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37-424: The school was founded in 1884 at the request of Alexander and Lois Cassatt, niece of President James Buchanan , as The Haverford College Grammar School. Affiliated initially with neighboring Haverford College until 1903, the school became independent, changed its name to The Haverford School, and moved to its current location across Railroad Avenue from the college. The school was Quaker during its affiliation with

74-451: A boat house ) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats , normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. These are typically located on open water, such as on a river . Often the boats stored are rowing boats . Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored. A boathouse may be the headquarters of a boat club or rowing club and used to store racing shells , in which case it may be known as

111-478: A shell house . Boat houses may also include a restaurant , bar , or other leisure facilities, perhaps for members of an associated club. They are also sometimes modified to include living quarters for people, or the whole structure may be used as temporary or permanent housing. In Scandinavia, the boathouse is known as a naust , a word deriving from Old Norse naverstað . These were typically built with stone walls and timber roofs and would be either open to

148-467: A 25-meter, eight-lane pool with two dive wells, four international-size squash courts, three regulation-sized basketball courts, a three-mat wrestling room with panoramic windows, an athletic training center, and an advanced fitness center. Outdoor facilities include three turf fields, one grass field, a four-lane track, an outdoor basketball court, and four tennis courts. The school also owns a boathouse in nearby Conshohocken . Before its 2015 construction,

185-433: A decade between 2006 and 2016, the longest streak between either school. A newer, friendly rivalry exists between Haverford and Garnet Valley High School 's lacrosse teams. When Kip Taviano, a Concord Township -native and Haverford School lacrosse and football player, was killed in a 2013 car accident, the two schools came together to establish the #10ve Foundation in his memory. Haverford School and Garnet Valley compete in

222-509: A niece of songwriter Stephen Foster . The couple had two sons and two daughters. In 1872, Cassatt was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society . Cassatt was a horse enthusiast and fox hunter who owned Chesterbrook Farm , outside Berwyn, Pennsylvania , where he bred Thoroughbred racehorses . The 600-acre (240 ha) property is today the site of a subdivision with office buildings and homes using

259-651: A resident engineer to work on the middle division of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad . In 1866, Cassatt became superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway , recently reorganized in 1864 as the Warren and Franklin Railroad which was growing rapidly due to the discovery of oil in the region and coal mining. In 1867, Cassatt was appointed as superintendent of motive power and machinery for

296-567: A year, which can be earned through participation on an inter-scholastic athletics team or extracurricular activities, such as mock trial or jazz band. Additionally, this requirement can be satisfied by any role in one school theatrical production. Recent graduates are known to attend prestigious post-secondary institutions, including the Pennsylvania State University , University of Pennsylvania , Villanova University , Boston College , and Harvard University . The Haverford School

333-647: Is a member of the Inter-Academic League , the country's oldest inter-scholastic athletic conference. With eighteen interscholastic sports, Haverford ranks among the top 20% of private high schools in Pennsylvania for amount of sports offered. The Haverford School lacrosse team gained national fame when the Fords won national championships in 2011 and 2015 after undefeated seasons. The 2015 team won USA Today 's All-USA Boys' Lacrosse Team honors. The Fords lacrosse team

370-579: Is the most awarded team in the Inter-Ac League, having won two national championships, ten state championships, and eighteen Inter-Ac titles. The Haverford School squash team won the U.S. high school national championship in 2017. In 2018–19, Haverford captured the Inter-Ac's Heyward Cup for overall excellence in athletic competition. The Fords have won the Heyward Cup 18 times, more than any other school in

407-650: The American Hackney Horse Society . The organization and registry continues to this day, with its headquarters now in Lexington, Kentucky . Cassatt had been feeling unwell since early August 1906, while he was vacationing with his family in Bar Harbor , Maine . There, he had contracted whooping cough from his two grandchildren, Cassatt and Catherine Stewart. His condition became serious, and specialists were called to examine him. He seemed to have recovered by

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444-595: The #10ve Cup, an annual lacrosse event to benefit the Kip Taviano '13 Scholarship Fund. All of the Haverford School's academic buildings and athletic fields are located at its original 30-acre campus. There are five significant buildings: the Upper School, Middle School, Lower School, Field House, and Dining Hall. In addition, there is a small building home to the school store and cafe. The athletic facilities include

481-542: The Chesterbrook Farm name. The original main barn designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness has been maintained and restored. (Furness also designed Cassatt's Rittenhouse Square townhouse.) Cassatt initially raced under the pseudonym, Mr. Kelso, and his horses as from the Kelso Stable. He owned the 1886 Preakness Stakes winner, The Bard , and the 1889 Belmont Stakes 1889 winner, Eric . As well, he bred

