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Number at the beginning of the year 66
close 65
Average attendance 59
60 number. 69
Average age of pupils 12 years 3 mos.
There were eight applicants for the High school, all of whom passed the examination with an average rank of 87.5.
KELLEY SCHOOL.
This is the only graded school under the jurisdi tion of the committee. There are eight rooms, let' ed from A to H, Mr. N. A. Moulton, the prir having charge of room H; Miss Abby Sho sistant, room G; Miss Martha J. Bradley, . Miss Eva J. Smith, room E; Miss Mary L. room D; Miss Hattie C. Piper, room C; I E. Jaques, room B; and Miss Alice H. room A. The whole number of pupils year, was 406.
This is a mixed school, both sexes o( same rooms. Here the young pupils beg of the ladder of learning, in room A of mary department, and as advancement
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knowledge, are promoted, step by step, from room to room, till they graduate in Mr. Moulton's room, or are prepared for the High school.
TEACHERS.
school-room.
No. desks in
of year
No. at beginning
year.
No. at close of
during year.
Av. number
Av. attendance
session
No. half days in
years old.
No. over fifteen
Y. M.
N. A. Moulton, principal.
Room H.
49
41
33
36
33
399
15
13 6
Abby Short,
assistant.
G.
49
30
33
32
27
399
0 12 3
Martha J. Bradley, ٤٠
F.
49
28
31
30
26
399
0 /11 9
Eva J. Smith,
65
E.
49
30
35
31
2S
399
0
10 6
Mary D. Bartlett,
66
D.
56
34
42
37
32
399
0 10
Hattie C. Piper,
66
C.
56
32
43
36
30
399
0
S
Mary E. Jaques,
B.
56
31
42
34
25
393
8
Alice H. Olmstead, "
66
A.
56
40
54
47
33
39S
0 :64
Names of pupils admitted to the High school from Kelley school:
GIRES.
L. C. Hamblet, 14 years ; Judith Plummer, 13; L. M. Dodge, 13; Gertrude Johnson, 14; Mary S. Johnson, 13 ;. Fannie M. Clark, 15; Carrie F. Mansfield, 14; L. F. Tobey, 14, Total 8.
BOYS.
Fred H. Morse, 15 years ; Leonard S. Davis. 13; Osgood W. Bruce, 14; Grosvenor T. Blood, 12; Robert G. Dodge, 12; Her- bert A. Davis, 14 ; Arthur M. Moody, 13; Walter P. Symmes, 14 ; George W. Kimball, 14; George L. Kimball, 14; William Balch, 14. Total, 21.
Av. age.
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THE HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. Seeley has continued to hold the office of prin- tipal, assisted by Miss Clarkson, preceptress of the Putnam, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Dame, Miss Senter, Miss Pike, and Miss Bigelow. The school sustains the high reputation which it has heretofore possessed. This institution, as is well known, is a consolidated school-the Brown, the Female High, and the Put- nam schools being united in one: the city by its coun- cil, and the trustees of the Putnam fund being bound by a contract (made formerly for a series of years, but latterly renewed each year for one year only ) whereby mutual concessions were made and mutual privileges were granted; the end being to furnish youths of Newburyport and vicinity ample means for obtain- ing of a most complete liberal education. It is be- lieved that the union of the three branches has been a success, and that there is no more friction in the working of the various departments than is incident to all institutions of learning constituted by a number of schools under one general management. The com- mittee have thrown open to the Putnam scholars the advantages of the classical course, which is a part of the High school curriculum; non-resident pupils, how- ever, pay a small fee for such tuition, viz: $12.00 for Latin, and for Latin and Greek $15 a year. .
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COURSE OF STUDY IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.
ENGLISH COURSE.
FIRST YEAR.
First Term .- English Grammar and Dictation Exercises, Arithmetic, Physical Geography.
Second Term .- English Grammar and Dictation Exercises, Arithmetic, Physical Geography.
Third Term .- English Grammar and Dictation Exercises, Algebra, Physi- cal Geography.
Fourth Term .- English Grammar and Dictation Exercises, Algebra, Physi- cal Geography.
SECOND YEAR.
