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DAVID I. WALSH: Senator from Massachusetts
"Massachusetts is proud of Phillips Academy. It has served one of the greatest purposes of education - to remove racial, religious, and sectional differences and to advance the standards of citizenship."
HON. IRA NELSON MORRIS, '92: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden
"We who are diplomats and have been absent much in foreign lands, upon returning to America receive a perspective of conditions different from the people who continue living in America. It is this perspective that astounds me concerning the development and growth of Phillips Academy, and that this school has been able to maintain intact the same atmosphere of democracy and spiritual soul all these years.
"Too much credit cannot be given to Dr. Stearns and the Academy's organization. Of course the school is forever indebted to Mr. Thomas Cochran. His generosity and heartfelt interest is remarkable and has rarely been equaled by another person. I am sure my love and senti- ment toward this school will always remain the same, and this is re- flected by the thousands of alumni scattered throughout the world."
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HON. GEORGE R. CARTER, '85 Ex-Governor of the Hawaiian Islands
"Of course, all the 'Andover Boys' in Hawaii want to express their 'Aloha' through the Sesquicentennial Record for their famous old 'Acad- emy on the Hill' in Northern Massachusetts.
"The influence exerted from this Mid-Pacific station throughout this part of the world is ever widening, and the responsibilities of Andover Boys are therefore increasing. Many of the early impulses which helped to build this community came from Andover when theology absorbed so large a part of intellectual development. Fifteen graduates of the Theological Seminary, ranging from the years 1819 to 1871, de- voted part if not all of their lives to work in these Islands.
"Today, Andover's influence in Hawaii is still potent, and it has always been for peace throughout the Pacific, which is perhaps a more important factor for the good of mankind than 'Peace and Good Will on Earth' is to any other part of the globe."
A. PIATT ANDREW : Member of Congress from Massachusetts
"May the Phillips Academy, which was born in the troublous days when our Republic first saw the light, and which has been the partner and fellow laborer of the Republic through all the trials and travail of its century and a half of growth, have its full share in the achievements of the matchless years into which we are now advancing."
EDITH NOURSE ROGERS: Member of Congress from Massachusetts
"Most hearty congratulations to Phillips Academy at Andover, which holds so proud a record of achievement.
"This institution of learning, founded eleven years before the adop- tion of the Constitution of the United States, has worked without cessation during the whole official life of our Nation to give to the world men with noble purpose and keen ability. The long list of graduates reveals the names of scores whose record in life proves that the steadfast earnestness of the officials and instructors at Phillips has reaped a merited reward.
"May this celebration breathe new hope and courage, and may Phillips Academy long continue to grow in usefulness to the world."
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN President of Princeton University
"I have received your letter of January 5th. I am very glad of the opportunity of expressing to you my felicitations upon the approaching Sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of Phillips Academy at Andover. I have felt that the high scholastic standing and moral standards of the School are represented in the personality of the Head- master, Dr. Stearns. He was fortunate in coming to a school which already had made its record and established its position in the educa- tional world. The momentum of the past, however, does not account for the skill or the success of Dr. Stearns' administration. There has been an admirable progressive development in which all of the friends of the School rejoice. The young men who come to us from Andover have taken their place among the leaders of our campus life and have con- tributed much to the maintenance of our standards both intellectually and morally. In your celebration of the record of the past I am sure you will find great inspiration for the continued forward progress of the School. Each age brings its particular and peculiar problems and while we cannot live on the past it cannot be forgotten and our loyalty to it must be maintained."
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JAMES R. ANGELL President of Yale University; Psychologist and Author
"It gives me genuine pleasure to extend to Phillips Academy, Andover, upon the occasion of its Sesquicentennial the most sincere congratulations upon its long and distinguished career. So many of its sons have later come to New Haven to carry forward their education, that we at Yale entertain a peculiar sense of pride in the history of the School. We rejoice that Andover starts on the next stage of its journey so splendidly equipped to carry on its great traditions of sound learning, high character and devoted service."
