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Governor Dummer Academy
Extracted from the Wikipedia article The Governor's Academy.
A new trend in secondary education
In October 1782, the school received a corporate charter, which renamed the institution to Dummer Academy. (The academy formally adopted the name Governor Dummer Academy in 1950.) During the early republican era, the term "academy" typically signaled an institution's intention to broaden the academic curriculum beyond Latin and Greek. However, Dummer Academy did not formally establish a non-classical course of study until 1837, and the director of the "English Department" resigned in 1842.