Word: mercersburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portico of Samuel Phillips Hall to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Mrs. Coolidge was sitting behind him, moved not so much by what he was saying as by a hymn she had just heard. It was her favorite Jesus I Love Thee and also the hymn of Mercersburg Academy, where her son Calvin Jr. schooled before his death in 1924. It was sung by nearly a thousand Andover students, and Mrs. Coolidge added her voice...
...newspapers told something of the Princeton meeting-how the trip to England of the studious Kent School crew last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing over a chestnut with Headmaster Alfred E. Stearns of Andover. Young Headmaster Van Santvoord of Hotchkiss doubtless listened with respect to his elders on such subjects as Fourth Form Latin, black-bean soup...
Headmaster Irvine "of Mercersburg interpolated ironically: "Each generation, of course, has its quota of loafers who will always be a Headmaster's hardest problem and who will make instructors earn their salaries," but he too thought the Modern Schoolboy works "more earnestly...
Schools from all over the eastern half of the United States contributed to the competition just closed. Among the more prominent entries were The Exonian, The Hill News, The Taft Papyrus, The Middle-sex Anvil, The Hotchkiss Review, The Mercersburg News, The Loomis Log, The Riverdale Review, The Peddie News, and the St. Paul Record...
...Shaw School Quarrier, S.S. 28 Tackle 20 186 6-2 Andover Ryan, F.B. 28 Tackle 22 190 6 St. Paul's Sanger, S. 28 End 23 166 5-10 Peddie Saunders, O.A. 28 Back 22 169 5-11 Andover Scott, S.P. 28 End 20 180 6-1 Mercersburg Spiel, R.E. 29 Guard 21 200 5-8 Andover Stone, K.D. 28 Back 20 180 6 Andover Switz, P.F. 29 Back 21 165 5-6 Cartaret Tweedy, L. 28 Tackle 24 198 6-1 Andover Webster, W.A. 28 Guard 24 200 6 Hotchkiss