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Twelfth. The trustees, as an assurance of their interest in the success of their plan of union hereby established declare that it will be their pur- pose to spend for the support of the schools for the purchase of apparatus or for additional instruction or otherwise, such sums as they may be able to expend in accordance with the conditions of the trust, while maintain- ing the principal of their invested funds, exclusive of the school building and grounds, at not less than $50,000.
They further state that it is not their purpose nor desire to increase their funds during the term of union.
Thirteenth. This agreement is made with the understanding that the lease hereto annexed shall be concluded between the Putnam trustees and the city of Newburyport.
STATISTICS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL
1900 - 1901
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Total enrollment
189
Average membership
171
Average attendance
165
Per cent of attendance
.96
Cases of tardiness
628 ·
Average age of 1st class
17 years 11 months
66
2nd ..
. 16
4
66
66
66 3rd 66
15 66
9
66
66 4th
15
66
0
66
Number over 15 years of age
115
Putnam School, total enrollment
74
Number over 15 years of age
58
GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE CLASS OF 1901
CITY HALL, JUNE 18th, 1901
MUSIC, "Clayton's Grand March" Blake ELIZABETH COFFIN WHITON
PRAYER
REV. G. W. TUPPER
MUSIC, "Gloria" from "Mozart's Twelfth Mass"
SCHOOL CHORUS
ESSAY, (Salutatory Rank) "Lucy Larcom"
MARY RUTH SARGENT
PROPHECY
DIANA PRESSEY BLAIR
MUSIO, "Commencement Ode" Veazie SCHOOL CHORUS
ADDRESS "Culture and Power" .
REV. EDWIN H. HUGHES
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MUSIo, "Revel of the Leaves"
SCHOOL CHORUS Veazie
ESSAY, Lowell's "Bigelow Papers," with Valedictory .
TULA MAY REED
Award of Toppan Prize Committee of Award : George W. Brown, S. C. Beane, D. D.
Presentation of Diplomas
CLASS ODE WORDS BY SARAH M RSE CHILD
When as freshmen we entered this time honored school, To share its deep knowledge and truth : We had then scarcely laid aside infantile joys, Of the oft thoughtless pastimes of youth. But the years swiftly flying have brought all too soon This day when from school life we glide ; And with faltering hands our frail boats we must launch, On the world's ever changeable tide.
Though our voyage through life be both stormy and bright, Our motto will serve as advice ; "Work to win" will stand forth to encourage us all, When we battle with destiny's strife.
In our future career, these same lines will recur, In the lessons, experience will give ; To bear all with patience, uprightness and truth, While on earth we're permitted to live.
Farewell ! 'tis the last parting word we must give To our teachers and schoolmates so dear ; And the school that has harbored us safe from all harm, To the heart will remain ever near. Though the class is united this last parting day, Divided the world we must roam ; But His arm will uphold us and guide us at last, To the realms of that bright, heavenly home.
Benediction
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HONORS IN GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP
Diana Pressey Blair
Mabel Webster Fogg
Myrtle Louise French
Dorothy Perkins Godfrey
Mary Newell Healey
Mildred Louise Pettingell Sally Thurlo Pike
Pearl Martin Pillsbury
Tula May Reed
Mary Ruth Sargent
GRADUATING CLASS
HIGH SCHOOL
Hermann Franklin Arens Edward Hale Bartlett
Francis John Chesterman
Diana Pressey Blair
Edward May Coffin
Harry Albert Curtis Ada Florence Drew Nellie Currier Haskell
Bessie Leighton Morrison Pearl Martin Pillsbury Mary Ruth Sargent Moses Hale Williams
Gertrude Loretto Barrett Grace Louise Bartlett
Stanley Besse
Edith Margaret Chase Harriet Dalton Coffin Minnie Grant Douglass Leroy Lommond Emery Ethel Gertrude Langley Majorie Sanborn Noyes Tula May Reed Carl Thurston Warton
PUTNAM SCHOOL
Mary Anna Bartlett Sarah Morse Child Mary Nelson Davis Mabel Webster Fogg Dorothy Perkins Godfrey Austin Hale Knight Sally Thurlo Pike
Arthur Prescott Brown Mabel Clifton Currier Orville Spencer Edgett Myrtle Louise French Mary Newell Healey Mildred Louise Pettingill Harold Morton Robinson
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
The school year ended June 21, 1901. During that time the only change among our grammar school teachers was in one of the rooms at the Kelley school, and was noted in the last annual report.
