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  Urban Dictionary: Phillips Academy Andover
Phillips Academy Andover, known nationally as Andover, is a coeducational, preparatory boarding school in Andover, MA.
Phillips Academy is respected as one of the best educations available, and two US presidents (George H W Bush and George W Bush) are alumni.
Phillips Academy Andover is a famous private school in Andover, Massachusetts with a reputation as one the premier schools in the United States.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Phillips+Academy+Andover&defid=1193820   (731 words)

  
  Employer Profile: Phillips Academy, Andover
Phillips Academy, better known as Andover, is a coeducational independent high school of 1,070 students, known for its academic rigor and the national and international diversity of its student body.
Phillips Academy seeks students, faculty and staff of intelligence and integrity from diverse cultural, racial, socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds.
The academy is committed to establishing a community that encourages people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs to understand and respect one another and to be sensitive to differences of gender, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation.
chronicle.com /jobs/profiles/12601.htm?pg=i   (630 words)

  
  Phillips Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phillips Academy is the oldest continuously running incorporated boarding school in the United States, established in 1778 by Samuel Phillips, Jr.
Phillips Academy was founded during the American Revolution as an all-boys school in 1778 by Samuel Phillips, Jr.
In 1973, Phillips Academy merged with neighboring Abbot Academy, which was founded in 1829 as the first school for girls in New England and named for Sarah Abbot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phillips_Academy   (1731 words)

  
 Phillips Exeter Academy - Peterson's In-Depth Description
Phillips Exeter Academy is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
The Academy acts on the assumptions that its students enter the school with a serious purpose and that their conscience and good sense are a sufficient guide to behavior.
The multidenominational Phillips Church is the center of religious worship at Exeter, where students from eleven of the world’s religions gather to express their faith.
www.petersons.com /PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=596579-2&inunId=1775&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1   (2638 words)

  
 Phillips Academy - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass.; college preparatory boarding and day school; opened 1778, chartered 1780 by Samuel Phillips.
Founded for boys, it is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States and has served as the model for many later schools.
In 1972 the academy became coeducational when Abbot Academy, a neighboring girls' school, was incorporated.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-phllpsac.html   (237 words)

  
 Phillips Exeter Academy Launches a Cage-Free Egg Policy
New Hampshire-based Phillips Exeter Academy is switching to cage-free shell eggs in its dining facilities, a move that The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) praised as an important step for animal welfare.
Phillips Exeter Academy has chosen to eliminate the use of shell eggs from caged birds from its dining facilities, effective immediately.
Phillips Exeter Academy joins a growing list of schools decreasing their use of eggs from caged birds.
www.hsus.org /farm/news/pressrel/phillips_exeter_cagefree.html   (504 words)

  
 Phillips Academy Newsroom
ANDOVER — Phillips Academy senior Alexander Heffner and Yale University junior Andrew Mangino have given birth to an idea that directly injects students—high school and college—into the wild and woolly world of presidential campaign journalism.
The young Phillips Academy organist is just back from a mountaintop experience in Memphis where all four genres of music came together and he stood among “history-makers of the civil rights movement.
Phillips Academy, founded two years after the Declaration of Independence in 1778, is a favourite of the two dominant political clans of the late 20th century.
www.andover.edu /news   (1440 words)

  
 Phillips Academy (Andover) - Peterson's In-Depth Description
Phillips Academy was founded by Samuel Phillips during the Revolutionary War for the purpose of “enlarging the minds and forming the morals” of “youth from every quarter.” A sister school, Abbot Academy, which was an all-girls school, was founded in 1828.
Phillips Academy is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
The Phillips Academy Summer Session is a five-week, intensive academic program and precollege experience of both innovative and traditional courses as well as an intensive music program and focused college counseling.
www.petersons.com /PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=599803-2&inunId=1773&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1   (1814 words)

  
 Bobby McFerrin coming to Phillips Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
That's because the Phillips Academy music department will present McFerrin in a free concert Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 6:30 p.m., in Cochran Chapel on the school campus, 180 Main St. Cochran Chapel is handicapped accessible.
The Sept. 29 concert at Phillips is sponsored by the Bernard and Mildred Kayden Fund, which was established by the Kayden family to bring distinguished artists to Phillips Academy and the Andover community.
Any inquiries regarding this performance may be directed to the Phillips Academy music department at 749-4995 or e-mail at music@andover.edu.
www.andovertownsman.com /news/19990909/FP_003.html   (299 words)

