Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA ) is a coeducational independent school for boarding students and a day in grade 9 though 12, and offers postgraduate programs. Located in Exeter, New Hampshire, this is one of the oldest high schools in the United States. Exeter is based on the Harkness education system, a format of student interaction conferences with minimal teacher involvement. It has the largest contribution of any New England boarding school, which, on June 30, 2016, is worth $ 1.15 billion.
Phillips Exeter Academy has educated several generations of New England founders and prominent American politicians, but has introduced many programs to diversify the student population, including free tuition fees for families earning $ 75,000 or less. In 2015-2016, over 45% of students receive financial aid from grants totaling more than $ 19 million. The school is historically highly selective, with a 17% admissions rate for the 2017-2018 school year, and many graduates attend Ivy League universities, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, and Georgetown University, others.
Management of schools' financial and physical resources is supervised by guardians drawn from alumni. The day-to-day operation is led by a principal, appointed by the guardians. School faculties are responsible for organizing matters relating to student life, both inside and outside the classroom.
The first class enrolled in the school was 56 boys; in 1970, when a decision was made to implement joint education, there were 700 boys. Registration currently stands in more than 1,000 students with roughly equal ratios between male and female students placed in 25 dormitories with one sex, and 1 boarding dormitory supervised by a dormitory head selected from the faculty.
Exeter is a member of the ten School Acceptance Organizations and the G20 School Global School.
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Origins
Phillips Exeter Academy was founded in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1781 by John Phillips. Phillips has made his fortune as a merchant and banker before entering public service, and financially supporting his niece, Samuel Phillips, Jr. in establishing his own school, Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, three years earlier. As a result of this family relationship, the two schools share the competition. The school Phillips founded in Exeter was to educate students under the Calvinist religious framework. However, like his nephew who founded Andover, Phillips set out in a school charter that "will be equally open to qualified youth required from each quarter."
Phillips had previously married Sarah Gilman, the rich widow of Phillips cousin, trader Nathaniel Gilman, whose great fortune, bequeathed to Phillips, allowing him to bless the academy. The Gilman family also donated to the academy the many lands where he stood, including the early 1793 grant by New Hampshire Governor John Taylor Gilman of Yard, the oldest part of the campus; The first class academy in 1783 included seven Gilmans. In 1814, Nicholas Gilman, a signatory to the US Constitution, left $ 1,000 to Exeter to teach "sacred music."
The first academy school building, First Academy Building, was built on a site at Tan Lane in 1783, and today stands not far from its original location. The building was dedicated on February 20, 1783, on the same day as its predecessor, William Woodbridge, chosen by John Phillips.
Exeter's Gift Certificate, written by John Phillips at the founding of the school, states that Exeter's mission is to instill in students both the good and the knowledge:
"Above all, it is hoped that the instructors' attention to the disposition of the minds and morals of the teenagers under their responsibility will exceed every other treatment, given that even though the good without knowledge is weak and weak, yet knowledge without good is dangerous, that they both unite to form the ultimate character, and lay the foundation of the utmost utility for mankind. "
In 1859, authors Austin J. Coolidge and John B. Mansfield wrote about Exeter graduates:
- "Galaxies of such names appearing in the catalog of this institution will not, perhaps, be found in relation to other academies on this continent."
Harkness Prize
On April 9, 1930, Edward Harkness's philanthropist and oil entrepreneur wrote to Exeter Principal Lewis Perry on how substantial donations will be given to Harkness to the Academy can be used to fund a new way of teaching and learning:
What I think is a classroom where students can sit around a table with a teacher who will talk to them and teach them with some kind of tutorial or conference method, where each student will feel compelled to talk. This will be a real revolution in the method.
The result is "Harkness teaching", in which a teacher and a group of students work together, exchanging ideas and information, similar to the Socratic method. In November 1930, Harkness gave Exeter $ 5.8 million to support the initiative. Since then, the Academy's primary instruction is through discussion, "seminar style," around the oval table known as the Harkness table.
Coeducation
The academy became coeducational in 1970 when 39 girls began attending. Today the student's body is roughly half a boy and half a girl. In 1996, to reflect the coeducational status of the Academy, a new Latin inscription that exclusively gender Hic Quaerite Puerre Puellaeque Virtutem et Scientiam ("Here, boys and girls, seeking kindness and knowledge") was added above the entrance to the Academy Building. This new inscription adds the original - Huc Venite, Pueri, ut Viri Sitis ("Come here, boy so you can be a man").
