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George W. Hussey
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63
75
60
135
31
419
Blanks
61
45
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36
266
ALDERMAN, WARD SIX.
Wards
One Two Three Four Five
Six Total
John M. Chase
200
149
247
188
148
150
1082
George W. Martin
74
56
60
48
48
28
314
George N. Ordway, Jr. .
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51
62
59
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66
348
Herbert Patten
72
47
94
61
106
193
573
Blanks
76
ɔ̃ɔ̄
84
71
60
17
363
OVERSEER OF THE POOR FOR THREE YEARS.
Wards .
. One Two Three Four Five
Six Total
Benjamin F. Hathaway . 315
223
299
240
208
279
1564
Blanks
. 162
135
248
187
209
175
1116
344
ANNUAL REPORTS
COUNCILMEN.
WARD ONE.
John J. Dunn . 122
Henry H. Tingley 187
George P. Greenleaf
. 282
George H. Welch . 214
Franklin P. Knight . 258
Blanks . . 368
WARD TWO.
Robert W. Hughes . 122
James F. Sullivan . 183
George P. Peckham
1.79 William G. Wood 93
Arthur J. Richards . 153
Blanks . 344
WARD THREE.
. J. Leslie Brown . 167
Abraham Seaman . 155
Roy L. Carrington
. 217
David F. Souther , 129
Edwin S. Dodge 192
George A. Toppan . 157
John J. Kelleher
224
Blanks
. 400
WARD FOUR.
George E. Bragg 65
Charles P. Kelly . 203
Leonard S. Davis
64
William H. Wallace . 184
John Elliott
187
Wallace L. Whipple 41
Percy B. Jackson
. 153
Blanks 384
WARD FIVE.
John Balch Blood 165
Timothy S. Herlihy . 198
Henry A. Burke .
58
Charles L. Marble . 141
John A. Casey
155
Arthur Withington 174
William P. Donahue
96
Blanks . 264
WARD SIX.
Alfred L. Binley
169
Hugo Parton 189
Obed W. Greaton 231
Herman S. Stevens . 236
Frank W. Marshall . 213
Blanks
. 324
345
RETURNS OF ELECTIONS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
WARD ONE.
Ernest W. Bliss . 320
Blanks . 157
WARD TWO.
Prentiss H. Reed . 204 Blanks .
. 154
WARD THREE.
William F. Lunt 229
Blanks .
. 136
George E. L. Noyes . 182
WARD FOUR.
Charles F. Johnson . 247 Blanks . 180
WARD FIVE.
Oliver B. Merrill
207
Blanks
94
Nathan N. Withington . . 116
WARD SIX.
George A. Dickey 290 Blanks . 164
LICENSE VOTE.
Wards One Two Three Four Five Six Total
Yes .
261
217 321
246
208
172
1425
No
. 205
134
203
169
197
265 1173
Blanks
11
7 23 12 12
17
82
TOTAL VOTE.
Wards One Two Three Four Five Six Total 477 358 547 427
417 454 2680
2 J 2
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CITY GOVERNMENT
CITY GOVERNMENT .- 1903.
MAYOR. HON. JAMES F. CARENS.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
ROBERT G. DODGE, President of the Board.
GEORGE F. WOODMAN . Ward One
MOODY B. NOYES . Ward Two
BENJAMIN P. IRELAND Ward Three
CHARLES W. AYERS Ward Four
ANDREW R. CURTIS .
. Ward Five
JOHN M. CHASE Ward Six
ROBERT G. DODGE (ward three) . At Large
GEORGE H. STEVENS, Clerk of the Board. HENRY W. LITTLE, Assistant Clerk.
BOARD OF COMMON COUNCIL.
TIMOTHY HERLIHY, President.
WARD ONE.
WARD FOUR.
GEORGE P. GREENLEAF,
JOHN ELLIOTT,
FRANKLIN P. KNIGHT,
CHARLES P. KELLEY,
GEORGE H. WELCH.
WILLIAM H. WALLACE.
WARD TWO.
WARD FIVE.
GEORGE P. PECKHAM,
JOHN BALCH BLOOD,
ARTHUR J. RICHARDS,
TIMOTHY HERLIHY,
JAMES F. SULLIVAN
ARTHUR WITHINGTON.
WARD THREE.
WARD SIX.
ROY L. CARRINGTON,
OBED W. GREATON,
EDWIN S. DODGE,
FRANK W. MARSHALL,
JOHN J. KELLEHER.
