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Bernice Hudson
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
PRIMARY SCHOOLS, (Concluded.)
Axilda Tardiff Edna Tuttle Isaac Webster Edward Whiteley
Dorothy Thurlow Abbie Usher Helen White Everett Wilson
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
ATTENDANCE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JULY 1, 1906.
Total Enrol- ment
Average Member- ship
Average Attend- ance
Per ct. of Attend- ance
No of Tardi- nesses
High School
Kelley, Grade
IX
42
38.7
35.5
92
156
66
66
VIII
42
41
39
92
42
66
66
VII
51
42
37
88 5
97
VI
48
45
43
96
35
66
V
52
40
36
90
35
Jackman, Grade IX
56
53
50.7
95.4
127
66
VIII
48
40.6
38
92
340
66
Ungraded
57
56
53
95
I33
Grade VII
49
42.9
40.1
94
55
VI
37
44
40
91
149
66
VI
49
45
40
89
155
66
V
54
47
42
88
170
66
V
50
45
40
90
107
Currier, Grades VIII & IX.
45
40
38.7
96
19
66
VII
38
33
30.6
93
42
VI
32
32
30
93
40
66
V
38
34
32
94
56
Moutlonville, V to IX
38
32
31
92
I45
I to IV
32
26
24
90
98
Storev Avt. I to IX
26
26
23
92.9
261
Ward Room, Grade V
41
40
37.2
91.5
66
Training, Grade IV
46
39
35
88.8
97
66
III
45
41.6
38
91.6
140
66
II
49
45.6
40
89
202
66
50
50
45
90.8
262
Bromfield St. IV
43
39
35
88
195
III
46
43
39
91
199
16
66
II
30
34
30
89
153
=
66
I
31
34
28
88
172
319
293
277
94.8
I222
66
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Total Enrol- ment
Average Average Member- Attend- ance ship
Per ct. of Attend- ance
No. of Tardi- nesses
Davenport,
IV
42
4I
38
92
I2I
III
47
39
37
95
61
66
II
44
38.7
34
89
80
66
I
37
29
26.5
90
76
Curtis,
IV
29
24
32
93
78
66
III
36
3I
29
94
60
66
II
36
3I
28.5
91.7
58
66
I
42
33
29
87.5
55
Johnson,
IV
38
39
34
89
124
66
III
38
35
3I
89
II4
66
II
29
26
24
93
48
66
I
33
3I
27
87
96
Purchase St, I & II
37
33
30
91
45
Temple St., III & IV
54
49
45.6
92.6
125
I & II
51
43
38
90
75
Totals
2174
1984.5
1831.2
91.3
6106
TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT
Gentlemen of the School Committee :-
My annual report for the year ending June 30th, 1906. must be what I am able to take from the records of the for- mer truant officer and will, therefore, be brief. Since I have taken the position I have tried to do my duty and have met with cordial co-operation from the parents where I have had occasion to call. I would recommend that I have printed copies of the new law relating to mercantile establishments employing child labor. Many of the employers are not aware of the new law passed June, 1906, and have requested that I have some printed for circulation. The census is nearly complete and will be ready in a few days.
Respectfully submitted,
JOSHUA L. CHASE, Truant Officer. .
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TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT-YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906
Number of schools visited
Number of absences report- ed by teachers.
Number of parents or guar-
Number of children absent
on suspicion
vestigation
to school
Number of children warned
Number children returned to school from streets
Tardiness investigated
Number of manufactories
Number certificates issued
Number of children found employed contrary to law Number of children dis- charged to attend school
Number employers notified
Number half days' truancy
Number of children placed before the court
Number children sent to truant school
Number children placed on probation
00
October.
148
I9I
I70
12
7
7
12
4
IO
3
November.
I39
I45
138
15
9
9
15
13
4
II
A
0
December
I28
I45
I34
I3
7
7
00
00
12
4
II
3
0
January ..
119
I39
123
12
125
14
00
00
14
4
IO
February
I20
137
I44
125
14
7
14
6
II
March
II7
127
138
I2I
15
I54
12
10
00
NÃO
6
II
0
+
O
0
May.
116
I35
I24
15
0
6
15
ON
6
II
0
3
0
O
O
June ..
Total ..
|1228 1429 1292 133
81
81
|123
52
50
108
86
34
0
21
O
0
0
0
Respectfully submitted, JOSHUA L. CHASE, Truant Officer.
For Robert G. Allen.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
September , 1905.
90
80
78
II
7
7
II
5
7
9
2
8
6
12
4
88880
A
O
5
0
N
o
ONNANNOWNH
0
0
O
O
0
A
I4
0
April.
124
175
dians notified
Truants determined by in-
Number of truants returned
visited
949+ 9937
05
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
CENSUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN-Sept. 1, 1906 TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT.
