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Cummings, George J

educator, was born July 6, 1838, in Groton, N. H. He was fitted for college at the Kimball Union academy, and graduated from Dartmouth college in 1869. He has been associate teacher in the Kimball Union pal of the same institution for five years, academy for six years, and then princiresigning in 1880 to accept a similar position in the Monson academy. In 1885 he accepted the professorship of ancient languages, and the deanship of the preparatory department of the Howard university of Washington, D. C., which position he still fills.

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