First Term .- Modern History, Algebra, Natural Philosophy.
Second Term .- Modern History, Algebra, Natural Philosophy.
Third Term .- Botany, Geometry, Natural History.
Fourth Term .- Botany, Geometry, Natural History.
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 or Composition ..
II .- Civil Government Weekly by the Senior Class.
III .- Natural History Weekly by the Middle Class.
CLASSICAL COURSE.
FIRST CLASS.
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 .- ('æsar, four books; Latin Composition; Algebra completed ; Ge- ometry, four books.
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 Composition.
Greek .-- Anabasis, three books.
French .- Contes Biographiques, Ahn's French Dialogues, No. 1: and other works-in all equivalent to about two hundred and fifty pages.
FOURTH YEAR.
Latin .- Virgil's Æneid, six books, and the Bucolics; Cicero, DeSenectute 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 .- LaChanson du Jardinier, fifty-nine pages : Les Dames Vertes, two hundred and six pages; LeRoman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre, ninety- five pages ; this gives, as the amount read, between five and 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,
ATTENDANCE.
During the past school year the average attend- ance at the High school was smaller than usual, being only 75. Whole number of pupils during the year, 160. The whole number of Putnam pupils was 56; of these eight were non-residents. The number of female pupils was 103; of males 57. The following list comprises the graduates from the Female High, the Brown High, and the Putnam Schools-class of 1883-84.
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GRADUATING CLASS OF 1884.
FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL .- Lily C. Atwater, Bertha F, Dodge, Gertrude S. Lunt, Lucia F. Mulliken, Carrie C. Stanley.
BROWN HIGH SCHOOL .- George H. Jaques, Calvin R. Tit- comb, jr.
PUTNAM FREE SCHOOL .- Emma A. Batchelder, Eva M. Dalton, Laura M. Eaton, Laura B. Foster, Marion Hillard, Alma F. Pres- cott, William D. Eaton.
As for the prospects of the High school for the year to come, the committee feel warranted in offer- ing words of encouragement. Without unduly an- ticipating what more properly, perhaps, belongs to next year's school report, we are warranted in saying that the High school began the present school year with largely increased numbers, and gives promise of a successful year's work.
In the three principal departments of study-lan- guages, science, and mathematics-the course is full and the classes well represented. In the department of language and literature all the classes study the English language by careful reading of the best au- thors, with questions on the style, meaning, and pecu- liarities of those authors. Drilling from a reading book is not practiced except for declamation or read- ing from the stage.
The classical course is doing satisfactory work, being fully up to corresponding classes in other High schools. The study of natural science is pursued each year of the course; the preparatory class having physical geography; the junior class, physics; the middle class, chemistry and physiology; and the se- nior class, geology and astronomy.
In physical geography it is difficult to find a suita- ble text-book. A thorough study of this subject an-
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ticipates a knowledge of many sciences that a mem- ber of the preparatory class does not have, and the text books are largely made up of this kind of mat- ter. It is proposed to spend a half year instead of a whole year on this subject, and to omit those parts of the book that do not strictly pertain to geography. This plan allows the latter part of the year to the very important branch of physiology.
In physics, Avery's Natural Philosophy has been substituted for Steele's Physics, and is giving satis- faction thus far. Sharpless & Phillips' Astronomy was substituted for Locyer's, and is likewise satisfactory.
In other branches of natural science no change has been made in text books. The department of natu- ral science is much in need of apparatus for illustra- ting principles. The last appropriation for this pur- pose was made nearly thirty years ago, and since that time apparatus has been invented for the illustration of principles that were then unknown. Should the financial condition of the city allow, a liberal appro- priation for this purpose could be spent to advantage.
Mathematics are taught each year of the course- the preparatory course having algebra, the junior, ge- ometry, and the senior, trigonometry. Book-keeping by double-entry, and commercial arithmetic are put into the middle year.
The new rule adopted by the committee in regard to attendance, tardiness, etc., is a very great aid to discipline. Under its operation the per cent of at- tendance has been very much improved, and now we believe our High school will compare favorably with any in the state in this respect.
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CONSOLIDATED BROWN HIGH, FEMALE HIGH, AND PUTNAM FREE SCHOOLS.