PUBLIC, PAROCHIAL AND PRIVATE SCHOOL PUPILS
Ward One
Ward Two
Ward Three
Ward Four
Ward Five
Ward Six
Total
Public
367
242
297
247
273
416
1842
Parochial
I2
82
82
63
I35
26
400
Private
4
3
5
5
8
3
28
Neither at
school or
work
8
13
3
3
8
3
38
At work
II
6
8
7
IO
7
49
Taught at home
0
0
0
0
I
O
I
Total
. 402
346
395
325
435
455
2358
Respectfully submitted, JOSHUA L. CHASE, For Robert Allen.
COURSES OF STUDY
IN THE
Newburyport High School
NEWBURYPORT, MASS.
ADOPTED 1906.
5-Year College Course
College
Scientific
FIRST YEAR.
English
A 3
English'
A 3
English A 3
History
3 History
3
History
3
Algebra
5 Algebra
5 Algebra
5
Latin
A
5
Latin
A
5
Latin
A
5
Drawing
I
Drawing
I
Drawing
I
SECOND YEAR.
English
B 3
English
B
English B
3
Algebra
2 Geometry
5
Geometry
5
Latin
B 7
Latin
B 7
Latin
5
Greek
A 5
Greek
A 5
French B
5
or
or
Mech. Drawing
I
French
B 5
French
B 5
THIRD YEAR.
English
C 3 English
D 2
English D 2
Geometry
5 History
3
R. Mathematics
5
Latin
C 5 R. Geometry
2 I-2
French
D 4
Greek
B 5 Latin
C 5 German A 4
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COURSES OF STUDY
.
5-Year College Course
Scientific
College THIRD YEAR, (Conluded.)
Greek
B 5
Physics 4
or French
D 4
or
Mech. Drawing
I
French D 4
French B 4
or
German
A 4
FOURTH YEAR.
English
D 2
English
E 4
English E 4
History
3
Latin
E 5
Adv. Math.
4
R. Geometry
2 I-2
Greek C 5
French F 4
Latin
D 2 I-2
or
German B 4
Greek
D 2 I-2
French
F 4
U. S. History and
or
R. Algebra 2 I-2
Civics 4
French
E 2 1-2
Optional
Mech. Drawing I
French
B 4
French
D 4
or
German
B 4
German
A 4
Physics
4
Physics
4 Adv. Math
4
FIFTH YEAR.
English
E 4
R. Algebra
2 I-2
Latin
E 5
Greek
C 5
or
French
F 4
French
D 4
or
German
B 4
Adv. Math
4
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NEWBURYPORT HIGH SCHOOL
Commercial
Normal or Training School General
FIRST YEAR.
English 3 English
3
English 3
Algebra 5 History 3 History 3
French
5 Algebra 5 Algebra 5
Penmanship, Spell- French or Latin 5 French or Latin 5
ing, Arithmetic 4
Drawing
I Drawing
I
Drawing
I
SECOND YEAR.
English
3 English
3
English 3
French
4
Geometry 5
History 3
Geometry or
5 Botany
2
Geometry or 5
Physics
4
Latin or
7
Physics 4
Bookkeeping
4 French and 4
Optional
Correspondence
History
3
Latin 5
French 4
Physics or
4
Geometry
5
Botany
2
Bookkeeping
4
THIRD YEAR.
English
4 English
2
English 4
One Optional
Eng. History
3
Optional
Phonography
5
Chemistry
3 Latin 5
Typewriting
2 Review Alg. 2 I-2
French
4
Bookkeeping
2 Review Geom 2 I-2
German 1
Com. Law
2 French or
4 Eng. History
3
Optional
Latin
5 Chemistry
3
Eng. History
3 Drawing
Phonography
5
Chemistry
3
Bookkeeping 2
French
4
Typewriting
2
and Spelling
2 Drawing
I
4
COURSES OF STUDY
Commercial
Normal or Training School
General
FOURTH YEAR.
English 4 English 4
English
4
Optional
Phonography 5
U. S. History and Civics
4
Latin 5
U. S. History and Civics
4
Phys. Geog. 3
French
4
Economics
3
Physics 4
German
4
Typewriting
2 Physiology
2 Solid Geom. and
Drawing I Trigonometry 4
U. S. History and Civics 4
Review Alg.
2
Phonography 5 Typewriting 2
Physiology
2
NOTES.
The figures after each study indicate the number of recitations a week in the study.
All candidates for a diploma must satisfactorily com- plete all the required studies of the course and a sufficient number of electives to make a total of sixteen weekly periods of prepared recitations.
There must be a sufficient number of pupils desiring a certain elective to warrant a class being formed in that subject.
Double periods are assigned to laboratory work, book- keeping and typewriting. This increase in periods is offset by exemption from study in preparation.
The studies selected for the year's work, with the ad- vice and consent of the principal, shall be submitted to the parents for approval. Having been so approved they shall not be changed except for very urgent reasons.