HERMAN S. STEVENS.
* THOMAS E. CUTTER, Clerk of the Board.
* Died May 26; HENRY W. LITTLE elected to fill vacancy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
CITY GOVERNMENT, 1902 . 5
66 1903. 347
MAYOR'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 1902 19
OFFICE HOURS OF CITY OFFICIALS 4
REPORTS :
Board of Assessors 213
Board of Health . 215
Bridge Tender . 233
Chief Engineer 199
City Auditor 38
City Marshal 223
City Physician 194
City Registrar
. 239
City Solicitor
. 229
City Treasurer 77 Committee on Fire Department 209
Election Returns for 1902 . 337
Inspector of Milk 277
Overseers of the Poor 191
Public Library . 297
Sealer of Weights and Measures , . 279
Sinking Fund Commissioners 72
Superintendent of Sewers 235
Surveyor of Highways 247
Tax Collector 90
Trust Funds 259
Water Commissioners 281
JURY LIST . 331
350
ANNUAL REPORTS
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES : PAGE
Abatement of Taxes 94
Ashes and Rubbish 95
Board of Health . 97
Bridges and Culverts .
100
Bromfield Fund 103
City Bonds 104
Fire Department . 104
Fuel Department
Highway Department 110
111
Incidental Department 120
Interest Department 135
Lighting Streets and Public Buildings 137
Memorial Day . 138
Notes Payable . 138
Parks and Public Grounds 140
Parks (Atkinson Common) 141
Parks (Cushing) 142
Police Department 143
Poor Department 145
Printing Department 151
Public Library . 151
Public Property 153
Salaries of City Officers 158
School Department . 160
Sewerage (Construction) 166
Sewerage (Maintenance) 169
Sidewalks and Edgestones . 169
State of Massachusetts, Armory Rent . 171
State of Massachusetts, Military Aid . 172
Soldiers' Relief . 172
Watering Streets for 1902 . 173
Miscellaneous 174 .
APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1902 182
THE
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
City of Newburyport, Massachusetts
FOR THE YEAR 1902
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT - 1902
MOSES BROWN (Mayor)
Chairman
JOHN F. YOUNG
. Vice Chairman
Ward 1 - RICHARD G. ADAMS, 70 Bromfield street. Term expires 1904
ERNEST W. BLISS, 10 Allen street. 66 66 1903
Ward 2 - CHARLES W. BAILEY, 62 Prospect street. 66 66 1904
PRENTISS H. REED, 55 Lime street. 66 1903
Ward 3 - JOHN F. YOUNG, 9 Fruit street. 66
1904
GEO. E. L. NOYES, 101 State street.
66 1903
Ward 4 - CLARENCE C. DAY, 8 Washington street.
GEO. W. WORCESTER, 124 High street. 66
1903
Ward 5 - EDWARD H. LITTLE. 215 High street. 6.
1904
OLIVER B. MERRILL, 35 Monroe street. 66
66
1903
Ward 6 - PAUL A. MERRILL, 24 Tyng street.
66
1904
GEORGE A. DICKEY, 14 Toppan street. 66
1903
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
WILLIAM P. LUNT
Office at City Hall
TRUANT OFFICER
ROBERT G. ALLEN Office with Superintendent
1904
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT (CONCLUDED)
SUB-COMMITTEES.
HIGH SCHOOL -O. B. Merrill, C. C. Day, P. H. Reed, P. A. Merrill, R. G. Adams.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS- G. W. Worcester, G. E. L. Noyes, E. W. Bliss, P. A. Merrill, C. W. Bailey.
TRAINING SCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS- E. W. Bliss, C. C. Day, O. B. Merrill, E. H. Little, G. A. Dickey.
TEXT BOOKS AND SUPPLIES- P. H. Reed, G. A. Dickey, J. F. Young. RULES AND REGULATIONS - J. F. Young, O. B. Merrill, G. E. L. Noyes. EVENING SCHOOLS - C. C. Day, R. G. Adams, G. A. Dickey. PRUDENTIAL - C. W. Bailey, G. W. Worcester, E. H. Little. SALARIES - P. A. Merrill, E. W. Bliss, C. W. Bailey. JANITORS AND BUILDINGS - R. G. Adams, E. H. Little, G. W. Worcester. DRAWING AND MUSIC - P. A. Merrill, R. G. Adams, G. E. L. Noyes. COOKING AND SEWING - G. E. L. Noyes, C. C. Day, P. H. Reed.
SCHOOL DIRECTORY AND CALENDAR
SCHOOL COMMITTEE ROOM - City Hall.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT -City Hall.
REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE BOARD - Last Monday evening of each month except July and August.
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE HOURS -Wednesdays, 9 to 10, a. m .; other days, 4 to 5, p. m.
SCHOOL YEAR - Begins tenth Tuesday after the Saturday preceding the Fourth of July.
VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS - Saturdays; Thanksgiving day and two suc- ceeding days ; Washington's birthday ; Memorial day; Patriot day ; Labor day ; from Christmas to New Year, inclusive; one week com- mencing the first Monday in April ; also, nine weeks from the Sat- urday preceding the Fourth of July.
SCHOOL SIGNALS
8:15, a. m. - Two strokes of fire alarm, no forenoon session of primary and grammar schools.
1:15, p. m .- Two strokes of fire alarm, no afternoon session of primary and grammar schools.
THE HIGH AND PUTNAM SCHOOLS
HIGH SCHOOL - Walter E. Andrews, principal ; Dana C. Wells, Frank A. Page, sub-masters ; Sara A. Leonard, Elizabeth Goldsmith, Edna S. Moffatt, Mabelle L. Moses, Edith M. Brown, assistants.
PUTNAM SCHOOL - Harriet C. Piper, Clio Chilcott, assistants.
To the Committee on High School :
The graduating exercises with the annual exhibition of "The Consolidated High and Putnam Schools," was held at City Hall, June 20th, 1902. The graduates numbered twenty-eight young men and women, ten from the Putnam, and eighteen from the High School. The salutatory address was given by Miss Annie C. Pottle and the valedictory by Mr. Theodore F. Savage. An interesting address was also given by Rev. Samuel M. Crothers of Cambridge. Five of the graduates of this class have entered college, two the Institute of Technology, two the Normal School and three the Training School in this city.
The Toppan Prize, awarded to the pupil passing the best written examination in the study of Civil Government, was given to Miss Annie C. Pottle, the committee of award being Dr. J. F. Young and Rev. A. H. Wright.
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The corps of teachers in charge of the school remains the same as last year.
The graduation exercises at City Hall last June marked the end of the "Union" school known for thirty-four years as "The Consolidated High and Putnam Schools." It began its existence in 1868 by the union of the Putnam Free with the City High School, and was the result of efforts that had been going on with more or less activity, for several years.
There was at the time doubt about the legality of the union, as the agreement made the teachers elected by the School Board subject to the approval of the Putnam Trus- tees which was not in accordance with the laws of the com- monwealth. As the advantages of the union to both parties seemed clear, it seemed best to carry out the plan even at some risk.
The Putnam School building was remodeled for the ac- commodation of the new school, the cost amounting to about $20,000, principal and interest being paid by the city in the form of rent. Thus the Consolidated School was started.
In the thirty-four years of its existence it has had the training of more than three thousand pupils, one-third of whom have completed the course and have received diplo- mas. It has had for instructors seven principals and thirty- seven assistant teachers, or fourteen male and thirty female teachers. What the school has done in these years in train- ing young men and women for responsible positions as well
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as for the active duties of life, need not be enlarged upon here.
The agreement made in 1868 was for ten years; in 1879 it was renewed, and in 1885 again renewed for ten years in a form more favorable financially to the city. In 1885 the amount for which the city was liable having been paid, rent for the building practically ceased and the 'Trustees agreed to pay a much larger portion of the running expenses of the school than they had previously done. This agreement expired in 1895, and early in 1896 the school board requested the City Council to renew the contract with the Trustees. The rec- ords of the Mayor and Aldermen show that the request of the School Board came before them, but for some unknown reason no action was taken upon it. This fact, together with the evident fact that the school had outgrown its original accommodations and needed modern conveniences for car- rying on its work successfully, gave rise to an unsettled con- dition of affairs that was neither pleasant nor profitable.
At length in January 1901, the School Board appointed a committee to confer with the Trustees in regard to an agreement, the principal feature of which should be such al- terations as would adapt the school house to the necessities of a modern high school.
As no definite result seemed likely to come from this ac- tion, the Board in February, 1901, passed a vote asking the City Council to provide suitable accommodations for the High School.
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The outcome of this was the agreement printed in the School Report for 1901, by which the city was to purchase the Putnam School building and pay for the needed altera- tions and improvements, while the Trustees were to pay the net income of the Putnam Fund for the support of the Schools.
