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PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS
CLASS ODE. Music : Fair Harvard
WORDS BY MARION PIERCE SAFFORD
Now's the time when we school-mates unite but to part, To set out on life's pathway alone, May we each from our choice strive ne'er to depart Till the battle with honor is won.
All undaunted by fear let us bravely meet life, Let us bravely contend for the right. Let us enter the combat prepared for the strife, With our class motto ever in sight.
Now seize while we may the chance as it comes, To express our regrets at the last ; To-morrow we part, and set out into life, Our school-days are things of the past.
The bivouac fires give rest for the night Till the next sun brings forth a new day ; Linger, shadows, with us in pleasant delight For the morrow we march on our way.
BENEDICTION
GRADUATING CLASS
HIGH SCHOOL
Ruth Warren Brown
Harriet Brickett Chase
Michael Edward Connors
Marion Noyes
Bernard Milton Currier
Henry James O'Neil
Annie Josephine Dixon
Lillian Huntington Ordway
Margaret Dodge
William Moulton Pettingell
Mabel Noyes Fillmore
Elizabeth Mae Roaf
Marion Pierce Safford
Woodbury Harold Wingate
PUTNAM SCHOOL
Sarah Augusta Blake
Fred Burton Moody
Edua Olive Brown
Nina Belle Reed
Mildred Warren Brown
Martha Evelyn Rowe
Sadie Anna Cheney
Ednah Gilman Smith
Edmund Bruce Jordan
Lewis Calkin Smith
Julia Garland Locke Beulah Walton Moody
Winthrop Hale Thurlow
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Daniel Joseph Harrigan Gertrude Mabel Lanctot
Helen Matilda Maguire
Chester Linwood Nourse
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HONORS IN GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP
I Martha Evelyn Rowe
2 Chester Linwood Nourse
3 Lillian Huntington Ordway 4 Sarah Augusta Blake
5 Winthrop Hale Thurlow 6 William Moulton Pettingell
7 Gertrude Mabel Lanctot
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
During the school year, ending June 30, 1905, no changes occurred in the corps of grammar school teachers. At the close of the year Miss Emma M. Lander, teacher of the seventh grade in the Jackman School, resigned her position. Miss Lander had been, for a long term of years, an energetic and successful instructor, most of the time at the Johnson Grammar School. Miss Bertha F. Ingalls, one of the assistants at the Kelley School, at the same time decided not to be a candidate for re-election. Miss Julia Boyle, principal of the Storey Avenue School, also declined re-election. Both had been successful teachers.
The vacancy caused by Miss Lander's withdrawal was filled by the promotion of Miss Nellie DeS. Bar- rett. Miss Lillian Greenleaf was promoted to the sixth grade, which Miss Barrett had taught. Miss Bessie E. Davis, last year principal of the Temple Street School, was promoted to the room left vacant by Miss Greenleaf. Miss Emily F. Upton, a former grad- uate of the Training School, was elected as assistant
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at the Kelley School, to the room previously taught by Miss Ingalls.
Miss Edith E. Davis, who graduated from the Training School last June, was appointed to succeed Miss Boyle at the Storey Avenue School. These changes have made no apparent break in the regular routine of school work.
The usual difficulty in providing for the excess of pupils in some of the grammar schools was again ex- perienced when the schools opened in September, 1904. It was found necessary to re-open the Ward Room on Congress street, to relieve the Kelley School. Mrs. Alice E. Silloway was selected as principal, and has done excellent work. At the Jackman School the principal's room was crowded, as was also the sixth grade, taught by Miss Barrett. Several plans to re- lieve these rooms were suggested, but none of them met with approval, and the two rooms remained crowded.
At the opening of the new school year, September, 1905, it was again found necessary to open the Ward Room on Congress street. Mrs. Silloway, now Mrs. Kent, being no longer available as a teacher, the com- mittee were able to secure the services of Mrs. Caleb D. Howard, who had had a very successful experience as a teacher. The Jackman School was relieved by re- moving the pupils of the fourth grade to the Temple Street and Bromfield Street Schools, thus affording an
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opportunity for two sixth grade rooms, as well as two of the fifth.
Many pupils of the sixth and seventh grades at the Kelley School were then sent to the Jackman. These transfers gave an opportunity for some changes in the arrangement of both the Kelley and Jackman Schools. The Jackman School is now wholly a grammar school, The Kelley School has now only one grade to a room. In fact most of the school rooms in the city have now but one grade. The exceptions are : - The ungraded room at the Jackman School, the principal's room at the Currier School, the Purchase Street School, the Tem- ple Street School, and the schools at Moultonville and Storey Avenue.
