Excerpt from A History of Dummer Academy: Being the Centennial Discourse Delivered by Nehemiah Cleaveland on August 12th, 1863 Together With an Account of the Proceedings in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the School 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. Its 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.