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Academics
Exeter uses an 11-point scoring system, in which A's value is 11 and E is 0 points. Exeter has a student-teacher ratio of about 5: 1. The majority of faculty have advanced degrees in their field. Students who attend Exeter for four years are required to take courses in art, classical or modern languages, computer science, English, health & amp; human development, history, mathematics, religion, and science. Most students receive an English diploma, but students who take the full range of Latin and Ancient Greek classes receive a Classical diploma.
The teaching method "Harkness
Most of the classes in Exeter are taught around the Harkness table. No classroom has rows of chairs, and lectures are rare. The completion of the Phelps Science Center in 2001 enabled all science classes, previously taught in more conventional classrooms, performed around the same Harkness table. Elements of the Harkness method, including the Harkness chart, are now used in schools around the world.
Famous faculty
- Founder of the Department of Religion Frederick Buechner, minister and author
- Instructor in the History of Michael Golay, historian and author
- Instructor in English Todd Hearon, poet
- Instructor in English Willie Perdomo, poet and author of children's books
- Instructor at Mathematics Zuming Feng, coach of the Olympic International Mathematics Program team from 1997 to 2013
- Instructor at Mathematics Gwynneth Coogan, former Olympic athlete
- Instructor at Music Marilinda Garcia, member of New Hampshire House of Representatives and harpist
- Instructor in Physical Education Olutoyin Augustus, former Olympic athlete
Off-campus study
During Exeter's tenth principle, Richard W. Day's tenure, the Washington Internal Program and the Foreign Studies Program commenced. Exeter offers the Washington Intern Program, where students apprentice in the offices of a senator or congress representative. Exeter also participates in the Milton Academy Mountain School program, which allows students to study in a small rural environment in Vershire, Vermont. The Academy currently sponsors a long-term overseas study program in Grenoble, Tema, Tokyo, Saint Petersburg, Stratford-upon-Avon, Eleuthera, Taichung, GÃÆ'¶ttingen, Roma, Cuenca, and Callan; as well as overseas school year programs in Beijing, Rennes, Viterbo, and Zaragoza. The Academy also offers foreign language summer programs in France, Japan, Spain, and Taiwan.
Matriculation
About one-third of Exeter's students are accepted in the Ivy League, MIT, and Stanford. The five most common college goals of the 2013-2015 class are Columbia (36), Harvard (33), Yale (32), Georgetown (26), and NYU (26).
Student body
The academy claims diversity traditions. During the Civil War, four white college students from Kentucky were confronted by principal Gideon Lane Soule over the presence of a black student in Exeter. When they demanded that the black student be expelled for the color of his skin, Soule replied, "The boy must stay, you can do what you want."
One of Unofficial Exeter's motto - "Youth of Every Quarters" - is taken from the Gift Certificate, and is quoted widely and emphasized in introductory courses for freshmen in the fall. This phrase also guides Academy acceptance policies. Exeter's old Director of Scholarships H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) worked for decades to allow qualified students from across the US to attend Exeter.
For the 2016-17 school year, Exeter's student body includes students from 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and 34 countries. Students of non-European descent consist of 41% of student body (Asia 23%, Black 9%, Hispanic/Latino 8%, Native American 1%). Old student accounts for 13% of students. Of the new students coming in 2017 (total 353), 53% attend public schools and 47% attend private schools, parishes, military, homes, or foreign schools.
Most Exeter students - 80 percent - live on campus in a dorm or a house. The remaining 19 percent of the student body is a day student from the surrounding community.
The Academy uses a unique designation for its class level. Entering first year students is called Juniors (nicknamed "preparation"), second year students are Lowers, third year students are Upper Middlers ("top"), and fourth year students are seniors. Exeter also recognizes graduate students ("PBS").
Finance
Tuition and financial assistance
Tuition for Exeter for the 2015-2016 school year is $ 46.905 for boarding students and $ 36,430 for students a day. Exeter does not increase tuition fees for 2015-2016. In addition, each student will spend about $ 850 for the book. Mandatory fee is $ 885 for boarding students and $ 370 for student days. There is also an optional fee of $ 1,310 for a discretionary service.
Exeter offers need-based financial assistance. Since 2008, students whose family income of $ 75,000 or less have received free education, including school fees, rooms and meals, travel, laptops, and other expenses; many families earning up to $ 200,000 receive partial assistance. Since 2007, financial assistance has been fully in the form of unpaid grants. From 2004 to 2008, Exeter's acceptance effectively needs to be blinded, but in 2008, the school announced that its endowment decline forced it to suspend the policy.