Most teachers make two divisions of their pupils, thus giving an opportunity for study as well as for recitation. This is especially needed here, as home study is not generally required in the primary and grammar schools. The rule, which requires a pro- gramme or time-table to be placed in a conspicuous position in every room, is generally obeyed. Where this is done neither teacher nor pupils need waste time in determining what should be done next. The
acquisition of regular habits of daily labor is not the least valuable of the results of our system of public schools. If the teacher insists upon punctuality, and is systematic and exact in adhering to her programme, she will not only accomplish more during each session,
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but she will find that her pupils are gradually form- ing such habits of industry as will greatly help her in her work, and be of lasting benefit to them in the future.
The hours for school are so few each week that it is of great importance that all the time should be em- ployed in necessary and energetic work by teachers and pupils. The hours between school sessions should be devoted to recreation and physical labor. Es- pecially should the child have the privilege of assist- ing his parents and relieving them of some of their bur-
dens. It is good for the child to help others, and not good for him to be the constant recipient of favors which he never returns. One of the evils of higher education is that it makes the young too long depend- ent on others, and gives them but little opportunity for self-support, or to help those who have so long done all for them. Whether the amount of education acquired is of sufficient value to compensate for the loss of self-reliance and self-dependence is in many cases a matter of doubt.
The grammar school teachers have as usual done excellent work and the schools are in excellent con- dition.
GRAMMAR PUPILS PROMOTED TO HIGH SCHOOL
[Only those marked (e) actually entered ]
JACKMAN SCHOOL
e Harold Adams
e Marion Bayley
e Albert Brown
Laura Bickford
e John Bryant
e Harriet Bragg
e Ralph Chase
Lizzie M. Chase
e Earle Caldwell
e Minerva Dow
Warren Frost
Elwilda Dow
e Arthur Flint
Ruth George
Lewis Furlong
e Frances Gould
e Leroy Hathaway
e Edith Hudson Annie Hudson
e Edward Harrigan Frank Hudson
e Ethel Jackman
e William Huse
e Alpha Lang
e Arthur Murphy Harlan Noyes
e Laura Lunt
Nellie McGlew
e William Ogden
e Elizabeth Parker
e Arthur Page
e Ephraim Perkins
e Harold Pettengill
e Gladys Richardson Blanche Stevens e Ida Stratton
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JACKMAN SCHOOL (CONCLUDED)
e Haley Plumer
e Lester Reed
e John J. Rourke
e William Sanders
e John Thurlow
e Gertrude Welch
e Grace White Sarah Cullen
e Myra Rogers
e Shirley Wood
KELLEY SCHOOL
e Renah Bowden
e Sarah E. Bartlett
e Albert Bradbury
e Bertha Canning
e Nicholas Arakelian
e Mary A. Duggan Viola Decie ( moved to Everett ) e Helen B. Fernald Elsie E. Greene
e Elsie O. Houghton e Stephen D. Hanson
e Eugene Hart
e W. Grenville Horsch
e Sarah Hatch
Ralph S. Littlefield
e Katherine E. O'Connell
e Leon Parsons
e H. Gertrude Philbrick
e Sarah E. Stover
e Elizabeth L. Wocds Edward A. Hoit
e Edith Toppan e Leslie Hendrick
e Edward R. Ayers Hattie Greene
e Duncan Langdon e M. Ethel Garland
CURRIER SCHOOL
e Martha M. Chase e Marion H. Spalding e N. Mildred Roby e Wesley J. Langley
e Elsie M. Reiman e Norris C. Ingalls
Beulah E. T. Ray
e Ruth C. Pike Nina Rowell Annie M. Coffill
e Helen R. Rodigrass Harry E. Lewis
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CURRIER SCHOOL (CONCLUDED)
e Louis L. Crocker Arthur G. Currier
e Rowland Currier Blanche S. Dockum
Howard E. Sampson C. Burleigh Hicken
Willis L. Hicken
Walter A. Pond
MOULTONVILLE SCHOOL
e Susan Elizabeth Bartlett
e Elmer Langley
e Bessie Evelyn Chase
e George Howard Murley
e Addie Rebecca Kingsbury
STATISTICS OF GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
JACKMAN SCHOOL GEORGE W. BROWN, Principal
PRISCILLA G. CRAIG
MARY T. COLBY
EMMA M. LANDER
NELLIE DES. BARRETT
ABBIE L. FROST
Assistants
LILLIAN GREENLEAF
JOSIE W. KIMBALL
DOROTHY PACKER
Total enrollment.