H. A. GARFIELD: President of Williams College
"Williams College sends greeting to Phillips Academy, Andover. To have completed one hundred and fifty years of service in the cause of education is noteworthy. To have marked the service by constant clevotion to the intellectual and spiritual ideals of the founder is a dis- tinction. Andover is indeed fortunate in her long line of able principals and distinguished sons. Williams sends congratulations on this aus- picious occasion and can extend no better wish than that the bright prospects under her present leadership may be extended for many years to come."
ARTHUR STANLEY PEASE, '98: President of Amherst College
"One who, after years have passed, attempts to recall his own devel- opment can seldom do justice to his heredity. Our vision is from too close at hand for us to appraise with fairness those innate qualities which distinguish us from others, and our affections are too strong to make it possible to estimate impartially how far what we are is due to our for- bears. But our environment is more subject to observation, when we remember the individuals and groups by whom we have been profoundly influenced.
"To me, in particular, residence amid the rare natural beauty of Andover - a fit setting for the historic buildings and the beautiful lives fashioned there -, with the call of hills and ponds and the spell of far horizons, powerfully contributed to a love of nature, which has remained from boyhood as a precious possession. Academic training, by men of vigorous character and sound learning, such as Benner and Forbes and Graves and Eaton and all the rest, with the alert figure of Dr. Bancroft ever at their head, awakened in me, as in many another, habits of study and enthusiasm for scholarship which became the basis for all my sub- sequent work, and established standards of judgment which I have not later been obliged to discard. Nor can I forget the band of men in Andover Seminary, who, with their families, were a most potent influence in the lives of those of us who called Andover our home: the encyclopae- dic Moore, the shrewd and witty Harris, the thoughtful Ryder, Churchill the genial, and Taylor the courtly, and, among the foremost, the benign yet firm characters of Hincks and Egbert Smyth. To one reared on Andover Hill no picture is complete without these, who made of this hilltop the shrine of a rich idealism, where money and material things fell into their proper insignificance to the eyes of the old men who saw visions and the young men who dreamed dreams."
WILLIAM MANN IRVINE Headmaster of Mercersburg Academy
"Andover is greatly blessed in her Headmaster, Dr. Stearns. He is a hard worker, he believes what he says, and he is a boy in spirit. His ideals of efficiency, service, and consecration are a challenge to his own students and an inspiration to all other Headmasters."
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CHARLES C. MIEROW President at Colorado College; Teacher of Latin at Phillips Academy, 1908-9
"The connection between The Colorado College and Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, has been a particularly close one, especially during the early days of the history of the College, as we have been fortunate to number in our Faculty many an Academy boy or former teacher.
"It is, therefore, with a particular sense of satisfaction that I am privileged to express both personally and on behalf of The Colorado College our sincere and hearty congratulations on the achievements of this world-famous New England School during the past one hundred and fifty years. I trust and believe that the influence and the fame of Phil- lips Andover will continue to grow and that its service to the world will be clearly indicated in the future as in the past by the worthy lives of those whose youth has been trained by a group of loyal and devoted teachers on historic Andover Hill."
S. W. STRATTON: President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The anniversary of Phillips Academy is an event to be recognized not alone by its alumni or by its officers, but by the family of American Universities to which it has sent generations of well-trained students for their higher education.
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to which many grad- uates of Andover have come for their training in science and engineering, desires to join in the most hearty greetings that deservedly go to you on this historic occasion.'
REV. WILLIAM G. THAYER: Headmaster of St. Mark's School
"St. Mark's School sends its heartiest congratulations to Phillips Academy on the notable record of achievement and leadership in its long life of service. The School has stood from the earliest days until now for high standards of scholarship and manhood, and its influence has ex- tended far beyond the boundaries of Andover Hill. We are grateful for its contribution of men of sound learning and strong character, who have fulfilled the purpose of its Founders and justified its existence. We rejoice with you that your anniversary marks the great progress the School has made under the leadership of Alfred E. Stearns, whom his brethren in his profession are proud to claim and delight to honor."