This agreement having been accepted by the parties con- cerned, plans for remodeling the building were presented by several architects, and one selected under which the work was begun in the spring of 1902.
Soon after the contractor began his work a decree of the Supreme Court ordered a suspension on the ground of il- legality. This led to an enquiry by the court into the con- ditions under which the school had been conducted in the past, with the result that the "union" was declared contrary to law. This decree of course nullified the agreement of 1901.
As the opinion of the School Board as well as of the Trustees was in favor of some way by which the two schools could co-operate with each other legally, a committee of conference was appointed to meet the Trustees, and, if pos- sible, devise some means by which each school might aid the other in educational matters without infringing upon the laws of the state.
Several plans were drawn up, not for "union" but for co- operation, which, when reviewed by counsel were found de- fective. At last the following scheme seemed free from le-
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gal objections, and was adopted by the School Board, Aug. IIth, and by the Trustees Aug. 22d, 1902.
PLAN FOR CO-OPERATION in the management of the Newburyport High School and the Putnam Free School for the next school year.
1. The city council will lease to the trustees of the Putnam Free School certain room or space in the High School building not required for the use of the High School for the accommodation of the pupils of the Putnam School ; the rental of such space or room to be fixed at the sum of $1200, except as hereinafter provided.
2. The trustees of the Putnam Free School shall employ, as principal of the Putnam School, the teacher already elected as principal of the High School, or any other principal whom the school committee may elect as their principal, and who may be satisfactory to the trustees.
3. The trustees shall employ from the corps of teachers of the High School such assistants as are necessary for instruction in the branches assumed by the trustees.
4. The register of each school and the conferring of diplomas shall be under the control of the legally constituted authorities of each school.
5. The meaning of this plan of co-operation is that while the two schools shall be under the supervision of the same person as principal in each, each school is to maintain its identity as a separate institution.
6. Should the average number of pupils in the Putnam school exceed sixty-five, then the trustees shall pay, in addition to the rental of $1200, a further rental of forty-eight dollars for each student above the said num- ber of sixty-five.
At the beginning of the present school year, the new school building not being ready to receive the schools, the City Council granted the use of the Armory for their ac-
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commodation. Two large rooms were parted off in the rear portion of the drill hall and these with the small rooms in the front of the building furnished fairly convenient, if not ideal, quarters for the schools. The teachers and pupils have adapted themselves to their unusual conditions and great credit is due them that the work of the schools in both studies and discipline has been accomplished successfully.
The number of students in the schools Dec. 1, 1902, was 207 city pupils, 64 Putnam, and 4 tuition pupils not belong- ing to the Putnam School, a total of 275.
STATISTICS OF THE HIGH AND PUT- NAM SCHOOLS- 1901-1902
Whole membership of boys in High school ...
66
66
girls
60
6 6
..
...
...
...
78
Average
66
boys
66
..
...
...
...
101 70
66
66
girls
66
66
...
...
...
...
171
.6
attendance of boys
6 .
66
.. ...
..
...
67.7
60
pupils
66
60
..
...
165.6 97
Per cent of
boys
girls
66
96 .6
school
96.8
Whole number of boys in Putnam
66
..
..
...
...
29
.6
girls
66
66
..
..
...
44
66
pupils
6 6
..
...
...
...
73
66 pupils in High and Putnam schools
...
...
259
Average age of boys in I class, High school ...
..
...
...
18
girls in I 66
...
...
...
...
17.9
Putnam school
...
...
...
17.7
66
girls in I 66
66
...
...
...
17.5
6 6
66
boys in II 66
High school ... ...
...
...
...
...
16.3
66
66
boys in II "
Putnam school 66 High school ...
...
...
...
15.8
66
girls in III "
Putnam school
...
...
...
16
66
girls in III "
...
...
...
15.1
High school ... 66
...
...
...
15·1
66
girls in IV “
..
...
...
...
15.5
Putnam school
...
...
...
14.7
66
.6
boys in IV " girls in IV “
...
...
...
14.3
Number over fifteen years of age, boys, in High school
...
...
89
66
66
girls,
66
...
...
62
66
pupils
66
...
..
...
97.9
girls
66
..
...
...
...
...
...
...
6.
..
...
..
...
...
16.9
66
girls in II
...
...
...
15.6
66
boys in III "
..
...
...
16.3
.6
boys in III "
...
...
16.8
girls in II
...
...
...
108
..
...
..
pupils
..
...
...
...
