Activities outside the classroom offer a wide range of experiences, particularly in public speaking.  In the smaller, daily assemblies of the Junior, Middle, and Upper schools, boys recite poems, read compositions or passages from the Bible, and deliver reports on games, books, trips, and events.  The eighth grade has its own debating society and has performed a Shakespeare play every year since 1910.  The Upper School holds a public speaking competition in which all boys take part.