Founding Constitution and Scholarships
- When
- 1778
- Where
- Andover, Massachusetts
- Part of
- Founding of Phillips Academy
Phillips's constitution preamble set out the school's educational purpose and declared it equally open to qualified youth from every quarter, with scholarships from the first.
In the preamble to his constitution for the new school, Phillips wrote that youth is the important period on whose improvement or neglect depend the most important consequences to individuals and the community. He intended the academy to instruct youth in English and Latin Grammar, writing, arithmetic, and the sciences, but especially 'the Great End and Real Business of Living.' Financial aid scholarships were part of the program from the first.
Sources
- Samuel Phillips Jr. Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-21
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