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124 presidency later in that year, and was closely identified with all the work of laying out the grounds and erecting the buildings; he has been at the head of the management of the School in all the particulars of arranging its curriculum, selecting instructors and helpers, and providing for the study and work of the students, and their physical, mental and moral development from the beginning to this time.

A visitor to the school today may take a train on the West Chester branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad to "Williamson School Station," established on the school grounds soon after their purchase, in 1889.

Possibly the president, or one of the officers of the school, would meet him at the station and first take the visitor over the two hundred and eleven acres to give him a general view of the grounds bounded by the State Road (or Baltimore Pike) on the north, and Penn's Grove Road on the south. The original tract purchased by the Board of Trustees—and for which they received the deeds May 17, 1889, at a cost of $46,489.80—consisted mainly of the homesteads of Hiram Schofield, the brothers John and Jesse Hibberd, and