A History of Dummer Academy: Being the Centennial Discourse Delivered By Nehemiah Cleaveland on August 12Th, 1863 Together With an Account of the ... Anniversary of the School (Classic Reprint)

On the first day of March, 1763, in a modest edifice then just put up on this ground, a small company of men and boys met to inaugurate and open a free grammar school. I ts founder had died a year or two before, leaving provision for it in his will. A teacher, already distinguished, had been appointed Master, and entered, that day, on his duties, with a goodly number of pupils. Since that memorable March morning, a hundrd years have sped their flight. Through all the alterations of heat and frost, of sunshine and of shade, that marked each rolling year; through all the vicissitudes of individual, social, and national life, which constitute the historic detail, and which fill up the grand outline of a century, this institution has held on its way. The school which DuMMER founded, and which Moody taught, stands before us to-day a hundred years old, unimpaired, let us hope, by age, and with a career of usefulness still before it, to stretch on through centuries to come. It is to signalize the completion of this first great cycle in its history that we meet here, my friends, to-day. It is not possible to mistake the motive and meaning of this great gathering. However we may differ in our pursuits, our opinions, or our feelings, one common, one natural impulse has brought us here, from homes both near and far, and from all the winds of heaven, to express our grateful admiration of him, who.
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