The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-05
MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL.
PREPARATIONS FOR ITS TWEEN
TY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.

Over Seven Hundred of its Former
Students to Attend--schOoI was Es-
tablished by the Late MIR. Moody
Exercises From June 3Oth to July Sd
What Dean Wright of Yale Said
Regarding the School.
Mount Hermon school is mkaing pre-.
parations for the celebration of the
twenty fifth anniversary of it's found
Ing, June 80 to July 8. Over seven
hundred men who some time during
these years were students in this school
have signifed their intention of
returning.
Mount Hermon has this distinction:
That while many other institutions
founded with definite objects in view
have with the passing years departed
from the ideals of their founders, 1T has
remained steadfast to the essential fea-
lures which Mr.. Moody had in mind
when he established the school.
His purpose in founding the school
was, in the first place, to take poor
boys. Last year f1fty-two per cent. of
the students paid either the whole or
the greater part of their own expenses,
while nearly all the others contributed
something to their own support. 1t is
interesting to note further that seven
ty-two per cent of those paying either
the whole or the greater part of their
own support plan to enter college Mr..
Moody wished the English Bible to take
a central place In. each course, and to-
day each boy while at Mount Hermon
takes a twice-a- week Bible course He
insisted upon low tuition, but not to
give charity for in his judgment no
boy should receive aid who is not doing
all in his power to aid himself. In con-
sequence, although the price of commo-
dities have risen within the last few
| years and many other schools have
been forced to raise their tuition,
Mount Hermon still keeps her tuition
at fifty dollars per term and makes an
education possible for the poor boy and
young wage Garner who desires to make
| an effort to secure it. The price is just
\ half the actual cost of maintaining q
student, and the balance is obtained
from small endowment and the con-
/ tributions from friends. Mr. Moody
| further believed in teaching boys
wholesome ideas regarding manual la
/ Ixv,o re it,J of
work, consequently each boy must put
In two hours day at labor. Practical
ly all the work about the buildings and
on the farm is done by the students.
The school property, Including cam
pus and farm, comprises enc thousand
acres. During the past twenty-five
years more than five thousand students
have studied at the institution, and the
present annual enrolment is four hun
bred, with always large waiting list,
Its position educationally may be as
certained from the following extract
from letter written by Dean Wright
OF Yale:
II believe in the training at Mount
Hermon because its purpose is to de-
Velop character. In scholarship the
Mount Hermon boys, in comparison
with the boys from other schools, have
done better than the average, and they
have equaled the average of other
schools in the higher scholarship
groups"
The positions ciwhh the former stu
dents are filing to-day is the greatest
proof of what the school has accom-
plished. In every walk of life Hermon
men throughout this country and many
other countries of the world are sue
cessfully carrying out Hermon princi-
piles in their work and business.