CHARLES D. SEELY, PRINCIPAL. OLIVER B. MERRILL, Assistant for Brown and Female High schools. LUTHER DAME, 66
MISS ANNETTE A. SENTER, "
66
66
MISS MARGARET CLARKSON, Preceptress of the Putnam Free school. MISS SARAHI W. PIKE, Assistant for the Putnam Free school.
MISS ELIZABETH G. BIGELOW, " 66
Number of desks in Putnam school building. 315
Female pupils in the Putnam school for year ending July, 1SS+ 52
Male
66
66
21
Female 66 High school 66
51
Male 66 66 66
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Non-resident pupils in
66
66
6
Average attendance,
70
Number of pupils in the High school in September, 1883 66
June, 1SS4. 81
Average number during the year in High schools
Number of different pupils during the year ..
Average age of pupils of Brown High school 14 yrs. 9 mos. 66 Female High school. 15 yrs. 5 mos.
Number over fifteen years of age in Brown High school 25
Average age of both schools. . 15 yrs. 1 mo.
Female pupils in Putnam school, September 18S4 56
Male
22
Female 66 High school .
66
67 Male
66
62
Total in High and Putnam schools 207
66
87
83
90
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EVENING SCHOOLS.
The desirability and the necessity of evening schools for the benefit of many youths of both sexes who have by the circumstances of their birth and en- vironment been deprived of the means of education, and who, obliged to work for their support, cannot attend the day schools, was early apparent to the foun- ders of this commonwealth, who embodied in the laws of the state a statute making the establishment of such schools obligatory on the part of school boards. A small sum was appropriated the past year for the maintenance of an evening school. This school was held in the lower room of the Temple street school- house, Miss E. A. Dodge being principal, assisted by Miss E. W. Pearson and Miss Lula Jones. The aver- age attendance was about 35. Many of the scholars were servant-girls, foreigners who had emigrated to this country utterly destitute of the rudiments of a common school education; others were factory boys and girls who were too early taken from school and put to hard labor; to all such where there is a desire and a will to profit by these free advantages, the eve- ning school is a blessing. Your committee regard with satisfaction, the success which has attended this humble branch of our educational system.
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
An examination of teachers, under the superin- tendence of the sub-committee, was held at city hall August 12th, and a second examination was held sev-
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eral weeks later. The following candidates presented themselves, and after passing a satisfactory oral and written examination in the branches required by law, were declared entitled to certificates authorizing them, when duly elected, to teach in any of the public schools within the jurisdiction of the school board:
CHARLES S. AVERILL,
KATE C. HURD,
LOIS P. NOYES,
ELEANOR C. LUNT,
CLARA A. BLISS, ALICE P. STEVENS.
ALICE SWASEY,
ALICE T. WHITTIER,
ANNIE L. WIIITMORE, EFFIE SMITHI, EDNAH E. GREATON.
The following credits were assigned by the sub- committee to the several branches which were made the subjects of this examination, the sum of the whole being 100, and the minimum number entitling the candidate to a certificate being 80:
Arithmetic-20 credits, 10 questions ; Grammar, 20 credits, 20 questions ; Geography, 20 credits, 10 questions ; Spelling, 5 credits, 20 words ; History, 10 credits, 10 questions ; Reading, 10 credits ; Writing, 10 credits ; Drawing, 5 credits.
The printed questions pertaining to each of the above branches, were as follows:
SPELLING. (5 Marks, )
Machinery.
Engineering.
Pavilion.
Encyclopædia.
Psychical.
Guarantee.
Chimerical.
Annihilation. Incipiency.
Rhythm.
Prescience.
Machination.
Miscellany.
Metaphorical, Technicalities.
Hygiene.
Intellectual.
Desiccated.
Hypothesis.
Crystallized.
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WRITING. (10 Marks).
The answers to these questions were designed to serve as an exercise in writing, and were marked accordingly.
1. What is your full name ?
2. What is your age ?
3. Where were you born, and where do you now reside ?
4. What is your experience in teaching ?
5. What instruction have had in drawing, and can you teach it?
ARITHMETIC.
