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THIRD TERM-English Grammar and Dictation Exercises, Algebra, Physi- cal Geography.
FOURTH TERM-English Grammar and Dictation Exercises, Algebra, Phy- sical Geography.
SECOND YEAR.
FIRST TERM-Modern History, Algebra, Natural Philosophy.
SECOND TERM-Modern History, Algebra, Natural Philosophy.
THIRD TERM-Botany, Geometry, Natural Philosophy.
FOURTH TERM-Botany, Geometry, Natural Philosophy.
THIRD YEAR.
FIRST TERM. French, or Physiology, Geometry, Chemistry.
SECOND TERM-French, or Physiology, Geometry, Chemistry.
THIRD TERM-French, or Rhetoric, Double-Entry Book-keeping, Chemis- try.
Fourth Term-French, or Rhetoric, Double-Entry Book-keeping, Chemis- try.
FOURTH YEAR.
FIRST TERM-French, Astronomy, Geology or Trigonometry, Mental or Moral Philosophy.
SECOND TERM-French, Astronomy, Geology or Trigonometry, Mental or Moral Philosophy,
THIRD TERM-French, Astronomy, Geology or Trigonometry, Mental or Moral Philosophy.
FOURTH TERM-French, Astronomy, Geology or Trigonometry, Mental or Moral Philosophy.
NOTES. I. Weekly exercises in Declamation and Composition.
II. Civil Government weekly by the Senior Class.
III. Natural History weekly by the Middle Class.
CLASSICAL COURSE.
FIRST YEAR.
LATIN - Grammar, Reader, and Introduction to Latin Composition.
Ancient Geography and History; Arithmetic, and Algebra to Quadratic Equations.
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SECOND YEAR.
LATIN - Cæsar, four books, Latin Composition. Algebra completed; Ge- ometry, four books.
GREEK - Grammar, Lessons, and Anabasis.
THIRD YEAR.
LATIN - Cicero, seven orations, including Manilian Law or an equivalent ; Parts I and II, or one hundred and sixty-six pages of Harkness's Latin Com- position ; Reading Latin at sight, and Exercises in Latin Conversation.
GREEK - Anabasis, three books.
FRENCH - Contes Biographiques, Ahn's French Dialogues No. 1, and oth- er works - in all equivalent to about two hundred and fifty pages.
FOURTH YEAR.
LATIN - Virgil's Æneid, six books, and the Bucolics; Cicero, De Senec- tute or equivalent, Latin Composition, Reading Latin at sight, and Exercises in Latin Conversation.
GREEK - Anabasis, the fourth book; Homer's Iliad, three books; Greek Composition. English Literature and Composition.
FRENCH - La Chanson du Jardinier, fifty-nine pages ; Les Dames Vertes, two hundred and six pages; Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre, ninety- five pages ; this gives, as the amount read, about five or six hundred pages ; and about two hundred pages from other works.
NOTES. I. Weekly exercises in Declamation and Composition.
II. Civil Government weekly by the Senior Class.
III. Natural History weekly by the Middle Class.
We give below the classical requirements for ad- mission to representative New England colleges :
WILLIAMS COLLEGE. Latin - Cæsar, four books; Cicero, seven orations ; Virgil, the Georgics and six books of the Æneid ; Arnold's Latin Composition as far as the Passive Voice.
Greek - Anabasis, four books; Homer's Iliad, one book.
AMHERST COLLEGE. Latin - Cæsar, four books; Cicero, seven orations, including "Pro Lege Manilia;" Virgil, six books of the Æneid, the Bucolics and the first two Georgics; Harkness' Latin Composition, part II; Transla- tion of easy Latin at sight.
Greek - Anabasis, four books ; Homer's Iliad, three books; Prose Compo- sition ; Jones' Twenty Lessons.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE. Latin -Sallust; Cicero, seven orations; Virgil, the Bucolics, Georgics, and six books of the Æneid ; Thirty-five Lessons in Allen's Latin Composition.
Greek -Anabasis, four books; Homer's Iliad, two books; Jones' Greek Prose Composition.
