Word: offing
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From this cause together with the rise of the academies and the establishment of the district system, the town grammar schools declined, except in a few of the large towns of the Common-wealth.
It was through private initiative and generosity that the academies arose to take up the work which the grammar schools had failed to perform. The academies demonstrated, at the same time, the possibility of a secondary education adapted to the special needs and briefer educational careers of non-collegiate pupils...
The last two hundred years have accordingly given an enlarged significance to the secondary education. During those years the public secondary school has grown into the stature of an independent educational institution with a function of its own, and at the same time it has never ceased to be closely...
At the meeting of the Sophomore class last evening the following officers were reelected: President, R. Derby; vice-president, J. D. Clark; secretary, G. W. South.
The official ranking of tennis players for 1900 is announced by the committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association as follows: