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10 00
Isaac P. Noyes, postage stamps 3 20
2 75
Balance overdrawn
124 38
$1,879 90
The above account examined by
JOHN J. CURRIER,
Committee BENJAMIN HALE,
of
HENRY Z. WHITTIER, Accounts.
C. H. Johnson, stationery .
$2,004 28
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
Sawyer Fund.
RECEIPTS.
1884.
Amount of balance from last year. 2 42
Cash from Green fund in payment of loan. 7 79
Jan. Interest on city note 112 50
July, 66
112 50
Overdrawn
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1884. EXPENDITURES. £235 34
Amount of sundry purchases of books. $235 34
The above account examined and approved.
JOHN J. CURRIER,
Committee BENJAMIN HALE,
on
HENRY Z. WHITTIER, Accounts.
310
PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
Bradbury Fund.
1884.
RECEIPTS.
Amount of balance of last year. $ 51
April, Interest at Institution for Savings. 20 00
Oct., 66
25 00
Cash borrowed from Sarah A. Green fund
36
1884. EXPENDITURES.
$45 87
Amount for sundry purchases of books.
.$
45 87
The above account examined and approved,
Committee BENJAMIN HALE,
JOHN J. CURRIER,
on
HENRY Z. WHITTIER. Accounts.
$45 51
311
PUBLIC LIBBARY REPORTS.
Frothingham Fund.
1884. RECEIPTS.
Amount of balance last year ..
$ 10
Amount of interest on city note. 40 00
$40 10
EXPENDITURES.
Amount of purchase of books .. $ 40 10 The above account examined and approved,
Committee BENJAMIN HALE,
JOHN J. CURRIER,
on
HENRY Z. WHITTIER. Accounts.
312
PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
Sarah A. Green Fund.
1884.
RECEIPTS.
Amount of six months' interest on city note. $ 40 00
66 66 66 40 00
$80 00
EXPENDITURES.
Amount of sundry purchases of books $ 79 59 Cash loaned Bradbury fund. .36
Cash balance undrawn .05-
41
$80 00
The several accounts examined and approved by
JOHN J. CURRIER, on HENRY Z. WHITTIER, 5 Committee BENJAMIN HALE. Accounts.
313
PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
Donations to the Library-1884.
BOOKS.
Adams, R. 1
Osgood, H. B. Miss 1
Arens, E. J.
1
Page, M. A. Miss. 1
Butler, G ..
1 Parton, J. 1
Cincinnati Board of Education. 1
Peabody Education Fund 2
Currier, A , Hon 14
Poore, B. P., Major 4
Davis, B. P.
4
Silloway, T. W., Rev 10
Gale, S. M., Mrs. 7
Smithsonian Institution 1
Goodwin, W. W. 12
Stockman, C. C.,. 1
Greely, A. W., Lieut. 20
Stone, E. F., Hon 24
Hale, B. 1
Titcomb, J. W. 5
Kinsley, W. W .. 1
U. S. Bureau of Education 1
Lawrence Public Library. 1
Coast Survey. 1
Lunt, George, Hon. 1
Engineers' Department. 4
Mass. Sec'y of Commonwealth .. 32
Naval Observatory. 1
Moseley, E. S.
7
Treasury Department 6
Osgood, E. Miss.
6
War Dep't Librarian. 1
PAMPHLETS, PORTRAITS AND RELICS.
Alden, A. A., Relic for the cabinet
Adams, C. F. jr, pamphlet 1
Bent, W. H., portrait ..
Buffalo Y. M. association, pamph. 1
2
Springfield Libr'y asso' .. 1
Swansey, Eng., Public .. 1
Watertown Public 1
2
Cutter, A. E., pamphlet 1
Hodge, C. M., relics for cabinet.
Hosmer, C. Lieut., set of charts. Gale, S. M., Mrs., map.
Green, S. A.,M. D., pamphlets .. 4
2
Library, Boston Public .. 6
Brooklyn, Mercantile 2
Brookline, Public Chicago, 66
1
Dedham, 66
1
Fall River,
1
Handsworth, Eng 1
Lawrence, Public. 2 Lynn, 66 1
Mass. State
1
Library, New York Mercantile ... 1
Peabody Institute. 1
Providence Public. 1 San Francisco " 2
Butler, George, pamphlets ...... Carter, N. T., relic for cabinet .. .
