And so the end of October found the regiment in comfortablequarters, more secure than ever before, its lines weakened bythe ravages of influenza and its hospitals crowded to capacity,but fighting unhampered and with hope.

Baths, lights, steam-heat, and such comforts as the men who had served with the regiment from itsfirst days had never dreamed of, made life worth while.

[4] Shortly after the school's closure, in 1917, events in World War I led the New York Guard's First Provisional Regiment (1,500 men operating under Colonel John B.

Captain Charles W. Baldwin, Chaplain of the regiment and Rector of Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Scarborough and also in present-day Briarcliff Manor, arranged a deal with V. Everit Macy, then the owner of the school estate, for free use of the campus and buildings until three months after the war's end.

Students received grades for deportment, application, spelling, declamation and composition, church attendance, and skill at military drill, as well as in classes where they learned arithmetic, algebra, French, Latin, German, and Greek.

George Whipple, a physician and pathologist, was a teacher at the school for a year before he started work at Johns Hopkins University.

Notable students include Donn Barber, an architect,[12] Nelson Doubleday, a publisher,[13] Edward Avery McIlhenny, a businessman, explorer, and conservationist,[14] John Avery McIlhenny, a businessman, soldier, politician, and public servant,[15] Harold Medina, a lawyer, teacher and judge,[16] and John W. Norton, a muralist and easel artist.