186
66
boys in I
66
66
boys in IV “
GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE CLASS OF 1902
CITY HALL, JUNE 20, 1902
MUSIC, " March Triumphale " ... .. . ...
Stahl
ORCHESTRA.
PRAYER ... ... ... ... ... ...
REV. S. C. BEANE, D. D.
MUSIC, " Heavens Proclaim Him " ... ... ... ... Beethoven SCHOOL CHORUS.
ESSAY (Salutatory Rank), " Homes of Some of Our New England Poets "
ANNIE COBB POTTLE.
MUSIC, " Forget-Me-Not " ... ... ... ... ... Giese
SCHOOL CHORUS.
ADDRESS, " Capacity and Capability " ... ... ...
REV. SAMUEL M. CROTHERS, D. D,
MUSIC, " To Thee, O Country " .. ... ... ... SCHOOL CHORUS.
ESSAY, "A Study in Mythology," with Valedictory ...
THEODORE FISKE SAVAGE.
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AWARD OF TOPPAN PRIZE ... ... ... ..
Committee of Award § Dr. John F. Young, Rev. Arthur H. Wright.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS ... ...
... ...
CLASS ODE .. ... ... ... Music - Fair Harvard
WORDS BY BESSIE MARION BROWN.
We have forged a new link in the brief chain of life, And today the last blow has been given ; May the welding so strong, and the metal so true, By the strain of life's storms ne'er be riven.
Now some new work awaits us, our comrades must change, Our parallel paths must diverge ; But may each do his noblest in all of life's work Till our paths into one again merge.
Thoughts of sadness assail, though there's hope in our hearts, As the past and the future here blend. Still one purpose is ours, though severed our ways, As each one follows out his life's trend.
Then be Duty and Courage the masters we serve, With the purpose to just do our best ; For God's promise is o'er us, His arm is beneath, And He will attend to the rest.
BENEDICTION ... ... ... ...
... .. .
Miss Elizabeth C. Whiton, Pianist.
GRADUATING CLASS
HIGH SCHOOL
Ralph Lincoln Bartlett, Fred Worthington Chandler,
Ellen Brown Craig, Gertrude Augusta Huntington,
Frank Oakman Patton,
Alice Evannah Philbrick,
Norman Russell,
Theodore Fiske Savage,
Richard Dana Tucker,
Edward Stickney Brown,
Annie Mae Chase, Russell Benjamin Greene,
Moses Melvine Low,
Helen Chesley Pearson,
Annie Cobb Pottle, Edward Haynes Sargent,
Charles Corliss Shackford, Elizabeth Agnes Walsh.
PUTNAM SCHOOL
Bessie Marion Brown, Alice Rebecca Currier,
Adelaide Pearle Dodge,
James Banks Flaws,
Edward Kimball Thurlow,
Margaret Lunt Brown, Harriet Edna Currier,
Marion Fiske Evans, Ellen Agnes Riley,
Feroline Langley Woods.
HONORS IN GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP
BESSIE MARION BROWN, MARGARET LUNT BROWN,
ALICE REBECCA CURRIER HARRIET EDNA CURRIER,
GERTRUDE AUGUSTA HUNTINGTON,
HELEN CHESLEY PEARSON, ALICE EVANNANI PHILBRICK, ANNIE COBB POTTLE,
THEODORE FISKE SAVAGE,
EDWARD KIMBALL THURLOW.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
-
Our grammar schools fill a most important part in the public school system. Many children leave school as soon as they have completed the grammar school course, some before that time. Under the school laws of Massachusetts, no child can be employed in any manufactory before reach- ing the age of fourteen, at which time, if of average ability, most children have passed through the eighth grade. and have acquired a fair elementary education in the branches taught in the grammar schools. A few, if intelligent and ambitious, may finish the work of the ninth grade.
Several attempts have been made to extend the age of compulsory attendance at school to sixteen. So far these efforts have been unsuccessful. The present law seems very wise in its provisions. To make the age of compulsory at- tendance sixteen instead of fourteen would increase the number of children, now large enough, that attend school long after they receive any benefit therefrom.
An ordinarily healthy and well grown child of fourteen years, without any special aptitude or inclination for a pro- fession, or any marked qualification for a literary or intel-
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lectual career, is old enough to help his parents or to sup- port himself, and is frequently greatly benefited by having to earn his own living.