Castelhun & Hale, large photo ... Crowell, J., M. D., pamphlet .... 3
Woburn
Worcester
66
1 Lord, C. E., Rev., relics for cabinet Meinerth, C., pamphlet. 1
Newmarch, S. Mrs., MSS. 2
Oakland, Cal., sup't of schools .. 1
1
Perkins Institution for the Blind Poore, B. P., Maj., maps, charts. 6 Todd, W. C., relics for cabinet. .. Toppan, R. N., pamphlet 1
1 Sawyer, S. C., pamphlets 1
Simpson, M. H., Mrs., portrait ... U.S.Bureau of Education, pamph. Chief of Engineers, 66
6
3 Hydrographic Office, charts. 6 Treasury Office, pamphlet. .. War Department, 66
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1
Jackman, J. V., pamphlets .. . . Lawson, T. B., portrait.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
DONATIONS TO THE READING ROOM -- 1884.
Newburyport Herald
. William H. Huse & Co.
Boston Advertiser.
Edward S. Tappan.
The Germ M. C. Teel.
List of Prices and Sales-Boston Stock Exchange.
. Pickering & Moseley.
Unitarian Review Am. Unitarian Assoc'n. 66
Christian Register
Congressional Register
Hon. E. F. Stone.
Home Missionary .E. S. Moseley.
Liberal Free Mason Joseph B. Lincoln.
New York Observer Hon. John N. Pike.
Journal of Chemistry.
J. R. Nichols, M. D.
Congressional Directory E. S. Moseley.
Good Health. Publishers.
Poor's Manual of Railroads
E. S. Moseley.
History of Woman's Suffrage
S. B. Anthony.
PUBLICATIONS IN THE NEWBURYPORT FREE READ- ING ROOM -- 1884.
DAILIES.
Newburyport Herald.
Germ.
Boston Advertiser.
Herald.
Journal (Evening).
Transcript.
Traveller.
Globe.
.6 Post.
66 Stock Bulletin.
Providence, (R. I.) Journal.
North American, Philadelphia. New York Tribune.
New York Herald.
World.
6. Sun.
Star.
Graphic.
60 Evening Post.
Journal of Commerce.
Times.
Mail and Express.
Congressional Record, Washington. Albany Argus, N. Y. Portland Advertiser, Portland, Me.
Chicago Times, Chicago, Ill.
315
PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
SEMI-WEEKLY, WEEKLY, AND MONTHLY PAPERS.
Salem Gazette, Boston Commercial Bulletin, Springfield Republican, Philadelphia Times, Washington Star, Richmoud Despatch, Va. Charleston News, S. C. Cincinnati Inquirer, Ohio,
Chicago Tribune, Louisville Courier-Journal, Ky. Florida Times,
New Orleans Picayune,
The Alta California, San Francisco, The Weekly Chronicle, San Francisco Forest and Stream, New York Harper's Young People, N. Y. Signs of the Times, N. Y. London Times, Nature, London,
Punch, London,
Montreal Gazette, Canada,
Atlanta Constitution, Georgia, Mobile Register, Alabama,
Galveston Weekly News, Texas, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Kansas City Journal, Mo. Rocky Mountain Weekly, Denver, C. Christian Register, Boston. New York Observer, Journal of Education, The Nation, N. Y.
Littell's Living Age, Boston, Scientific American, N. Y.
Supplement,
The Machinist, N. Y. Our Continent, Phila. Harper's Weekly, N. Y. Bazar, N. Y. Frank Leslie's Illus. Paper, N. Y. 66 Chimney, 66
Finan. and Com. Chronicle, N. Y. Connecticut Courant, Hartford, Ct. Mirror & Farmer, Manchester, N. H. Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vt. Valley Visitor, Newburyport.
MAGAZINES AND REVIWS.