YALE COLLEGE. Latin - Grammar; Sallust, Jugurthine war, or four books of Cæsar: Cicero, seven Orations : Virgil, Bucolics, Georgics, and the
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first six books of the ÆEneid, including Prosody; Arnold's Latin Prose Com- position, to the Passive Voice (first twelve chapters).
Greek - Grammar, with translation of English into Greek; Xenophon, An- abasis, four books; Homer, Iliad, three books, with Prosody; Greek History. The rules for pronunciation given in Hadley's Grammar are recommended as a guide. For Greek History, Dr. William Smith's or Fyffe's text-book, and for Greek Composition, Jones's Exercises or White's Lessons, are suggested.
Higher arithmetic, including the metric system of weights and measures; Algebra, so much as is included in Loomnis's Treatise up to the chapter on Logarithms; Enclid, first two books. [The first five books of Davies's Legen- dre's Elements of Geometry or of Loomis's Elements of Geometry, or the first two books of Chauvenet's Geometry, may be offered instead of Enclid.] Eng- lish Grammar and Geography, a thorough knowledge of which is required.
BROWN UNIVERSITY. Greek -Grammar (Hadley's preferred), the Syntax and Greek Selections in Harkness's " First Greek Book"; six books of Xen- ophon's Anabasis, or four books of the Anabasis and two books of Homer's Odyssey ; the first twenty exercises of Arnold's Greek Prose Composition.
Latin -Grammar, including Prosody (Harkness's Grammar is preferred), four books of Cæsar's Commentaries, the Æneid of Virgil, or the first six books of the Æneid, and the Bucolics and Georgics; seven Orations of Cice- ro; Parts I. and II. of Harkness's Latin Composition.
Mathematics - Arithmetic, Algebra in Equations of the first and second degree, and Plane Geometry.
English - Grammar (Greene's preferred), and the Analysis and Prosody of the First Act of Julius Caesar, in Craik's English of Shakspeare."
From the above it will readily be seen that the classical course pursued in our High school is, in every instance, the equivalent of college require- ments.
The following are the names of those who complet- ed the prescribed course of studies and received di- plomas at the end of the summer term:
GRADUATING CLASS FOR 1879.
FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL. Mary E. Bassett, Emma F. Brown, Sarah C. Gorwaiz, Lizzie B. Hills, Annie G. Johnson, Annie B. Merrill, Nancy J. Moynihan, Luella I. Odd'e, Alice W. Toppan, Nellie J. Towle.
BROWN HIGH SCHOOL. Michael H. Buckley, Winthrop E. Caldwell, John N. Cushing jr., John W. Dwyer, Edward S. Drown, Herbert A. Gillett, Edmund S. Spalding, Frank G. Stone.
PUTNAM FREE SCHOOL. Emily D. Merrill, Kate S. Hale, Nellie W. Pray, Mary Carrie Snow, all of Newburyport; Maie F. Andrews, Lizzie F. Currier, Sadie L. Gove, Snsie L. Keniston, all of Salisbury Point; Ella M. Haynes of North Hampton; Effie F. Day, Sallie A. French, both of East Salisbury; Samuel P. Dodge of Topsfield.
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EVENING SCHOOLS.
There has been no evening school for men for the past two years.
The forty sessions of the evening school for women came within the dates, November 8, 1878, and February 18, 1879. Average number of pupils, fifty- five. Each year shows an increase in the average age; and a large propor- tion of those attending the last season were adults. Of such it may be said, emphatically, they came to learn. One pupil who was ignorant of a single letter, in a few evenings learned to read easy words, and borrowed a book to take home for study while about her work. Some pupils came half an hour before the time for opening the session to begin their studies. Most of the girls were constant in their attendance, not allowing bad weather, or pleasure of any kind to keep them away. Some very creditable specimens of penman- ship were shown; and some pupils became good workers in arithmetic during the winter. On the whole the interest and attention manifested were most encouraging to the teachers. The school was visited by N. N. Withington, Rev. C. R. Seymour and John W. Winder of the School Board. Dr. J. A. Merrill gave a very pleasing entertainment at the close of the term.
Respectfully submitted, ABBY SHORT.
November 17, 1879.
EVENING DRAWING SCHOOL.