420
Average membership. 382
Average attendance. 335
Per cent of attendance.
93
Average age ..
II years, 9 months
Cases of tardiness
584
Number over fifteen years of age.
I7
Number admitted to High School 46
MOULTONVILLE SCHOOL
HELEN S. MERRILL, Principal
Total enrollment. 28
Average membership 27
Average attendance. 25
Per cent of attendance
92.5
Cases of tardiness
I45
Average age. .. 9 years, 10 months
Number over fifteen years of age.
4
Number admitted to High School
5
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KELLEY SCHOOL
IRVING H. JOHNSON, Principal
NELLIE G. STONE ( BERTHA F. INGALLS ANNA L. WHITMORE Assistants E. JOSEPHINE COFFIN
Total enrollment. 273
Average membership. 236
Average attendance 224
Per cent of attendance 95
Cases of tardiness
. 425
Average age 12 years
Number over fifteen years of age. 25
Number admitted to High School. 27
CURRIER SCHOOL
SARAH B. CHUTE, Principal
ADELENA SARGENT, Ist Assistant CLARA J. EDGERLY, 2d Assistant RUTH SARGENT, 3d Assistant
Total enrollment. 156
Average membership I43
Average attendance. I35
Per cent of attendance 94 4
Average age .. II years, 8 months Cases of tardiness . 273
Number over fifteen years of age 7
Number admitted to High School. 27
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STOREY AVENUE SCHOOL
[GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY
JULIA BOYLE, Principal.
Total enrollment. .23
Average membership 22
Average attendance. 20.7
Per cent. of attendance 93
Cases of tardiness.
.48
Average age. .9 years, 6 months
Number over fifteen years of age . 0
Number under five years of age .. .O
WARD ROOM, WARD FIVE
ALICE E. SILLOWAY, Principal.
Average enrollment. 36
Average membership 32.9
Average attendance 30.7
Per cent. of attendance 93
Cases of tardiness 252
Average age. 12 years, 8 months
Number over fifteen years of age .. 3
Number under five years of age. O
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
From the opening of the school year, in Septeni- ber, 1904, to its close, June 30, 1905, there were no changes in primary school teachers. But the new year, commencing in September, 1905, witnessed more changes than perhaps had ever before happened in so short a time. Miss Lewis, long a teacher of the second grade, on Congress street, where she had done excellent service, declined a re-election, as did also Miss Oliver, teacher of the third grade in the same school. Miss Oliver, though her term of service had not been so long, was doing good work.
Miss Grace E. Bartlett and Miss Mary F. Whit- more were transfered from the Johnson to the Curtis School. Miss Dickins and Miss Hubbard were trans- ferred from the Curtis to the Johnson School. Miss Jennie P. Haskell, principal of the Bromfield Street School, was made second assistant at the Johnson, and Miss Tula M. Reed was promoted from the third grade at the Johnson School to the position of prin- cipal at the Bromfield Street School.
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Miss Lillie M. Ross, teacher of the third grade at the Bromfield Street School, where she had been doing excellent service, declined a re-appointment, and Miss Feroline Woods was promoted from the second grade to that position, Miss Adelaide Dodge taking the second grade. Miss Elizabeth Boardman was appointed to the position left vacant by Miss Dodge's promotion.
Miss O'Connell, principal of the Purchase Street School, was promoted to the position of first assist- ant in the Davenport School, her place being filled by the appointment of Miss Mary A. Doyle. At the Jackman School, Miss Dorothy C. Packer was grant- ed one year's leave of absence. Miss E. Belle Woodman was chosen to fill the vacancy thus caused.
Later, owing to the crowded condition of the Jackman School, the pupils of the fourth grade were transferred to the Temple Street and Bromfield Street Schools. Miss Davis was promoted to one of the fifth grade rooms in the Jackman School. Miss
Edith M. Annis was made principal of the Temple Street School, and Miss Elizabeth M. Bailey was elected assistant.
At the Davenport School Miss Hortense F. Small was promoted to the second grade, and Miss Mar- guerite Pritchard was elected teacher of the first grade, in place of Miss Small.
