Phillips Exeter Academy
College-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshirewww.exeter.edu
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Sep 11, 2026
Darren MarlarHOST
Born on January 12, 1915, Adolph Coors III lived a remarkable life.
Darren MarlarHOST
He grew up in New Hampshire and attended Phillips Exeter Academy before moving on to Cornell University.
Darren MarlarHOST
He was president of the Quill and Dagger Society as well as a member of the Kappa Alpha Society.
Darren MarlarHOST
Not only that, but he was also a semi-professional baseball player.
David WalesNARRATOR
Phillips Brooks by Mark Antony de Wolfe Howe Chapter 1 The man, whose life is the theme of this small volume, had opinions of his own about the reading and the writing of biographies.
David WalesNARRATOR
An address to the boys of Phillips Academy, Exeter, delivered in 1886, showed beyond question that the whole subject of biography was familiar and dear to him.
David WalesNARRATOR
On this occasion he used a few words which cannot be ignored by anyone who would attempt to describe his life.
David WalesNARRATOR
I think, he said, that the reading of many biographies ought to be begun in the middle.
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David WalesNARRATOR
None had a better inherited right to be known in Massachusetts than he who took pleasure in calling John Cotton his very great-grandfather.
David WalesNARRATOR
This relationship was on his father's side.
David WalesNARRATOR
On his mother's he could claim a common descent with the founder of Phillips Academy, Andover, and with Window Phillips.
David WalesNARRATOR
His mother, Mary Ann Phillips, has been defined as gifted with a genius for religion.
Mikkel N.HOST
He had two older siblings, Ellen and Arthur, and one younger brother, Henry.
Mikkel N.HOST
As an adolescent, Holmes attended Phillips Exeter Academy before graduating high school with honors.
Mikkel N.HOST
So he was a smart man from Gilmanton Academy when he was 16.
Mikkel N.HOST
Holmes' parents were both devout Methodists.
Nathaniel BenchleyNARRATOR
In 1907, in his junior year in high school, he transferred to a private school, and there he met a classmate who became a lifelong friend, Oscar Hauserman.
Oscar HausmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I first met Benchley in my senior year at Exeter Academy.
Oscar HausmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was there just for that year.
Oscar HausmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He wasn't so very well known.
Ken WiseHOST
But at that course, there was a guy from Flint, Michigan, named John Bredemus.
Ken WiseHOST
He graduated from Phillips Exeter in Princeton, so he was well-educated.
Ken WiseHOST
He was a civil engineer.
Ken WiseHOST
He played football.
speaker_4NARRATOR
CHAPTER I The man, whose life is the theme of this small volume, had opinions of his own about the reading and the writing of biographies.
speaker_4NARRATOR
An address to the boys of Phillips Academy, Exeter, delivered in 1886, showed beyond question that the whole subject of biography was familiar and dear to him.
speaker_4NARRATOR
On this occasion he used a few words which cannot be ignored by anyone who would attempt to describe his life.
speaker_4NARRATOR
I think, he said, that the reading of many biographies ought to be begun in the middle.
6 MINS LATER
speaker_4NARRATOR
None had a better inherited right to be known in Massachusetts than he who took pleasure in calling John Cotton his very great-grandfather.
speaker_4NARRATOR
This relationship was on his father's side.
speaker_4NARRATOR
On his mother's he could claim a common descent with the founder of Phillips Academy, Andover, and with Window Phillips.
speaker_4NARRATOR
His mother, Mary Ann Phillips, has been defined as gifted with a genius for religion.
Dean MerchantGUEST
And they got there and got out of the car, kinda walked down toward the field and didn't see anything, and they were gonna maybe kinda start walking back when the UFO rose out from behind the pines out in that field.
Dean MerchantGUEST
It's all in on curiously, the Exeter Academy, and anybody that's into this stuff, this, all this paranormal UFO stuff that goes through all the grounds of the academy there, and Spruce Swamp, there was an interesting crash that happened a year later of a B-52 that everybody lived in that.
Dean MerchantGUEST
So as they were starting back to the car, he had this UFO the size of a football field rose up, and a blood red, red light was bathing down on him.
Dean MerchantGUEST
What Gene Bertram drew his revolver out, and then he thought better of that, [laughs] put it back in, and then got young Muscarello back to the car.
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Dean MerchantGUEST
Ben's not, no longer with us.
Dean MerchantGUEST
He was w- a captain then of the 509th Bomb Wing here in Portsmouth.
Dean MerchantGUEST
He was an intimate friend and an amateur hi- a- amateur in doing hypnosis, and he led them down a path just several steps to a Stevens, where they got some talking to a Dr. Stevens that was at Phillips Exeter Academy, a consultant, and eventually led it to Dr. Benjamin Simon down in Boston, who was a, a very famous psychoanalysis psychiatrist.
Dean MerchantGUEST
Back during World War II, he oversaw 2,000, over 2,000 men down on Long Island that were suffering from what they would call battle fatigue then, today, post-traumatic stress.
Penelope SeidlerGUEST
Most of my visits to libraries have been architectural pilgrimages.
Penelope SeidlerGUEST
My favorites include the Baroque Austrian National Library in Vienna of 1726, the Neo-Gothic Bodleian Library at Oxford University of 1749, the Circular Reading Room at the British Museum, 1857, Henri Labreuse's Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris of 1875, and the Louis Kahn Design Library for the Phillips Exeter Academy in USA of 1971.
Penelope SeidlerGUEST
All these buildings have in common their soaring structures.
Penelope SeidlerGUEST
The reader is dwarfed and inspired.
Greg JorgensenHOST
But this guy, Sukumvit, Bisal Sukumvit, Kun Bisal, he studied in the United States.
Greg JorgensenHOST
He went to Phillips Exeter Academy.
Ed KnuthHOST
Holy crap.
Ed KnuthHOST
That's about as elite as it gets.
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made the woodchuck he made him to live in the bright sunlight in the pure air he made him to enjoy the free air in the good woods the woodchuck is not a fierce animal like the wolf or the fox he lives in quiet and peace a hole in the side of a hill and a little food is all that he wants he has harmed nothing but the few plants which he ate to keep himself alive the woodchuck has a right to life to food to liberty for god gave them to him look at his soft pleading eyes see him tremble with fear he cannot speak for himself and this is the only way he can plead for the life that is so sweet to him shall we be so cruel as to kill him shall we be so selfish as to take from him the life that god gave him
AbaiNARRATOR
Introduction Webster One day in spring, Daniel Webster's father took Daniel to Exeter Academy to prepare for college.
AbaiNARRATOR
All the boys laughed at his rustic dress and manners.
AbaiNARRATOR
He finally entered Dartmouth College at the age of fifteen.
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