524    LITERARY    INSTITUTIONS.

healthy and flourishing village of Fisherville, on the Northern Railroad,
six miles north of the city of Concord.

The buildings are of brick, and contain as elegant a suite of school-
rooms and boarding apartments as may be found in any New-Eng-
land academy, with ample grounds, beautifully ornamented and in the
quiet part of the village, remote from the business streets. This acad-
emy has been established at a large expense, and is supplied with the
most approved fixtures common to a first class literary institution. E.

C. Allen, Principal.

N. Butler, Henry H. Brown and Rev. W. R. Jewett, Executive Com-
mittee.

Peterborough High School, Peterborough. Thomas P. Maryatt,
Principal.

Pinkerton Academy is located in Derry. Incorporated in 1814.
George T. Tuttle, Principal.

Phillips Exeter Academy is located in the ancient and beautiful
town of Exeter, and is one of the oldest and most popular, endowed,
classical schools in New-England.

The founder of this Institution, Dr. John Phillips, who was a native of
Andover, Massachusetts, but for many years a resident of Exeter, is be-
lieved, by many, to have been the most liberal benefactor, in proportion
to his earthly means, among our countrymen of the last century. In
1778, lie founded Phillips Academy, at Andover, Mass., giving $ 31.000,
about one third of this sum being bestowed at its commencement, and
the other two thirds in 1790. He also endowed a professorship of
theology in Dartmouth College, serving as one of its trustees for twenty
years, and made liberal gifts to Princeton College, New-Jersey.

The foundation and endowments of Phillips Exeter Academy, Dr.
Phillips regarded as his own individual effort in which he required no
coadjutor, and sought no pecuniary aid. From the Legislature, he ob-
tained a charter, dated April 3, 1781. It is the oldest institution of learn-
ing, established by State law, in New-Hampshire, Dartmouth College
being chartered by royal grant, in 1769.

The constitution and laws governing this school were drafted by his
own hand, and the foresight in its draft manifests a profound and
practical wisdom which fully equals his generosity. His ideas were lib-
ei al and catholic, and the sentiments embodied in this constitution, are
worthy to be handed down to this generation, and to generations for ages to
come. “ Above all,” he says, “it is expected that the attention of in-
structors to the disposition of the minds and morals of the youth under
their charge will exceed every other care; well considering that though
goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge with-
out goodness is dangerous, and that both united form the noblest char-
acter, and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.” And
“ it is again declared, that the first and principal design of this Institu-
tion is the promoting of virtue and true piety,—useful knowledge being
subservient thereto.” The school was opened for instruction, May 1st
1783, and from that date up to the present time its popularity as a first