At the beginning of last winter the Board dis- cussed the subject of drawing, and finally author- ized the sub-committee on drawing to establish a school for instruction in mechanical drawing only. This was accordingly done, and Mr. Charles .T. Bruce was selected as instructor. The attendance was less than in preceding years, but the character of the work done will compare favorably with that of any other class. Most of the pupils were mechanics; their work was of the genuine, practical kind, and each one had some definite object in view. Below is Mr. Bruce's report :
The evening drawing school for the winter of 1878-9 opened December 23, 1878, and closed February 28, 1879, giving a term of twenty evenings. The number of scholars was twenty-six, and the attendance throughout the term showed a deep interest on the part of the pupils to avail themselves of the ad- vantages the school offered for acquiring a practical knowledge of mechanical drawing. The amount and character of the work accomplished this year will
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compare favorably with that of any preceding year. It was the intention of the Committee, as represented to me, to make the instruction of the term ex- perimental in the way of adapting it principally to adults, and giving them such special instructions as would be useful to them individually; and if in point of numbers the school has fallen somewhat behind other years, I would call attention to the fact that of the twenty-six pupils, twenty-one were men, who used the instruction gained in practical work, and found it such as they needed in their usual daily avocations. I followed the general system of in- struction only as far as I felt it to apply to all. Beyond that I endeavored to teach each such things as he needed in his own branch, for while I acknow- ledge the benefit of all receiving a full knowledge of drawing in all its branches, yet in view of the limited number of evenings, I tried first to insure to each man those things which I saw to be of the first importance to him. The result was most gratifying to me, for I found that the pupils were far more interested and ready to learn; and without an exception were disposed to further the object of the school by making what they there learned of actual value to themselves.
Since the school closed they have, to a greater or less extent, all continued their practice, and on the whole I cannot but feel that the course of instruc- tion of this year has passed beyond the limits of an experiment and proved its value, showing that the kind of teaching needed by the men of this city, in connection with drawing, is such as was furnished by the last term, and if it is continued the school will most certainly grow in numbers and usefulness. Although not in my department, I cannot but wish that the instruction in "free-hand " might be resumed, as the two branches are, to a certain extent, connected with each other; and, apart from that, I think that department of drawing, in its place, to be of great importance and worthy of the expense at- tending it.
Respectfully,
CHARLES T. BRUCE.
TEXT BOOKS.
The statutes of the commonwealth now require a two-thirds vote of the whole school committee to make a change in the text books used in public schools. The effect of this regulation, which has been in force some time, is to prevent very frequent change, and under its operation, and that of former statutes which required three-fourths of our commit- tee, changes in the primary and grammar schools have been seldom made. Greenleaf's arithmetic has been used for more than thirty-five years in the grammar schools and high schools; Colburn's arith-
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metic in the grammar and primary schools for more than thirty years. Sargent's readers were given up in 1875, having been used for some seventeen years, and Sargent's speller is now believed to be in its thirty-first year. Guyot's geography has been used for ten years in the grammar and primary schools; and Warren's physical geography in the high schools for perhaps fifteen years. This year the following changes only have been made: Colburn's mental arithmetic and Greenleaf's primary arithmetic have been given up in the primary course, and Mac Vicar's has been substituted for these. It was thought that children in the primary department would find it useful to have instruction in the five primary divisions of written arithmetic, viz: numera- tion, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, accompanied by mental exercises suited to their im- mature minds. Many of the problems in Colburn's, beyond the first three sections, were very difficult of comprehension and solution by pupils of tender age. Some of these problems, perhaps one-fourth of the whole book, were based on shillings, six to the dol- lar. These colonial shillings have fallen into disuse, and the decimal system of United States money has superseded them. In consequence of this change in the monetary system the longer continuance of the exercises on the obsolete shillings was not practical, and even gave the student a false conception of the mercantile usages in vogue to-day. So large a por- tion of Colburn's treatise having become obsolete in practice has led to its very general abandonment in the schools of the commonwealth. But the advan- tages of mental exercises in arithmetic are obvious, at least for the grammar school grades, and Colburn's
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will doubtless continue here to be used in our gram- mar schools until a book equal in drill shall be pub- lished, which, at the same time that it preserves the thorough drill in vulgar fractions, shall substitute for the colonial shillings problems in making change. Mac Vicar's arithmetic, it is hoped, will enable pupils to master all the ordinary problems likely to arise in retail dealing. It carries multiplication to three fig- ures, and it is believed can be mastered in two and a half years' study. This, with learning the tables of numbers from cards to twelve, and such other mental problems as the teachers may find opportunity to exact, will fit the pupils in our grammar schools to advance to higher and more difficult arithmetic. In the High schools Steele's Fourteen Weeks of Physics has been substituted for Quackenbos's Natural Phil- osophy, and Hutchinson's Physiology and Hygiene for Loomis's Physiology. These books were substi- tuted after consultation with instructors in our High school, and correspondence with one eminent instruc- tor elsewhere, and are believed to bring these branches of study abreast of the discoveries in science made in the last decade.
