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871
Number over fifteen years of age
38
EMMA M. LANDER,
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
KELLEY SCHOOL
IRVING H. JOHNSON, principal.
NELLIE G. STONE.
ANNA L. WHITMORE,'
assistants
ยง BERTHA F. INGALLS, 7 LILLIAN GREENLEAF.
Total enrollment ..
..
..
..
...
267
Average membership
...
...
...
...
221
Average attendance
...
...
...
...
...
204.3
Per cent of attendance
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...
.. .
...
...
92. 8
Cases of tardiness ...
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...
...
...
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830
Average age
...
...
...
...
12 years, 3 months
11
Number admitted to High school without examination
10
66
6 4
by examination from 9th grade 66
8th grade
5
Names of pupils admitted to High school :
Carrie Bradbury, Mildred Chase, Emily Constantine, Beulah Evans, Ethlyn Davis, Edith Ingalls, Emily Smith, Bertha Winkley, Elizabeth Fisher, Alice Buckley, Frederick Huse, Raymond Miller, Amos Redman, George Hanna, Alfred Jaques, Elden Heath, Laura Legate, Flossie Ven- nard.
MOULTONVILLE SCHOOL
HELEN S. MERRILL, principal.
Total enrollment
..
..
...
...
...
26
Average membership
...
...
...
...
...
25
Average attendance ...
...
...
...
...
...
20
Per cent of attendance
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...
...
...
...
80
Cases of tardiness ..
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...
...
...
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96
Average age ...
..
..
...
...
11 years, 7 months
Number over fifteen years of age ...
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...
2
Number admitted to High school without examination ...
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0
..
by examination ... 1 ...
Name of pupil admitted to High school : Herman Leslie Fowle.
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...
...
2
Number over fifteen years of age
...
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ANNUAL REPORT
CURRIER SCHOOL
SARAH B. CHUTE, principal.
ADELENA SARGENT, 1st assistant. CLARA J. EDGERLY, 2d assistant. CASSINE H. BROWN, 3d assistant.
Total enrollment ...
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...
...
...
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159
Average membership
...
...
...
...
...
139.5
Average attendance
...
...
...
...
...
131.6
Per cent of attendance
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...
...
...
...
94
Average age ..
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...
...
. .
12 years 207
Cases of tardiness ...
...
...
...
...
..
Number over fifteen years of age
...
...
..
...
18
Number admitted to High school without examination
by examination from 9th grade
5
66
66
66
8th grade 1
Names of those admitted to the High school :
Fannie Johansen, Gwendolyn Coffin, Edith N. Robinson, Mary E. Cree- den, Lizzie Haley, Lottie Young, William Chisnall, Herbert J. Langley, William Merrill, Wallace W. Kent, Pansy G. Anderson, Bertha F. Niles, Lillian M. Snow, Alice Carter, Malcolm H, Currier, G. Lester Southwell, Rosalie E. Chase, Grace Bixby.
STOREY AVENUE SCHOOL (GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY) JULIA BOYLE, principal.
Total enrollment
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...
...
...
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17
Average membership
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...
...
...
...
14
Average attendance ...
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...
...
...
...
18
Per cent of attendance
...
...
...
...
...
93
Cases of tardiness
...
...
...
...
...
...
37
Average age
...
...
...
...
9 years, 7 months
Number over fifteen years of age
...
...
...
.. .
0
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
...
0
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PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Since the last annual report but few changes have oc- curred in the corps of primary teachers. In April Miss Annie P. Toppan, for several years teacher of the first grade in the Congress street school, resigned the position, which she had so acceptably filled. Miss Hortense F. Small was transferred from the ward room to the place vacated by Miss Toppan. Miss Small was succeeded at the ward room by Miss Grace A. Page, a graduate of our Training school.
At the close of the year Miss Sarah L. Ross, the popular teacher in charge of the third grade of the Congress street school, gave up the profession of teaching. Miss Cora A. Oliver, a graduate of the training school, with several years' experience as teacher in a neighboring town, was appointed to the vacancy.
