S.MORELAND/THE PHILLIPIANFans cheer on the Boys Varsity Hockey team at Andover/Exeter.

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MLK Jr.’s Birthday

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Special Tuesday Schedule

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this month in Andover history…January 16, 1989 – Brian Gittens ’90 led a sit-in protest of the school’s policy of holding classes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day by sitting on the steps of Samuel Phillips Hall for 8.5 hours. Classes were canceled in honor of the holiday for the first time in 1990.

S.MORELAND/THE PHILLIPIAN Tyler Olkowski ’13 studies in a crowded but silent Garver Room.

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Andover/Exeter Contests

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this month in Andover history…February 2, 1974 – J. Noel Chiappa ’74 established himself as the Essex County Regional Pepsi-Cola champion by consuming 516 fluid ounces of Pepsi in under 12 hours in America House. He trained and dehydrated himself for eight days prior.

J.QU/THE PHILLIPIANGirls Varsity Swim and Dive performs their pre-game ritual dubbed the “seal cheer.”

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this month in Andover history…March 1, 1967 – A student life committee proposed the implementation of major changes to Senior life at Andover, including unlimited class cuts for Seniors, a Senior housing complex around Rabbit Pond and one out-of-town excuse per week for Seniors to better prepare them for college life.

A.LEVINE/THE PHILLIPIAN Students photograph the blooming cherry blossom tree.

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Andover Fun FactIn 1838, tuition to attend Andover was six dollars per term. When adjusted for inflation, this cost is $131.95 in today’s currency, according to the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.

B.BRODIE/THE PHILLIPIAN The Andover Dance Group performs “Appalachian Spring.”

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this month in Andover history…May 1867 – Headmaster Samuel Taylor expelled five Seniors for cutting class. Twenty-four of the 42 Seniors protested by cutting school to go to a circus in Lawrence and shouting catcalls as they drove by Taylor’s house; they were expelled as well. In 1903, 36 years later, all those expelled were reinstated to the school after a vote by the trustees.

J.QU/THE PHILLIPIAN Katie McLean ’12 and Nick Camarda ’12 lead the Class of 2012 in its Commencement Procession.

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In the 1960s, there existed a tradition for graduating Seniors known as the “Burning of Kühner.” After an all-class dinner, the Seniors would form a procession and march up Main Street from the outskirts of town. At the end of their parade, the Seniors would light a fire, dance and chant around the flames and throw their textbooks in the blaze.

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S.DIEKEMA/THE PHILLIPIAN The sun sets behind Cochran Chapel.

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Andover Fun FactFifty-one males registered for the “Phillips School” in 1778 (the name was changed to Phillips Academy a year later). They ranged in age from six to 30 years old. Thirteen of them were from Andover, and all were from New England.

A.LEVINE/THE PHILLIPIAN Students lounge in the sun in front of Samuel Phillips Hall.

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Andover Fun FactIn order to make any alteration to an Andover building donated by Thomas Cochran, the Board of Trustees must approve the change by a 3/4 majority and obtain the approval of the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as well as the Presidents of Harvard and Yale.

S.MORELAND/THE PHILLIPIANBlue Keys from the Class of 2013 celebrate the

arrival of new students at the corner of Chapel Ave.

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this month in Andover history…September 23, 1972 – Abbot Headmaster Donald Gordon and Andover Headmaster Theodore Sizer officially agreed to merge Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy. Sizer had been headmaster for only two weeks.

Y.WATANABE/THE PHILLIPIAN Students pass Samuel Phillips Hall on an early fall morning.

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Andover Fun FactIn early 1944, The Phillipian and “The Exonian” held an Andover/Exeter competition to see which school could invest more money in war bonds and stamps for World War II.

The blue crowd erupts as Tom Syzmanski ’11 makes it to the endzone at Andover/Exeter. S.MORELAND/THE PHILLIPIAN

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this month in Andover history…November 27, 1893 – The Andover student body unanimously voted to postpone all further Andover/Exeter athletic contests after it was discovered that at least two of the Exeter players in the November 11 game (which Exeter had won 26-10), as well as Exeter’s catcher in the baseball game that spring, had been professional athletes. The contests were not resumed until the fall of 1896.

B.BRODIE/THE PHILLIPIAN A student treks through the snow-covered Great Lawn.

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Time for a new Calendar!

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this month in Andover history…The Philomathean Society was originally founded in 1825 by four students who, after not being admitted to a fraternity because they were not Seniors, decided to make their own society. The society’s original purpose was not debate, but, according to Philo’s constitution, “mutual improvement.” The main “debates” that occurred in Philo’s first few years regarded which books were most suitable for the society’s library.

First published in 1857, The Phillipian is Phillips Academy’s weekly student newspaper. Entirely uncensored and student-run, the paper is distributed every Friday from September to June.

The Phillipian is 12-16 pages long and consists of five sections: News, Commentary, Sports, Arts and Features. Each issue reports on campus news, athletics and performances, publishes insightful opinion pieces and

provides original humor.

Students are the writers, editors and principal subjects of the paper. Headlines, lead photos and profiles preserve student accomplishments and create a window into the Andover community. The Phillipian serves as a forum for disuccsion. As the written voice of the school, it creates a network on campus and in the far-flung

Phillips Academy community through a common base of information.

www.phillipian.net/subscribe

This calendar was produced by

The Phillipian Board CXXXV

On cover: Students cheer on Andover athletes at the annual Andover/Exeter football game.

Photo by Yuto Watanabe ’11

“An Old New England School: A History of Phillips Academy Andover” (1917) – Claude Moore Fuess

“Andover : the Face of Phillips Academy” (1983) – Mia Kelly ’83

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