Harper's Magazine, New York, The Century,
St. Nicholas,
The Atlantic, Boston,
Lippincott's Magazine, Phila. Peterson's .6
Ballou's Magazine, Boston,
Godey's Ladies' Book, Phila.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, NY. 66 Sunday Magazine, 66
Good Words, London, Macmillan's Magazine, London,
Black wood's
Temple Bar
English Illus.
The Manhattan N. Y.
The Agriculturist,
Gardener's Monthly.
The Naturalist, Phila.
The Journal of Chemistry, Boston. Van Vostrand's Engineering Mag. Popular Science Monthly, N. Y. Official Gazette, Patent Office,
Liberal Free Mason,
Home Missionary, Boston,
New Englander, New Haven, Conn.
North A erican, N. Y.
Unitarian Review, Boston, Contemporary Review, London, Nineteenth Century, Westminster Review, Edinburgh 66 6.
London Quarterly Review, London, British Fortuightly, London.
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Chambers' Encyclopædia, 15 vols. Brande's 2
Lippincott's Biographical Dictionary, .6 Gazeteer. Anthon's Classical Dictionary, American Newspaper Annual-1880. Worcester's Dictionary, Boston Directory, Massachusetts Business Directory, Newburyport Directory,
Shipping Record, Catalogue of Public Library Map of United States, Rockingham County, N. Y. Essex County, Mass.
Johnson's Atlas of the World. New England Business Directory, '83 The Pathfinder and Railway Guide. Congressional Directory.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT
FOR THE YEAR
1884.
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT
TERRA MARIQUE MDCCCLI
NEWBURYPORT : WILLIAM H, HUSE & CO., PRINTERS, 42 STATE STREET. 1885.
REPORT.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
If the fathers of this Commonwealth, believing that only as the subjects of a republican administration are enlightened, are they fit to exercise the most im- portant rights of citizenship,-wisely made the estab- lishment of systems of public instruction obligatory on all local governments, it may properly be said that the primary school is the foundation of our free in- stitutions. Here the rudiments of learning are taught, and the first mental discipline is acquired. Persons engaged in various industrial pursuits may pass through life without the higher education gained at the advanced schools, but they cannot secure a re- spectable and influential standing in society if depriv- ed of the knowledge obtained in the primary school. Hence, if our primary schools are the most humble, they are the most important; here the youthful mind at the dawn of its development is put into the pos- session of new faculties of communication with man and with nature; here the beginnings of culture are ' laid. The task of the teacher on whom devolves
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this educational work is a difficult one. If under some circumstances it be delightful to guide the mind of childhood, where docility and application charac_ terize the pupil,-under other conditions, such as un- fortunately prevail in our common schools, it is by no means easy to instruct or discipline juveniles that seem representatives of the pre-historic or savage state of humanity; and much tact, patience, gentle- ness, love of the work and enthusiasm in it, are re- quisite on the part of the teacher.
The primary schools of this city comprehend about nine hundred scholars, all between the ages of five and twelve years, the average age being seven and a half years. The children are instructed in reading, spelling, writing, the simplest rudiments of arithme- tic, the elementary facts of geography. The sixteen lady teachers are all earnest in their work, and by their efficiency have earned the confidence and ap- probation of the committee and the public.
We here present the more important facts and sta- tistics pertaining to these primary schools.
JOHNSON FEMALE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
HANCOCK STREET.
This school has been conducted the past year, as for several previous years, by Miss Anne A. Currier, principal; Miss Jennie P. Haskell, assistant. There was an average attendance of 57, while the whole number of pupils enrolled on the records is 100. The average age of the pupils is 7 years and 11
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months. Number promoted to the Grammar school, 16. Number promoted to the principal's room, 16.
Both departments of this primary school are under good discipline.
BROMFIELD STREET MALE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
This school is still under the principalship of Miss Carrie M. Clement. There was an average attend- ance of 59 pupils in the summer, and 46 in the win- ter, while the whole number during the year was 89. Average age, 8 years and two months. Number pro- moted from assistant's room, 18. Number promoted from principal's room, 13.
Miss Cora B. Lougee has charge of the sub-prima- ry department.