518-739: The Dalton-Knoxville line of the Georgia Railroad and returned to Pennsylvania without seeing any military service during the American Civil War . Alexander J. Cassatt (usually styled A. J. Cassatt) joined the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1861 as an engineer and rapidly rose through the ranks. He was a vice president in 1877 when the Pittsburgh Railway riots broke out, and had become PRR's first vice-president by 1880. He

555-758: The PPR's great accomplishment under Cassatt's stewardship was the planning and construction of the long awaited tunnels under the Hudson River that brought PRR's trunk line into New York City. His purchase of a controlling interest in the Long Island Rail Road and the construction of tunnels under the East River facilitated the creation of a PRR commuter network on Long Island. Cassatt died in 1906, several years before his grand Pennsylvania Station in New York City

592-553: The Pennsylvania railroad in Altoona with a salary of $ 3,000 per year ($ 2023 =65,000) when a trainman made less than $ 10 a week ($ 2023 =200). Sometime during Cassatt's tenure as superintendent, he married Lois Buchanan, daughter of the Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan and Ann Eliza Foster. Lois Buchanan was a niece of James Buchanan , 15th President of the United States, and through her mother,

629-756: The college but is now non-sectarian. Haverford's original school colors were red and yellow for the first decade of the school's existence. However, after the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, the official colors were changed to maroon and gold out of national pride since the colors of the Spanish flag were the same red and yellow. All Upper School students must take four years of English, three years of history, mathematics, and science, and two consecutive years of foreign language and fine arts. Many students elect to take four years of history, foreign language, and fine arts. Dozens of electives are offered in

666-715: The crew team had rowed out of the Undine Barge Club since 1938. In early 2022, the school acquired a 44-acre parcel of land approximately three miles from campus. Haverford's sister schools are the Baldwin School in nearby Bryn Mawr and the Agnes Irwin School . The three schools hold several academic and community service events across the Philadelphia region. Alexander Cassatt Alexander Johnston Cassatt (December 8, 1839 – December 28, 1906)

703-680: The humanities and sciences. Among the humanities, some well-liked electives are European Dictators, Modern Black Lives: 1964- Present, Latin Poetry & Prose, and Music Production & Recording. Common science electives are Advanced Topics in Chemistry, Macro- and Micro-economics, Environmental Science, and Theoretical Physics. Summer study programs are in place with laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania and its hospital system . Furthermore, Upper School students are required to gain two sports credits

740-456: The incumbent champion. Each year's winner earns the "Sweater". The Sweater is made from parts of uniform sweaters from each school, cut in half and sewn down the middle. Each school has a side, indicated by its colors, onto which years of victory are embroidered. Since the inception of the Sweater in 1987, Haverford has led Episcopal Academy with 18 Haverford/EA Day wins. Haverford held the Sweater for

777-402: The league. Haverford is known for its long-running rivalry with fellow Inter-Academic League member Episcopal Academy . The two schools have competed annually since 1889 on Haverford-EA Day, a day of competition occurring each November. The winner is determined by who wins more of the day's five events: cross-country, water polo, soccer, golf, and football. In the event of a tie, victory goes to

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814-456: The middle of September. Cassatt's physician, Dr. J.H. Musser, had diagnosed him with Adams-Stokes syndrome , a form of temporary hypoxia , and from early December onwards, he was attended regularly by a nurse. His family and friends were often worried about his health, but Cassatt protested that he would soon recover. On Christmas Eve, Cassatt went for a drive and returned insisting that he felt much refreshed, though Musser had his doubts. On

851-505: The morning of December 28, a Friday, Cassatt did not feel well and decided to return to bed, though he did not complain to his wife and daughter, who were with him, of any particular pain. He was supposedly cheerful and decided to forgo his usual business meetings with other officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who had been coming to his residence on Rittenhouse Square regularly to meet him for much of December, so they did not seem alarmed. His grandchildren visited him before scampering away to

888-556: The niche read: ALEXANDER JOHNSTON CASSATT  · president pennsylvania railroad company  · 1899–1906  · whose foresight, courage and ability achieved  · the extension of the pennsylvania railroad system  · into new york city The statue is currently located at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania . Boathouse A boathouse (or

925-467: The playroom in the Cassatt townhouse. A short time later Cassatt fell asleep, and it was only a short time later that Cassatt's wife noticed he looked very pallid, and summoned the nurse, whose examination quickly determined he was dead. Dr. Musser was summoned, but he also determined that no medical aid would be useful. Despite the medical explanations for Cassatt's passing, many of his business colleagues in

