USA > Pennsylvania > Franklin County > Chambersburg > Catalogue of the officers and students of Chambersburg Academy for the year ending, 1874 > Part 3
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No pupil excused from examinations without a written request from parent or guardian.
Reports of scholarship, deportment, studiousness and punctuality, sent home at the end of every session; special reports when the case demands.
OUTFIT, POCKET .
MONEY, &C.
Boarders furnish their own napkin rings, towels, lamps, brushes and toilet articles-also a blanket in winter.
They should come provided with overshoes, umbrella, and a sup- ply of substantial clothing. Articles to be washed inust bear the owner's full name. Books and stationery can be had at the usual retail prices.
Pupils will be furnished with pocket money and clothing only when funds are supplied for that purpose. Extravagant expendi- tures and running into debt are considered serious offences against the laws of the school. Parents will do us a favor, and probably save their boys from trouble, by having a distinct understanding on these points.
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GENERAL REMARKS.
PAY PUPILS.
The parents of those who come from home will please see to it that their boys study at least two hours every day, out of school. They will also do their boys a real kindness by not excusing them from a single school exercise, except for the most urgent reasons. Lessons missed must be made up. We hope no parent will ask us to excuse a boy "after his lessons are over." Such a permit may mean two or three hours of play, which had better be spent in school. The gen- eral effect is to counteract all our efforts to teach boys how to study. Six hours a day in the school-room, with a recess every hour, does not injure a healthy boy. It may set a little hard on one disinclined to study, but it furnishes just the training he needs.
GENERAL REMARKS.
On admitting boys into school it is assumed: (1) That they are gentlemen; (2) That they are not hardened in sin; (3) That they come to learn. They will be expected to show becoming modesty in connection with a teachable spirit, and to refrain from everything that would disturb the peace or good order of the establishment. They are also expected to apply themselves earnestly to the duties assigned them.
The Principal has had under his care and instruction since 1850, nearly 3,000 boys and young men. Of these more than 200 have been fitted for, and admitted to full standing in the following Colleges and Universities: Amherst, Harvard, Yale, Williams, Union, Rutgers, Princeton, La Fayette, Delaware, Franklin and Marshall, Pennsylvania, Dickinson, Jefferson, Washington, Pa., Washington, Va., Westminster, Allegheny and University of Michigan. Fifty of these pupils are now in the Christian ministry -others are preparing-and many more are benefiting and blessing the world in their various callings.
All the experience and skill acquired during these years is freely bestowed upon his pupils. To them his time, his energies and his
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labors are devoted. He has no outside interests to distract his atten- tion. As a father he knows something of the fond hopes and tremb- ling anxieties that cluster around the children of the household. He believes that every right minded parent in sending his son to school desires to see that son fitted for a useful manhood. What- ever means, therefore, a judicious parent might use to secure such a result, these he will feel free to use at all times. Whilst he neither professes nor promises to shield boys against all temptations-that is impossible in a sinful world-he does propose to throw around those entrusted to his care such checks and restraints, and to exer- cise such watchfulness, that no one can go far astray except as he himself deliberately puts himself into the way of evil. Should any pupil persist in disregarding these restraints or breaking over them, after fair warning, he must leave. The Institution is not intended for boys unable to control themselves, and not willing to be con- trolled by those to whom authority rightfully belongs.
It is intended to be as far as possible a well-ordered home, where boys and young men who feel an honest pride in maintaining a good character, shall have abundant opportunity to bestow loving labor upon their daily tasks, and to enjoy innocent pleasures, without being molested or interfered with by noisy, profane, indecent or quarrelsome fellows. For that reason the Principal respectfully but firmly declines to receive as members of his household any who are not willing to yield a cheerful obedience to these requirements. It is to him of far more consequence that the moral atmosphere of the school be pure and healthy, than that all the rooms be filled with students. He has tamed unruly spirits not a few, but he prefers decidedly not to make engagements in that line.
Boys and young men disposed to cultivate the virtues and graces that befit and adorn true manhood, are always welcome. They will be well cared for, kindly treated, and in every way made as happy as possible.
Parents are cordially invited to visit the school.
All communications addressed to the Principal will receive prompt attention.
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TESTIMONIALS.
estimonials.