FEMALE PRIMARY SCHOOL, PURCHASE STREET.
MISS MARY ESTES, Principal. MISS JENNIE C. TEEL, Assistant.
This school has been under good discipline and de- serves honorable mention.
Number of different pupils during the year 62 Average number of pupils. 47
attendance 39 Average age. . S yrs. 4 mos. Number of pupils promoted to the Grammar school. 7
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JACKMAN MALE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
SCHOOL STREET.
The total attendance at this school the past year has been 82; average attendance, 54. Promoted to the Grammar school, 13. Number promoted to the principal's room, 16.
This school is one of the best in the city. Miss Helen M. Currier continues to be principal; Miss Hannah H. Page, assistant.
TEMPLE STREET FEMALE PRIMARY SCHOOL ..
Mrs. M. N. Gray has the charge of this school, which is the only school in ward three. There has been an average attendance of 30; whole number en- rolled, 44. Number promoted to the Grammar school at the end of the year, 9. This school is under excel- lent management.
KENT STREET FEMALE SUB-PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss Carrie M. Bayley continues, as during several previous years, to be principal of this school. The average attendance during the past year was 28, the average age of the scholars being 7 years. Nineteen pupils have been promoted to the Congress street primary-Miss Edgerly's department-an indication of the thorough work which is being done in this school.
Number of different pupils during the year, 55; average number during the year, 41. The school room will accommodate 56 pupils.
KENT STREET MALE SUB-PRIMARY SCHOOL.
This school still remains under the charge of Miss Susan I. Adams. The average attendance has been 28; average number during the year, 47: average age of the scholars, 6 years 3 months. Thirteen boys at the end of last year's school term were promoted to Miss Whitmore's school.
The school-room will accommodate 23 scholars.
CONGRESS STREET FEMALE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
This school is capable of accommodating 84 pupils. The average number of pupils during the year is 31, while the average attendance is only 26. Thirteen girls were promoted to the Grammar school. The average age of the pupils is 10 years. Miss Clara J. Edgerly continues satisfactorily to fill the office of principal of this school.
CONGRESS STREET MALE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss Sarah E. Whitmore was principal the past year, assisted by Miss Nellie M. Stanton. This school is under good discipline, and teachers and pupils are
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zealous in their work. The number promoted to the Grammar school the past year was 13; promoted from assistants room 24.
The average attendance for the year 1883 was 51; for the year 1884, 50. The average age of the pu- pils is 9 years. The school-room will accommo- date 84 scholars.
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ASHLAND STREET MIXED PRIMARY SCHOOL.
This school with an average attendance of seventy- five scholars, whose average age is 8 years 2 months. continues under the able principalship of Miss Fran- ces L. Pettigrew, assisted by Miss Florence Pettigrew. Twenty-seven pupils from this school were admitted to the Grammar school in July last; twenty-one were promoted from the assistant's room to that of the principal. The average attendance in the principal's department is 35; in that of the assistant 40. This school will accommodate 110 pupils.
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MOULTONVILLE MIXED GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY
SCHOOL.
This school has numbered 44 pupils, with an aver- age attendance during the whole school year of 20. There were no promotions to the High school. The average age of the pupils is 92 years.
Miss Alice M. Leach continues satisfactorily to perform the duties of teacher. tildeath hon: 191.
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WESLEY STREET MIXED PRIMARY AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
This school was under the management during the last school year of Miss Lizzie H. Cheever, who has since been transferred to the Congress street male Primary school, vice Miss N. M. Stanton, resigned. The average number of pupils during the year was 37. with an average attendance of 27. The whole num- ber of pupils during the year was 56. There were no promotions to the High school.
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GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
The education begun in the primary school is con- tinued in the grammar school. Here pupils are fitted for the high school, or to such as are obliged to finish their school days here, the means are fur- nished for the acquirement of a thorough practical English education, sufficient for the ordinary commer- cial and industrial pursuits of life. The course of study extends over five years and comprises, besides the constant drill in reading, writing, spelling and de- fining, the completion of arithmetic, grammar and ge- ography, and instruction in history, book keeping and English composition. Candidates for admission to the High and Putnam schools are examined at the end of the school year in the High school building. Such examination is conducted by the teachers of the High school, is principally written, and embraces reading, writing and spelling, arithmetic, geography and grammar. The standard has for several years past been fixed at a scale of 80 per cent.
