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City Clerk.
THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
DIRECTORS
OF THE
NEWBURYPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY.
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT.
TERRA
MARIQUE
MDCCCLI
NEWBURYPORT: WILLIAM H. HUSE & CO., PRINTERS, 42 STATE STREET. 1889.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
IN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, November 26, 1888.
ORDERED, That the report of the directors be signed, and, together with the accompanying reports, transmitted to the city council, agreeably to the requirements of section 5th of the ordinance concerning the Public Library. H. A. TENNEY, Secretary.
TRUSTEES OF THE LIBRARY-1889.
ALBERT C. TITCOMB, Mayor.
ALDERMEN,
ISAAC P. NOYES, JOSEPH T. CHASE, JR.,
GEORGE E. ROSS,
W. HERBERT NOYES, EDMUND C. PEARSON, GEORGE M. ROAF.
DIRECTORS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
ALBERT C. TITCOMB, Mayor, Ex-officio. 66
MOSES BROWN, President of Common Council,
EDWARD S. MOSELEY, Trustee of Building Fund, .
SAMUEL J. SPALDING, Trustee of Building Fund, 66 DANIEL T. FISKE, Trustee of Building Fund, . 66
BENJAMIN HALE, Term of office expires
1889.
LAWRENCE B. CUSHING,
1890.
FRANK W. HALE,
1891.
NATHAN N. WITHINGTON,
1892.
WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, 66
1893.
AMOS NOYES,
1894.
JAMES PARTON,
1895.
TRUSTEES OF THE PEABODY FUND.
EDWARD S. MOSELEY,
EBEN F. STONE,
WILLIAM H. SWASEY,
DANIEL T. FISKE,
JOHN J. CURRIER.
JOHN D. PARSONS.
LIBRARIAN, . ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN,
EFFIE A. TENNEY.
SUPERINTENDENT OF READING ROOM, .
MARTHA P. LUNT.
ORGANIZATION
OF THE
Board of Directors of the Public Library,
FOR 1889.
President, ALBERT C. TITCOMB.
Librarian and Secretary. JOHN D. PARSONS.
Superintendent of the Reading Room, MARTHA P. LUNT.
Committee on Library,
SAMUEL J. SPALDING, BENJAMIN HALE, WM. R. JOHNSON.
Committee on Librarian,
AMOS NOYES, DANIEL T. FISKE, N. N. WITHINGTON.
Committee on Library Room,
EDWARD S. MOSELEY, SAMUEL J. SPALDING, MOSES BROWN.
Committee on Reading Room,
EDWARD S. MOSELEY, JAMES PARTON, FRANK W. HALE.
Committee on Finance and Accounts,
A. C. TITCOMB, BENJAMIN HALE, LAWRENCE B. CUSHING.
Committee on Bradbury Fund,
. LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, N. N. WITHINGTON,
FRANK W. HALE.
DIRECTORS' REPORT.
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To His Honor the Mayor and City Council of Newburyport :
GENTLEMEN-The directors of the Public Library submit the thirty-third annual report of their body to your consideration. The uniform course of success which has marked the past years of the history of this institution still continues uninterrupted. Wil- liam C. Todd, Esq., to whose generous beneficence we are indebted for our excellent reading room, some months since signified his purpose to so far increase his permanent fund that it would yield an annual income of four hundred dollars instead of three hun- dred and seventy-five as heretofore. This he has already done. By this enlarged means we shall be able to place upon our list of periodicals several which are very desirable. It is not thought best to make any addition to the list of our newspapers. As all the periodicals which are of permanent worth and interest are bound and placed upon the shelves of the library above, they will in the course of a few years, form a large and very valuable por- tion of our books.