REV. S. S. DRURY: Rector of St. Paul's School
"At this significant milestone, St. Paul's that has taught her thous- ands greets Andover that has taught her tens of thousands. We are not divided, these American Schools, but share a common opportunity, bearing our mutual burdens, and pressing forward together as friendly contestants in a course where all can win. A school is a factory of in- dividuals. Our business is to produce chivalrous lifters for the Democ- racy. May Andover continue to know the joy of all cherishing mothers whose children walk in the truth."
REV. ENDICOTT PEABODY : Headmaster of Groton School
"To your Principal, whom we regard with respect and affection, we look for sympathetic cooperation in any movement for the advance of scholarship or for the raising of standards of living, and he is never found wanting.
"Especially grateful are we today for the welcome that has been given by him and by the Trustees of the Academy to our daughter lately born at North Andover, to which has been given the honored name of a descendant of the Founders of Andover; for it we are hoping for a career of devotion and service such as has been achieved by the great Institution which reaches its third semicentennial this year. And for Andover, we pray that it may continue for many happy years to minister to the higher life of this Nation under the able and courageous leadership of its great Principal."
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GEORGE VAN SANTVOORD Headmaster of Hotchkiss School
"The Hotchkiss School is, in a very real sense, one of the children of Andover. Our first Headmaster, Edward G. Coy, came from Phillips Academy, bringing with him some of its finest traditions, which we still delight to honor. So Hotchkiss takes especial pleasure in felicitating Andover on her anniversary!"
F. J. FESSENDEN : Headmaster of the Fessenden School
"I am glad to add my word of praise for Andover and its Head- master, and the work it does. The school takes unformed boys and by the vigor of its life, so perfectly exemplified in Mr. Stearns, sends them on to college, resolute in character and in mind, prepared to meet their new obligations, in play, in leisure hours, and in the class room."
W. L. W. FIELD: Headmaster of Milton Academy
"The celebration of Andover's one hundred and fiftieth anniversary will be more widespread than any program or printed record can show; for all New Englanders who care for education, and all educators who love New England, will share in it. To an even wider circle, it will be a happy reminder of the youthful vigor with which an old tradition grows and extends its sway. But the most heartfelt participation, next to that of the Andover men themselves, will be that of the other old New Eng- land schools. As one of the time-tested fellowship, Milton Academy extends its loyal greetings."
RT. REV. CHARLES LEWIS SLATTERY : Bishop of Massachusetts; visiting preacher at Andover
"The noblest work a lover of mankind can perform is to teach the youth of the Nation sound manners, reverence for the truth, fearless loyalty to ideals, and the love of God. In the past Andover has achieved exalted service in creating righteous and able leaders of the people. May the courage and faith of Andover increase with the years, that it may be an ever greater blessing to our country and, through our country, to the world.'
REV. CHARLES R. BROWN : Dean of the Vale Divinity School; frequent visitor in Phillips Academy
"What do we mean by education? It does not mean merely the gaining of an additional amount of information, or the training of certain faculties so that one may market his abilities at a higher figure. If that were all, it would not be worth what it costs. Education means setting before every student an open door into a more just and intelligent appreciation of the deeper meaning of life, into finer forms of fellowship seen and unseen, into a worthier and more reliable type of personal character. This is education - "the drawing out" of the hidden capacity of the man."
RT. REV. WILLIAM LAWRENCE: Author and former Bishop of Massachusetts
"Andover has always stood out in my mind as expressing some of the finest features of this country, - the Phillips stock, the wisdom of the elders in founding the academies at Andover and Exeter, and in their forms of organization, the persistence of that wisdom by their successors through the generations in the administration of the academies, the high character and fine traditions sustained in teachers and boys based upon firm Christian faith, the distribution of graduates throughout the world, and their beneficent influence.
"I recall coasting down School Street on our double runners some fifty years ago with boys and girls born in India, the Sandwich Islands, in Scotland, and on our Western prairies, as well as in our Eastern cities, reared from heroic stock of missionaries and traders.