(20 Marks.)
1. A painter worked 27} days, and after paying & of his earnings for board, had $41} left. What did he receive a day ?
2. Reduce 4월
to a decimal.
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3. 43+3 51
-XXX93:
31-1134 8ª
4. What is the interest on $825 for 3 years and 4 months, at 8 per cent?
5. The base of a right angle triangle is nine feet, and the perpen- dicular is twelve feet, what is the hypothenuse ?
6.
A man bought 4,500 bushels of wheat at $1} per bushel. He sold 10 per cent of it at at 3 per cent loss, 50 per cent at 10 per cent gain, and the remainder at 5 per cent gain ; what was gained by the latter transaction ?
7. Do by proportion the following examples :-
If a man earns $48 in 4 months how much will he earn in 9 months?
If 20 bushels of wheat make 4 barrels of flour, how many bushels wiil be required to make 7 barrels of flour?
8. Cube root of 7854.
9. What sum of money at 13 per cent compound interest will amount to $7320.50 in 4 years ?
10. Wishing to borrow $500 at the bank, for what sum must my note be given at 90 days, discount being 7 per cent?
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GRAMMAR. (20 Marks.)
1. What is a compound sentence ? A complex sentence ?
2. Punctuate the following sentence, and place quotation marks where they belong :-
I have seen said Charles Lamb faces on which the dove of peace sat.
3. Write the possessive plural of the following nouns : thief, goose, valley, enemy, motto.
4. Give the synopsis of the verb " to see " in the third person singular, passive voice.
5. Give the principal parts of the verbs : fling, forsake, cast, ring, wring.
6. Write a sentence containing the verb " lie " (recline) in the present perfect tense ; also, one containing the verb " lay " in the same tense.
7. Write a sentence containing a substantive clause.
8. Analyze the following sentence, and parse the italicized words :-
9 10 11 12 On one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the 13 14 15 latter part of autumn, when the shadows of morning and 16 17 evening almost mingle together, and throw a gloom over 18 19
20 the decline of the year, I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey.
GEOGRAPHY.
(20 Marks.)
1. Define a plateau, a strait, a river system, a water-shed, gla- ciers, and a volcano ; and mention one of each.
2. In what part of the world, and in what body of water are the Andaman Islands ?
3. What are the principal exports of India, and its principal cities ?
4. Name the most northern, eastern, southern and western capes of South America, the three.river systems of South Ameri ca, and bound Brazil.
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6. Name and locate the principal mountain ranges of North America.
6. What circle crosses Australia? What large island north, and what one south of Australia ; and what strait separates cach from the main land? What is the principal river and city in Australia ?
7. Give the shortest and best route from Vienna to Bombay.
8. Name the largest river in New England, and describe its course.
9. Describe the course of the great Gulf Stream.
10. Name the republics of South America.
HISTORY.
(10 Marks.)
1. When and by whom were America, the Pacific ocean, the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi rivers discovered ?
2. By whom were the first settlements made in Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island?
3. In what year did the New England Colonies unite? Under what name and what were the terms of the union?
4. When and where were Franklin and Washington born, and mention some important services to the country in the life of each ?
5. When did Canada surrender to the English, and when did the French and Indian war end ?
6. Name some of the causes of the American Revolution. When and with what battles did it commence? When and where did it close ? Name some prominent men identified with it.
7. When was the government organized under the federal consti- tution, and in whom are the legislative, executive and judi- cial powers vested ?
8. Name ten presidents, and give dates of inauguration.
9. Give a short account of the Mexican War, and when did it close ?
10. Give a short account of the Civil War, its causes, when did it begin and end, and name some prominent men on either side.
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CHANGES IN TEXT BOOKS.
Notwithstanding the fact that provision was made in the public statutes whereby school committeey throughout the commonwealth were authorized to supply with free text books the children of paupers, and all persons wishing to avail themselves of the ed- ticational privileges of our public schools, but unable to pay the cost of school books, it was thought expe- dient by the state legislature during the winter ses- sion of 1884 to make obligatory on all the towns and cities of Massachusetts the furnishing of all text books and school supplies free of expense to all pu- pils attending the public schools, and to this effect the following enactinent was passed:
[CHAP. 103.]