A previous President of the Academy Coach, Charles T. "Chuck" Harris III, former manager of Goldman Sachs, attended Exeter with a full scholarship. "Everything I've gotten from that experience," Harris has said about financial aid, "and I would like to think there are some opportunities like that for every child in the world."
Endowment
Exeter grant on June 30, 2016, worth $ 1.15 billion. This is the third highest endowment of any American high school, behind the $ 11.0 billion donation Kamehameha School in Hawaii, and $ 7.8 billion from Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania. Because most successful investments from schools and gift from wealthy alumni, schools have donations of just under $ 1 million per student.
Exeter first organized the PEA Baseball Club on October 19, 1859, and on September 6, 1875, Exeter held its first Phillips Exeter Academy Athletic Association . The captains of all Exeter athletics teams were granted the right to display "E" Exeter in their sweaters, along with certificates from the Phillips Exeter Academy Athletic Association that authenticated their rights in writing. The school's traditional competitors are Phillips Academy (Andover), and the annual Exeter-Andover Football game has been played since 1878. The tradition of similar boarding schools includes the Choate-Deerfield rivalry and the Hotchkiss-Taft rivalry.
Students are required to participate in intramural or interscholastic athletic programs. The school offers 65 interscholastic teams at universities and junior university levels as well as 27 intramural sports teams. Other fitness classes are also offered.
Interscholastic Sports
Opponent
Exeter's main competitor is Phillips Academy (Andover). Exeter beat Andover 12-1 in the first baseball game played between the two academies on May 2, 1878. Andover, in turn, defeated Exeter 22-0 in football on 2 November 1878. One of Exeter's most famous football matches took place in the year 1913 with a 59-0 win over Andover. Exeter and Andover have competed almost every year in football since 1878; Andover currently leads the number of games won, including the latest meeting between schools on November 8, 2014.
Other athletic opponents include New England schools like Belmont Hill School, Berwick Academy, Deerfield Academy, Northfield Mount Hermon, Brewster Academy, Choate Rosemary Hall, Groton School, Academy of Governors, Loomis Chaffee, Tabor Academy, Milton Academy, Avon Old Farms, Worcester Academy , Cushing Academy, and various other northeast preparations and boarding schools.
Championship
The children's water polo team has won twenty-two New England school preparatory championships. Until the winter of 2008, boys' swimming has won 15 of 17 new championships in New England, and became runner-ups of both losing years. The cycling team is the defending champion. Wrestling has won the New England tournament 13 times.
Exeter is a match at the New England championship tournament in almost all sports, losing championships in both boys and girls' football in 2005, and winning the New England Class A Championship in football in 2003 and 2009. In 2007 , children's squash 'team finished second in the Interscholastic Division A New Championship and fourth in the National College Team Tournament. Both the male and female cross-country teams have won the NEPSTA Division 1 Division several times in the past decade, with the boys team winning four straight titles from 2011-2014. The wrestling team has won more Class A titles and the New England Preparation School Association Prep than any other team, most recently winning Class A tournaments in 2007 and 2003 and the New England tournament in 2001. It has also been named the champion of National Prep, Tanaka, in 1990. Both women's ice and boys' ice hockey teams have won the New England championship recently.
When future major league baseball player Sam Fuld attended Phillips Exeter Academy, he led the baseball team to the league title as a junior in 1999, when he fought for.600. Fuld was selected as the 2000 All-American Pre-Season National Team by Baseball America, College's Baseball, USA Today and Fox Sports He was also listed among the top 100 High School Prospects of 2000 by Baseball America , and selected New Hampshire 2000 Gatorade of the Year High School Players.
The boy crew took first and fourth places in the US Rowing National Junior Championships respectively in 1996, 2002 and 2008. In 2012 the boy crew went to Henley-on-Thames in England to compete, but to no avail past the heat. The boy crew is the first organized sport in Exeter, and for over 100 years the competition has produced several Olympic athletes, National Team members and a large number of Divisions I.
The Girls' team took sixth place in 2006 National Rowing Championships 2006, fourth in 2007, third in 2008, second in 2009, and fourth in 2011. EGC swept the New England Championship in 2009 and 2011 and has won the Gilcreast Bowl (overall team points) in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2003, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1999, 1996, and 1994. Olympians include Anne Marden '76, Raj Shah '92, Sabrina Kolker '98, and AndrÃÆ'Ã… © anne Morin '02. Many Exeter Girls Crew graduates are recruited to the Division 1 campus oarsmen and to various national teams. In the past, many oarsmen in Exeter have pursued and achieved recognition in the US National Junior Team while still attending Exeter.
