Evening star., 1907-07-23
Applications for Admission on File
Ten Years.
THE UNIQUE sNowsHoE CLUB
Each Member Must Cook q Dinner An
nually-The Walker Free Lee
ture Course.
BY WILLIAM d. CURTIS
Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald,

CONCORD, N. H, July 1s, 1907.
st. Pauls School Of Concord is one of
the most famous in the country and has the
best features Of the Englis.. public school
adapted to American conditions. Many peo-
pie here criticize 1t as being more English
than American. It initiates Eton, Rugby
and Winchester in sports as we'll as in
other respects. The boys play cricket more
than base ball, they play the Rugby game
Of foot ball and give great deal of at
tention to rowing. The pest men in the
Yale and Harvard crews are usually st.
Paul boys. They have among the $50 stu
dents eight eight-oared crews, several fours
and many doubles, which practice on
Pennacook lake, a beautiful sheet of water
about a mile from the school, They usu-
ally go over the three-mle course every
afternoon during the fall and summer
terms. The st. Paul boys never
play with the pupils of other schools. The
faculty discourages interschool contests
and thinks 1t is better to have all athletic
contests among its own boys PRESIDENT
Eliot Is advocating the same policy for
Harvard. ST Paul is one of the few Ameri-
can schools in which cricket is encouraged
in preference to base ball. The founder
himself, in 1857, brought full cricket
equipment from England and made that
the feature of The sports. The rector listed
England shortly after the school was es-
tablished for the purpose of making
thorough investigation of Rugby and the
result has been seen throughout the entire
history of st. Pauls.
The Chapel and Reredos.
The chapel which is the most distinctive
feature of the architecture, is purely Eng
lisn and in the same style as the chapels
at Oxford. 1t is said to be almost a copy of
the chapel of Christ Church College, Cam
bridge There is nothing like
else in the United States. The architect
was Mr.. Henry Vaughan of Boston, who
has prepared the plans for the proposed
Episcopal cathedral at Washington, and
has the reputation of being the most thor
ough master Of the Gothic school In this
country. The style of the chapel is late
decorated Gothic and 1t Is built of red brick
and red sandstone in about equal proper
tions. 1t consists of a chancel choir, and
an .e-chapel, with clergy and choir vestres
and an organ chamber. The interior length
is $50 feet; the chancel is thrty-five feet
long and twenty-five feet wide and the
groined oak roof which springs from stone
shafts is forty-nine feet from the floor
The altar is of pink knoxville marble, and
the reredoS, which was presented by the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt, is probably the
most elaborate piece of Gothic carving in
oak In this country. 1t forms a stately set
ting for nine beautiful paintings of scenes
illustrating the incarnation in colors and
gold The carving was done in Boston
Six life-size figures represent st. Angus
tine, st. Athanasius, st. Gregory the Great,
w illiam of Wykeham, the Venerable Bede
and Thomas kempis of Canterbury. A
bronze plate bears this inscription:
ITO the glory of God and in loving men,
Org of their son, William henry Wander
bnt-born December 81, 1870; died May %,
1892; student at St. Pauls School, January,
1SSS-July, 1SS9-this reredos is erected by
Cornelius and Alice -Gwynne Vanderbilt.
He shall dwell in Thy court and shall be
satisfied with the pleasures of Thy house,
even Of Thy holy temple
The choir is seventy-eight feet nine inches
long by thirty-one feet six inches wide and
forty-eight feet in height. The roof is of
oak and Is divided into five bays by arched
trusses springing from slender stone shafts.
The sides are lined with beautifully carved
oak stalls, the individual gifts Of students
whose names are inscribed upon small brass
plates. with the dates Of their connec. Ion
with their school.
Over the main entrance is a great win
having been put in by the boys who were
students at the time of his death The
bells are the gift Of Mr.. Edward W, Rollins,
formerly of Concord. The singing Of the
to be very fine. Their voices are thor
oughly trained. like the English choirs, and
follow the English form of intonation.
The History Of st. Paul's.
st. Paul's was originally started as
family school. but has outgrown the orig
inal idea. The number of students how
ever. is limited to $50. and there Is no de-
sire to enlarge It, 1t was founded by
George Chyne Shattuck, DISTINGUISHED
physician and churchman of the city of
Boston, and the campus was previously his
country residence. Rev. Henry Augustus
Colt of Wilmington Del, was selected as
rector in January. loo, and opened the
school that month with three boys two Of
them being sons of the founder and the
third Horatio r. Bigelow of Boston Dur