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...Mercersburg in Pennsylvania, a new headmaster, Dr. Boyd Edwards, former headmaster of The Hill School, succeeding the late Dr. William Mann Irvine...
Died. Dr. William Mann Irvine, 63, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa., for the past 35 years; of cerebral hemorrhage; following his collapse a week ago at the commencement exercises of the school...
...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...