In 2012, Crew Exeter Girls attended the Henley Regatta Women's Club in Henley-on-Thames, England. All races are "double" races with only two crew competing at one time, but this bracket is a single elimination without repechage or a tiny finale. In the final, Exeter ran against Mount St. Joseph Academy of Flourtown, Pennsylvania. Mt. Joseph liked to go to the final, having won at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta. In the finished photo, Exeter wins with only two legs equivalent to less than a quarter of a second. For their victory, Exeter won the Peabody Cup and received membership to the Henley Vitrix Regatta Women's Winner Club.
In November 2014, boys cross-country programs won the fourth consecutive NEPSTA title to make themselves the team with the most consecutive titles in league history.
Student life
Exeter has a gender-clad code until June 2015. Boys should wear collared shirts and ties or turtlenecks. The girls were asked to wear clothes that were not revealed and deserved. Skirts and shorts should reach the length of the fingertips, and the rope should not be less than two fingers. Jeans are allowed for boys and girls; however, "hoodies", graphic t-shirts, and athletic clothing are not allowed. The new dress code is gender neutral, and no longer requires bonding. Dress code is only required in the classroom setting and Assembly.
The Academy has more than 100 registered clubs. The number of functioning and reputable clubs fluctuates; some of the clubs listed on the website do not have tables at Club Night. The Exonian is the school weekly newspaper. This is the oldest preparatory school newspaper that still operates in the United States, having started publishing in 1878. Recently, The Exonian started an online publication. Other old clubs include ESSO, which focuses on social service outreach; and PEAN, which is an annual academy book. Exeter also has the oldest surviving middle school community, the Golden Branch (founded in 1818), a public speaking public, inspired by the PEA's Rhetorical Society of 1807-1820. Now known as the Daniel Webster Debate Society, these groups serve as a junior high school organization in America for speech students and are ready for the communication skills necessary for success at Harvard University. The UN Model Club has won the "Best Small Delegation" award at HMUN. Exeter's Mock Trial Association, founded by lawyers and historian Walter Stahr, has since 2011 claimed seventeen individual titles, five all-around state titles, and top-ten venues at the National High School Mock Trial Championship.
Nearly 80% of students live in dormitories, with another 20% traveling from home within a 30 mile radius (50 km). Each dormitory has several faculty members and a senior student supervisor. There is an 8:00 pm check-in hour (for first and second year students), 9 pm (for the third year), and 10:00 pm (for seniors) during weekdays and at 11 pm on Saturday nights.
Religious life on campus is supported by the Ministry of Religious Services, which provides antique stone chapels and full service ministry for students' spiritual needs. The chapel was originally built in 1895 and has been updated. It accommodates worship for "twelve religious traditions including Christianity, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Quakers, Buddhists, Catholics among others" as well as Secular Humanism.
The weekly attendance at their chosen religious services required students until 1969, after religion in Exeter languished until revived with a new approach "out of concern for the religious dimension of all our lives as well as the particular religious needs of one of us." Phillips Church Renovation, completed in 2002, provides space for worship and meditation for students of various religious faiths.
The incidence of sexual offenses that occurred in the church basement by the end of 2015 brought criticism to the school.
Emblem
Academy seal
Exeter has two main symbols: a seal depicting the river, the sun and the beehive, combining the academy's motto; and Lion Rampant . This seal is similar to that used by the Phillips Academy - a symbol designed by Paul Revere - and his Masonic metaphor. A honeycomb often represents industry and cooperation from a hut or, in this case, the study and concerted efforts of the Academy students. The Lion Rampant comes from the Phillips family symbol, and shows that all Academy alumni are part of the "Exonian family".
Exeter has three mottoes on the Academy seal: Non Sibi (Latin 'Not for yourself') shows community-based life and tasks; Finish origine pendet (Latin 'End depends on beginning') which reflects Exeter's emphasis on hard work in preparation for a fertile adult life; and ?????? ???? (Greek 'By the grace of God') reflects the origins of Calvinist Exeter, whose only remaining day is the school's requirement that most students take two courses in religion or philosophy.
College color and alumni tie
There are several school color variants associated with Phillips Exeter Academy which range from red and white red to burgundy and silver. Black is also a color associated with schools at a lower level. The official school color is maroon and bright. The traditional school tie is a burgundy red tie with alternating diagonal silver lines and a rampant silver lion.