A committee appointed at the close of the school year to rearrange the schools below State street, made the following report, which was adopted :
The committee would report that it finds 288 pupils in the first four grades below State street besides those who will
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enter at the beginning of the school year. This number is divided among the different schools as follows: Hancock street school 122, Temple street 58, Jackman 42. There will be 83 pupils for the fifth grade at the Jackman school.
The committee would recommend that a third grade be opened at the Hancock street school to care for the pupils promoted at the close of the last term from the second grade at this school. That the third grade be removed from the Jackman school and that there be for the coming year two fifth grades in that building. That the whole of the Temple street building be used for primary purposes for the first, second and third grades, those promoted from the second grade at this school remaining in the building, making the third grade, and that the cooking school be removed else- where.
In consequence of the removal of the third grade from the Jackman school, it became necessary to provide other quarters for pupils of that grade belonging to the Jackman school. One of the vacant rooms in Hancock street, for- merly used as a grammar school, was started as a third grade room. Miss Lelia Kimball, a graduate of the training school, with some experience as a teacher out of town, was selected as teacher. This room accommodated a part of the third grade. The others were sent to the Temple street school. As the one room on the upper floor of that build- ing could not accommodate all of the pupils, the lower room was taken for the first grade and part of the second. This
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room had been used for the cooking and sewing schools which were removed to the upper room of the Purchase street school. Miss Edith Annis was appointed assistant at the Temple street school and took charge of the new room.
The law requiring the vaccination of all children entering the public schools and the decision of the School Board to enforce that law probably prevented many parents from sending their children to school in September, as the num- ber entering the first grade was much smaller all over the city than usual. It was found that the lower room in the Congress street school could accommodate all the children of the first grade in that section of the city. For this reason the children in the ward room were transferred to the school house and the use of the ward room as a primary school was for the present discontinued.
Notwithstanding the hindrance and loss of time occa- sioned by the prevalence of small pox in this city and the in- terruption to the schools while many children were absent to get vaccinated, nearly the usual amount of work was accom- plished, though many teachers were very anxious over the delay.
Our teachers are faithful to their duties and as a whole accomplish admirable results. Modern methods of instruc- tion are used, without neglecting the standard branches- reading, spelling, writing and number work. It is felt that no fancy work that may serve to make a show should be al- lowed to take the place of the more solid branches of in-
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struction, upon which depend not only the child's ability to take up the work of higher grades, but also much of his power for application and industry, when he will be obliged to rely less upon the teacher, and more upon himself.
In some respects the primary schools are far in advance of those in the good old times when the alphabet was the necessary beginning of learning to read, and was only ac- quired by the strenuous efforts of the teacher and the fre- quently painful experience of the child. No writing or writing material, not even a slate was used before entering the grammar school. Now children learn the alphabet un- consciously and can often read quite well before they have learned it. They commence writing in the first year and be- fore they enter the grammar school can write letters to their friends, letters that are properly arranged, with gener- ally correct spelling and punctuation.
STATISTICS OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS
JOHNSON SCHOOL
GRACE E. BARTLETT, principal. MARY F. WHITMORE, assistant.
Total enrollment ... ...
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83
Average membership ...
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64
Average attendance ...
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...
...
...
56
Per cent of attendance ...
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...
..
...
87
Cases of tardiness ...
...
...
...
...
.. .
279
Average age ..
...
...
...
6 years, 6 months
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
... 0
BROMFIELD STREET SCHOOL
JENNIE P. HASKELL, principal.
ANNIE B. RICHARDSON, 1st assistant. LILLIE M. Ross, 2d assistant. ADELAIDE H PRITCHARD, 3d assistant.
Total enrollment ...
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201
Average membership
...
...
...
...
...
166
Average attendance
...
...
...
...
...
149
Per cent of attendance
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...
...
...
...
90
Cases of tardiness ...
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...
...
...
...
263
Average age ... ...
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...
...