  
 Graywolf Press
Phillips writes that they taught him "a great deal about compression when conveying psychological and emotional crisis." Phillips’s work reflects a faith in the way a sentence can move over lines to lead readers to charged moments of intense insight and amazing beauty.
Phillips admits that he "came very late to modern/contemporary poetry," and it was when he was in his thirties that he began to publish his work.
The Academy of American Poets is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1934 to foster appreciation for contemporary poetry and to support American poets at all stages of their careers.
www.graywolfpress.org /Latest_News/Latest_News/Carl_Phillips_Receives_The_Academy_of_American_Poets_Fellowship_for_Distinguished_Poetic_Achievement   (702 words)

  
 Chicago Public Schools: OSHP High School Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Phillips Academy High School is a neighborhood school and is open to all students living in its attendance area.
Wendell Phillips Academy High School is a Chicago public school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago's Near South Side.
Phillips works under the belief that all children can learn and that it takes the entire school and community to ensure student achievement and success.
www.cps.k12.il.us /schools/hsdirectory/wendellphillips.shtml   (284 words)

  
 Congressman Martin T. Meehan (MA05) - Press Release - Congressman Announces Phillips Academy Will be Named as ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
“Phillips Academy has been selected as one of the top notch high schools in the country because it has shown a commitment to Service-Learning through its dedication to helping hundreds of less fortunate people in the Merrimack Valley,” Congressman Meehan said.
I applaud Phillips Academy and its students for their national leadership and the inspiring example they are setting for students and parents everywhere.”
Phillips Academy also integrates students’ services into their academic courses, bringing whole classes to different areas of need to illustrate its teachings.
www.house.gov /meehan/press_1999_2003/pr_990518.phillipsacad.html   (508 words)

  
 RDK - Phillips Academy Andover, New Gelb Science Center
Andover, MA Phillips Academy's new $28M Richard L. Gelb Science Center, is a 58,000 SF state-of-the-art science facility housing three floors of advanced teaching and learning spaces, including twenty laboratories, classrooms, seminar rooms, instrument rooms, preparatory areas, study-session spaces, and a roof-top astronomical observatory.
In keeping with the Academy's desire to promote a deeper awareness of the natural world, the Gelb Center was designed with numerous "Green" features, to minimize environmental impacts.
RDK was retained by the Academy to commission the new building's HVAC system, controls systems, and electrical power system, to verify that they reliably perform to the high level of energy efficiency for which they were designed.
www.rdkengineers.com /index.cfm/portfolio/Academic/Phillips_Academy_Andover,_New_Gelb_Science_Center   (182 words)

  
 Local students to perform in China with Phillips Academy Concert tour   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Continuing a 135-year-old tradition of cultural exchange with China, Phillips Academy is sending 176 students and adults today, Thursday, on a musical tour of China.
The Chinese government sponsored the first exchange with Phillips Academy in the 1870s, sending five Chinese students to study at the Academy.
The Academy is also exploring the possibility of establishing new educational exchange programs with schools in Beijing and Shanghai.
www.andovertownsman.com /news/20010607/ED_006.html   (661 words)

  
 Exeter News-Letter Local News: PEA joins cage-free animal movement
Phillips Exeter Academy is switching to cage-free shell eggs in its dining facilities, a move that The Humane Society of the United States praised as an important step for animal welfare.
Phillips Exeter Academy has chosen to eliminate the use of eggs from caged birds from its dining facilities.
The academy, which serves 1,050 students and 500 staff and faculty, uses more than 80,000 eggs a year.
www.seacoastonline.com /news/exeter/03142006/news/92550.htm   (303 words)

  
 Andover Inn Massachusetts|On the Campus of Phillips Academy
The Andover Inn is a New England Country Inn located about 25 miles north of Boston on the campus of Phillips Academy, the oldest private secondary boarding school in the United States.
The Inn was built in 1930 through the generosity of Thomas Cochran, Phillips Academy Class of 1890, and is of neo-Georgian architecture.
The Inn is situated on the 500 acre campus of Phillips Academy, and features 23 guest rooms, a 125 seat white table cloth restaurant and several private dining rooms.
www.andoverinn.com   (194 words)

  
 Phillips Exeter Academy | Copyright
Use of this site is governed by Phillips Exeter Academy's Website guidelines, by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512, as amended) and by US copyright guidelines.
Phillips Exeter Academy prohibits copying of content or images from the Exeter site without express permission of the Communicatons Office.
If you are interested in reprinting or copying content or images, please send an email to the Communications Office.
www.exeter.edu /copyright.aspx   (137 words)

