Talk:Montgomery Bell Academy

Images in Column to right

I don't know who put them like this, but the images down the right side seem out of place and hard to notice. I think they need to be more in the article. Images along the row are not too effective. On top of that, the images I see are not very good. Most are too dark, some are at strange angles. I think we need some better pictures with better formatting.

Hey I put the images. Thanks for your input. Which images should I retake? (Wikimachine 00:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC))

The "rear view of the Carter Building" image is very strange; at a weird angle and very dark. Also, I think a new section should be made for these photos maybe something like, "The MBA Campus" or "MBA Photos". Bjtitus 20:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok. I'll retake the rear view of the Carter Building. The camera's really bad so without high contrast, it won't be clear & looks gray. Would you mind that? (Wikimachine 20:38, 10 December 2006 (UTC))

Also, I probably can't take pics until spring b/c it's snowing now. (Wikimachine 02:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC))

Not quite sure when it was snowing.... But, whenever you get around to it. I'll post some as well later this year.Bjtitus 00:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Montgomerybell academy

See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Montgomery bell academy for a July 2004 dicussion on whether or not to delete this page.

Mama's Boys Academy

Googling on "Mama's Boys Academy," which a contributor said is a Nashvillian nickname for the academy, turns up no hits. If anyone can confirm that this nickname is in real use and can give a citation or other evidence here, it would be a nice thing to have in the article, but I don't think it can stand alone on the say-so of an editor. Dpbsmith 16:23, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Certainly I can vouch as an ex-student that the term "Mama's Boy Academy" (and also "Momma's Baby Academy") are used by detractors, particularly students at Father Ryan High School, Hillwood High School, and Hillsboro High School, the main traditional rivals, but so what? They don't belong in an article about the school, any more that it belongs in the article about Ohio State University that Univeristy of Michigan students may refer to OSU students as "Suckeyes", or that Purdue students may refer to students at Notre Dame as the "Pope's Pupils", "beadstringers", "fish eaters" and the like.

Dpbsmith: That's because the nickname is not Mama's Boys Academy, but rather "boy", in the singular. Googling "Mama's Boy Academy" or "Momma's Boy Academy" does produce some results. However, I suppose that the above person may have a point in that a derisive nickname may not have a place in the article. I can, however, vouch for the fact that the name is quite popular among Nashvillians who freely use it as if it were the school's second name. -Sunny

MBA moved to present campus in 1915, not 1881

I'll try to find time to fix when I can lay hands on sources, but anyone with Ridley Wills' 2005 history of MBA can repair the statement here that the school moved to its current location in 1881. It was in various downtown locations before the purchase of the Totomoi estate in 1915. I have a scan of the new 1881 building downtown that I'll load in.

--Tom Wood 05:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Put this pic where you see fit:

Image:MBA_bldg_1886.jpg

Official New Media Sites

The inclusion of the official Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts should be permissible. All three are maintained by MBA employees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.2.184.130 (talk) 15:35, 24 May 2011 (UTC)