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  Phillips Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phillips Academy (also known as Andover and Phillips Andover) is a coed high school for boarding and day students grades 9-12 located in Andover, Massachusetts, near Boston.
Phillips Academy is the oldest private high school in the United States and is considered by some to be the most prestigious, allthough its sister school, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, is often seen as more academically rigorous.
Phillips Academy was founded during the American Revolution as an all-boys school in 1778 by Samuel Phillips, Jr.
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 Phillips Academy: Definition and links by Encyclopedian.com Information about Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy's historical realationship with Yale has receded this century, from 75% of students in a graduating class in the 1920s attending Yale, to 50% in the 1950s, to a low percentage today.
Phillips Academy was founded in 1778, during the American Revolution by Samuel Phillips, Jr[?].
The name Andover is often used today to distinguish the school from a similarly named school in Exeter, New Hampshire, and reflects the merger of Phillips Academy and Abbott Academy.
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 Phillips Exeter Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school located on 471 acres (1.9 km²) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, one hour north of Boston.
Like Andover, the Academy's primary Latin motto is Finis Origine Pendet, meaning "the end depends upon the beginning," and it is scrolled across the bottom of the school seal.
Phillips Exeter has been co-educational since 1970, prior to which it was an all-boys school.
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 AllRefer.com - Phillips Academy, United States (Colleges, U.S.) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Founded for boys, it is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States and has served as the model for many later schools.
The school is often called Andover or Phillips Andover.
Andover Theological Seminary (now part of Andover Newton Theological School at Newton Centre, Mass.) was affiliated from 1808 to 1908.
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 Phillips Exeter Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter or PEA) is a coeducational independent boarding school located in Exeter, New Hampshire.
It was established in 1781 by John and Elizabeth Phillips.
Like Andover, the school's primary Latin motto is Finis Origine Pendet, meaning "the end depends upon the beginning," and it is scrolled across the bottom of the school seal.
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 Andover Academy Returns Stolen Shepherdess Needlework to Maker's Descendant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas learned from Betty Ring, who was researching an essay for an exhibition at the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Andover Academy, that his mid-18th century needlework by Hannah Phillips depicting a shepherdess sitting in a landscape with her swain, had been given to the gallery.
Hannah Phillips, who made the needlework, was an ancestor of Brooks Thomas who is also related to the founders of Phillips Academy.
The head of the gallery, the head of the school, and Andover's lawyers, verbally and in writing maintained that since neither the school nor the gallery had done anything wrong in acquiring the gift, it was Andover's to keep.
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 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.
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 Historic overview of Andover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to tradition, the land comprising both the North and South Parishes of Andover was purchased from Cutshamachie, the Sagamore (a subordinate chief among Algonquin Indians) of Massachusetts.
Andover is noted for the educational institutions located within its bounds, Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy.
Phillips Academy was founded in 1770 by Samuel Phillips and its growth to fame has been aided by the Phillips family.
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 Patriots coach scores big at Phillips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And that was the case here yesterday at Phillips Andover Academy as the entire student body and faculty welcomed home one of their most famous alumni (Class of 1971).
Belichick, a 1971 graduate of Phillips Academy, was honored yesterday at an all-school meeting.
The other surprise was for Belichick, who received a proclamation from Phillips Andover's Head Mistress Barbara Landis Chase, via videotape as she was in California, touting yesterday as Bill Belichick Day at Andover.
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 Phillips Exeter Academy biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school located on 471 acres (1.9 km²) in Exeter, New Hampshire, one hour north of Boston.
Phillips Exeter currently has the largest endowment of any secondary school in the United States at a market value of $563,634,089 (per Tax Form 990).
Since a 1930 gift by the oil magnate and philanthropist Edward Harkness, the Academy's principal mode of instruction has been by discussion, "seminar style," around an oval table (known as the " Harkness table.") Classes are restricted to small sizes to encourage participation of all the students.
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 Andover, New Hampshire
The town was incorporated in 1779 as Andover, the year Phillips Andover Academy was completed.
Andover's population nearly doubled, going from 1,057 in 1950 to 2,109 residents in 2000, a total increase of 1,052 residents.
The 2003 Census estimate for Andover was 2,178 residents, which ranked 127th among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.
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 Lora Brown Horsley - Town Info - Andover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Larger than North Andover in terms of land area and population, Andover is known for its excellence in education and is the home of the prestigious Phillips Andover Academy, one of the finest high schools in the world.
Andover Village Improvement Society is the second oldest land preservation society in the country.
Andover is also serviced by the MBTA commuter rail for metro Boston.
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 Bobby McFerrin coming to Phillips Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 Phillips Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Phillips Academy's historical relationship with Yale has receded this century, from 75% of students in a graduating class in the 1920s attending Yale, to 50% in the 1950s, to a low percentage today.
Abbott alumnae often have felt that the merger was more of a hostile takeover, pointing to the neglect of Abbott's resources such as its buildings, which are used today for faculty housing and other indirect educational purposes.
The name Andover is often used today to distinguish the school from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and reflects the merger of Phillips Academy and Abbott Academy.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Phillips-Academy.htm   (436 words)