"Such associations bind people together in high purposes. ""This is Andover."
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CLARENCE A. BARBOUR: President of the Rochester Theological Seminary; frequent visitor at Andover
"I am honored in the permission to write a word in connection with the Sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Perhaps the fact that I have made a quarter-century of visits to the school as a week-end chapel speaker gives an excuse which is almost a reason. I have seen several generations of Andover boys go through the school and most of them out into college halls. Some are now far along the road of life beyond the college years. It is speaking to a procession, but it leaves memories with me which I would not surrender. The contact with Stearns, and Forbes, and Freeman, and Graham, and many more of your great Faculty, - that means a comradeship beyond all price, and the boys themselves are tremendously worth while.
"I came first to Andover in the fall of 1910. Since then, once or twice a year, it has been a continuous experience. Nearly always I have faced the school in chapel on the morning after the Exeter game in November, and I have found always the same sportsmanlike crowd, generous in victory, unruffled in defeat. What a spirit to carry out into the life of the nation! None better.
"'Qui transtulit sustinet,' says the motto of my staunch little native state of Connecticut. The words are true of Andover. The develop- ment which I have seen in her material equipment is wonderful, and her spirit will never falter nor fail."
REV. JOHN TIMOTHY STONE: Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago; author; visiting preacher at Phillips Academy
"Horace Mann asserts that the need of the hour is not so much the building of school houses as finding schoolmasters. In other words, character begets character, and the all-round manhood. Thus athletics, study, character, and religion must accompany one another; and the student of insight cares for his body, brain, heart, and spiritual develop- ment. The old command holds, 'Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart, mind, soul, and strength'."
REV. D. BREWER EDDY, '94: Associate secretary of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions
"John and Samuel Phillips, after their first moments of amazement at our material progress and at the beauties and strength of our modern cities and towns, would question the hearts of the men who built them. They would rather know that Andover has been true to the moral passion of those early days than to hear any story of leadership in numbers or wealth among the schools of the land."
JOHN T. DALLAS: Bishop of New Hampshire; visiting preacher at Andover
"There is no school in America which is held in greater respect than Phillips Academy, Andover. The high grade of scholarship there, and the wholesome life of the students is a combination which schools every- where might well esteem. Doctor Stearns will go down in history as a teacher who has not only led his profession, but who has inspired a host of boys with his own idealism."
GEORGE PARMLY DAY: Treasurer of Yale University
"Phillips Academy, Andover, is by common consent one of the great historic American schools, so famous in fact that the name of Andover like that of Rugby means something very definite to a large number of people who have never seen the School itself. It enjoys the distinction, which it has fairly won, of being a splendid preparatory school, not only in the sense of fitting boys to enter college but also of training them to begin their life work in the world, if they cannot for any reason con- template spending four years more in study at one of our universities. To Phillips Academy, Andover, on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding, congratulations will deservedly come from all over the world. I count it a privilege to add to the many tributes which will then be paid to the School this inadequate expression of my abiding interest in its welfare and of my sincere good wishes for its continued success."
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FREDERICK E. WEYERHAEUSER, '92 Lumberman
"Four years at Andover and finally Commencement with its varied activities had passed into the field of memory. As we hurried to the railway station, suit case in one hand and a long blue horn in the other, the louder to express our joy upon being released from the restrictions of Prep School, we happened to pass Dr. Bancroft, who was then our honored Principal. The thought came to us that we must seem to him ungrateful and certainly unappreciative of the opportunities we had enjoyed while at the Academy, but not forcibly enough, however, to lessen our enthusiasm materially.
"The larger, freer life at college was making its appeal and, after all, Andover was merely a stepping-stone that soon might be forgotten. But not so. As the years have passed, Andover has grown in our affec- tions, and its memories have become dearer, until now our hearts' interest centers there rather than in the college for which Andover pre- pared us."
DR. FRED T. MURPHY, '93 Surgeon and Trustee of Phillips Academy
"Fine as has been the material development of the School, the old spirit, the old democracy, the old ideals remain. Phillips Academy, after one hundred fifty years, intellectually and morally holds to the same high standards set by the Founders."
