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WHITE, John Silas, educator, born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, 3 February, 1847. He served as a private in the 42d Massachusetts infantry during the last year of the civil war, was graduated at Harvard in 1870, was sub-master of the Boston Latin-school in that year, master of the same in 1871-'4, and then founded Brooks academy, Cleveland, Ohio, of which he was head-master in 1874-'80. From the latter year he has been head-master of Berkeley school, New York city, and since 1888 president of the Berkeley lyceum association. From June, 1873, till September, 1874, Mr. White was on a tour of observation from the Boston Latin-school, visiting schools in Europe and studying school systems, and was correspondent of the Boston "Daily Advertiser" on educational topics. In 1879 he received the degree of LL.D. from Trinity. He has contributed occasionally to periodicals, and has published "Boys' and Girls' Plutarch " (New York, 1883) ; "Boys' and Girls' Herodotus" (1884) ; and "Boys' and Girls' Pliny" (1885).
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