Famous Alumni
The early Alumni of Exeter included US Senator Daniel Webster (1796); John Adams Dix (1809), Minister of Finance and Governor of New York; US President Franklin Pierce (1820); Son of Abraham Lincoln and 35 War Secretary Robert Lincoln (1860); Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. (1870); Richard and Francis Cleveland; "football grandfather" Amos Alonzo Stagg (1880); Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Booth Tarkington (1889) and Hugo W. Koehler (1903), American naval spy during the Russian Revolution and stepfather of United States Senator Claiborne Pell. John Knowles, author of A Peace Separate and Peace Breaks Out , is a 1945 graduate; both novels are set in the fictional Devon School, which serves as an analogue for his alma mater.
Exeter alumni pursue careers in various fields. Other alumni recorded for their work in government include Gifford Pinchot, Lewis Cass, Judd Gregg, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad, John Negroponte, Bobby Shriver, Robert Bauer and Peter Orszag. Notable alumni for their military service include Naval Secretary George Bancroft, Benjamin Butler, and Charles C. Krulak. Author George Plimpton, John Knowles, Gore Vidal, John Irving (whose stepfather teaches in Exeter), Robert Anderson, Dan Brown (whose father teaches in Exeter), Peter Benchley, James Agee, Chang-Rae Lee, Debby Herbenick, Stewart Brand , Norb Vonnegut and Roland Merullo also attended the academy.
Other notable alumni include businessmen Joseph Coors, Michael Lynton, Tom Steyer, and Mark Zuckerberg; Bradley Palmer's lawyer; reporters Drew Pearson, Dwight Macdonald, James F. Hoge, Jr., Paul Klebnikov, Trish Regan, Suzy Welch, and Sarah Lyall; actor Michael Cerveris, Catherine Disher, Jack Gilpin, and Alessandro Nivola; film director Howard Hawks; musicians Bill Keith, Benmont Tench, China Forbes, Ketch Secor, Win Butler and William Butler; historian Robert Cowley, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Brooks D. Simpson; authors Roxane Gay and Joyce Maynard; screenwriter Tom Whedon; baseball players Robert Rolfe and Sam Fuld; educators Jared Sparks and Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.; composer Adam Guettel; humorous Greg Daniels; mathematicians Shinichi Mochizuki, David Mumford, and Lloyd Shapley, winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics; computer scientist Adam D'Angelo (founder of Quora); and evolutionary philosopher and biologist Daniel Dennett.
Other academic programs
Summer school
Every summer, Phillips Exeter hosts over 780 students from various schools for five-week academic programs. The summer program accommodates diverse students who usually come from more than 40 different states and 45 foreign countries.
The Summer School of Exeter is divided into two courses: Upper School, which offers various classes for students currently enrolled in secondary schools entering the 10th to 12th grade and serving the graduate; and Access Exeter, a program for students entering eighth and ninth grade, offering accelerated studies in art, science and writing as well as serve as an introduction to the school itself. Access Exeter's curriculum consists of six academic groups; each cluster consists of three courses held around a central focused theme. Some of Exeter's summer school programs also give students the opportunity to experience study outside the Exeter campus environment, including interactions with schools and other top students, experience with Washington D.C., and traveling abroad.
Workshop
The Academy offers a number of workshops and conferences for secondary school educators. These include the Exeter Math Institute; Institute of Humanities Exeter; Conference on Mathematics, Science and Technology; Exeter Astronomy Conference; and Shakespeare Conference.
The "Outside Exeter" program offers a one-week seminar for alumni. Most courses are held at the Academy, but some meet in the center of the topic.
Historical efforts
In 1952, Exeter, Andover, Lawrenceville, Harvard, Princeton and Yale published a study of Public Education at School and Higher Education: Committee Report. The report recommends an exam that will place students after admission to college. This program evolves into an Advanced Placement Program.
In 1965 Exeter became the second charter member (after Andover) of the School Year Abroad program. This program allows students to live and study foreign languages ​​overseas.
In popular culture
Some works are based on Exeter and illustrate the lives of their students. Many are written by alumni who disguise Exeter's name, but not his character, such as John Knowles and his novel A Separate Peace.
See also
- Exeter point
References
Further reading
- Paul Monroe, ed. (1913), "Phillips Academy, Exeter, NH", Cyclopedia of Education , 4 , New York: Macmillan - via HathiTrust
External links
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Exeter Phillips Academy Crew
- Donald Hall talks about Phillips Exeter Academy (video)
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