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Phillips Exeter Academy (ĕk`sətər), at Exeter, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1781, opened 1783 by John Phillips. It has been an influential preparatory school and has a notable school library. Heavily endowed (1931) by Edward S. Harkness, the school has a large campus and many fine buildings. Founded as a school for boys, it became coeducational in 1970.
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As a student in the late 1970s at Exeter Academy, I wanted nothing more than to plant a garden, but manual labor was frowned upon. Phillips Exeter Academy, a prestigious college preparatory school in southern New Hampshire, has recently completed a new academy center for which it hopes to receive LEED certification. At one point, as the camera pans up the imposing Phillips Exeter Academy library, a sleek cathedral of books and Old Boy privilege, Nathaniel's voiceover addresses his dead dad directly: "I always believed that in the end you'd chosen my mother and me--that was the myth I lived on. |
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