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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #22

100 Years Ago             In addition to learning another bit of school history, this week you also have an opportunity to learn a scrap of Latin if you have none. The phase in question may be freely...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #23

120 Years Ago             This week we note the close of one era (Washington’s Birthday concerts) and the opening of another (Washington’s Birthday oratorical contests). Intramural and interscholastic...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #24

125 Years Ago             We’ve already welcomed the Year of the Snake, but in 1888 New Year’s came later when compared with the Julian calendar. Henry Rankin noted the event at Mount Hermon that year...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #25

80 Years Ago  Even if we were to admit that debate is not a sport, it has a history here as lustrous as any of our athletic programs. from The Hermonite, vol. XLVI, no.13, p. 1; March 18, 1933.   GOOD...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #27

1 Year Ago             As your editor is fond of pointing out, “history is happening all the time.” This week we look back only a year to a tongue in cheek article on the origins of the newest school...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #28

130 Years Ago             Last week, we looked back one year, this week we go to the other extreme and look back 130 years. Once again, we turn to our earliest historian, Henry Rankin, this time for...

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[Last] Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #29

35 Years Ago             It’s April, thought by at least one poet to be the cruelest month. That means it’s time for the 10th annual library-sponsored poetry contest. You can look here at the April 4th...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #30

125 Years Ago             Happy Birthday to the Hermonite/Bridge! The paper began publishing on April 27, 1888 and has published continuously since then. Regular readers of this column will recall that...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #31

70 Years Ago  The outside world often seems rather far away in this corner of Massachusetts. Events there only occasionally remind us that we live on a large planet, with many millions of others. That...

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This Week in NMH History 2012-2013 #35

10 Years Ago Congratulations to the Class of 2013 upon their graduation! They too, are now officially a part of our history. from The Bridge vol. 34, no. 14; p. 1  (May 30, 2003). Freshman Program...

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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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Last Week (and 80 years ago) In NMH History

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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This Week in NMH History 2013 – 2014 #04

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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This Week in NMH History 2013-2014 #05

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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This Week in NMH History 2013-2014 #07

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...

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This 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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This Week in NMH History 2013-2014 #12

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...

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This 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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