Phillips Academy headmaster Samuel Harvey Taylor remarked in his 1855 report that P.A.'s proximity to the mill city of Lawrence was "one of the most fruitful sources of irregularity to which we are exposed." Hardly anyone who had been expelled from the school in the past two or three years, he noted in that same report, had "not commenced his irregularities by his night visits to that place."* In 1867 what was termed a "rebellion" uprose at P.A. Twenty-four of the school's 42 seniors hired carriages to drive them from Andover to Lawrence, where they attended a circus and had supper at a hotel. On their way home, passing Dr. Taylor's house, they gave "cat-calls for the edification of the infuriated Principal."** They were expelled, but nearly all of them got into Harvard anyway. Thirty six years later, in 1903, the P.A. trustees voted to reinstate them.
* Claude M. Fuess, An Old New England School, p. 271.
** Ibid., p. 272.
* Claude M. Fuess, An Old New England School, p. 271.
** Ibid., p. 272.
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