Finding that our method of collecting missing books through our janitor did not always secure them, we have the last year sought the aid and co-operation of the police, through special au- thority granted by the mayor and aldermen. This has proved to be more efficient, and the result shows that every book missed but one has this year been found and returned to the library.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
For some years we have had in mind the completion of our set of the Congressional Globe and Record. In this effort we have so far succedeed that only two volumes are now wanting to com- plete the set. These are volume 9, Congressional Globe, 27th Congress, 2d session, and volume 16, Congressional Globe, 29th Congress, Ist session, appendix. The binding of periodicals and books still continues to absorb a considerable portion of the ap- propriation made by the city for the support of the library. This item of expense must, from the nature of the case, continue and increase. We could most judiciously use more if we had it at our disposal.
For the details of the present condition of the library, and the work of the past year, we refer you to the annexed report of the librarian, who has been so long, faithfully and efficiently identi- fied with all its best interests.
ALBERT C. TITCOMB, ORRIN J. GURNEY, EDWARD S. MOSELEY, SAMUEL J. SPALDING, DANIEL T. FISKE, BENJAMIN HALE, LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, FRANK W. HALE, NATHAN N. WITHINGTON, WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, AMOS NOYES,
DIRECTORS
OF THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
To the Committee on Library :
GENTLEMEN-The following statement will present to you a de- tailed and circumstantial account of the condition and increase of the Public Library for the past year.
The annual examination of the books in the library took place in the month of August, and a report of the result was placed in your hands by the party who conducted the undertaking. That report stated that, with some exceptions, notably, in the depart- ment of fiction, and among those works mostly used by young people, the books generally were found to be in good condition and occupying their proper places on the shelves. Five volumes were ascertained to be missing, and were accounted as lost. By subsequent action, however, through the assistance of the police, four of these books were recovered and restored to the library, leaving but one volume to be regarded as lost during the year.
At the close of the year 1887 the whole number of books in the library was 24,365 volumes. The number added since that date is 682.
Forty-seven volumes have been discarded in consequence of their worn out condition, while thirty-six volumes taken from the acquisitions of the year were used to fill the places, as new copies, of the same number of discarded ones, thereby practically reduc-
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
ing the number of additions to six hundred and forty-six volumes.
This number, less eleven volumes, which being the difference between the number discarded and those used to supply the va- cant spaces with new copies of the worn out books, constitutes the actual increase of the library during the past year.
EXAMPLE.
The number of volumes in the library at the close of last year 24,365 The number added during 1888 646
Making. 25,011
Less the difference named above 11
Total
25,000
The number now belonging to the library is therefore twenty- five thousand volumes.
Nearly all of the additions were obtained by purchase from the incomes derived from the several funds. The Peabody fund being much the largest has consequently furnished the greater number, and also the chief portion of the more rare and costly works, which are to be found among them. Following is a list of the funds and the number of books that each has supplied, together with the number received by donations :
Vols.
Peabody fund
328
Sawyer fund.
Bradbury fund 105
27
Frothingham fund 29
Todd fund. 97
Sarah A. Green fund.
31
Donations 75
It is gratifying to be able to state that we have now completed our set of the Congressional Globe and Record, with the excep- tion of two volumes.
It may not be deemed amiss for me to call your attention again
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
to the pressing need of a more full supply of magazines and re- views to meet the wants of those who are desirous of the aid of that excellent source of current knowledge.
The reference department of the library continues to attract those who are seeking information in verifying facts and investi- gating topics of daily interest. Scholars from the schools, with members of the various reading clubs, and in fact, the public gen- erally, avail themselves to a large extent for this purpose, of the pre-eminent advantages offered by the Public Library.
Indeed, public libraries are now more than ever before being used as auxiliaries to the public schools in the important work of education and culture, and any book of approved worth is capable of bestowing such lasting benefit as cannot easily be overesti- mated.
The names of nearly four hundred additional subscribers to the Rules and Regulations have been placed on the list of those ask- ing for the privilege of taking books, during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
HIRAM A. TENNEY, Librarian.
SAMUEL J. SPALDING, ) Committee BENJAMIN HALE, on WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, Library.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, November 26, 1888.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
THE PEABODY FUND.