In December 1883, as mentioned in our last report, the Board found reasons for abolishing the former system whereby three written examinations during the school year were obligatory.
Below are the written questions pertaining to the several branches of grammar school study propounded to applicants for the High school at the examination in July, 1884. For each correct answer in arithmetic
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two credits were given; one credit was given for each correct answer in geography and grammar; in spell- ing and defining, each one credit; reading and writing were cach marked on a scale of ten. In arithmetic, if the answer was incorrect, but it was apparent that the process was understood, one credit was given.
GRAMMAR.
1. Define grammar. What is a sentence ? Name the classes of words and give an example of each.
2. What is the difference between the subject and predicate of a sentence ?
3. The cat is a fierce animal. Analyze this sentence and parse cat, fierce and animal.
4. What is a pronoun ? Write a sentence containing one.
5. Write a sentence with a limiting adjective, and one with a qualifying adjective.
6. Name the moods and tell how each is used.
7. Conjugate to go in the first person, singular number of all the tenses in the Indicative mood.
8. He will learn if you teach him. Analyze and parse the verbs.
9. When to come is not the question. Analyze and parse question.
Correct the errors in the following sentences :
10. Who does this slate belong to? The Moon is reder than blood. The affair is between you and I. The stick is four foot long. Him and Me talks grammar.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name the oceans in the order of their size. Through what continents does the equator pass ?
2. In what zone do the three northern continents principally lie? The three southern ?
3. What is a river system ? Name an important one.
4. Name the largest river of each continent.
5. What is the principal branch of the Mississippi from the east? From the west ?
6. Name the states bordering on the Great Lakes, with their capitals.
7. What countries are crossed by the Andes Mountains ?
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8. How is England sera ated from the continent ? Ireland from England and Scotland ?
9. Name the largest empire and the largest republic in the world, with the the capital of each.
10. Locate the following: Care Verd, Cape Hatteras, Lake Tchad, Van- couvre Island, Venice, Melbourne, Lima, Berlin.
ARITHMETIC.
1. The salary of the President of the United States is $50,000 a year: what · sum may he expend each year and yet save $75,584 in 4 years, his term of office ?
2. If the divisor is 19, the quotient 37, and the remainder 11, what is the dividend ?
3. What is the least common multiple of 15, 35, 45, and 210 ?
4. If $% of a cord of wood cost $214, how many cords can be bought for $2513?
5. Make out a bill for the following articles which A. M. Smith bought of John Jones & Co .: 25 lbs crushed sugar at 10 cts; 40 lbs maple sugar at 12 cts ; 6 lbs cheese at 13 cts ; 8 lbs butter at 2S cts ; 4 lbs raisins at 11 cts; 2 lbs cream tartar at 40 cts. Date today, finding the amount of each article and the amount of the whole ?
6. What is the difference in time for 90° in longitude ?
7. Bought hats at $3 a piece and sold them at $2.50; what per cent on the cost was lost ?
3. Sold a watch for $42 and lost 1212 per cent; what was the cost ?
9. What is the amount of $817.57 for 2 months 18 days at 4 per cent ?
10. What is the square root of 4444.8889 ?
JOHNSON GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
HANCOCK STREET.
MISS ANNIE L. COFFIN, PRINCIPAL. MISS EMMA M. LANDER, Assistant.
The school opened Sept. 3, 1883, with 65 pupils, the average age being 11 years 7 months. During the year the average attendance was 60, the average
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number 63. The attendance is uniformly good, ab- sences, excepting in sickness, being rare. The inter- est in their studies on the part of the majority of the pupils, is all that could be desired. The teachers, re- alizing the importance of developing a taste for good reading in childhood, a year and a half ago started a school library which numbers one hundred and twenty-three volumes at the present time. These in- clude works on history and natural history; also works of fiction, of interest and profit for youth.
