Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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Message from Dean Briggs ot' Harvard A bequest of William Dummer. Ex-Lieutenant Gover- nor of 1Iassachusetts, who died in 1761, is the origin of Dummer Academy. now known as Governor Dummer Academy. This school, established in 1763, may fairly be regarded as the oldest academy in the Lvnited States: for. though called at First not an academy but a gram- mar school, i' it began work earlier than Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover. Its relation to our oldest university is intimate and singular: intimate through the eminent men who have been connected with both Dummer Academy and Harvard Vollege: singular in the testator's provision that nothing but sickness. advanced years and inability. or a protligate wicked life shall cause the removal of the Blaster. and that. before removal he shall be adjudged and sentenced by a lIajority of the overseers of Harvard College to be displaced. High schools and endowed preparatory schools have driven many of the old academies to'the wall. Among those that have withstood the shock is Governor Dummer Academy. VVeakened for a time, it is now reinvigorated. and has taken its place among the schools that parents and benefactors will do well not to overlook. Governor Dummer Academy, if I may judge from all that I hear of it, is rapidly and deservedly coming to its own again. ff? 1? C'r111171r'1'zly1e, ,llny 7. 19.31 ll

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