Mr. George Peabody, when he gave the generous sum of $15,000, the in- come of which he designed should be applied towards the purchase of books for the Public Library of Newburyport, coupled with it the request that an annual statement should be made of the condition of the fund.
In accordance therewith the treasurer, who received this amount from the hands of Mr. Peabody more than twenty years ago, desires to make known that the principal remains on deposit in the Institution for Savings, where it was placed at the time of its receipt.
The income has been seven hundred and fifty dollars during the year and since the last report.
At the close of the last official annual statement a balance of $350.15 was reported as on hand, since which time $601.47 has been expended in adding three hundred and twenty-eight volumes to the library, and there now re- mains at this time of writing $498.68 available for the purchase of books.
EDWARD S. MOSELEY, Treasurer. EDWARD S. MOSELEY, ) EBEN S. STONE, W. H. SWASEY, D. T. FISKE, J. J. CURRIER, L
TRUSTEES.
Newburyport, November 26, 1888.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORT.
THE BUILDING .FUND.
To the Directors of the Public Library :
In compliance with the requirements of this trust, that a report be made annually of its condition, the treasurer, at the close of the fiscal year, sub- mits the following statement :
The principal, viz: five thousand dollars, is in the Institution for Savings, where it was originally deposited, and an addition thereto of one hundred dollars, accumulated interest during the year.
Three hundred seventy-two 65-100 dollars have been expended during the year, and since the last report, on the library building in masonry, addi- tional shelves and articles deemed desirable, leaving on hand fifty-one 64-100 in addition to the one hundred dollars before named.
It will be borne in mind that this fund is the excess over and above the forty thousand given by friends of the city for the purchase and prepara- tion of the present library building, and that for nearly twenty-four years the income thereof has sufficed to keep the building in repair and in other respects do what was thought desirable.
EDWARD S. MOSELEY, Treasurer. EDWARD S. MOSELEY, ) S. J. SPALDING, - Trustees.
D. T. FISKE, 1
November 26, 1888.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
THE TODD FUND.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from last year's account $273 68
From William C. Todd, Esq. 400 00
Total
$673 68
EXPENDITURES.
Periodicals and newspapers
$399 00
Post office box 3 00
Total. ฿402 00
We are happy to report the continued prosperity of this department of the Public Library, under the supervision of Miss Martha P. Lunt. No one, certainly, could feel a deeper interest in its welfare, or exercise a more watchful care over the publications placed in her charge. Good order and a regard for the rules have now come to be the established routine.
S. J. SPALDING, Treasurer.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
CREDITS.
City appropriation. $1,200 00
Town of Newbury, use of library for 1887
150 00
Dog licenses 860 55
Librarian, for fines 17 80
$2,228 35
Balance overdrawn
168 79
Expenditures
$2,397 14
EXPENDITURES.
Hiram A. Tenney, librarian's salary and extra $1,012 11
Effie A. Tenney, assistant librarian's salary. 200 00
Miss M. P. Lunt, superintendent reading room, salary 300 00
Daniel P. Donnell, salary as janitor
284 60
C. R. Sargent, labor and stock
13 15
George H. Pearson, sundries
4 81
W. E. Chase, insurance.
140 62
Philip H. Blumpey, entry mat.
2 30
News Publishing Company, printing
204 90
Safford & Lunt, cleaning clock.
50
Gillett & Co.'s Express, expressage.
25 52
William H. Brewster, insurance.
91 50
American Express Company, expressage.
60
William H. Huse & Co., printing.
16 50
Lovett's Express, expressage.
30
S. H. Thurlow, one can glue
1 13
Richard L. Gay, stationary
2 00
E. S. Thurston, examining and arranging books
15 00
Lambert Jackson, binding books. 74 50
V. H. Hall & Co., covering paper.
5 10
Total 2,397 14
AMOS NOYES, LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, BENJAMIN HALE,
Committee on accounts appointed by the board of directors of the Public Library.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
SAWYER FUND.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from last year's account. $ 05
February 9, 1888, received interest on city's note.
112 50
September 5, "
112 50
November 26, borrowed from S. A. Green fund.