During the year ending June 30, 1902, no changes oc- curred among the grammar school teachers. At the close of the year Miss Anna L. Coffin resigned her position as teacher of the eighth grade in the Jackman school. Miss Coffin had taught many years with signal success. She was a woman of remarkable intellectual ability and great force of character. Miss Craig was promoted from the seventh to the eighth grade to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Cof- fin's resignation. Miss Lander was transferred from the sixth grade to the seventh, Miss Barrett taking the sixth in place of Miss Lander. Miss Packer was promoted from the third to the fourth.
One year's trial of the new Jackman school building has shown it to be excellently arranged and adapted to the work of the school. The heating and ventilating system has worked satisfactorily. The eight rooms have, however, proved inadequate to the accommodation of all the grammar pupils below State street and the primary scholars in the immediate vicinity. For this reason a committee was ap- pointed at the close of the year to report a plan for the re- arrangement of the schools below State street.
This committee in making their report recommended the removal of the third grade from the Jackman school and de- voting two rooms for the fifth grade, which numbered over
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eighty pupils. The report was adopted and Miss Lillian Greenleaf was transferred from the Kelley to take charge of one of these rooms. Miss E. Josephine Coffin, a graduate of the Training school, who had had several years' success- ful experience in another town, was appointed to Miss Greenleaf's place in the Kelley school.
The ungraded room was continued for another year, but instead of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades which occupied it last year, only pupils of the sixth, seventh and eighth were placed there. The fifth grade was large enough in numbers to occupy two rooms.
At present the Jackman school is occupied by pupils of all grades from the fourth to the ninth inclusive.
With the opening of the new school year in September, 1902, it was found that several of the grammar school rooms above State street were crowded beyond their capacity. This was especially the case in the fifth and seventh grades at the Kelley school and in the fifth and eighth grades at the For- rester street school. To relieve these schools transfers were made to the Jackman school from the Kelley, and a gram- mar school was started in the Congress street ward room. Mrs. Alice Silloway was placed in charge, and pupils were transferred from the fifth and eighth grades in the Currier school, and from the fifth and seventh grades in the Kelley school. This relieved the conditions for the time.
The schools have made their usual progress in the va- rious branches of study. Tests by the superintendent of all
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grammar grades gave good results in most of the rooms in each study. Particularly was this the case in arithmetic and spelling, two branches of study usually considered difficult to teach satisfactorily. In arithmetic no class stood below 80 per cent, and the general average was considerably above that figure.
But of far more value than any proficiency in study is the gradual, but sure advance of our schools in their efforts to so train their pupils that they may make honorable and up- right men and women. The mutual sympathy and good feel- ing shown by pupils and teachers towards each other are as common and general today as the opposite condition was in years gone by. Common sense, a knowledge of human na- ture and tact are needed by every teacher. Sympathy and appreciation are great helps in school.
STATISTICS OF GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
JACKMAN SCHOOL
GEORGE W. BROWN, principal.
ANNA L. COFFIN,
PRISCILLA G. CRAIG,
assistants
al
JOSIE W. KIMBALL, MARY T. COLBY, NELLIE DES. BARRETT DOROTHY PACKER.
ABBIE L. FROST,
Total enrollment ...
...
...
...
..
..
419
Average membership
...
...
...
...
...
360
Average attendance
...
...
...
...
...
336
Per cent of attendance
...
...
...
...
..
93. 7
Average age
...
...
...
11 years, 10 months
Cases of tardiness
...
...
...
...
...
...
..
..
...
22
Number admitted to High school without examination
66
،،
by examination from 9th grade
7
66
66
8th grade
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Names of those admitted to High school :
Alice Annis, Ethel Arens, Katherine Barrett, Josephine Brown, Spofford Brown, James Bragg, Annie Brown, Newton Colby, Wendell Carlisle, Fred Castelhun, Charlotte Cutter, Alice Duffy, Cecile Follansbee, Earle Fillmore, Violet Gagnon, Marion Gould, Annie Hadden, Helen Hudson, Elizabeth Hudson, Maude Heywood, George King, Isabel Mckinnon, Lucy Morse, Pearson Macintosh, Arthur Manson, Louis Nicklas, James Nolan, George Noyes, Elizabeth Mckinney, Florence Noyes, Marie Ogden, Herbert Pottle, Laura Pettengell, Annie Ryan, Angeline Sweeney, Paul Simpson, Burton Russell, Mabelle Thurlow, Irving Somerby, Elsie Thurlow, Marion Welch, George Welch. Kittie Walsh, Walter Walsh, Arthur Young, John Young, Ethel Bragg.
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