AN Act to provide for the furnishing of Free Text-books and school supplies to the Pupils of the Public Schools. Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECT. 1. The school committee of every city and town shall purchase, at the expense of such city or town, text-books and other school supplies used in the public schools ; and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to the pupils of said public schools free of charge, subject to such rules and regulations as to care and custody' as the school committee may prescribe,
SECT. 2. Pupils supplied with text-books at the time of the pas- sage of this act shall not be supplied with similar books by the committee until needed.
SECT. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of August eighteen hundred and eighty-four. [Approved March 22, 1884.
It was deemed necessary by the school board to comply with the above requirement, the burden of whose cost must come upon the tax payers of this city; and provisions were accordingly made through the agent of the board to this end. Arrangements were made with the great educational publishing houses whereby supplies might be obtained at a re-
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duction of one-sixth from the wholesale price; and it was enacted by the board that henceforth all text- books shall be bouglit by the agent and furnished by him to the schools at such reduced price. The ex- periment of so procuring and furnishing school sup- plies was undertaken with the commencement of the new school year, and we are happy to report that thus far no complaint has been made of the working of the new law; moreover, the expense for the current year has not been as great as was anticipated. It is, in fact, confidently expected that an appropriation from the city treasury not exceeding $2500 will cover all the cost of free school books for the school year ending with the coming summer.
Among the changes made in text-books we note the following: Instead of the Franklin Readers, pre- viously in use, the Monroe and Lippincott series have been introduced into the schools. Greenleaf's Com- plete Arithmetic has been substituted for the Practi- cal Arithmetic in the advanced classes in the gram- mar schools. Moreover in all the primary and gram- mar schools Harper's Elementary and School Geog- raphy have taken the place of Guyot's Geographies; a change which has given great satisfaction to all in terested in the cause of education in this city.
In the High schools we have to report the substi- tution of Goodwin's Greek Grammar for Crosby's, formerly in use; of the revised edition of Harkness's Latin Grammar for carlier editions of the same; of Avery's Natural Philosophy for Steele's Physics; of Hill's Rhetoric for Quackenbos's; of Sharpless and Philips's Astronomy for the one previously in use;
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Thomson's Commercial Arithmetic was also adopted to be used in the first year of the High school course.
TEXT-BOOKS IN USE IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Warren's Speller, Harper's Primary Geography, McVicar's Pri- mary Arithmetic, Lippincott's & Monroe's First, Second, Third and Fourth Readers, Franklin Series of Writing Books.
TEXT-BOOKS IN USE IN THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Warren's Class Word Speller, Lippincott & Monroe's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Readers, Harper's Common School Geography, Greenleaf's Complete Arithmetic, Franklin Series of Writing Books, Meservey's Book-keeping, Swinton's Grammar.
LIST OF TEXT-BOOKS.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Thomson's Commercial Arithmetic.
Greenleaf's New Elementary Algebra.
Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry.
Loomis's Trigonometry and Surveying,
Hutchinson's Physiology.
Warren's Physical Geography.
Avery's Natural Philosophy.
Steele's Chemistry.
Dana's Text Book of Geology.
Sharpless & Phillips's Astronomy.
Swinton's English Grammar.
D. J. Hill's Elements of Rhetoric and Composition.
Kellogg's English Literature.
Swinton's Studies in English Literature.
Anderson's Mediaval and Modern History.
Martin's Civil Government.
Clark & Maynard's Series of English Classics.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Riverside Literature Series.
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Harkness's Latin Grammar.
Latin Prose Composition
66 Cæsar.
Cicero.
Titlow's Latin Lessons.
Greenough's Virgil.
Goodwin's Greek Grammar.
White's First Lessons in Greek.
Jones's Greek Prose Composition.
Keetel's French Grammar.
Reader.
Ahn's French Dialogues. No. 1.
Contes Biographiques.
Colomba.
Picciola.
Spiers & Surrene's French Dictionary.
Ahn's Rudiments of German.
Otto's German Grammar.
Adler's German Dictionary.
Elwell's German Dictionary.
CHANGES OF TEACHERS.