No striking events occurred in the schools. The usual amount of hard work was faithfully performed by the teach- ers and pupils. In most of the branches of study good pro- gress was made and in nearly all branches improvement in methods of instruction is quite noticeable. In history especially the teachers have required more intelligent work and less memorizing of useless statistics.
In language work the principal aim has been to enable the pupils to use English correctly and fluently both in oral and in written work. In the upper grades while this work has been continued there has also been more attention to techni- cal grammar, in order to meet the demands of the high school.
Geography has been faithfully studied according to the course laid down with the exception of the work of the ninth grade. In that grade the course of study called for a physical geography. After the examination of many works, on that
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subject, by the committee, the teachers and the superintend- ent, no book was found that seemed adapted to the needs and the mental development of grammar school pupils. Tak- ing this into consideration the ninth grade has taken the physical geography to be found in the present text-book and such reviews of other subjects as seemed desirable. In doing this, ample work was found to occupy all their time. It might not be unwise to drop geography with the eighth grade, as is the custom in many places, and devote that time to some other branch of work.
In spelling while improvement is always necessary, our grammar school children are not generally so poor as they might be or as they once were. Those schools that have fol- lowed the instructions given and have oral as well as written spelling, whose teachers have kept a list of words commonly mispelled and have had frequent drills upon them, have found that good results have been obtained. While there should be much written spelling and using of words in sentences, noth- ing has perhaps contributed more to make poor spellers than the theory that all the spelling should be written.
At the close of the year grammar school graduation exer- cises were held in City hall. This was the first time that these exercises were held by all the grammar schools, to- gether. An address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Winship and the occasion passed off very pleasantly. Whether this will be made the practice in future will depend wholly upon the decision of the School Committee.
The committee appointed to transfer the schools which were to occupy the new Jackman building recommended the
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following plan which was adopted and carried into effect about the first of October, 1901. Miss Coffin's and Miss Lander's pupils from the Johnson school with Miss Craig's and Miss Frost's from the Bromfield, and all of the grammar pupils in the old Jackman building were transferred to the new schoolhouse. Mr. Brown was placed in charge of the ninth grade, as principal of the school, Miss Coffin in charge of the eighth grade, Miss Craig of the seventh, Miss Lander of the sixth, Miss Colby of the fifth.
There were more pupils in each of these grades than could be accommodated in the various rooms to which they were assigned, and as the principal of the school wished to try the plan of individual instruction with some of the pupils who seemed capable of doing more than the ordinary class work, a room consisting of parts of four grades was devoted to such pupils with Miss Frost and Miss Kimball as teachers.
At present the new building is occupied by two rooms for primary children of the third and fourth grades and by all the grammar pupils below State street, in the remaining six rooms.
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KELLEY SCHOOL (Grammar Department) Irving H. Johnson, principal
Nellie G. Stone
Assistants § Bertha F. Ingalls
Anna L. Whitmore
Lillian Greenleaf
Total enrollment
230
Average membership 66
211
attendance
199
Per cent of
94.3
Cases of tardiness
814
Average age
12 years
Number over fifteen years
11
admitted to High school without examination
11
66
by
66 from 9th grade 1
66
66
66
66
8th
66
3
Names of pupils admitted to High school :
Ruth Brown, Harriet Chase, Bartholomew Creeden, Josephine Harri- man, John Mitchell, Marion Noyes, Willard Richardson, Elizabeth Roaf, Fred Stover, Ralph Tufts, Adelaide West, Percy Young, Leon Little, Mabel Noyes, Fred Rowe.
