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 prinsipals
 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, composed
 of enthusiastic parents and supporters of the school’s
policies, the well-known Holmes estate, occupying an extensive
 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 adminstration.


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 previous
 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, Dartmouth,
 and West Point. Its recent growth and progress
have been one of the most note-worthy events in the educational
 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