GEORGE B. CASE, '90 Mechanical engineer and manufacturer; Trussee of Phillips Academy
"Gratitude and loyalty to Andover increase with the years, as we become better able to appreciate what Samuel Phillips handed down to us one hundred and fifty years ago. We are better able to appreciate because time has matured the seeds which were sown in the time of our early youth at Andover. We will all approach this Anniversary seriously and take our several parts in celebrating it under a sense of deep and individual gratitude for this century and a half of accomplishment. We will also seriously consider our own responsibilities for what ensues at Andover in the years to come."
OLIVER JENNINGS, '83
"As a boy at Andover, and ever since, Phillips Academy has ap- peared to me nearly ideal in its training for the best sort of citizenship. I have never understood why more of our generous people could not appreciate the importance of our great secondary schools, particularly Phillips Academy, and Phillips Exeter. I welcomed the formation of our Alumni Fund as much for its possible educational work as for the pecuniary side. We are encouraged by what it has to date accomplished, and its officers greatly appreciate the splendid support received from our Alumni."
PHILIP R. ALLEN, '92: President of Bird & Company
"As a returning graduate of the "Gay Nineties" who survived the rigors of life in Latin Commons and the Commons Dining Hall, I find on Andover Hill few landmarks of those days. The old Bulfinch Building (in my time, the Gymnasium), and the Chapel, alone, remain - part of a rapidly growing group, beautiful in a dignified symmetry. Super- ficially, it seems a new Andover, but the heart and soul of the old Andover are still there, kept alive by the love and loyalty of continuing generations of Andover boys."
JOHN CROSBY, '86: President of the Washburn Crosby Flour Company
"As one grows older, his memory of early days grows fonder. More and more I prize the friendships I made and the teaching I re- ceived at Andover forty-five years ago. Scholarship can be found at many schools. But the character building and the fitting for life are still to be gained at Andover in unusual measure."
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NATHANIEL STEVENS, '76 President, M. T. Stevens and Sons
"It has been a privilege to live during my whole life within the shadow of Phillips Academy and the atmosphere of the Phillips family traditions; and during a business career of over a half a century, the ideals as expressed by the Founder of the school and which have con- tinued for one hundred and fifty years, have been dominating influences with me.
"When I look back to the Centennial celebration of 1878, which I attended, and compare the physical and material properties of the school at that time with those of today, I heartily look forward to the celebra- tion of the Sesquicentennial as marking the beginning of a new era. The splendid work which it is now possible to do will, I am sure, show even greater results than in the preceding years."
JAMES B. NEALE, '92: President, Buck Run Coal Company; Trustee of Phillips Academy
"Old Andover boys may differ as to politics, religion, and many other things, but are a unit in their gratitude to the school for what it did for them, and they are a unit in the hope and full expectation that Phil- lips Academy will grow more and more helpful in the way of making Christian citizenship as the years go by."
MAJ. GEN. ADOLPHUS W. GREELY, U. S. A.
Author and Arctic explorer; Civil War veteran; in 1881 reached a point nearer the North Pole than anyone before him
"The Founders of Phillips Academy built more broadly than they knew. Antedating the establishment of the Nation, Phillips Academy has contributed to the country's success by its shaping in formative years the character of its graduates. As a native of Essex County I have long known its high standards as to teachers and pupils. Both my sons have profited by the teaching and influence of the Academy. I feel assured that the Sesquicentennial celebration will be a notable event."
COL. MARLBOROUGH CHURCHILL, '96: Army Officer
"We are most influenced by the men we know when we are young; and I was fortunate in spending my childhood and boyhood in the shadow of the dear old school and in knowing many fine types of Andover men.
"My dear father was my earliest Phillips Andover influence. Loyal alumnus and devoted teacher for more than thirty years, he to my mind typified the best in the Andover tradition. The next influence was my brother Donald, who in his short life always remained true to the ideals he owed to Andover.
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