Cape Cod, new & old . conducted by Sid-tC ney Brooks, and was, quite fittingly, a coursein navigation. The Brooks Seminary became the town high !ti,*, school in 1883, and remains so to-day — stillcarrying the banner of progressiveness the enactment of the Act of 1911, whichprovided for the establishment of agriculturaldepartments in high schools under^ State aidand supervisjon, Harwich petitioned the Boardof Education for such a department. It wasgranted, and established in 1912, and has donemuch tq^ revivify agricultural interest on thelower Cape. Furthermore, when it took partin
Cape Cod, new & old . conducted by Sid-tC ney Brooks, and was, quite fittingly, a coursein navigation. The Brooks Seminary became the town high !ti,*, school in 1883, and remains so to-day — stillcarrying the banner of progressiveness the enactment of the Act of 1911, whichprovided for the establishment of agriculturaldepartments in high schools under^ State aidand supervisjon, Harwich petitioned the Boardof Education for such a department. It wasgranted, and established in 1912, and has donemuch tq^ revivify agricultural interest on thelower Cape. Furthermore, when it took partin the Vocational Exhibit at the PanamaPacific Exhibition, it won the Grand Prize forMassachusetts. But the passion for learningjs not confinedto one town. The Sandwich Academy was in- »^r-f corporated in 1804, and was a matter of greatpride to the whole county until it was under-mined at last by sectarian differences. The Sr\ Academy in Falmouth was founded in 1835, 1604 and the one in Truro in 1840. Nor did the in-. HARWICH 193 fluence of these zealous scholars stop Lewis, a native of Falmouth, wasknown as the father of the common schoolsof Ohio, over which he was superintendentfor fifty years. One likes to recall the well-grounded and long-established reputation ofsuch schools and such schoolmasters. Of course, the most famous school on theCape to-day is the Normal School at for twenty years, it has both win- /afS—?^^ter and summer courses, and to it have comemany foreign students and educators, seekingcourses of study in this country. But to go back to Harwich. At the timewhen Harwich was incorporated, in 1694, it l^^>^had been enjoined by law upon every town inthe Province,, having the number of fifty ,householders or upward, to have a school-master to teach children and youth to read andwrite. Those having the number of a hun-dred families or householders were requiredto have a grammar school set up and taughtby some discreet person of
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