Familiar Sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Surroundings (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Frank H. Cunningham
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ISBN: 9781331428480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Excerpt from Familiar Sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Surroundings A visit to some of the great schools of England, one summer, during my student days at Exeter, and a subsequent inquiry into their foundation, endowment, and discipline, led me to study somewhat carefully the history of the school in which I was most interested, - that of the Phillips Exeter Academy. I was surprised to find how meagre were the sources of information. The only available articles were Professor Hoyt's paper, published in 1858, in the North American Review, and Professor Bowen's Preface to the General Catalogue issued by the Academy in 1869. These, although written in a far more scholarly style than I could hope to command, were necessarily brief. "This institution," I considered, "founded as it was in the days of Washington, of Lafayette, and of Jefferson, possessing as it does such glorious traditions and so many eminent Alumni, deserves, beyond a doubt, a written history." It was suggested that I should write something; but I at first hesitated. 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.