The value of text books depends greatly on the adaptability of the teacher to his work, and the interest which he can excite in it. In some text books on geography and history a multitude of ques- tions are sometimes inserted, while in others the work of putting questions is left wholly to the ingenuity of teachers. With some teachers, and it would seem with the best, the practice is to make geography an object lesson, and to turn the attention of the pupils to the objects that come up in the lessons. A geog- raphy that had no printed questions would impose
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onerous duties on the teacher, requiring her to coin all questions, and it is feared that many important matters would be overlooked. On the other hand an excess of printed questions lowers the teaching of geography into mere mechanical exercise, in which the memory only is tasked, and too great stress is laid on details, such as dates, populations and names. The real object is a knowledge of the world we live in, and much discretion must be used in selecting and drilling upon important facts and objects.
JOHN J. CURRIER, (Mayor) Chairman, ISAAC P. NOYES, Vice-Chairman, N. N. WITHINGTON, Secretary, D. T. WOODWELL, Agent, JOHN W. WINDER,
T. C. SIMPSON, JR.,
SCHOOL
J. F. YOUNG,
S. J. SPALDING,
COMMITTEE.
A. B. DEARBORN,
AMOS NOYES,
J. A. MERRILL,
CHARLES A. CURRIER,
Newburyport, Dec., 1879.
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BOOKS USED IN THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Sargent's Pronouncing Spelling Book.
Franklin Third Reader, reveiwed the first and second terms.
Franklin Fifth Reader.
Guyot's Grammar School Geography, completed.
Ellsworth's Writing Books, and Single-entry Book-keeping. Quackenbos's Language Lessons.
Colburn's Mental Arithmetic.
Greenleaf's Common School Arithmetic.
Quackenbos's History of the United States, to be employed as a reading book.
Our World, No. 2, as a reference book (on the desk of each teacher).
BOOKS USED IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Franklin Primer, the First, Second and Third Readers.
Sargent's Pronouncing Spelling Book, four classes of words. Greenleaf's Primary Arithmetic.
Colburn's Mental Arithmetic, as far as section six.
Guyot's Elementary Geography, completed.
Penmanship-Ellsworth's Writing Books.
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SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, AND SALARIES,
HIGH SCHOOL.
Brown High and Female High.
A. H. Thompson, A. M., Principal, $1700 J . B. Merrill, A. M., Assistant, 1200
Luther Dame, 1200
Miss A. A. Senter, 600
KELLEY SCHOOL.
N. A. Moulton, Principal, 1000
Miss Janette N. Balch, Assiss't, - 350
Miss Abbie Short, 350
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Miss M. J. Bradlee, 350
Miss M. C. Thurston, 350
Miss Eva J. Smith, 66
350
Miss M. E. Jaques, 325
1. Miss Florence A. Winn, 325
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Bromfield Male Grammar, Bromfield st. - Geo. W. Brown, Principal, 800 Miss Frances J. Pearson, Ass't, 350
Jackman Male Grammar, School street.
Miss Lucy Lowe, Assistant, 350
Currier Male Grammar, Forrester street.
Miss Sarah B. Chute, Principal, 650 Miss E. Frothingham, Assistant, 350
400
Johnson Female Grammar, Hancock st.
