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Andover Song Reaches the Hearts of Students and Alumni
We got a note a few days back calling our attention to “The Andover Song.” It’s an original song and music video that work to capture, and express, the notions that Andover is more than a school and more than the sum of its parts. The production is slick and well done. The Phillips Andover [...]
Read MorePhillips Andover’s Addison Gallery of American Art Emerges from a Two Year Restoration
With Phillips Academy‘s Addison Gallery of American Art celebrating it’s reemergence at the conclusion of a two year restoration, Wall Street Journal writer Karen Wilkin paints a picture of how Andover, and other old-line prep schools, have come to acquire and house truly outstanding collections. In “The Pride of a Prep School,” I think, most [...]
Read MoreHow A Prep School Rivalry Became A Long Term Grudge
Rivalries aren’t limited to college football. They exist at all levels of sport and prep school football holds some long and storied rivalries in Exeter vs. Andover, Kent vs. Loomis for the spoon…Always fun are the how’s and why’s of how a particular rivalry began. On Worcester Academy‘s WA Mash is the story how a [...]
Read MoreAn Alumna Reflects on Her Phillips Andover Experience
We’re always expounding on the boarding school experience and the fact that relationships set the boarding school experience apart. For students and faculty, the crux of the boarding school experience is what you make of your opportunities and relationships. We recently found this reflection by a Phillips Andover alumnus and we like it- a lot. [...]
Read MorePhillips Andover Academy receives largest ever donation
An interesting news item came across the wire yesterday. Oscar Tang, the president of the board of trustees at Phillips Andover Academy, donated $25 million to the school. It’s the largest donation in the school’s 230 year history and will support a number of initiatives including need-blind admission. This gift dovetails on the recent announcement of the [...]
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