The resignation of Miss Lizzie H. Cheever, princi- pal of the Wesley street Mixed Primary and Gram- mar school, resulted in the election of Miss Edna E. Greaton to fill the vacancy. Miss Greaton entered on her duties at the commencement of the present school year. Miss Cheever was elected to the place of assistant in the Congress street Male Primary school, vice Miss Nellie M. Stanton, resigned.
Charles S. Averill was appointed to take Mr. Lunt's place as principal of the Jackman Male Grammar school, School street, and Miss Alice T. Whittier was elected as his assistant.
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During the whole of the second and third terms of the school year Miss Lander's place in the Hancock street school was supplied by Miss S. F. Badger, Miss Lander being kept at home by reason of ill health. Miss Lander has resumed her position with the commencement of this school year.
DISCIPLINE.
During the past year there have been very few sus- pensions from school on account of bad behavior. Effective discipline has been generally maintained. and this principally by moral influence. Corporal punishment as a means of enforcing submission and order is rarely resorted to. It is probably better that a lawless child, callous to the appeals to the higher nature, and disturbing the peace of an entire school, should be expelled rather than be kept in subjection by the constant use of the rod. It is generally recog- nized that a school governed by love and the persua- sive power of motive, is under better subordination than a school governed by terror and brute force.
CALISTHENICS. DRAWING.
A limited portion of time is each week in all the public schools devoted to calisthenics and drawing.
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RECAPITULATION TABLE.
Number of persons in the city in May last between the ages of 5 and
15 years.
2681
Ward one 462
Ward two. 273
Ward three 363
Ward four
400
Ward five 529
Ward six 454
Number between the ages of 8 and 14 years. 1677
Number of pupils in the schools during the year. 1836
Number at the beginning of the year 1860
Number at close of the yeal 1838
Average membership.
1861
Average attendance.
1181
Per centum of attendance based on average membership. 82
Number of schools in the city (public). 34
Number of teachers emdloyed in day school.
42
Number of days in the school year. 200
Number of days schools were in session.
2001%
Number of months, reckoning 20 days in each months 93%
Number of seats in school rooms. 2079
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
CREDIT.
City government appropriation .. .$22,000 00
One year's interest on Brown fund. 675 00
Tuition fees from non-resident pupils, &c. 202 62
State school fund. 269 25
Overdrawn 5,404 03
$28,550 90
DEBIT.
Teachers' salaries, High schools.
$ 4,350 00
Grammar schools 8,874 44
Primary schools 6,725 00
Evening school. 137 00
Books and stationery.
2,277 13
Printing
166 25
Janitors and sweepers, (including cleaning school houses) 1,306 61
School furniture.
110 70
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Water 4 00
Census
75 00
Secretary's salary
100 00
Agent's salary
100 00
Truant officer's salary
100 00
Rent of Putnam building.
1,500 00
Repairs of school houses
1,397 66
Hard and soft coal.
1,313 74
School report.
50 00
$28,550 90
Respectfully submitted
WILLIAM A. JOHNSON, (Mayor) Chairman.
CHARLES L. DAVIS, Vice-Chairman
STEPHEN COLLINS, Secretory.
DAVID T. WOODWELL,* Agent.
CHARLES H. BLISS,
GEORGE E. POOR,
SCHOOL
EDWARD P. HURD,
ALBERT J. ATKINSON,
COMMITTEE.
ALVAH B. DEARBORN,
EDWARD A. HALE,
CHARLES A. CURRIER, '
JOHN W. WINDER,
JAMES M. JACKMAN.
*Deceased,
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TABLE.
SCHOOLS.
ars in summer.
No. of different schol-
ars in winter.
No. of different schol-
summer term.
No. at beginning of
winter term.
mer term.
No. at close of sum-
No. at close of winter
Av. attendance in
Av. attendance in
No. of seats in each
Brown High
32
35
32
39
31
34
34
31
90
Female High.
50
51
50
57
50
50
57
50
140
Kelley
306
297
306
297
299
294
293
315
420
Bromfield (Boys') Grammar.
