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St. Paul's School (also known as SPS) is a college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The New Hampshire campus currently serves 531 students, who come from all over the United States and the world. St. Paul's is a member of the Eight Schools Association.〔Taylor Smith, "History of the Association," ''The Phillipian'' (Phillips Academy), February 14, 2008〕 It is also a member of the Independent School League, the oldest independent school athletic association in the United States. ==History== In 1856, Harvard University-educated physician and Boston Brahmin George Cheyne Shattuck, inspired by the educational theories of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi,〔("A Private-School Affair" ) feature article by Alex Shoumatoff in ''Vanity Fair (magazine)'' January 2006, accessed August 21, 2015〕 turned his country home in the hamlet of Millville, New Hampshire into a school for boys. Shattuck wanted his boys educated in the austere, bucolic countryside. A newly appointed board of trustees chose Henry Coit, a 24-year-old clergyman, to preside over the school for its first 39 years.〔Hecksher, August. ''A Brief History of St. Paul's: 1856–1996''. Concord, New Hampshire: The Board of Trustees of St. Paul's School, © 1996.〕 In addition to Shattuck's two boys and Coit and his wife there was one other student.〔Khan, Shamus Rahman (2010-12-28). ''Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School'' (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) (p. 11). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. "Coit died in 1895, firmly at the helm until his final days. By the end of his forty-year tenure, St. Paul’s had a faculty of 35 and a student body of 345.〕 The original location was 50 acres, but over the years surrounding lands were acquired.〔Khan, Shamus Rahman (2010-12-28). ''Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School'': (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) (p. 14). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.〕 Throughout the latter half of the 19th century, the school expanded. In 1884, it built the first squash courts in America. During the infancy of ice hockey in the United States, the school established itself as a powerhouse that often played and beat collegiate teams at Harvard and Yale.〔 Its Lower School Pond once held nine hockey rinks. By 1895, when Coit died, the school had 35 teachers and 345 students.〔 In 1910, Samuel Smith Drury took over as rector. Drury, who had served as a missionary in the Philippines, found St. Paul's in almost all aspects — student body, faculty, and curriculum — severely lacking a serious commitment to academic pursuits and moral upstandingness. Accordingly, he presided over, among other things, the hiring of better teachers, the tightening of academic standards, and the dissolution of secret societies and their replacement with a student council. Drury also presided over the school throughout the 1920s and 1930s during what August Hecksher called its "Augustan era".〔 Thirty years later, the 1960s ushered in a turbulent period for St. Paul's. In 1968, students wrote an acerbic manifesto describing the school administration as an oppressive regime. As a result of this manifesto, seated meals were reduced from three times a day to four times a week, courses were shortened to be terms (rather than years) long, Chapel was reduced to four times a week, and the school's grading system was changed to eliminate + and - grades and given its current High Honors, Honors, High Pass, Pass, and Unsatisfactory labels instead of A–F.〔(SPS Sesquicentennial Exhibit )〕 By the end of the sixties, St. Paul's had begun to admit sizable numbers of minorities in every class, had secularized its previously strict religious schedule considerably, expanded its course offerings, and was poised to begin coeducation. It admitted girls for the first time in 1971.〔Hecksher, August. ''A Brief History of St. Paul's: 1856–1996''. Concord, New Hampshire: The Board of Trustees of St. Paul's School, © 1996.〕 A new library, designed by Robert A. M. Stern and Carroll Cline,〔(''New York Times'': "Carol Cline, 72; Added Light to Architecture", 27 Feb 2000 )〕 opened in 1991; a $24 million, 95,000 sq. ft. Athletic & Fitness Center〔http://privateschool.about.com/od/schools/p/stpauls.htm〕〔(''New York Times'': "Turmoil Grips Elite School Over Money and Leaders", 21 Nov 2004 )〕 opened in 2004. The school celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2006. The new $50 million science and math building — the Lindsay Center — opened in fall 2011.〔http://www.hampshirefire.com/content/view/32/26/〕 The modern school, in addition to students drawn from the highest levels of American society and international elites, serves a diverse body of students from ethnic groups in the United States.〔"It has an intentional diversity that few communities share or can afford. Sitting next to a poor Hispanic boy from the Bronx— who forty years ago would never have been admitted— is a frighteningly self-possessed girl from one of the richest WASP families in the world." Khan, Shamus Rahman (2010-12-28). ''Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School'': (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) . Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Paul's School (New Hampshire)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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