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8 years
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
...
0
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TEMPLE STREET SCHOOL BESSIE DAVIS, principal.
Total enrollment ..
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..
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50
Average membership
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..
..
...
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39
Average attendance
...
..
...
...
...
34
Per cent of attendance
...
...
..
...
...
87.5
Cases of tardiness ...
...
..
...
...
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164
Average age
..
...
...
.. .
...
...
6 years
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
...
TRAINING SCHOOL FRANCES W. RICHARDS, principal.
Total enrollment
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256
Average membership
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206
Average attendance
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183
Per cent of tardiness
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...
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88
Cases of tardiness ..
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...
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532
Average age
...
...
...
.. 8 years, 8 months
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
..
0
CONGRESS STREET SCHOOL
ELIZABETH CHEEVER, principal.
SARAH L. Ross, 1st assistant. GERTRUDE E. LEWIS, 2d assistant. HORTENSE F. SMALL, 3d assistant.
Total enrollment ,,
169
Average membership
...
..
...
..
...
145
Average attendance
...
...
...
...
...
130
Per cent of attendance
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...
...
...
...
89.5
Cases of tardiness ...
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...
...
...
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435
Average age
...
...
..
...
7 years, 7 months
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
... 0
0
...
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
WARD ROOM, WARD FIVE GRACE A. PAGE, principal.
Total enrollment ...
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35
Average membership
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...
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30
Average attendance
...
...
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...
...
26
Per cent of attendance
...
...
...
...
...
86
Cases of tardiness ...
...
...
...
...
.. .
120
Average age
...
...
...
...
...
6 years, 4 months
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
..
0
CURTIS SCHOOL
FRANCES L. PETTIGREW, principal.
SARAH F. BADGER, assistant. CHARLOTTE DICKINS, assistant. JULIA J. HUBAARD, assistant.
Total enrollment ...
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...
...
...
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150
Average membership
...
...
...
...
...
129
Average attendance
...
...
...
...
...
120
Per cent of attendance
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...
...
...
...
92
Cases of tardiness .
...
...
...
...
...
...
.. .
...
...
7 years, 7 months
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
...
MOULTONVILLE SCHOOL (PRIMARY DEPARTMENT) CARRIE F. MERRILL, assistant.
Total enrollment ...
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..
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42
Average membership
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...
.. .
...
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36
Average attendance
...
...
...
...
...
32
Per cent of attendance
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...
...
...
...
87.8
Cases of tardiness ...
...
.. .
...
...
...
Average age
..
...
...
...
... 8 years, 1 month
Number under five years of age
...
...
...
... 0
101
Average age ..
0
REPORT OF PRINCIPAL OF TRAINING SCHOOL
" O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm sway, And sun thee in the light of happy faces,-
Love, hope, and patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school."
This knowing thyself and through that knowledge striving to know each child, studying him to anticipate his tempta- tions to adapt the work for him, to prevent wrong doing in- stead of punishing for it, these are some of the methods of the modern teacher.
More and more the question is being asked by school boards-What effect has the teacher upon her pupils? Are they benefited for having been under her influence?
This is the line that our city training school has been working upon more this last year than ever before.
Teaching the young ladies to make a particular study of each pupil, physically, mentally and morally.
To know if this one has poor eyesight, to understand that this one has trouble to hear, and not class him as obstinate
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because he did not respond to her request when he did not hear the directions.
Studying the motive that led to the deeds done and not looking at results alone. So making each indivdual child a study.
The study of drawing with the special teacher has been made a part of the normal course.
Since the entrance examination of pupil teachers has been omitted there have been more applicants than the school can accommodate.
Several very desirable young ladies had to be refused ad- mission in September.
The building is very inadequate to the needs of the school, but even under these difficulties the school through its grad- uates has won for itself a good name among the institu- tions of the state.
The young ladies from the school have been not only suc- cessful in obtaining positions to teach, but have given good satisfaction, and they are retained from year to year, chang- ing only for better or more lucrative situations.