From JAMES M'COSH, D. D., LL. D., President of Princeton College, New Jersey :
I have means of knowing about Dr. Shumaker and his Academy at Cham- bersburg. I am personally acquainted with him, and I have formed a very high opinion of his character, of his scholarship and his capacity as a teacher. I know the estimate formed of him in Chambersburg, and find that he has the thorough confidence of those who are in circumstances to form a correct judgment. I have visited his Institution, which seems to be well arranged. He has sent to our College very superior students, good scholars and well train- ed. I believe that a boy sent to his school will be well cared for, and will re- ceive a high and very useful education.
From DAVID M'KINNEY, D. D., Pittsburgh, Pa.
I have been acquainted for some twenty years with Prof. Shumaker and his mode of teaching. I had two sons under his care at Academia, and three grandsons at Chambersburg, and the result is full confidence in his ability and fidelity. I know of no one to whom I would rather entrust a youth to be fitted for life's duties and responsibilities. He judiciously combines culture in liter- ature, morals and religion. Good boys all love him, and bad boys are often won to goodness.
From T. F. CAUFFMAN, Philadelphia, Pa.
Having had two sons under the care of Dr. J. H. Shumaker, Principal of Chambersburg Academy. it affords me great pleasure to recommend the Insti- tution to the notice of those having sons to educate, as one worthy of their en- tire confidence.
From HON. JOHN SCOTT, Huntingdon, Pa.
I am glad to notice the continued prosperity of your Academy, and, having had one of my wards under your care as a pupil, it affords me pleasure to say that I consider your instruction thorough, and your school one to which parents and guardians can safely confide their children and their wards with the assurance that their mental training and their moral welfare will both be carefully looked after.
From J. C. M'LANAHAN. ESQ., President First National Bank, Green Castle, Pa.
As a patron of Chambersburg Academy, I take pleasure in testifying to its high character for both moral and religious influence and thorough instruction, and can most cordially commend it to the patronage of others who have sons desiring to prepare for either college or teaching.
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From JAMES NORTH, Patterson. Pa.
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It gives me great pleasure to testify to the high character of your school, to the great improvement and progress made by my son whilst there, and to the kind attention he received from yourself and family all the time he was with you. Had I any more sons to educate, I certainly would place them under your care.
From J. C. ECKELS, ESQ., New Kingston, Pa.
Having had my son at Chambersburg Academy for more than three years, I take great pleasure in recommending the school. I regard Dr. Shumaker as pe- culiarly qualified for teaching, and for carefully guarding the moral training of youth.
From JOHN M. STEVENSON, ESQ., Princeton, New Jersey.
It gives me great pleasure to add my testimony to your eminent fitness for the preparation of young men for college. Feeling so fully satisfied with the progress my sons have made while under your care for two and a half years, I do most cheerfully recommend Chambersburg Academy to all parents.
From HENRY A. ROLAND, ESQ., New Holland, Pa.
I take pleasure in recommending your excellent school. Whilst the best tribute I can offer in its behalf is the fact that you have prepared two of my sons for College, and have the third one with you now, I would still come short of a felt duty towards you if I omitted to say that the moral atmosphere with which you aim to surround your school has been to me a source of con- fidence in entrusting my sons to your supervision.
From REV. J. C. THOMPSON, Hagerstown, Md.
I am glad to bear testimony to the worth of Dr. Shumaker as one of thelead- ing educators of the day. There is no man in the whole circle of my acquaint- ance whom I deem more eminently qualified in every respect for the respon- sible duties of his profession. Taking into account his learning, his example and force of personal influence, as a dignified, manly, christian gentleman, I am free to say that I know of no school where I would be so entirely satisfied in sending a boy to be trained and educated.
From W. C. CATTELL, D. D., President of La Fayette College.
During the last twenty years I have frequently visited the school of J. H. Shumaker, both at Academia and at Chambersburg. From these visits I form- ed a very high opinion of his qualifications as an instructor of youth, and this opinion lias been strengthened by careful observation of the students whom lie has prepared for this College. I have therefore recommended his school in the highest terms to many of my friends who have consulted me upon the subject, and I would only add that the handsome and commodious buildings at Chambersburg, and Dr. Shumaker's increasing enthusiasm in his chosen vocation, render his school more attractive to me than ever.
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