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Although these changes properly concern another school year, it seems necessary to record them here, in order to bring the report as to the condition of the schools up to the present date.
The primary schools were in good condition at the close of the school year, showing that the teach- ers had faithfully performed the duties entrusted to them. Though there were differences in correspond- ing grades, as there have always been, and always will be, there were no teachers who were not earnest and faithful in their efforts for the welfare of the schools in their charge.
STATISTICS OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS
JOHNSON SCHOOL LELIA KIMBALL, Principal
TULA M. REED, Assistant GRACE E. BARTLETT, Assistant MARY F. WHITMORE, Assistant
Total enrollment. 131
Average membership I27
Average attendance. IIO
Per cent. of attendance 87
Cases of tardiness
Average age ..
Number under five years of age O
BROMFIELD STREET SCHOOL
JENNIE P. HASKELL, Principal
LILLIE M. ROSS, Ist Assistant FEROLINE WOODS, 2d Assistant ADELAIDE DODGE, 3d Assistant
Total enrollment. 162
Average membership 15I
Average attendance. I35
Per cent. of attendance 90 Cases of tardiness 44I
Average age .. 8 years, 3 months Number under five years of age O
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TEMPLE STREET SCHOOL
BESSIE E. DAVIS, Principal EDITH M. ANNIS, Assistant
Total enrollment. 97
Average membership. 90
Average attendance 83
ยท Per cent. of attendance.
92
Cases of tardiness 163
Average age. 8 years
Number under five years of age I
TRAINING SCHOOL FRANCES W. RICHARDS, Principal
Total enrollment. . 192
Average membership. I86
Average attendance 166
Per cent. of tardiness 90
Cases of tardiness
663
Average age
. 7 years, II months
Number under five years of age. O
CONGRESS STREET SCHOOL
ELIZABETH CHEEVER, Principal
CORA OLIVER, Ist Assistant GERTRUDE E. LEWIS, 2d Assistant HORTENSE F. SMALL, 3d Assistant
Total enrollment. 193
Average membership. I66
Average attendance I54
Per cent. of attendance 93
Cases of tardiness 262
Average age.
8 years
Number under five years of age
31
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CURTIS SCHOOL
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FRANCES L. PETTIGREW, Principal
SARAH F. BADGER, Assistant CHARLOTTE DICKINS, Assistant JULIA J. HUBBARD, Assistant
Total membership. I25
Average membership II4
Average attendance 108
Per cent. of attendance
94
Cases of tardiness.
.237
Average age
7 years, 5 months
Number under five years of age. I
MOULTONVILLE SCHOOL [PRIMARY DEPARTMENT] CARRIE F. MERRILL, Assistant
Total enrollment. .40
Average membership .35
Average attendance. .32
Per cent. of attendance
.91
Cases of tardiness.
I6
Average age.
8 years, 2 months
Number under five years of age. O
PURCHASE STREET SCHOOL MARY E. O'CONNELL, Principal
Total enrollment. .41
Average membership. .35
Average attendance. .31.5
Per cent. of attendance. .90
Cases of tardiness
.50
Average age.
8 years, 7 months
Number under five years of age. I
THE TRAINING SCHOOL
This branch of our school department begun in Sep- tember, 1889, closed in June, 1905, the sixteenth year of its existence.
It was started as an experiment, and has proved by its work that it was no mistake, but has been a credit to those who worked so earnestly to establish it.
Its graduates are teaching in some of the largest cities in our commonwealth, filling responsible positions to the satisfaction of those in authority.
Since its existence it has graduated one hundred and fifteen young ladies, seventy-six of whom are still engaged in school work ; besides this number eighteen others have entered the school, but either from sickness or finding themselves not fitted for the work, have left before the time of graduating.
Pupil teachers are now admitted to this school by a vote of the majority of the school committee.
Two young ladies were allowed to leave during the
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year to take positions offered to them before the time of their graduation.
