Die Stadt Worcester von achtzehn hundertundneunzig Jahren, eine Stadt . arationcould have been vouchsafed than this two-fold experience at St. Marks andat Vermont Academy; for one repräsentierte die amerikanisierte Form der großen englischen öffentlichen Schule, and the other the modernised Form of the oldcolonial School. Dr. Abercrombie kam im Winter 1882 an die Worcester Academy, als die Schule auf einer niedrigen Ebbe stand. Kurz darauf, nach dem Tod des Hauptmanns, wurde er zunächst kommissarischer Hauptleiter, im Juni 1883 dann Elektretsprinzipal. Aus dieser Zeit stammt die Bewegung, die WorcesterAcadem platziert hat

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The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . arationcould have been vouchsafed than this two-fold experience at St. Marks andat Vermont Academy; for one represented the Americanized form of thegreat English public school, and the other the modernized form of the oldcolonial school. Dr. Abercrombie came to Worcester Academy in the winter of 1882, whenthe school was at a low ebb. Soon after, upon the death of the principal, he was made at first acting principal, and in June, 1883, he was electedprincipal. From this time dates the movement which has placed WorcesterAcademy in the front rank of secondary schools. The story of this periodof the schools history might well form a chapter in the history of secondaryschool education in this country. It has been briefly sketched in the articleelsewhere in this volume upon the academy. Principal Abercrombies success has been fitly recognized by higher insti-tutions in the conferring upon him of the honorary degrees of A. M. byBrown University in 1S83, and of LL. D. by Colby College in 1898.. JAMES S. ABORN. The Worcester of 1898. 539* James Smith Aborn was born in Providence, Rhode Island, forty-one yearsaii. His ancestors went from vSalem, Massachusetts, to Pawtiixet, RhodeIsland, in 1636. He is the eighth generation of the Aborn family born inRhode Island, and on the maternal side is descended from Roger Williams. Though a civil engineer by profession, Mr. Aborn was engaged in manu-facturing and mercantile pursuits much of the time preceding his cominghere: first, in the manufacture of asphalt block-paving; later, as partner inthe Providence Coal Company, wholesale coal dealers, and immediatelyi)efore coming to Worcester had an interest in and was managing partnerof the Reliance Milling Company, shippers of grain and millers of tablemeals. He came to Worcester five years ago, in 1893, and on Front street openeda grain brokerage business for a Chicago house. January i, 1S95, he movedto his present loc

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