One town has had six teachers from the school and re- cently engaged two more.
It is interesting to know that twenty-two of the city teach- ers have attended this school.
In February, 1902, a class of seven young ladies was grad- uated, Harrictt N. Boyd, Grace A. Page, Bessie E. Davis, Edith M. Annis, A. Evelyn Pike, Georgiana Smith, M. Alice
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George ; and a class of four entered namely, Retta V. Marr, Tula M. Reed, Katherine A. Pike, Edith M. Merrill.
In June, 1902, a class of four left the school, namely : Ethel M. Ryan, Ethel T. Eaton, Kate L. Locke, Edith R. Brad- bury.
In September, 1902, the following entered: Adelaide P. Dodge, Mary E. O'Connell, Elizabeth A. Walsh, Feroline L. Woods.
The following table shows the location of all the graduates.
NAME.
GRADU- ATED
BEGAN TEACHING IN NEWBURYPORT.
PRESENT
POSITION.
1. Eleanor Towle
1891
Moultonville
2. Sarah Ross
1891
Congress street
Married
3. Lillian Greenleaf
1891
Congress street
Jackman
4. Judith Plummer
1891
5. Ida Blaisdell
1891
.....
......
Merrimacport
6. Annie Pike
1891
Married
7. Florence True
1891
Ashland street
Berlin, N. H.
8. Mabel Hodgkins
1891
...
Married
9. Edith Johnson
1892
Training
Married
10. Elizabeth Hoxie
1892
Bromfield
Jefferson
11. Josephine Kimball
1892
Congress
Jackman
12. Gertrude Lewis
1892
13 Ellen Greeley
1892
......
Married
14. Grace Bartlett
1893
Johnson
Johnson
15. Annie Toppan
1893
Congress
Married
16. Grace Hallier
1893
17. Ethel Savage
1893
....
Married
18. Lillian Buckley
1894
Married
19. Lillian Hamilton
1894
Training
Married
20. Charlotte Dickins
1894
Congress street
Curtis
21. Julia Hubbard
1894
Curtis
Curtis
22. Alice Hatch
1894
...... ..
....
Married
...
Married
...
....
Congress street
Amesbury
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NAME.
GRADU- ATED.
BEGAN TEACHING IN NEWBURYPORT.
PRESENT
POSITION.
23. Emily Smith
1894
24. Alice Bartlett
1894
Bromfield
Married
25. Mary Greenleaf
1895
Married
26. Nora Whittier
1895
..
..
Married
27. Mary Colby
1895
Bromfield
Jackman
28. Lillian Goodwin
1895
Temple
Cambridge
29. Eleanor Robinson
1895
30. Alice Hopkinson
1895
Training
Married
31.
Hattie Baxter
1895
Merrimacport
32. Caroline Hardy
1895
..
...
...
Amesbury
34. Bessie Pike
1895
....
.....
Cambridge
35. Charlotte Holmes
1895
.....
Somerville
36. Jennie Adams
1896
Reading
37. Grace Morse
1896
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.....
Somerville
38. Maude Huntington
1896
Amesbury
39. Alice Stevens
1896
Married
40. Georgie Bartlett
1897
Storey avenue
Married
41. Margaret Cockburn
1897
Married
42. Cora Oliver
1897
Congress street
43. Grace Gale
1897
..
..
West Chesterfield, Me.
45. Elizabeth Merrill
1897
Grafton
46. Julia Boyle
1897
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Storey avenue
47. Dorothy Packer
1898
Jackman
Jackman
48. Charlotte Noyes
1898
Married
49. B. Florence Ingalls
1898
Kelley
50. Mary Davenport
1898
Byfield
51. Jenny Locke
1898
Newton
52. Ina Walton
1898
Married
53. Mary Hallier
1898
...
Exeter, N. H.
54. Carrie Merrill
1898
Moultonville
55. Maria Cogger
1898
Lawrence
56. Mary Whitmore
1898
Temple street
Johnson
57. Emily Upton
1899
North Bellingham
......