3 13
$230 18
EXPENDITURES.
Amount of expenditures for books
$230 18
Above account examined and found correct.
BENJAMIN HALE, ) Committee on LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, Accounts
AMOS NOYES. for Directors.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
BRADBURY FUND.
RECEIPTS.
1888. Interest on deposit at Institution for Savings. $50 00
Balance from 1887. 01
$50 01
EXPENDITURES.
Paid sundry bills for books $49 39
Balance unexpended .. 62
50 01
Above account examined and found correct, December 31, 1888.
BENJAMIN HALE 1 Committee on LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, Accounts AMOS NOYES, for Directors.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
SARAH A. GREEN FUND.
RECEIPTS.
1888. Interest on city note.
$80 00
Balance from 1887 02
$80 02
EXPENDITURES.
Amount expended for books
$76 89
Loaned Sawyer fund. 3 13
$80 02
The above account examined and found correct.
AMOS NOYES, Committee on BENJAMIN HALE, Accounts
LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, ) for Directors.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
FROTHINGHAM FUND.
RECEPTS.
Interest on city note. $40 00
Balance from 1887 01
$40 01
EXPENDITURES.
Paid sundry bills for books $39 19
Balance unexpended. 82
$40 01
Above account examined and found correct December 31, 1888.
BENJAMIN HALE, ) Committee on LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, Accounts AMOS NOYES, for Directors.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
DONATIONS TO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY-1888.
BOOKS.
Vols.
Batchelder, J. L.
2
Cartland, Joseph.
3
Cartland, Moses, and John G. Whittier
2
Greeley, Gen. A. W
4
Hale, Benjamin
1
Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa Parsons
7
Hurd, Dr. E. P
2
Massachusetts, Secretary Commonwealth
2
Merrill, William H
1
Perkins, estates Dr. H. C., and Enoch Cross.
2
Stone, G. F
1
Titcomb, Hon. J. M
2
Todd, Hon. W. C.
4
U. S. Coast Survey
1
Department Interior
3
Smithsoman Institute 1
1
Wacht, G. Z.
Whipple, C. K 11
52
21
Marsh, Col. L. B. 1
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
DONATIONS TO THE READING ROOM-1888.
The Newburyport Daily News News Publishing Co.
Newburyport Herald.
Wm. H. Huse & Co.
Boston Advertiser Edward S. Toppan.
Unitarian Review
Christian Register
Am. Unitarian Ass'n. do
Congressional Record
Hon. Wm. Cogswell.
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.
Signal Service Weather Maps Gen. A. W. Greeley.
Official Gazette Patent Office.
Signs of the Times. Publishers.
Diseases of the Heart
.E. P. Hurd, M. D.
do
Diseases of Nervous System
do
Diseases of Liver
Diseases of Kidney do
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PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORTS.
. PUBLICATIONS IN THE NEWBURYPORT FREE READING ROOM.
DALIES.
Newburyport Herald.
New York World.
Newburyport Daily News.
New York Sun.
Boston Advertiser.
New York Star.
Boston Herald.
New York Graphic.
Boston Journal, evening.
New York Evening Post.
Boston Transcript.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Boston Traveller.
New York Times.
Boston Globe.
Boston Post.
Congressional Record, Washington.
Providence (R. I.) Journal.
North American, Philadelphia. New York Tribune.
Albany Argus, N. Y. Portland Advertiser, Maine. Chicago Times.
SEMI-WEEKLY, WEEKLY AND MONTHLY PAPERS.
Salem Gazette.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Springfield Republican. Philadelphia Times. Washington Star. Richmond Dispatch, Va.
Charleston News, S. C.
Cincinnati Enquirer. Chicago Tribune. Louisville Courier-Journal, Ky. New Orleans Picayune. The Alta Californian, San Francisco The Chronicle, San Francisco. Forest and Stream, New York. Harper's Young People, N. Y. Signs of the Times, New York. London Times. Punch, London. Nature, London. Montreal Gazette, Canada. Atlanta Constitution, Ga. ·The Independent, New York. Bradstreet's.