62
58
62
58
59
58
58
60
80
Jackman 66
54
61
54
61
49
57
39
100
100
Currier
66
52
56
52
56
46
52
54
79
70
Johnson (Girls')
69
65
66
62
69
65
63
68
97
South
60
54
56
54
56
54
55
54
97
97
Currier
67
68
67
68
64
67
67
67
Bromfield ( Boys') Primary
71
66
67
65
71
66
65
69
86
Jackman
67
66
64
66
67
58
61
66
105
Davenport mixed.
66
87
89
87
89
84
88
89
86
90
Purchase St (Girls')
56
45
49
42
54
45
43
53
91
Temple St
16
.
.
..
85
72
77
72
85
66
69
82
80
Ashland St. mixed
66
1st div.
36
29
31
26
24
29
27
30
63
Kent Street, 66 66
66
2d
66
50
34
48
28
50
34
32
49
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Moultonville Grammar & Primary Wesley Street
32
26
26
26
32
25
25
29
..
43
32
38
32
43
31
32
41
42
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.
.
36
33
36
33
33
33
33
34
50
Davenport
66
Johnson
66
66
114
102
109
95
114
102
98
112
108
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winter.
summer.
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SCHOOL TEACHERS AND SALARIES.
HIGH SCHOOL. L
Brown High and Female High.
Luther Dame, 66
1000 Miss A. A. Senter, 66
650
KELLEY SCHOOL.
N. A. Moulton, Principal, 1000
Miss Abbie Short, Assistant, 350
Miss M. J. Bradley, 66
350
Miss H. C. Piper, 350
Miss Eva J. Smith, 66
350
Miss M. L. Bartlett, 350
Miss M. E. Jaques, 325
Miss Alice A. Olmstead 325
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Bromfield Male Grammar, Bromfield st.
§ Geo. W. Brown, Principal, 1000
Miss Rhoda Tilton, Ass't, 350
Jackman Male Grammar, School street.
Charles S. Averill, Principal, -
800 Miss Alice T. Whittier, Assistant, 350
Currier Male Grammar, Forrester street.
Miss Sarah B. Chute, Principal, - 750
Miss E. Frothingham, Assistant, 350
( Miss A. L, Coffin, Principal, 425
Miss E. M. Lander, Assissant, 350
Miss Priscilla G. Craig, Principal, - 425
South Female Grammar, Purchase street.
Miss Susie B. Lowell, Assiss't, - 350
Miss S. D. Toppan, Principal. - 425
Currier Female Grammar, Forrester st.
Miss Agnes A. Somerby, Assiss't, 350
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
WARD ONE.
Bromfield Primary, Bromfield street. Miss Carrie M. Clement, Principal, 350 Miss Cora B. Lougee, Assistant, - 325
Johnson Female Primary, Hancock st.
( Miss Anna A. Currier, Principal, 350 Miss Jennie P. Haskell, Assistant, 325
WARD TWO.
Girls' Primary. Purchase street. 5 Miss Mary Estes, Principal, 350
Miss Jennie C. Teel, Assistant, - 325
Jackman Male Primary, School street.
Miss Hannah H. Pag-, Assistant, 325
WARD THREE.
Girls' Primary, Temple street. Mrs M. N. Gray, Principal, 350
WARD FIVE.
Davenport (Girls') Primary, Congress st. Miss Clara J. Edgerly, Principal, 350
Miss Lizzie H. Cheever, Assistant, 325
Davenport (Boy's) Primary, Congress st. Miss Sarah Whitmore, Assistant, - 350
Kent street Sub Primary,
Miss C. M. Bailey, 2d Div. 325
WARD SIX.
Ashland street Mixed Primary, Ist Div. Miss Frances J. Pettigrew, 350
2d Miss Flora Pettigrew, 325
Mixed Grammar and Primary, Plains, Miss Edna A. Greaton, 400
MixedGrammar and Primary, Moultonville Miss Alice M. Leach 325
Miss S. I. Adams, 1st. Div. 325
.
§ Miss H. M. Currier, Principal, - 350
Johnson Female Grammar, Hancock st.
66
Kelley School.
Chas. D. Spelye, A. M., Principal, $1500 (). B. Merrill, A. M., Assistant, 1200
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