JOHNSON SCHOOL (Grammar Department)
Anna L. Coffin, principal.
Emma Lander, assistant.
Total enrollment
Average membership
attendance
62.3
Per cent of
90
Cases of tardiness
238
Average age
12 years 4 months
Number over fifteen years of age
5
66 admitted to High school without examination
3
66
by
from 9th grade 1
66
66
66
8th 0
.
.
·
Names of pupils admitted to High school :
Georgia A. Allen, Evelyn L. Alley, Bessie M. Davis, Flora B. Nutting.
.
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BROMFIELD STREET SCHOOL (Grammar Department)
Priscilla G. Craig, principal.
Abbie L. Frost, assistant.
Total enrollment
93
Average membership
81
attendance
74.7
Per cent of 66
92
Cases of tardiness
190
Average age
12 years 5 months
Number over fifteen years of age
0
66
admitted to High school without examination
4
6.6
66
8th .6
0
Names of pupils admitted to High school :
Mary Magner, George Perley Poore, Harlan Thurlow. Edith Hart, Louis Woodwell.
JACKMAN SCHOOL (Grammar Department)
George W. Brown, principal.
Josie W. Kimball, assistant.
Total enrollment
80
Average membership ¥ attendance
71
Per cent of 66
92
Cases of tardiness
429
Average age
12 years 11 months
Number over fifteen years
0
16 - admitted to High school without examination
10
66 66
by
from 9th grade 0
€6
66
6€
8th
66
3
Names of pupils admitted to High school :
William M. Pettengill, George I. Cogger, J. Albert Jackman, Henry S. Lay, Edward H. Jacoby, John Nolan, Albert McGrath, Frank S. Rich, DeLoid Safford, Daniel Harrigan, Harry F. Cole, Chester L. Nourse, Henry G. Murphy.
.
6.6
66 by
66 from 9th grade 1
77
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CURRIER SCHOOL
Sarah B. Chute, principal.
Àdelena Sargent, 1st assistant. Clara J. Edgerly, 2d assistant. Cassine H. Brown, 3d assistant.
Total enrollment
150
Average membership
140
attendance
131.8
Per cent of
94
Average age
12 years 186
Number over fifteen years of age
9
66 admitted to High school without examination
by
from 9th grade 3
66
3
Names of those admitted to High school :
Alexander Brown, Bertha I. Fox, Mattie L. Allen, Elmer S. Marston, Marion P. Safford, Eva B. Kendrick, Bernard M. Currier, Lulu Bartlett, `T. Bryant Lunt, Lillian Ordway, David Huntington, Catherine Whitmore, Herbert H. Whitmore.
MOULTONVILLE SCHOOL (Grammar Department)
Helen S Merrill, principal.
Total enrollment
28
Average membership
22.7
attendance
. 20.2
Per cent of . 90
Cases of tardiness
148
Average age .
12 years 7 months
Number over 15 years of age
5
admitted to High school without examination 2
rx 66
by 1
.
7
Cases of tardiness
0
‹
8th
Names of pupils admitted to High school :
James Graham Quill, Mildred Hawley Quill, Hattie Brookings Fowle.
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STOREY AVENUE GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY SCHOOL
Julia Boyle, principal.
Total enrollment
19
Average membership
16.5
attendance 14.5
Per cent of “
87
Cases of tardiness
43
Average age
10 years
Number over fifteen years of age
0
.
under five .. 0
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
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The only change in the corps of primary teachers during the year was caused by the continued ill health of the assist- ant teacher at the Moultonville school, Miss Flora Pettigrew. During a large portion of the year Miss Carrie Merrill acted as substitute, and was appointed as a regular teacher for the new school year, as Miss Pettigrew was unable to resume teaching. Miss Pettigrew had served the city faithfully for many years and was loved and respected by her pupils and their parents. Miss Merrill is a graduate of the training school and is doing excellent work in her new position.