962-493: The railroad and financial industries immediately asserted that he had died "of a broken heart due to the sensational revelations of grafting by officials of the Pennsylvania [Railroad] system" that had come to light during recent investigations into the coal industry by the Interstate Commerce Commission . A servant called both Musser and Cassatt's assistant William A. Patton to inform them of his death. The news

999-673: The winner of the 1875, 1876, 1878, and 1880 Preakness Stakes and Foxford , who won the 1891 Belmont. In addition to flat-racing his Thoroughbreds, in 1895 Cassatt helped found the National Steeplechase Association to organize competitive steeplechase racing . He was also responsible for the introduction of the Hackney pony to the United States. In 1878 he acquired 239 Stella in Britain and brought her to Philadelphia . In 1891, Cassatt and several fellow Hackney enthusiasts founded

1036-422: Was built by Alexander Cassatt in 1902. The New York Times reported that Cassatt was, relative to other railroad magnates, not an extraordinarily wealthy man, citing officials at the Pennsylvania Railroad who stated at his death that he was worth no more than $ 5 million (though this would at least be equivalent to $ 173.9 million in 2022). Evidently, Cassatt built most of his fortune between 1882 and 1899, when he

1073-594: Was completed. He was succeeded as PRR's president by James McCrea . In the spring of 1861, Cassatt had been hired as part of the Engineer Corps of the Pennsylvania Railroad, again as a rodman where he worked on the Connecting Railway . It is unknown how Cassatt managed to avoid the Pennsylvania militia draft during the Union mobilization in this period but in 1864, Cassatt was transferred to Renovo, Pennsylvania , as

1110-633: Was descended from the French Huguenot Jacques Cossart, who came to New Amsterdam in 1662. The Cassatts had seven children, two of whom died in infancy; Alexander's younger sister was the impressionist painter Mary Cassatt . Their mother, Katherine, came from a banking family. She was educated and very well read. It was said that of the seven Cassatt children, Alexander most resembled his mother in "appearance and temperament". In 1856, Alexander Cassatt entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to study civil engineering . His senior thesis

1147-498: Was disappointed to be passed over for the presidency and resigned from the company in 1882. During his absence he devoted his time to horse breeding but still was able to organize the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad (NYP&N), a new line that connected southern markets with the north. Despite no longer being an executive with PRR, he was elected to the PRR's board of directors and

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1184-607: Was entitled "Review of Pressure Turbine". After graduating in the summer of 1859, his father took him to see James Buchanan , the 15th president of the United States, who was a former neighbor of the family. By the fall of 1860, Cassatt had secured a position as a surveyor or rodman with the Georgia Railroad . By the time the State of Georgia voted to secede from the Union in January 1861, Cassatt had abandoned his work as surveyor on

1221-443: Was known as "Pennsy's Broad Way"). Many other lines were double-tracked; almost every part of the system was improved. New freight cutoffs avoided stations; grade crossings were eliminated; flyovers were built to streamline common paths through junctions ; terminals were redesigned, and much more. Cassatt initiated the PRR's program of electrification which led to the road being the United States' most electrified system. However

1258-748: Was no longer employed by the Pennsy, as he had invested in stock of railroad supply manufacturers such as the Union Switch and Signal Company and the United States Metallic Packing Company, the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and the Cambria Steel Company. In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad erected a statue of Cassatt, by Adolph Alexander Weinman , in a niche at New York City's new Pennsylvania Station. An inscription below

1295-400: Was recalled in 1899 to serve as president. Cassatt more than doubled the PRR's total assets during his term, from $ 276 million to $ 594 million, while track and equipment investment increased by almost 150 percent. The route from New York through Philadelphia , Harrisburg and Altoona to Pittsburgh was made double-tracked throughout; the route to Washington, D.C. made four-tracked (it

1332-534: Was the seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), serving from June 9, 1899, to December 28, 1906. Alexander Cassatt was born on December 8, 1839, in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania. He was the eldest of seven children born to Robert Simpson Cassat (later Cassatt), and his wife Katherine Cassatt, the former Katherine Kelso Johnston. The elder Cassatt was a successful stockbroker and land speculator who

1369-693: Was then relayed to the employees of the Pennsylvania Station at Broad Street Station in Philadelphia and from there telegraphed throughout the United States. He was interred in the Church of the Redeemer Cemetery in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania . His widow died in 1920. In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS A. J. Cassatt was named in his honor. Gramercy Mansion in Baltimore, Maryland,

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