An Old New England School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Old New England School write by Claude Moore Fuess. This book was released on 1917. An Old New England School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An Old New England School; a History of Phillips Academy Andover
An Old New England School; a History of Phillips Academy Andover - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Old New England School; a History of Phillips Academy Andover write by Claude Moore Fuess. This book was released on 2013-09. An Old New England School; a History of Phillips Academy Andover available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV THE LURE OF THE GAME Fresh faces in the Gym appear. New knives cut other names; Fresh sinners carry on, I fear, Our very same old games. Athletics in Phillips Academy mean far more than the yearly struggles with Exeter. The good old doctrine of "sport for sport's sake" has always been part of the academic gospel, and boys are led to stretch their muscles for sheer delight in physical exercise. It has been the ambition of the school to arouse in the undergraduates a love for games, not so much for the victory which may be won--although it would be hypocrisy to pretend that success is undesirable--as for the pleasure of matching skill against skill, brawn against brawn. To this end there should be games of every sort, for the strong, for the agile, for the swift--even for the feeble and the clumsy. Schools, within the last half-century, have learned that the care of the body is an essential part of education. After the "stone shell of a building " on Chapel Avenue was given to Professor Stowe as a home, the "theologues" and the "cads" had a gymnasium in common in a large wooden structure in the rear of the Seminary, which was scantily equipped with apparatus. Samuel W. Abbot in 1853 received a ticket entitling him to the privileges of the "Phillips Gymnasium." In presenting this card to the school many years later, Dr. Abbot wrote: --To the daily use of this Gymnasium in 1853-54 I have been wont to attribute improved health while at Andover and years afterward in a constitution not naturally robust. On July 24, 1865, the Trustees, after the burning of the Stone Academy, resolved that, when the new Main Building was finished, the old "Brick Academy" should be fitted out as a gymnasium. Within a year they appropriated $1000 for...
An Old New England School
An Old New England School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Old New England School write by Claude Moore Fuess. This book was released on 2014-12-14. An Old New England School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hardcover reprint of the original 1917 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Fuess, Claude Moore. An Old New England School: A History Of Phillips Academy Andover. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Fuess, Claude Moore. An Old New England School: A History Of Phillips Academy Andover, . Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917. Subject: Phillips Academy
An Old New England School
An Old New England School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Old New England School write by Claude M. Fuess. This book was released on 2017-12-02. An Old New England School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from An Old New England School: A History of Phillips Academy Andover C. Sawyer, Professor Henry P. Wright, Professor Charles H. Forbes, the Reverend C. C. Carpenter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Old New England School
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