Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-25
Anniversary at Wesleyan Academy.

WHBRAHAM, June 81.
The annual examination exercises of the
! Wesleyan Academy commenced yesterday
! The institution is under the direction of the
/ New England conference of the Methodist
! Episcopal church, but is unsectarian in its
management, and largely patronized by those
| of all denominations who seek a thorough
mental training. The institution was founded
in 1924, and has been in successful operation
till the present time. The success which has
attended it is largely due to the labors of Rev.
DIR. Fiske, its first president, who labored in
cessantly during the first six years of the in
stitution, and gave it a character which estab-
lshed it as one of the first educational nst-
tutions of New England.
Since 1S4S the institution has been under
the charge of Rev. Miner Raymond, d. d..
who from his connection with the school has
| earned reputation second to none, not only
as an instructor of youth but as a business
manager. Through the long catalogue of dis
asters which have for a few years past cast
| gloom over the prospects of the institution, he
has combatted all obstacles, and has succeed
| ed IN placing it on a foundation more firm
| than ever. All the buildings pertaining to
the institution are built substantially of
brick, and comprise the old academy build
ing, erected at the founding Of the institution,
containing recitation rooms and ladies hall;
''Fisk Hall, containing rooms for recitation,
a large hall for the public, devotional and other
exercises of the school, the halls of the two
gentlemen'S literary societies, and well filled
museum of scientific specimens, of which
more anon; Chimney Hail." occupied as a
laboratory and class and lecture-roomS for the
department of natural sciences, and the two
halls of the ladies literary societies; and
boarding house, just completed, for the ac-
commodation of three hundred students.
The boarding house first erected was de-
Stroyed by fire in 1856, and costly structure
was Immediately erected on the same site, but
Just as it was completed in the fall of 1857, it
also was destroyed by fire; but through the
hberality of those interested, a larger and
more pertect edifce is just completed and is
to be dedicated by Gov. Andrew during the
exercises which are now in progress. Among
the most prominent patrons of the institution
may be mentioned the state of Massachusetts,
who generously contributed S22 900 towards
the present boarding house, Isaac Rich, Esq,
of Boston, who has given over S3S, 900, and
Lee Clatlin, $4,000. The aggregate value of
property invested here by the trustees is over
$l25, 900, aside from 100000 worth of prop
erty which has been destroyed by fire in the
last SIX years. The present boarding house
- ~ O"P'olii i1"iiio vi "'oIcesteI'
anu Is III all us appointments the most COM
plete edifce for the purposes designed New
England.
The department of natural science is under
the charge of Prot. o. f. Marcy, who is I'M
rivalled in the department over which he pre-
sides. and in all those uania1 0uo litinS which
go to make a successful teacher. This de-
partment is unusually rich in its cabinet speci-
mems. In the department of conchology,
over 500 different species of shells are ar
ranged. In the department of ornitbol0pv