  
 The Trademark Blog: Phillips Academy v. KIPP: Phillips Academy
KIPP: Philips Academy is a charter school in New Orleans, part of the Knowledge is Power Program network of free charter schools targeted at 'under resourced' communities.
Phillips of Andover is not tuition free and is not targeted at under resourced communities (but does provide financial aid and states that financial need should not discourage applicants).
Phillips of Andover has apparently protested KIPP's use of the Phillips name.
www.schwimmerlegal.com /2005/08/phillips_academ.html   (158 words)

  
 Great save at Phillips Academy - The Boston Globe
The first indication Cory Schneider had the temperament to carry a team came during his first season with Phillips Academy in Andover.
The last game of the season was against rival Phillips Exeter and Schneider was told he was getting the start from coach...
The last game of the season was against rival Phillips Exeter and Schneider was told he was getting the start from coach Dean Boylan Jr.
www.boston.com /sports/hockey/articles/2004/06/25/great_save_at_phillips_academy   (986 words)

  
 PHOSITA® : President Bush is an Alumnus of Phillips Academy, But Which One?
In a phone call to the new Phillips Academy in New Orleans, the law firm for the old Phillips Academy threatened a lawsuit over the 227 year-old trademark.
The endowment for Phillips of Andover is $556 million, which exceeds the budget of the entire Orleans Parish school system.
Phillips Academy in Andover agreed to donate $2,000 of its $556,000,000 to cover costs involved in changing the name on signs and uniform T-shirts.
www.okpatents.com /phosita/archives/2005/08/president_bush.html   (742 words)

  
 Andover Inn Massachusetts|On the Campus of Phillips Academy
The Andover Inn is a New England Country Inn located about 25 miles north of Boston on the campus of Phillips Academy, the oldest private secondary boarding school in the United States.
The Inn was built in 1930 through the generosity of Thomas Cochran, Phillips Academy Class of 1890, and is of neo-Georgian architecture.
The Inn is situated on the 500 acre campus of Phillips Academy, and features 23 guest rooms, a 125 seat white table cloth restaurant, several private dining rooms, and a new bistro dining room.
www.andoverinn.com /?source=GAPA   (191 words)

  
 Phillips Academy — Infoplease.com
Founded for boys, it is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States and has served as the model for many later schools.
In 1972 the academy became coeducational when Abbot Academy, a neighboring girls' school, was incorporated.
Cosmogenic radiation nuclides in archaeology: a response to Phillips et al.(response to F.M. Phillips et al, Antiquity, vol.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0838802.html   (329 words)

  
 Phillips Exeter Academy - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Phillips Exeter Academy, at Exeter, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1781, opened 1783 by John Phillips.
Founded as a school for boys, it became coeducational in 1970.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Phillips Exeter Academy" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-phllpsex.html   (244 words)

  
 Mystery donor aids Phillips Exeter Academy - The Boston Globe
The recent $25 million donation to Phillips Exeter Academy by a benefactor who desires no credit is one of the largest of its kind ever bestowed upon an independent school, experts say.
Founded in 1871, the prestigious academy attracts students from across the globe, with a total student body of 1,000.
As one of the oldest and largest US boarding schools, Phillips Exeter Academy is a fund-raising juggernaut.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/01/23/mystery_donor_aids_phillips_exeter_academy?mode=PF   (449 words)

  
 Index of Phillips Academy 1886 Catalogue, Andover, MA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Index of Phillips Academy 1886 Catalogue, Andover, MA Phillips Academy 1886 Catalogue
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 Tom Phillips: Portraits: Dame Iris Murdoch
The work in fact spanned three years and involved about fifteen sittings in all, each lasting a couple of hours or so with a break or two for coffee.
When the National Portrait Gallery commissioned me to paint her portrait I recalled our conversation (about whom we most identified with in the picture) and started a fairly hasty copy of the picture to act as a backdrop so that she might sit in front of the head of Marsyas.
There is a frankly appalling copy of Titian that would have been better done in chalk by a pavement artist outside the Gallery.
www.tomphillips.co.uk /portrait/imur   (1264 words)

  
 Phillips Exeter Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter, or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9-12, located on 469 acres in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, fifty miles north of Boston.
The building houses the Assembly Hall, a grand room upholstered with red carpeting and furnished with red seating, which seats entire student body during Assembly.
A Separate Peace - This novel by John Knowles is set at "Devon," a thinly-veiled fictionalization of Exeter, in the summer of 1943.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy   (1903 words)

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