The number of primary children in Wards One and Five made it necessary to continue the schools in both ward rooms. Both of these schools did excellent work, although occasionally interrupted on account of the use of the rooms for election purposes. The principal of the Congress Street school had so far recovered from her long illness as to be able to continue her work through the year.
The other schools pursued the even tenor of their way without any serious interruptions from contagious diseases or other causes. In all of the schools good progress was made in the various branches, particularly was this the case in read-
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ing which is of first importance at the beginning of school life. Much better results were obtained than ever before. The Ward system was used with great success. At the end of the second year it was found that the children had gained nearly half a year's time if judged by the progress made in previous years with other methods of teaching.
Those who are not familiar with the schools, have no true conception of the faithfulness and devotion of the teachers to their school work and to the welfare of the children in their charge. With these younger children gentleness and tact are of the utmost importance, not only for success in the work of the school, but also that the children may have be- fore them, at least in school hours, models worthy of imita- tion. The extent of the teacher's influence over the children is much greater than is generally imagined. The most and best of this is an unconscious influence to both teacher and child. Children are great imitators, even the varying moods of the teacher are reflected in the school. An experienced teacher can generally tell by her own feelings, before she reaches the schoolhouse, whether her school will be easy to govern for the day or the opposite. The school, like the world, is often a mirror, in which we see ourselves.
After the grammar school had been removed to the new building, it became necessary to rearrange the primary schools below State street. A special committee was ap- pointed for that purpose. This committee made the follow- ing recommendation, which was adopted and immediately car- ried into effect :
Recommended that the Temple Street school be made a
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mixed school to contain the first and second grades, that the Jackman be a mixed school to contain the third and fourth grades, that the Bromfield Street contain the first, second. third and fourth grades, the Johnson school, the first and second grades, and that the third and fourth grades of the Johnson be transferred to the Bromfield school; that Miss Haskell have charge of the fourth grade in Bromfield Street, Miss Richardson be promoted to the third grade, that Miss Lillian Ross be transferred to the second grade in the same school, and a teacher be elected for the first grade; that the pupils in the Ward Room be transferred to the Johnson building, that Miss Barrett have the fourth grade in the Jack- man, Miss Packer the third, and Miss Goodwin remain in the Temple Street with the first and second grades.
In pursuance of this plan Miss Adelaide Pritchard was ap- pointed to the first grade of the Bromfield Street school.
Shortly after the changes noted above Miss Lillian G. Goodwin resigned her position as teacher at the Temple Street school to take advantage of a position offered her in Cambridge. Miss Goodwin had been a very efficient and capable teacher. Miss Bessie E. Davis who was soon to grad- uate at the Training school was appointed to fill the vacancy.
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JOHNSON SCHOOL (Primary Department)
Jennie P. Haskell, principal.
Grace E. Bartlett, assistant.
Total enrollment 104
Average membership 80 66 attendance 73
Per cent of
66
90
Cases of tardiness
280 .
Average age
8 years 1 month .
0
WARD ROOM, WARD ONE
Mary F. Whitmore, teacher.
Total enrollment
. 50
Average membership
33
attendance .
28
Per cent of "
84
Cases of tardiness
99
Average age
5 years 8 months 3 .
BROMFIELD STREET SCHOOL (Primary Department)
Mary T. Colby, principal.
Annie B. Richardson, assistant.
Total enrollment 98
83 9
Average membership
attendance .
77.8
Per cent of tardiness
92.7
Cases of tardiness
151
Average age
. 7 years 7 months 0
Number under five years of age
.
.
Number under five years of age
Number under five years of age
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JACKMAN SCHOOL (Primary Department)
Nellie DeS. Barrett, principal. Dorothy Packer, assistant.