Mobile Register.
Galveston Weekly News, Tex. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Kansas City Journal, Mo. Rocky Mountain Weekly, Denver. Christian Register, Boston. New York Observer. Journal of Education. The Nation, New York.
Littell's Living Age, Boston.
Scientific American, New York. Scientific American Supplement. The Machinist, New York. Harper's Weekly, New York.
Harper's Bazar, New York.
Frank Leslie's Illust. Paper, N. Y. Financial and Commercial Chroni- cle, N. Y.
Connecticut Courant, Hartford. Mirror and Farmer, Manchester. Rutland Herald, Vt. London Graphic. London News, Illustrated.
New York Herald.
New York Mail and Express.
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MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS.
Harper's Magazine, New York. The Century, New York. St. Nichols, New York. The Atlantic, Boston. Lippincott's, Philadelphia. Peterson's Magazine, Philadelphia. Ballou's Magazine, Boston. Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia. Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly, N. Y. Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine. Good Words, London.
Macmillan's Magazine, London. Blackwood's Magazine, London. Temple Bar Magazine, London. English Illus. Magazine, London. The Agriculturist, New York. Gardner's Monthly New York. Andover Review, Boston. Cassell's Magazine.
The Naturalist, Philadelphia. The Journal of Chemistry, Boston. Van Nostrand's Engineering Mag. Popular Science Monthly, N. Y. Official Gazette, Patent Office. Liberal Free Mason. Home Missionary, Boston. New Englander, New Haven, Ct. North American, New York. Unitarian Review, Boston. Contemporary Review, London. Nineteenth Review, London. Westminster Review, London. Edinburg Review, London. London Quarterly Review. British Quarterly Review, London. Fortnightly, London. The Forum. Bibliotheca Sacra.
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Chambers' Encyclopædia, 15 vols. Brande's Encyclopædia, 2 vols. Lippincott's Biograph. Dictionary. Lippincott's Gazeteer. Anthon Classical Dictionary. American Newspaper Annual, 1880. Worcester's Dictionary.
Boston Directory. Massachusetts Business Directory. Newburyport Directory. Revised Statutes of Massachusetts. Poor's Manual of Railroads.
History of Woman Suffrage. Shipping Record. Catalogue of Public Library.
Map of the United States.
Map of Rockingham Co., N. Y. Map of Essex County, Mass. Johnson's Atlas of the World. New Eng. Business Directory, 1883. The Pathfinder and Railway Guide. Congressional Directory.
Quain's Directory of Medicine. United States Dispensatory. Clinical Therapeutics. Diseases of the Stomach.
Diseases of the Liver. Diseases of the Heart. Diseases of the Kidney.
Diseases of the Nervous System.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT.
FOR THE
YEAR 1888.
CITY
OF NEWBURYPORT
TERRA
MARIQUI
MDCCCLI
NEWBURYPORT : NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1889.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1888.
CHAIRMAN, ALBERT C. TITCOMB, MAYOR.
VICE-CHAIRMAN, N. N. WITHINGTON.
WARD ONE CHARLES H. BLISS, STEPHEN PEABODY.
WARD TWO GEORGE H. PLUMER, PRENTISS H. REED.
WARDTHREE ELISHA P. DODGE, GEORGE W. SNOW.
WARD FOUR
S JOSEPH B. LITTLE,
MISS H. E. LUNT.
WARD FIVE NATHAN N. WITHINGTON, WILLIAM A. EASTMAN,
WARD SIX
§ JAMES M. JACKMAN,
JAMES PARTON.
SECRETARY AND AGENT, WILLIAM P. LUNT.
ANNUAL REPORT.
THE HIGH AND PUTNAM SCHOOLS,
HIGH SCHOOL .- E. C. Adams, A. M., principal ; O. B. Merrill, A. M., Miss Sarah A. Leonard, Miss Mary T. Spalding, Miss Emma H. Parker, assistants.