Miss A. L, Coffin, Principal, - Miss E. M. Lander, Assissant, -
350
South Female Grammar, Purchase street.
Miss S. J. Shackford, Principal, - Miss Priscilla G. Craig, Assiss't, 350
Currier Female Grammar, Forrester st.
Miss S. D. Toppan, Principal. 400 Miss M. Agnes Pearson, Assiss't, 350
PRIMARY SCHOOLS. WARD ONE.
Bromfield Primary, Bromfield street. . ( Miss Rhoda Tilton, Principal, - 350
Miss Carrie M. Clement, Assistant, 300
Johnson Female Primary, Hancock st.
( Miss Anna A. Currier, Principal, 350 Miss Jennie P. Haskell, Assistant, 300
WARD TWO.
Boys' Primary, Charles street. Miss Annie S. Wheeler, Principal, 350
Miss Susie B. Lowell, Principal, 350
Girls' Primary, Purchase street.
Miss Mary Estes, Assistant, 325
Jackman Male Primary, School street. Miss E. H. S. Pike, Assistant, 325
Boys' Temporary Primary, School street. Miss H. H. Page, 325
WARD THREE.
( Mrs W. S. Gray, Principal, 350
Girls' Primary, Temple street.
Miss S. F. Badger, Assistant, -
325
Davenport (Girls') Primary, Congress st.
WARD FIVE. Miss Clara J. Edgerly, - Principal, 325 Miss M. E. Coggswell, Assistant, - 350 Miss Agnes A. Somerby, Principal, 350 Miss Nellie M. Stanton, Assistant, 325 Miss M. Louisa Bartlett, Principal, 350 Miss Sarah Whitmore, Assistant, 375 Miss Alice H. Olmstead, 325
WARD SIX.
Ashland street Mixed Primary, 1st Div.
Miss Frances J. Pettigrew, 350
6. 2d
Miss Flora Pettigrew, 325
Mixed Grammar and Primary, Plains,
Mrs. B. P. Winslow, 450
Kent street Primary,
Davenport (Boys') Primary, Congress st.
Buck street,
Miss H. M. Currier, Principal, 350
400
Kelley School.
W. P. Lunt, Principal, 1000
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TABLE.
SCHOOLS.
ars during the year.
Number of different schol-
the year.
Number at the beginning of
year.
ars in Winter.
Number at the close of the
Average number of schol-
ars in Summer.
Average number of schol-
Winter.
Average attendance in the
Summer.
Average attendance in the
Number of desks in each
Number of seats in each
Yr. Mo.
Brown High.
80
74
44
65
4S
49
44
90
90 14. 5
Female High ..
61
60
45
56
45
48
38
140
140 15. 1
Kelley . .
449
397
335
389
356
310
312
420
420 10. 4
Bromfield (Boys') Grammar.
82
75
67
72
68
64
61
80
80 12. 0
Jackman
66
92
79
69
79
71
76
67
100
100 13.
Currier
66
92
83
67
79
70
66
60 57
97
97
11. 4
South
66
76 86
69
56
65
56
48 50
47 69
78
86
7. 6
Charles St.
57
46
34
43
34
26
28
96
8. 0
Jackman 66
66
...
. . .
66
69
34
58
43
56
33
40
96
120 5. 9
Purchase St. (Girls)“
100
81
65
70
70
56
57
96
91
7.11
Temple St.
66
16
·
52
29
44
34
43
29
36
40
40
6.
Johnson (Girls' ) Primary ..
96
66
93
69
87
53
69
80
80
7. 2
Mixed School, Plains .. ...
63
47
56
49
56
20
40
42
42
9. 6
1 div. Ashland Street-mixed 2 4 66
46
40
42
40
41
28
36
54
54
9. 6
Kent Street-mixed
50
45
43
44
43
33
33
60
63
7.10
2049 1752 1666 1732 1676 1385 1428 2162 2241
Number scholars during the year.
2049
beginning of year.
1752
66
close of year
1666
Average number in Winter
1732
66 6.
Summer
1676
attendance in Winter
1385
66
Summer
1428
Average attendance 68 3-5 per cent.