..
Not teaching
44. Edith Smith
1897
Married
Beverly
33. Ella Richardson
1895
Dead
...
..
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NAME.
GRADU- ATED.
BEGAN TEACHING IN NEWBURYPORT.
PRESENT
POSITION.
58 Jennie Lowell
1899
Newbury
59. Emma Woodwell
1899
Milford
60. Ethel Brown
1899
Married
61. Katherine Nutting
1899
Married
62. Sarah Holmes
1899
Milton
63 Annie Richardson
1899
64. Nellie De Barrett
1900
Training
Jackman
65 Lillian Ross
1900
Purchase street
Bromfield
66. Florence George
1900
Amesbury
67.
Lillian Porter
1900
..
......
Mendon
68.
Hortense Small
1900
Congress street
Congress street
69. Mary Forsythe
1900
Maine
70. Josephine Coffin
1900
Training
Kelley
71. Mary Hoxie
1900
Amesbury
72. Goldie McArthur
1901
Amesbury
73. Grace Cook
1901
..
Newbury
74. Carrie Dodge
1901
.. ......
Not teaching
75. Lelia Kimball
1901
Johnson
76. Adelaide Pritchard
1901
Bromfield
77. Gertrude Little
1901
Rochester, N. H.
78. Lillian Rich
1901
Newton, N. H.
79.
Hattie Boyd
1901
Winchendon
80. Grace Page
1901
Congress street
Substitute for the city
81.
Bessie Davis
1901
Temple street
Temple street
82.
Edith Annis
1901
Temple street
Temple street
83.
M. Alice George
1901
Not teaching
84.
Evelyn Pike
1901
.....
..
..
Bellingham
86. Ethel Ryan
1901
......
......
87.
Ethel Eaton
1901
..
..
Weymouth
88. Kate Locke
1901
Rochester, N. H.
89. Edith Bradbury
1901
.....
Lunenburg
..
.....
Bromfield
......
.....
..
...
Winchendon
85. Georgiana Smith
1901
Newbury
..
FRANCES W. RICHARDS.
EVENING SCHOOLS
These schools for the winter of 1901-1902 were held in the upper room of the Purchase street school house.
The school for boys was held on Monday and Thursday evenings, with Mr. William H. Merrill as principal and Misses Alice George, Bessie E. Davis and Edith M. Merrill as assistants. The attendance was fairly good with the usual two classes of pupils, one compelled by the law in respect to illiterate minors to attend, the other coming voluntarily with an earnest desire to learn.
The sessions began at 7.30 and closed at 9 o'clock.
The school for girls was held on Tuesday and Friday evenings, from 7.30 to 9 o'clock.
Miss Lizzie C. Ireland was principal, with Miss Amelia Whittier and Miss Grace A. Page assistants. The comments made in reference to the school for boys would apply to the girls' school.
Mr. William H. Merrill also acted as principal in the even- ing school on Monroe street, attended by the Armenians living at the north end. Good progress was made here in learning to read, write and speak English.
REPORT OF TEACHER OF DRAWING
As I have had charge of the work in drawing but a short time, my report will necessarily be brief.
In my work I have endeavored to find out just where the subject needs most effort spent here.
I understand that the time allowed by the authorities for drawing is one hour per week at present.
I believe if drawing were given two three-quarter-hour periods per week in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades we could do much more work and do it better.
As it is now; a one hour lesson is rather too long, and a half hour one (if we divided the time that way), would be too short for the work in those grades. Also any other ar- rangement whereby we keep the whole hour per week would be awkward in the programme.
I have not yet seen all the material for freehand work in the high school, such as casts and other objects for drawing, as they are stored. It is desirable, however, to have a num- ber of good casts, some vase forms, also some books and photographs for the use of pupils.
Drawing, or art rather (in its broad sense), has been proven such an important factor in the success of all branches of industry that we needs must exert every influ- ence in the right direction.
HELEN E. HEWES.
