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Rh Caspar W. Grey. This purchase included several smaller lots bought from other landholders, in order to make the school property virtually square.

Like everyone else the visitor would quickly concede that it is a beautiful spot—this gently rolling country with its springs and water courses, its broad pastures, its woodland acres of old oaks and chestnuts, its distant views of fertile farms, thriving towns—natural beauties enhanced by wise and not overdone landscape gardening, winding macadamized drives, and an artistic as well as convenient grouping of the various school buildings. The great reservoir at the highest point of the grounds—some 380 feet above Delaware tidewater—would be noticed. Fed from native springs, it furnishes a strong flow of water, by gravity, through pipes to the buildings standing on somewhat lower levels.

The stranger is shown around through these school buildings. He is taken into one of the eight or ten cottages where the young men live, each cottage having its large living room and its sleeping accommodations for