The following table will show where the graduates are employed : -
Name
Year of Graduating
Began Teaching in
Newburyport Present Position
I Eleanor Towle
1891
Moultonville
2 Jennie Smith 1891
3 Annie Pike 1891
4 Judith Plumer
I891
not teaching
5 Lillian Greenleaf
1891
Davenport
Jackman
6 Sarah Ross
1891
Davenport
not teaching
7 Florence True
1891
Ashland
8 Ida Blaisdell
1891
9 Mabel Hodgkins 1891
not teaching
IO Edith Johnson
1892
Training
not teaching
II Elizabeth Hoxie
1892
Bromfield
South Boston
I2 Josephine Kimball 1892
Davenport
Jackman
not teaching
14 Ellen Greeley
1892
not teaching
15 Lillian Buckley
1893
I6 Grace Bartlett
1893
Johnson
Curtis
I7 Annie Toppan
1893
18 Grace Hallier
1893
19 Ethel Savage 1893
20 Lillian Hamilton
1894
Training
nct teaching
21 Alice Hatch
1894
not teaching
Davenport
Johnson
Curtis
Johnson
24 Emily Smith 1894
25 Alice Bartlett
1894
Bromfield
not teaching
not teaching
26 Mary Greenleaf 1895
Davenport
not teaching Amesbury
not teaching
22 Charlotte Dickins 1894
23 Julia Hubbard 1894
not teaching
13 Gertrude Lewis 1892
Merrimacport
not teaching
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Name
Year of Graduating
Began Teaching in Newburyport
Present Position
27 Nora Whittier
1895
28 Mary Colby 1895
29 Lillian Goodwin
1895
Temple Street
Cambridge
not teaching
not teaching
32 Hattie Baxter
1895
33
Caroline Hardy
1895
Amesbury
Amesbury
Cambridge
36 Charlotte Holmes
1896
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Jennie Adams 1896
Somerville
38 Grace Morse 1896
39 Maude Huntington 1896
40 Alice Stevens
1896
41 Georgie Bartlett
1897
42 Margaret Cockburn 1897
43 Cora Oliver
1897
44 Grace Gale 1897
45 Edith Smith 1897
46 Elizabeth Merrill 1897
Lexington
Washington
Jackman
not teaching
49 Charlotte Noyes 1898
50 Florence Ingalls 1898
5I Mary Davenport 1898
52 Jennie Locke 1898
53 Ina Walton 1898
Temple
not teaching
54 Mary Hallier 1898
55 Carrie Merrill 1898
56 Maria Cogger 1898
57 Mary Whitmore 1898
Temple
Curtis
not teaching Jackman
30 Eleanor Robinson
J895
31 Alice Hopkinson 1895
Training
Merrimacport
34 Ella Richardson 1896
35 Bessie Pike 1896
not teaching Amesbury
Storey Avenue
not teaching not teaching
not teaching
not teaching
not teaching
47 Julia Boyle 1897
48 Dorothy Packer
1898
not teaching
Newbury
Newton
Exeter
Moultonville
Lawrence
Somerville
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Name
Year of Graduating
Began Teaching in Newburyport
Present Position
58 Emily Upton 1898
59 Jennie Lowell 1899
60 Emma Woodwell 1899
not teaching
61 Ethel Brown
1899
not teaching
62 Katherine Nutting 1899
Purchase street not teaching
not teaching
64 Annie Richardson
1899
65 Florence George
1899
Amesbury
66 Nellie DeS. Barrett
1900
Training
Jackman
Bromfield
not teaching
68 Lillian Porter
1900
69 Hortense Small 1900
Ward Room
Davenport
70 Mary Forsythe 1900
71 Josephine Coffin
1900
Training
Kelley
Amesbury
Amesbury
Newbury
75 Carrie Dodge 1901
76 Lelia Kimball 190I
77 Adelaide Pritchard 190I
not teaching
78 Gertrude Little I90I
not teaching
79 Lillian Rich I90I
80 Hattie Boyd 1902
Natick
not teaching
82 Bessie Davis
1902
Temple
Jackman
83 Edith Annis 1902
Temple
Temple Salisbury
85 Evelyn Pike 1902
Melrose
86 Georgiana Smith 1902
Plymouth
87 Ethel Ryan 1902
Newbury
not teaching
63 Sarah Holmes 1899
not teaching
67 Lillian Ross
1900
Whitman
72 Mary Hoxie 1900
73 Goldie MacArthur 190I
74 Grace Cook I90I
not teaching
Johnson
81 Grace Page 1902
84 Alice George 1902
88 Ethel Eaton I902
Kelley Newbury
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Name
Year of Graduating
Began Teaching in Newburyport
Present Position
89 Kate Locke
1902
90 Edith Bradbury
1902
91 Ruth Sargent
1903
92 Laura Lamprey
1903
Melrose
93 Mabel Fogg
1903
Salisbury
94 Mabel Currier
1903
Amesbury
95 Retta Marr
1903
96 Tula Reed
1903
Bromfield
97 Katherine Pike
1003
98 Edith Merrill 1903
Winchendon
99 Adelaide Dodge
1903
100 Mary O'Connell 1904
Purchase
Davenport
IOI Feroline Woods
1904
Bromfield
Bromfield
IO2 Elizabeth Walsh 1904
103 Myra Lord
1904
I04 Grace Noyes
1904
IO5 Ursula Pendexter
1904
106 Alice Smith
1904
IO7 Marguerite Pritchard 1905
Davenport
Davenport
Bromfield
109 Lida Eaton
1905
IIO Eliza Woodman 1905
III Elizabeth Bailey I905
II2 Edith Davis 1905
Storey Avenue
Storey Avenue
II3 Charlotte Bruce 1905
Clifford
II4 Clarissa Hathaway 1905
Southbridge
II5 Mary Doyle 1905
Purchase
Purchase
Bromfield
Bromfield
