:{. . . . ;}f, 
 
 Second Principal; English department discontinued: Alibot 
 Hall built; Faculty organi/.ed ; girls not to lie pupil-: 
 "studying out of school" introduced: resignation of 1'rof. 
 Hoyt ; Sibley Charity Fund : burning of Academy ; re build- 
 ing; dedication of new house; Mr. Phillips" speech: Dr. 
 Soiile's: other speeches ; Dr. Soule's resignation : Mr. Per- 
 kins' appointment; (Jorham Hall bourht : Kingman lie- 
 quest; Odlin professorship; unknown benefactor: Mr. 
 Winkley's gifts; School as it is; work of instructor- : bene- 
 ficiary system ; religious character.
 
 101 niiu.li'> r\i:i!.i; 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 l\ . Tin: INSTI.-U T<I:>. . . . . . .50 
 
 William Wbodbridge, account of: infirm health ; IJesolution 
 of Trustees : sii!is('(|iii'iil history: Pienjamin Abbot, birtli, 
 ancestry; education and qualities ; scholarship: manners ; 
 marriage and family: (iideon I.. Soule, account of: per- 
 son; (|iialilicalious lor principalship ; changes sanctioned 
 by him; scliolarsliip; sncccs< ; family: Resolution on his 
 decease: I losea I lildreth, account of: inlliience in school: 
 projects (iolden 15 ranch : subsequent history ; family ; Jo- 
 M-plii;. llo\t, a."coiinl of: qualities ; varicl\ of interests: 
 Chancellor of Washington I ni\ ci-sit\ . death ; other Instruc- 
 tors: present boa I'd of teachers. 
 
 V. TIIK OITK 'Kits, P>i.\r,r\< -roi.-s and AI.IMM. . ('. 1 
 
 Trustees, Oliver Peabody ; John T. dilman : l)auicl l>ana: 
 Jeremiah Smith : Samuel Hale: I >a\ id \V. ( iorham ; Amos 
 Tuck; Treasm-eis, John Kelly: Joseph T. dilman; S. 
 Clarke P)ii/ell : P>enefactors. Nicholas (iilman: Jeremiah 
 Kinsman; John L. Sililey; NVoodbridgo Oil I'm ; Henry 
 \Yink)ey: Alumni, their number: remarkable jjp-oup of 
 early pupils; true test, of merits of school : Kxeter no sec 
 ond j)lace. 
 
 \'I. TlIK HlCCKKATIoNS. . . . . . . 78 
 
 Military exercises ; Wasliin^ton Whiles : their history ; Kxe- 
 ter in the war for the Union; (Jolden liranch ; opposition 
 to it; present condition ; Soule Literary Society ; marble^: 
 football and other Barnes of ball : changes of j^aim.'s : hare 
 and hounds; boating; the bicycle: no ha/.iiig; early or- 
 deals; amusements of winter ; skating, coasting and snow 
 balling; traditional snow fort and its etVccts; the Kxou- 
 ian ; exhibitions. 
 
 i 1 LOB. 
 Appendix. A. Letter of John Phillips to 
 
 .Mrs. Josi;ih (iilman. . . . . . S! 
 
 " l>. Letters of John CPhillips to 
 
 his brothers Samuel and William, 
 " ( '. Kpitaph on John Phillips, , 
 
 1). Hills of Students at the 
 
 Academy, 17!)S-!('.l HI 
 
 " E. Distributions of prizes, .... U2 
 
 " F. ( 'onrse of studies and text books 
 
 adopted in isis. !);', 
 
 ' (i. Dr. Abbot's letter of resignation and 
 
 i;c-pon<e of Trustees, . . . . HI 
 
 H. Odes for the Abbot Festival, . . . !>7 
 
 I. Mr. Ilaie's poem. IS?L' Us 
 
 J. List of Officers and Instructors. . . !! 
 
 " K. Col. Kent's poetical account of 
 
 the early panics <S:c., . . . .!(>-!
 
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