The number of children in the city in May last between the ages of 5 and 15 years was 2450. 1
Ward One. 418 | Ward Three .367 | Ward Five. .502 Ward Two. .353 Ward Four 375 | Ward Six. .435
....
...
87 69
54
76
62
70
48
62
90
100
8. 3
Davenport
61
62
54
61
48
55
54
54
9. 4
Jackman-Sub-Primsry . . ..
92
80
75
82
76
75
70
70 100 80
105
9. 1
Davenport 66
66
69
69
57
66
60
54
49
90
9. 3
Johnson (Girls') Grammar. . 66
73
70 92
65
68
65
57
73
68
97 72
97
12. 1
Currier
70
11. 8
Bromfield (Boys') Primary ..
51
80
62
77
72
72 12.
104
74
85
77
...
69
50
59
56
46
43
30
54
54
7. 2
Buck St.
66
school.
school.
Average Age.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Appropriation
$24,000 00
CREDITS.
State School Fund
281 25
One year's interest on Brown Fund.
900 00
N. N. Withington, fees from non-resident school children 149 36
$25,330 61
Expenditures
$26,814 73
Overdrawn
$ 1,484 12
TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
DIRECTORS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF THE
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT.
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT
TERRA
MARIQUE MDCCCLI
NEWBURYPORT : WILLIAM H. HUSE & CO., PRINTERS, No. 42 STATE STREET. 1880.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
IN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, November 29, 1879.
ORDERED, That the report presented by the committee on library be ac- cepted, and that the names of the members of this board be appended thereto, and the same be transmitted to the city council, agreeably to the requirements of section 5 of the ordinance concerning the public library.
Attest,
H. A. TENNEY, Secretary.
DIRECTORS' REPORT.
THE DIRECTORS of the Public Library submit to the city council their twenty-fourth annual report.
The catalogue, to which allusion was made in the last report, has been completed and published, and, while not without great imperfections, it is a work that does credit to all concerned in the preparation of it. It is not everything that could be desired in a catalogue, but it certainly has many excellencies, and will greatly facilitate the use of the library and add immensely to its practical value to the reading public. The first catalogue was published more than a score of years ago, and this will probably answer the pur- pose for a score of years to come.
The library has received during the year valuable additions, both by gift and purchase. Its annual in- crease would be much larger if the entire income of the several funds could be expended in the purchase of new books, but more or less must be expended every year in repairing or replacing books that have suffered from long-continued use; and at the present time there are so many books of this class in the library that, if the directors should decide to replace them all during the coming year, they would
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DIRECTORS' REPORT.
need, for that purpose alone, a larger sum than will be at their disposal.
The department of Fiction is the one that has suf- fered most from " wear and tear." There are various reasons why we should naturally expect this to be the case. In the first place, the books in this department are used more than any others; and in the second place, they are used by a large class of persons who are not the owners of many books and have not there- fore been accustomed to use the books they read with due carefulness; and, thirdly, very many of the books in this department are so poorly bound that, even with reasonable care on the part of those who use them, they would soon begin to fall in pieces. The direct- ors would call special attention to what the librarian says on this subject, in his report, which is herewith submitted. The work of replacing these worn-out books must necessarily be gradual; a considerable portion of the money to be expended ought to be used in the purchase of new publications.
Funds are sometimes furnished by the benevolent expressly to keep in repair churches and other public buildings, and let us hope that some generous friend of the library will ere long establish a fund the in- come of which shall be exclusively devoted to repair- ing such damages as are inevitable in the ordinary use of the books.
It is now a quarter of a century since the first ordi- nance concerning the Public Library was passed, by which the donation of its honored founder was ac- cepted. The misgivings which any of our citizens may then have had, as to the utility of such an insti- tution, have long since passed away The library has steadily grown in public favor from the beginning. It
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DIRECTORS' REPORT.
is an honor and a blessing to our city, and stands be- side our public schools as an efficient promoter of popular education. Another quarter of a century, we cannot doubt, will witness important additions to its available funds, an enlargement of its rich treasures in every department, and a consequent and cor- responding increase of its usefulness.
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