Tabor Academy (Massachusetts)

Tabor Academy
Location
Marion, Massachusetts United States
Information
Type	Private, boarding
Motto	All-A-Taut-O Vincit Semper Veritas (Truth Always Conquers)
Established	1876
Headmaster	John H. Quirk
Faculty	86
Enrollment	514
Average class size	12 students
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Crimson & Black
Athletics	23 interscholastic, 15 instructional & club
Athletics conference	New England Preparatory School Athletic Council
Mascot	Seawolves
Website	TaborAcademy.org

Tabor Academy is an independent preparatory school located in Marion, Massachusetts, United States. Tabor is known for its marine science courses. Tabor's location on Sippican Harbor, Buzzards Bay, has earned it the name of "The School by the Sea". The Wall Street Journal in 2007 ranked Tabor as one of the world's top 50 schools to prepare students to gain acceptance to America's most elite universities. Tabor participates in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council and offers a wide range of extracurricular activities. Tabor's motto is "All-A-Taut-O", referring to the condition in which a sailing ship is fully rigged and everything is in place. This phrase is referenced in school's songs, and is a tribute to Tabor's nautical background. The motto on Tabor's traditional crest, however, is "Vincit Semper Veritas" which in Latin translates to "Truth Always Conquers".

Mrs. Taber's Vision
Tabor Academy was founded in 1876 as a school for children from Marion, Massachusetts, by a bequest in the will of Elizabeth Sprague Taber, a wealthy widow and benefactress of the town. Article 27 of her will stated, "I have lately caused to be erected on a lot owned by me in Marion Lower Village, a building ... to be known as 'The Tabor Academy'." She named the school after Mount Tabor, a mountain of biblical importance near the Sea of Galilee. She stated that "the character of the school should be gradually elevated and its scope enlarged [to serve] youth of all portions of the country". From its creation, the academy was co-educational just as Mrs. Taber had intended, established "to provide better and more complete facilities than had heretofore existed or were likely to exist for thorough education in the higher branches of English knowledge".

The first headmaster was Clark Phelps Howland of Yale University, who reported in 1884 that "It is the aim of the school to give thorough instruction, and to encourage in its pupils a desire for the real rather than the showy, and to develop the moral as well as the intellectual element." The initial tuition fee for the Academy was $24, or $300 for students who wished to board in the headmaster's home. While Elizabeth Taber did not stipulate any particular religious affiliation for the academy, Howland stated that Tabor "will probably always be under the management of those who sympathize with the Congregational faith." Howland was succeeded by Dana Marsh Dustan, Dartmouth B.A. 1880, A.M. 1883 (1893–1901), Nathan Chipman Hamblin, Harvard B.A. 1892 (1901–1910) and Charles Edward Pethybridge, Amherst B.A. 1906 (1910–1916).

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