  
 Phillips Academy Andover - Welcome
Phillips Academy, more fondly known as "Andover," or "Bendover," is located on a hilltop in the town of Andover, Massachusetts, which is twenty-one miles north of Boston and Cambridge, and less than a five minute drive from some of the most dangerous ghettos and crack houses in New England (five minutes too far?
Andover students are divided into four classes: seniors, upper middlers, lower middlers and juniors-our irrational terms for twelfth, eleventh, tenth and ninth graders.
Much of the lessons of the Andover Way are "placed" into the small feeble minds of our students with the help of the mind altering properties of baked scrod and other common's food additives.
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 Phillips Exeter Academy
GIRLS WRAP-UP: Exeter and archrival Phillips Andover dominated the 10-team field as the Big Red took the title with 123 points to Andover's 117, while Taft School took a distant third with 77.
Exeter was never seriously threatened in topping Andover for the second time this season (a 61-43 win on 1/26), outrebounding the guests 48-38, shooting 45-percent from the field, and stifling the Andover offense, which shot a paltry 20.6-percent.
2/23 - Hebron 3, at Exeter 2 (ot) … 2/26 - Andover 9, at Exeter 1
www.exeter.edu /athletics/0405_season/Weekly_update.html   (16748 words)

  
 all things bill belichick | 'one of the best years of my life.'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With regrets to Republican favorite George W. Bush, another alum of Phillips Andover, Belichick is the man most students would like to meet.
Phillips students and coaches are proud for another reason.
While it was only one year of his life, attending Phillips Andover Academy, it apparently laid the framework for his love of New England and his eventual employment with the New England Patriots.
www.allthingsbillbelichick.com /articles/oneofthebest.htm   (1202 words)

  
 MHL: Relocating to Andover
Andover School and District Profiles This page offers information on the Andover school district such as test scores, per-pupil expenditures, enrollment and staff, and more.
Andover School of Montessori ASM is a Montessori program for children ranging from pre-school to ninth grade.
Andover Townsman This weekly newspaper devoted to local news and issues is published every Thursday.
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 Andover on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Andover hopes trash becomes treasure; The suburb, once known mostly for its junkyards and a huge 1989 tire fire, is in the middle of a two-phase project to inject stores, parks, offices and entertainment into a...
From the 1964 Andover yearbook, George W. Bush leads cheerleaders outside the school commons.
George W. Bush is shown in this 1964 yearbook photo from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Andover.asp   (528 words)

  
 Charity Navigator Rating - Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy, better known as Andover, is a coeducational independent high school of 1,070 students, known for its academics and the diversity of its student body.
Located 25 miles north of Boston, the academy was founded in 1778 and is the nation's oldest incorporated boarding school.
Andover's 1778 Constitution charges the academy to prepare "Youth from every quarter" to understand that "goodness without knowledge is weak...yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous."
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 Phillips Exeter Academy
In the girls' competition, it was Phillips Exeter 110, Exeter 46, and Portsmouth 20.5.
Andover led twice by a goal early in the first period.
Exeter 19, Andover 13 (4/14); Wilton YMCA 6, Exeter 4 (4/17); East Zone 6, Exeter 4 (4/17); Suffield 15, Exeter 6 (4/17); Exeter 13, Newport 1 (4/17).
www.exeter.edu /athletics/0304_season/Weekly_update.html   (6885 words)

  
 Phillips Academy at Andover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Initially called Free School, Phillips Academy was founded by the suggestions of Samuel Phillips.
The third academy was built in 1818, south of the Seminary Buildings.
The Divinity College, or Theological Seminary was added to the Academy in 1808 and later a Teachers Seminary or Normal School, subsequently changed to the English Department. That building was destroyed by fire on December 21, 1864, and the present Academy was erected in 1865.
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 Phillips_Exeter_Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It shares a long standing (and friendly) rivalry with its sister school, Phillips Academy, also known as Andover.
Phillips Exeter was the inspiration for the Devon School in John Knowles ' novels, '' A Separate Peace '' and '' Peace Breaks Out ''.
As Exeter, New Hampshire, was the birthplace of author John Irving, it is said that the town and the school appears in many of his books, most notably, '' A Prayer for Owen Meany ''.
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 Phillips Academy Andover - Student Review #3
Andover also offers a great variety of courses so that you can gear your classes to match your academic interests.
Andover can be a competitive place, especially when it comes to making a varsity sport or getting into a top college.
Andover offers a huge variety of sports from the traditional (e.g., football, soccer, and lacrosse) to the less traditional (Nordic Skiing, Ultimate Frisbee).
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 Phillips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Phillips Academy campus is approximately three miles from Route 495.
At the campus Bell Tower on Salem Street, continue on Route 28 South for another quarter mile to the Phillips Academy Ice Rinks on the left.
The Phillips Academy Ice Rinks are approximately 2.5 miles on the right.
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 Flight Schools Net Info Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ANDOVER, N.J.--As a beginning pilot, I was drilled in the perils of flying low and slow.
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The Phillips Academy campus is approximately one mile south of Andover...
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 Andover, Kansas in TutorGig Encyclopedia
'Andover ' is a city located in Butler County, Kansas.
Andover is well-known because of the tornado that hit the city in April 1991 (see the Andover, Kansas Tornado).
Andover is located at 37°41'28" North, 97°8'13" West (37.691165, -97.137043)
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 Andover, Kansas Tornado in TutorGig Encyclopedia
The 'Andover, Kansas Tornado ' is among the most well-known and most photogenic tornado es of the 20th century.
For most people that lived in Andover and Wichita, it was just an ordinary Friday, the day before the weekend.
The tornado continues to move Northeast toward the Golden Spur Mobile Home Park in Andover, KS at around 6:35 P.M. It has expanded to just over 600 feet wide and is now producing F5 damage on the Fujita scale, the strongest variety of tornadoes.
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