PUTNAM SCHOOL .- Miss Margaret Clarkson, preceptress ; Miss Sarah W. Pike, assistant.
The city of Newburyport may be fairly congratula- ted in possessing in the united High and Putnam schools, an institution of unusual value and efficiency.
It has never been in a condition more satisfactory than at the present time, when the harmony between the two governing bodies as well as between teachers and pupils, leaves nothing to be desired.
The trustees of the Putnam Fund have made lib- eral appropriations during the year for the improve- ment of the property which they hold, under the founder's will. The interior of their building has been embellished and the grounds surrounding it re- graded, until now the school is as well accommodated
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in these particulars as could be reasonably desired. The union of the two schools, we may justly claim, is producing the good results which our predecessors who originated the movement so confidently predicted. Nor has the example of Mr. Putnam been without influence, and our students now enjoy several advan- tages, not foreseen, which are due to the liberality of later benefactors.
The whole number of students during the past year was two hundred and two; of whom one hundred and nineteen belonged to the High school and eighty three to the Putnam. Of these, eighty were boys and one hundred and twenty two, girls. The average age of the boys in the first class was 16 years, 5 months; in the second class, 16 years, 6 months; in the third class, 14 years, 10 months; in the fourth class, 14 years, 5 months. The average age of girls in the first class was 16 years, 8 months; in the second class, 15 years, 6 months ; in the third class, 15 years, 7 months; in the fourth class, 14 years, 9 months.
The Toppan Political Science prize was awarded in June last to Miss Mary Newman. The committee who made the award were Mr. N. N. Withington, and the Hon. Eben F. Stone.
Of the six boys who were examined for admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, three took the final examinations and are now pursuing their studies in the institution; the other three passed the preliminary examinations, and expect to complete their preparations and pass the final examinations in the coming spring.
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OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Our graduates, and other young men in the city, have a rare opportunity to acquire a scientific educa- tion at this justly famous institution, as the trustees of the Wheelwright fund render them assistance which is in most cases essential, paying for their tuition, books and travelling expenses. It is difficult to overestimate the far-reaching results which will nat- urally follow in the course of years from a wise ad- ministration of the fund in this manner. We are gratified to learn that the students from Newbury- port have held a high rank in the Institute, and given to their native city a favorable repute among its in- mates.
Three young men of the late graduating class took their final examinations for admission to Harvard University. All of them were admitted without con- ditions, and all received special credits. Another of our graduates passed the entrance examination at Amherst College.
The school library is now in successful operation, although the number of volumes is still small. The trustees of the Putnam Fund, with their usual liberal- ity, appropriated one hundred dollars toward the first purchase of books, and the pupils raised by personal solicitation nearly two hundred more. About two hundred dollars have thus far been expended, and it is the intention of the teachers to expend the remain- der with great deliberation, buying no work which the practical working of the school does not appear to call for.
In conclusion, we bear our willing testimony to the fidelity and skill of the teachers connected with the
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united schools, and, in the name of our fellow citi- zens, felicitate them upon the results of their honora- ble labors.
STATISTICS OF HIGH AND PUTNAM SCHOOLS,
-1887='88 .-
Whole membership of boys 46
Whole membership of girls 73
Whole membership. 119
Average. . IIO
Average attendance of boys 40.5
Average attendance of girls. 64.5
Average attendance of school 105
Per cent. of attendance. 95.5 Whole number of boys in Putnam school. 34
Whole number of girls. 49
Whole number of pupils. 83
Whole number of pupils in High and Putnam schools .. .. 202 Average age of boys in I. class. 16 years, 5 months
Average age of boys in II. class. 16 years, 6 months
Average age of boys in III. class. . 14 years, 10 months
Average age of boys in IV. class 14 years, 5 months
Average age of girls in I. class. 16 years, 8 months Average age of girls in II. class 15 years, 6 months Average age of girls in III. class . 15 years, 7 month's Average age of girls in IV. class .. . 14 years, 9 months
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