Winchendon
Ipswich
West Newbury
Gardner
Plymouth
108 Elizabeth Boardman 1905
Winchendon
Jackman
Temple
Melrose
Lunenburg
Currier
Rowley
Quincy
EVENING SCHOOLS
The evening schools for the winter of 1904-'05 opened early in December. The boys' school was held as nsual in the Kelley School, with Mr. Irving H. Johnson as principal and Miss Eva J. Smith and Miss M. Alice George, assistants. The girls' school was held in the Jackman School. The teachers were the same as the winter before: Miss Lizzie C. Ireland, principal ; Miss Amelia Whittier, Miss Flora Pettigrew, assistants. The pupils of both schools were well-behaved and industrious. The boys kept up their attendance through the term. The girls fell away in numbers, so that it was not neces- sary to employ the full quota of teachers for the whole term.
It is to be regretted that the evening schools are not as well attended as they were a few years ago. This is probably due to the discontinuance of the cotton mills. When they were running with a full schedule of help, there were many who were obliged by law to attend either
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evening or day schools. The number of illiterates is very small at the present time, consequently most of those now attending the evening schools do so voluntarily, and are well deserving of all the assistance they can get to im- prove themselves. The School Board has been willing to provide all the assistance of books, teachers and com- fortable and convenient quarters that were required.
MUSIC
During the last term of the school year the regular supervisor of music, Miss Elizabeth C. Adams, was granted leave of absence on account of ill health.
Exercises appropriate to Memorial Day were held in the City Hall by the primary grades, the music under the direction of Mr. George H. Pearson, in the absence of the regular teacher, was very satisfactory. Mr. Pearson also took charge of the music at the High School graduation.
In general the work in music has been carried on in a very gratifying manner, each year seeing improved results.
On account of continued illness Miss Adams was una- ble to return at the opening of the new school year in September, Mr. Pearson kindly consented to fill the posi- tion during her absence, which lasted till December I, when Miss Adams was able to resume her work.
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REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING
Mr. William P. Lunt, Superintendent of Schools :
The work in drawing has been carried onward as well as possible along the lines planned for it in September. Owing to the steadily growing enthusiasm with which both teachers and pupils take up this department of school work, greater progress has been made than was at first expected.
As usual, when a change of teachers occurs, some time was apparently lost in ascertaining just what had and what had not been done. But that determined as far as possible, nothing need now hinder us from gaining good results during the rest of the year.
Having this as our motto : "Not how much, but how well," our aim is, as far as possible, to reach the in- dividual and the one most lacking, and when we remem- ber that the end crowns the work, that a good general is judged by his achievements, and that art is doing the right thing well, we earnestly strive to take each step carefully and firmly.
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More mechanical work, especially in the High School, will be taken up. The advanced class, now working upon sections of solids, will shortly study some- thing of shadows, inter-sections, machine drawing, and will later gain some knowledge of architectural drawing. The lower classes are now working upon geometrical drawing, while the free-hand classes are respectively pre- paring for design and studying object drawing. A syste- matic study in color has been started, as a necessary basis of good design work, all study of which will be made through a close observation of historic ornament and of nature and her laws of growth and color, thus appealing to the pupils through their innate delight in beauty of form and color; a beauty resulting from simplicity, har- mony and repose, and leading them to creative activity and, what is better, to a fine appreciation of the best in decorative art.
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