The school-room might, at no great expense, be made to present a more attractive appearance, it being the only grammar school in the city which has not been modernized.
Eleven pupils were sent to the High and Putnam schools, all of whom were admitted with an average rank of 872. The highest rank was 93, and the lowest 831.
BROMFIELD STREET MALE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
GEORGE W. BROWN, PRINCIPAL. MISS RHODA TILTON, Assistant.
This school maintains its high character under the above named instructors.
Number of pupils during the year 81
66 at the begining of the year 51
66 end of the year. 5S
Average number during the year 61
age of pupils. 11 years 6 months Promoted from assistant's room to Mr. Brown's department 12 Number admitted to High school $10
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PURCHASE STREET FEMALE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
This school is under the management of Miss Priscilla G. Craig, principal; Miss Susie B. Lowell, assistant.
Number of pupils in the school from Sept. 1883 to July 1884. 57
at the beginning of the year. 57
end of the year 54
Average attendance. 52
66 number. 55
age of pupils. . . 12 years 4 months
There has been a marked improvement in the at- tendance during the past year. The school-room has been improved and rendered more attractive by a new floor, new desks and new curtains. The build- ing has also been neatly painted on the outside. Dur- ing the last vacation a new floor was laid in the reci- tation room.
The nucleus of a school library has been formed, and quite a collection of juvenile books has been pre- sented by parents and others interested in the school.
There were six applicants for admission to the High school; all were successful. Average rank 89 4-9 per cent.
JACKMAN MALE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
SCHOOL STREET.
WILLIAM P. LUNT, PRINCIPAL. MISS ADDIE K. HALE, Assistant One Term. MISS ELIZABETH A. DODGE, Two Terms.
This school till the end of the last school year was presided over by the veteran and deservedly popular
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teacher, Mr. William P. Lunt. Under his manage- ment the school bas maintained its high standard, and the proficiency of the pupils in their studies, and es- pecially in arithmetic, has been often remarked by vis- itors. It was therefore with regret that the school committee in the spring received notification of Mr. Lunt's intention to resign his office and retire from the work of teaching. By the earnest request of the board he consented to serve till the end of the school year.
The junior department (second division) of this school was for the first part of the year under the charge of Miss Addic K. Hale, who in December tendered her resignation; this was accepted, and Miss Elizabeth A. Dodge was appointed by the sub-com- mittee of the ward to fill the vacancy for the remain- der of the school year.
Although the number of pupils attending the Jack- man school is small in comparison with that in at- tendance at some of the grammar schools,-less, cer- tainly, than it has been in years that are past, and although these scholars might be tolerably well ac- commodated in other schools in the city, it was not deemed best by the committee that this school should be discontinued; and it is hoped that the appointment of Mr. Charles S. Averill of Middleton, to be the successor of Mr. Lunt,-an appointment made by the board in July-will result in maintaining for the Jackman Grammar school the high character which it has heretofore sustained. Miss Alice T. Whittier, a graduate of the High school, was elected to preside over the junior division.
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The average membership of this school during the last term was 57. Of this number 27 belonged to the first, and 30 to the second division.
Number admitted to the High school. ..... 10
13 years. Average age of pupils-first division second 11 1-3 years.
FORRESTER STREET MALE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
MISS SARAH B. CHUTE, Principal. Miss ELLEN FROTHINGHAM, Assistant.
This school still continues under the efficient man- agement of the above named lady teachers. The whole number of pupils at the beginning of the year was 53; at the close of the year 46. The average attendance during the year was 48; average number 54. Average age of scholars, 12 years 7 months. Six pupils applied in July for admission to the High school, and passed the examination, their average rank being 90 1-2. Three of these gained a consid- erably higher per centage, and one took the highest rank in the city. The attendance at this school is still lessened about one-third by the Parochial school.
The grammar schools in ward six have been great- ly benefited by the five years course of study. It has raised the grade of these schools, and furnished far better material for the High school.
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FORRESTER STREET GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
This school continues under the management of Miss Serena B. Toppan, principal; Miss Agnes A. Somerby, assistant ; is under excellent discipline, and good progress is being made.
Number of pupils during the year. 72
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