REPORT OF TEACHER OF MUSIC
The plan of instruction which was adopted for use in the primary and grammar schools was carried out as fully as possible during the past year.
The unsettled condition of some of the schools, owing partly to the transferring of pupils to the new buildings, but more especially to the changing to mixed grades, interfered considerably with the work, but we hope, as the pupils be- come more accustomed to their new surroundings, to get bet- ter results all around.
Special music was prepared for all the graduation exer- cises, including the high school, with excellent results.
Respectfully, ELIZABETH C. ADAMS. December 17, 1902.
REPORT OF TEACHER OF COOKING AND SEWING
The classes for cooking and sewing have been held in the lower room of the Temple street school building and in the ward room, Ashland street.
The pupils from the eighth grades are instructed in cook- ing and those in the fifth and seventh grades are taught the theory and practice of plain sewing.
There have been 58 children in the three classes in cook- ing and all take great interest in their lessons.
Reports are given each week showing the result of home work and parents are constantly signifying their gratifica- tion that this branch of domestic science has been introduced into the public schools.
The curriculum for these classes includes the study of food materials, their classification, composition and nutritive value, relation of food to the body, digestion and assimila- tion, preparation of food, fundamental principles and processes of cookery, study of fuels and cooking apparatus.
These lessons are carefully prepared and arranged that the student may have as thorough and practical a knowledge
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of plain cookery, as it is possible to give in a course of thirty lessons.
Its educational advantage is manifested in the gradual de- velopment of self reliance and good judgment in pupils who lack confidence, and a corresponding improvement in those who are naturally progressive. The same applies to the sewing school.
There have been 147 children who have had the privilege of taking one lesson a week of an hour's duration through- out the school year.
As the time is limited the instruction in needlework is of the most practical kind ; plain stitches, button holes, darning and patching, with the cutting and fitting of simple gar- ments.
Such a course tends to train the eye and hand, and to cul. tivate the habit of industry.
SARAH A. CHASE.
ATTENDANCE
One of the most serious evils with which teachers have to contend is that of irregular attendance. It is surprising that parents will allow their children to be absent or tardy with- out it is absolutely necessary. If the serious injury caused by such irregularity were fully realized there would be great improvement in this respect. If one pupil is absent or tardy the whole class is retarded in their progress either then or at some other time.
The injury to the work of the school is not the only one. The child himself is acquiring habits which will affect his use- fulness in the future. Want of punctuality to duty, to labor, is more seriously punished in years beyond the school. No man wishes to employ those who cannot be depended upon, those who give up at every trivial ailment. But most of the irregularity in school attendance has not even the excuse of sickness.
The per cent of attendance in Newburyport is about 92. At first sight this may seem fairly good, but when we con- sider that this indicates a loss to the school on the average of eight days out of 100 or 16 days days in the year for all the
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pupils, which in a room of 40 pupils would give a total ab- sence of 640 days in the year, the immense loss and hind- rance to the progress of the school become more apparent. If this loss was equally divided among all the pupils it would be bad enough, but it would not be as injurious as it now is in its results. There are some pupils in every school who are almost never absent. These are generally the best scholars, the ones that could spare the time better than the others. But generally the poorer the scholar, the more he is absent.
DISCIPLINE
The discipline in many of our schools is excellent, and while in others some improvement may be needed, in none of them is there such disorder as once was prevalent.
The best order is found where there is abundant work to be performed, and where that performance is insisted upon. Industry and good order are just as inseparable as idleness and disorder. There isvery little corporal punishment in most of the schools. While such punishment is not prohibited by the school board, an efficient teacher seldom finds it neces- sary. No teacher or school should be at the mercy of a re- bellious or persistently disobedient pupil, but the teacher who cannot control her pupils without frequent punishments lacks the proper qualifications needed for the school room.
The welfare of the children, their progress in their studies and sometimes their lives depend upon absolute obedience to the teacher. Many times alarms of fire have shown that there was no danger if the teacher was able to control her pupils.
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