Total enrollment
94
Average membership
80.8
attendance
77.9
Per cent of “
96
Cases of tardiness
59
Average age
. 9 years 7 months
Number under five years of age
0
PURCHASE STREET SCHOOL
Lillie M. Ross, principal.
Total enrollment
46
Average membership 66 attendance
38.4
Per cent of
84
Cases of tardiness
93
Average age
6 years 4 months
TEMPLE STREET SCHOOL
Lillian Goodwin, principal.
Total enrollment 62
Average membership
45.9
attendance 41.8
Per cent of "
91
Cases of tardiness
112
Average age
Number under five years of age
6 years 7 months 1
45.7
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TRAINING SCHOOL
Frances W. Richards, principal.
Total enrollment
253
Average membership
196
attendance 178
Per cent of "
91
Cases of tardiness
533
Average age
7 years 9 months
Number under five years of age
3
CONGRESS STREET SCHOOL
Elizabeth Cheever, principal.
Sarah L. Ross, 1st assistant. Gertrude E. Lewis, 2d assistant. Anuie P. Toppan, 3d assistant.
Total enrollment 171
Average membership
138.6
66 attendance 123.3
Per cent of " 90
Cases of tardiness
247
Average age
7 years 9 month
Number under five years of age
0
WARD ROOM, WARD FIVE
Hortense F. Small, teacher.
Total enrollment 54
Average membership
25
Per cent of "
88
Cases of tardiness
166
Average age
. 5 years 3 months
Number under five years of age 0
attendance 22
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CURTIS SCHOOL Frances L. Pettigrew, principal.
Sarah F. Badger, assistant. Charlotte Dickins, assistant. Julia J. Hubbard, assistant.
Total enrollment
167
Average membership
147.3
attendance
134
Per cent of “
90
Cases of tardiness
132
Average age
7 years 7 months
Number under five years of age
3
MOULTONVILLE SCHOOL (Primary Department)
Flora Pettigrew, teacher.
Total enrollment
45
Average membership
32
attendance
27.5
Per cent of “
85.8
Cases of tardiness
165
Average age .
7 years 8 months
Number under five years of age
0
REPORT OF PRINCIPAL OF TRAINING SCHOOL.
The year ending June 1901 has been a most pleasant and prosperous one at the training school.
The classes both of children and pupil teachers were un- usually large ; two hundred and ninety two different children and twenty-one different pupll teacher's have attended.
The work of the school is very much hindered by the lack of room ; classes are obliged to use dressing rooms and the lower hall for recitation. In these rooms the classes are often interrupted and they are not at all desirable places for the work.
The only change in the rules of the school during the year was that of paying only young ladies who are graduates of the Newburyport High and Putnam schools.
The senior class consists of Georgiana Smith, Grace Page, Alice George, Harriett Boyd, Edith Annis, Evelyn Pike and Bessie Davis.
The middle class has four members: Ethel Ryan, Ethel Eaton, Katherine Locke and Edith Bradbury.
The junior class has four members: Laura Lamprey, Mabel Fogg, Ruth Sargent and Mabel Currier.
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During the year two members of the school have been obliged to resign on account of sickness, namely : Ada Drew and Elizabeth True.
Seven young ladies have been graduated the past year from the school.
These with one exception are now teaching : Adelaide Pritchard in the city, Gertrude Little in Rochester, Lelia Kimball in Bellingham, Lillian Rich in New Hampshire, Goldie MacArthur in Amesbury, Grace Cook in Newbury, Carrie Dodge not teaching.
It is very gratifying to those interested in this school to have its graduates so successful in obtaining and holding their positions. FRANCES WARD RICHARDS.
EVENING SCHOOLS
The evening schools were held for about the usual time at the Purchase street schoolhouse. Miss Helen S. Merrill officiated as principal of the school for boys. Miss Lizzie C. Ireland had charge of the girls' school. The number of pupils attending regularly was not large, but excellent results were obtained with those who were present.
