Editing Phillips Exeter Academy (section)

==Student life==
The academy has over 100 clubs listed. The number of functioning and reputable clubs fluctuates; several of the listed clubs on the website do not hold tables on Club Night. ''[[The Exonian]]'' is the school's weekly newspaper. It is the oldest continuously running preparatory school newspaper in the United States, having begun publishing in 1878. Recently, ''The Exonian'' began online publication.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theexonian.com/|title=The Exonian|work=theexonian.com|access-date=July 3, 2015|archive-date=June 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610004538/http://theexonian.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Exonian has been a finalist for a National Pacemaker Award several times, winning in 2007. Other long-established clubs include ESSO, which focuses on social service outreach, and the PEAN, which is the academy's yearbook. Exeter also has the oldest surviving secondary school society, the Golden Branch (founded in 1818),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academy Chronology |url=https://www.exeter.edu/about-us/academy-chronology |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Phillips Exeter Academy |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Cunningham |first=Frank Herbert |url=http://archive.org/details/familiarsketche00cunngoog |title=Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings |date=1883 |publisher=Boston, J. R. Osgood |others=University of California}}</ref> a society for public speaking, inspired by PEA's Rhetorical Society of 1807–1820. Now known as the Daniel Webster Debate Society, these groups served as America's first secondary school organization for [[Public speaking|oratory]].<ref>{{harv|Echols|1970|p=21}}</ref> The [[Model UN]] club has won the "Best Small Delegation" award at [[Harvard International Relations Council#Harvard Model United Nations|HMUN]].<ref name="exonian">{{cite web|title=The Exonian|url=https://theexonian.com/2017/02/02/exeter-sweeps-at-hmun/|access-date=April 2, 2017|date=February 2, 2017|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418132529/https://theexonian.com/2017/02/02/exeter-sweeps-at-hmun/|url-status=live}}</ref> Exeter's Mock Trial Association, founded by attorney and historian Walter Stahr,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peamt.org/about-us/|title=About Us|website=PEA Mock Trial|language=en-US|access-date=February 27, 2018|archive-date=February 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227213727/https://www.peamt.org/about-us/|url-status=live}}</ref> has since 2011 claimed seventeen individual titles, five all-around state titles, and a top-ten spot at the National High School Mock Trial Championship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.theexonian.com/cgi-bin/exeter?a=d&d=txn20130609-01.2.227&srpos=10&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Mock++Trial------|title=The Exonian 9 June 2013 — The Exonian Archives|website=archive.theexonian.com|access-date=February 27, 2018|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418114631/https://archive.theexonian.com/cgi-bin/exeter?a=d&d=txn20130609-01.2.227&srpos=10&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Mock++Trial------|url-status=live}}</ref>

Close to 80% of students live in the dormitories, with the other 20% commuting from homes within a {{convert|30|mi|km|adj=on}} radius. Each residence hall has several faculty members and senior student proctors. There are check-in hours of 8:00 pm (for first- and second-year students), 9:00pm (for third years), and 10:00 pm (for seniors) during the weekdays and 11:00 pm on Saturday night.<ref name="exeter">{{cite web |title=The E Book 2012–2013 |url=http://www.exeter.edu/documents/EBook.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224005633/http://www.exeter.edu/documents/EBook.pdf |archive-date=December 24, 2012 |access-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Phillips Exeter Academy Panorama.jpg|thumb|center|750px|Student body, Phillips Exeter Academy, ca. 1903]]

Religious life on campus is supported by the Religious Services Department, which provides a vintage stone chapel and a full-service ministry for the spiritual needs of students.<ref name="Phillips Church">"[https://www.exeter.edu/student-life/campus-connections/phillips-church Phillips Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627171507/http://exeter.edu/student-life/campus-connections/phillips-church |date=June 27, 2017 }}", ''Phillips Exeter Academy,'' 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2017.</ref> The chapel was originally built in 1895 and has been updated. It accommodates worship for "twelve religious traditions including Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Quaker, Buddhist, Catholic among others"<ref>"[https://www.cramandferguson.com/philips-church/ Phillips Church at Phillips Exeter Academy: Exeter, NH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814102920/https://www.cramandferguson.com/philips-church/ |date=August 14, 2017 }}", ''Cram and Ferguson Architects.'' Retrieved June 22, 2017.</ref> as well as Secular Humanism.<ref name="Phillips Church"/>

Weekly attendance at the religious service of their choice was required of students until 1969, after which religion at Exeter stagnated until it was revived by a new approach "as concerned with the religious dimension of all of our lives as it is with the particular religious needs of any one of us." A renovation of Phillips Church, completed in 2002, provided spaces for worship and meditation for students of diverse religious persuasions.<ref>Oppenheimer, Mark. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/us/at-phillips-exeter-a-world-of-religious-diversity.html At Phillips Exeter, a World of Religious Diversity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130062930/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/us/at-phillips-exeter-a-world-of-religious-diversity.html |date=November 30, 2018 }}", ''The New York Times,'' April 11, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2017.</ref>