Two Weeks (and 110 years) Ago…In NMH History
110 Years Ago Welcome or welcome back, as the case may be! Each week in this space your editor will provide a snapshot from school history so you can see how this institution has changed or remained...
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80 Years Ago Whether you are experiencing your first weeks at this school or you have been here for thirty years or more, OR if you were a student here at some time in the distant or not so distant...
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This Week in NMH History 2013-14 #03
5 Years Ago History is happening all the time. We just don’t always realize that this is so. A few current students will remember this week’s history lesson because they were growing up on campus and...
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130 Years Ago Last year at this time we noted the groundbreaking for the oldest brick buildings on the Northfield Mount Hermon School campus. The handsome signs on each cottage comemorate that event....
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125 Years Ago With the opening of the interscholastic debate season just around the corner, the importance of speaking clearly and forcefully should be on our minds. from The Hermonite, vol. II, no....
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55 Years Ago This column reports the good, the bad, and the ugly. And even the unhealthy. For about fifty years, beginning in the early 1940s, the use of tobacco was permitted to certain students and...
View ArticleThis Week in NMH History 2013-2014 #10
60 Years Ago With this week’s column we celebrate not one but two events from our history. The library dedication noted in the newspaper article is our first reminder this year of the...
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45 Years Ago As noted three weeks ago, school newspapers are the preferred source for our stories. This week diverts from that practice, and takes the further step of reproducing an article about a...
View ArticleThis Week in NMH History 2013-2014 #14
85 Years Ago Despite its name, for the first 29 years of its existence, The Hermonite newspaper served both the Northfield and Mount Hermon schools. By the fall of 1916, tired of seeing the space...
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This Week in NMH History 2013-2014 #15
120 Years Ago At least once a year this column tells a story with an image; since they say that a picture is worth a thousand words, you might consider this the longest extract of the year. On the...
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