Another school was opened on Monroe street with Mr. Wm. H. Merrill as principal. The pupils of this school were Armenians employed in the shoe and cordage factories. There were about twenty one different pupils in attendance, and they were without exception interested and studious. The principal effort here was in reading, writing and speak- ing English. Excellent progress was made.
REPORT OF THE TEACHER OF DRAWING
For the past year drawing has continued much the same as in the previous year.
The next step in the line of progress is to introduce color. All the towns and cities about us, where there is good work, have been using paints for some little time. Their work proves to us that painting in the schoolroom is beyond the experimental stage ; it is more than a fad ; and paints have come to stay. May we see them here.
We have a new school building in place of an old one, giv- ing eight large new rooms. The walls are carefully tinted and decorated with beautiful pictures and casts which are appropriate for the various grades. A list of these will be found elsewhere. Such an environment furnishes fresh cour- age and higher ambition to both pupils and instructors.
As the building was not ready to occupy until the first of November necessarily this delay caused a serious obstacle in the fall work. The transferring of the pupils and the teach- ers to their new quarters gave new conditions under which it seemed necessary to begin as if beginning a new year. This affected more than just those rooms in the new building - it affected every room where the teacher had to move.
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A set of Prang books has been placed in each grade, where they are intended to be, but have not been there long enough for results yet.
The Supervisor of Drawing now teaches the Training School Pupil Teachers. Every Monday is given to them.
Respectfully, SADIE M. MORSE, Teacher of Drawing.
COOKING AND SEWING SCHOOLS
The large classes and regular attendance of the 8th grade girls at the Cooking school, show that the training given there is appreciated. Girls are taught the nature of various foods ; and the ways of preparing them so that they are palatable and wholesome. The care of the stove and of culinary apparatus is not neglected. The food prepared is such as is used in an ordinary family, and little attention is given to "fancy" cooking. Pupils try at home the dishes pre- pared at school, generally with good results.
The sewing school the past year has been attended by the girls of the 5th and 7th grades one hour each week.
The instruction covers stitching of various kinds : button hole making, darning and patching with the cutting and fit- ting of simple garments.
The pupils prepare their own work, and are thus made ac- curate and observing as well as self-reliant.
Cooking and Sewing schools are both doing good work, and the results fully justify their establishment.
As the girls are thus benefited by this manual training in domestic practice, it is hoped that in the near future some means may be found of benefiting the boys to the same ex- tent, if not in the same way.
MUSIC
In singing a systematic plan of instruction has been adopted for the Grammar and Primary schools, from which good results are expected. The pleasure and profit that come from this practice are of so much value to the children in many ways, that the Board desires careful and efficient work to be done in this department.
THE NEW JACKMAN SCHOOL
THE NEW JACKMAN SCHOOL
The new Jackman school building was begun in 1900. The special committee of the city council in whose hands the matter was put consisted of Alderman Knight, Councilmen Fogg, Dow and Tilton. It has been completed under a new committee consisting of Alderman Fogg, Councilmen Lunt and Knight.
Two parcels of land were bought to make room for the building, the old school lot not being large enough. It is de- sired that other lots of land be purchased to square the school grounds, but the committee have not been able to strike a bargain as yet.
The school is built of face brick with a slate roof and metal gutters and copings.
The interior wood work is almost all Carolina pine, finished in the natural wood. The plastering is scratch finished. The dimensions of the building are about 80 by 72 feet with three stories and a basement.
In the basement there are four large playrooms, bicycle racks, two sanitary closets, coal bins for 50 tons of coal, jani- tor's closets and the heating and ventilating apparatus. The heating apparatus consists of two large furnaces and a small
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steam plant, the latter to furnish a vacuum for the ventilating shafts. The plans of the first and second floors are alike. There is on each floor a large vestibule in the center and leading from it are four large class rooms each 28x32 feet and two cloak rooms. Between the class rooms are two teachers' rooms on each floor.
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