The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-31
Beautifully Situated in Sight OF
Blue Ridge Mountains.
GREAT MODERN EQUIPMENT
Cornerstone of Discipline at the In
stitution is the Personal Honor Of
the Boys-Course ofstudy Dis
tributed Into English Forms

| from Orange. The estate from which
| the school takes its name. formerly be-
| longed to General Madison. brother of
| the president Piedmont, Virginia is
| a rolling, hily country. as beautiful as
any in the State. with an elevation at
| this point of a. little over 525 feet From
the hill on which it stands the school
commands a fine view of the surround
ing country and of the Blue Ridge noun
tains, % miles distant
At first the school comprised only one
teacher and eight pupils. For a while
It's growth was slow, as the chief object
| OF the principal was not to build up
| large school. but to educate his own sons
amid the influences of home and under
his own eye. From the first few sons
of his personal friends were received TO
share in these privileges. The number
| OF new applicants increased however,
| from year to year. until the school out
grew the narrow scope of the early aim
| of its founder and other teachers had to
| be secured and one cottage after another
| added.
| Such. in brief is the history of the
school for its first nine years During
| this time the conviction had ripened i'll
| the minds of the principal and his asso
| ciateS that a superior school, in a per-
fectly healthful location, with a COM
plete modern equipment and we'll
| trained staff of professional teachers
! would meet pressing need in the South
and ought to have a splendid career
| before it. Its establishment at Wood
| berry Forest meant new buildings and
new equipment throughout. and a re-
| organization of the course of study and
| system of administration. This would
necessitate great expense, burt the prjn-
| cpal. with full confidence in the IN
surpassed location of his home. determine
ed to make the necessary outlay for q
work tc which he had become deeply at
tached Furthermore, some of the large
universities. as. for instance, Cornell.
will not accept q school certificate in
line of entrance examinations unless the
applicant has completed a systematic
course and been duly graduated.
Accordingly. in 1898. the best schools
North and South. We're visited and in
spected in every detail. Groton School
in Massa chusetts was studied especially
as being one of the most modern and in
every respect most complete schools in
the country The architect also went
to Groton for fuller suggestions before
making the drawings and specifications
for the building at Woodberry Forest.
This building, completed on the first
of February 1899 has three stories and
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own sleeping apartment, or cubicle. as
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paratus and material necessary 10 esiaol]
the boys to perform with their own hands
every experiment IN the respective
courses.
Inc gymnasium IS SiAly-eiltee Wy 'liit
ty-two feet, with bathrooms ADJOINING
and is supplied with modern phEsicai-
culture appliance, such as dunlo.peNs.
chlest-weights, wands. CLUBS. vaultins,
horse parallel horizontal and Vauit.nS
bars, rings and other apparatus. re"
feet from the gymnasium, but IN an
other building. are two bowling alleys.
Besides the features already described.
the equipment is in every respect up-to.
date In the head masters study is a
large master-clocll that operates by cleo
tricitv a system of secondary clocks ana
eonss in different parts of the building
BY means of these gongs one in each of
three halls and in each of three dormi-
tories. the master clock rings automatic
ally all bells for rising and retiring for
meals, for the recitation and study pc
RODS. and for chanel. Moreover it shifts
t;tself and rings different programmes for
different DAYS as for Sunday and To-.
the weekly holiday.
No fnll and clear-c,1t description of the
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