the corner of Shady avenue and Aurelia street in the East 
Liberty district. Charles W. Wilder, Boston University A.B. 
and Harvard A.M., head of the school from 1915 to 1919, in 
the latter year, acquired proprietary rights to the school and 
renamed it Arnold School in honor of Rugby’s most famous 
headmaster, Thomas Arnold, whose dominating personality 
not only revolutionized that famous school and changed the 
whole emphasis in the education of boys in England, but has 
been the inspiration as well of many headmasters and prin- 
sipals of successful boys’ schools of America. 
In 1923, the rapid growth and progress of the school made 
necessary a further reorganization and expansion. In the 
spring of that year, through the generous cooperation of a 
group of “incorporators” and “founders”, so-called, com- 
posed of enthusiastic parents and supporters of the school’s 
policies, the well-known Holmes estate, occupying an exten- 
sive tract between Braddock avenue and Richland lane was 
secured. Mr. Wilder's title to the school was assumed by a 
board of trustees, and on November 18, 1923, the school was 
established as a corporation of the first class, not operated 
for profit, to which corporation Mr. Wilder relinquished his 
financial control while remaining in charge of its admin- 
stration. 
During the five years on its new site and in its reorganized 
‘orm, the school has come to have a national reputation as a 
college preparatory day school for boys. During the past 
year, for example, fifty percent of its graduates of the pre- 
vious year, were, at mid-years maintaining honor standing 
in their respective colleges, including not only local and 
nearby institutions, but such colleges as Harvard, Yale, 
Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dart- 
mouth, and West Point. Its recent growth and progress 
have been one of the most note-worthy events in the educa- 
tional developments of Pittsburgh and have contributed to 
-he process that is now making Pittsburgh a center of culture 
as well as steel. 
The school now covers all the range of instruction from 
the first grade to college. It has two departments: Junior 
and Senior, respectively, the former being under the personal 
charge of George F. Whitman, A.B. Harvard ’16. who has