Only one foreign language may be begun the same year. A foreign language once chosen must be continued two years at least.
Singing is required of the entering class once a week and is elective for the others.
Pupils who have maintained an average of B. during the first year may be allowed to take the four year's college course, provided the parent makes a written application to
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COURSES AND STUDY
the Principal for that privilege. All other college prepara- tory pupils must take the five years's course. Pupils taking the four year's course must continue to maintain an average of B.
A certificate of admission, to Colleges accepting cer- tificates, will be granted those maintaining an average of 85 per cent. or better.
ENGLISH.
The aim of English instruction is to acquaint the student wtih some of the best specimens of literature and so to cultivate a taste for good reading; to give the student training in the expression of thought so that he may write correctly and with real interest. First Year, A:
FIRST YEAR, A.
Rhetoric-Lockwood and Emerson (Parts I and II, and figures of speech).
Written papers affording practice in narration and description
Literature for study in class:
Homer's Odessey, Palmer's traslation.
Scott's Tales of a Grandfather.
Hawthorne's Tales of the White Hills.
Irving's Sketch Book.
Short poems representative of American authors.
Books for home reading:
Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn or The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans or The Spy. Scott, The Talisman.
Dickens, The Christmas Carol.
Hawthorne, Wonder Book or Tanglewood Tales.
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NEWBURYPORT HIGH SCHOOL
Burroughs, Bird Enemies and Pastoral Bees. Kipling, Jungle Books. Curtis, True and I. Hughes, Alfred the Great. Bulfinch, The Legend of Charlemagne.
Each student is expected to read at least five books from this list during the year.
SECOND YEAR, B.
Rhetoric, Lockwood and Emerson (parts III and IV).
The study of the themes affording practice in theme writing weekly, including narration, description, and simple exposition.
Literature for study in class:
Selections from English literature, introducing narratives, poetry, novels and drama. Scott, The Lady of the Lake. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It.
Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner.
Scott, Ivanhoe.
Books for home reading:
Scott, Quentin Durward.
Stevenson, Treasure Island, Kidnapped.
Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare. Bunyon, Pilgrim's Progress. Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii.
Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby. Dickens, A Child's History of England. Porter, Scottish Chiefs. Parton, Captains of Industry. Hale, The Man Without a Country.
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COURSES OF STUDY
THIRD YEAR, C.
Review of principles of composition, weekly papers. Hill's Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition. Distinctions in the use of words.
Literature for study in class selected.
FOURTH YEAR, D.
Rhetoric, Hill's Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition (Part I). Paragraph writing.
Literature, readings required for college entrance examinations.
For divisions not preparing for college, selected readings.
Books for home reading:
Lytton, Rienzi or Harold, Last of the Saxons.
Kingsley, Westward Ho, Hereward the Wake.
Scott, The Monastery, The Abbott. Blackmore, Lorna Doone. Dickens, Pickwick Papers.
George Eliot, Adam Bede or Romola,
Gaskell, Cranford. Schurz, Lincoln. Emerson, Behavior, Culture ..
FIFTH YEAR, E.
Rhetoric, Hill's Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition (Part İİ). Review of principles of composition and rhetoric. Weekly short themes, monthly longer papers. History of English Literature, Halleck. Readings required for college entrance examinations. For divisions not preparing for college, selected readings.
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Books for home reading:
Tennyson, In Memoriam. Harrison, The Choice of Books.
Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies. Byron, Childs Harold Books III and IV.
Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship.
Boswell, Life of Johnson (Abridged).
Pater, Child in the House.
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Fawn.
Emerson, The American Scholar, or Self-Reliance and Friendship.
Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
Riis, How the Other Half Lives.
Winter, Gray Days and Gold, Shakespeare's England.
Pupils are expected to give from two to three hours each day to home study. Parents are earnestly requested to co- operate with the teachers in securing thorough preparation of home work.
Parents are cordially invited to visit and inspect the work of the school.
HISTORY.
Ancient History.
Brief History of important Oriental Nations. History of Greece from earliest times to 146 B. C. History of Rome from earliest times to 800 A. D. Text book: Myers' Ancient History. Readings in texts of Botsford, West, Wolfson, Smith, and Gayley's Classic Myths, Plutarch's Lives, etc.
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COURSES OF STUDY
Mediaeval and Modern European History.
History of the rise and development of Modern European nations from 800 to 1900 A. D.
Text books: Adams' Mediaeval and Modern History and Emerton's texts. Readings from books in the school and city libraries.
English History.
History of England from the earliest times to 1900 A. D. Text book: Larned's History of England. Readings from Green Gardiner, Kendall, Macaulay, etc.
Ancient History.
A brief history of important Oriental nations, followed by a review of the history of Greece and of Rome in prepara- tion for college examinations.
Text books: Oman's History of Greece. Botsford's History of Rome and Myer's Rome; its Rise and Fall.
Readings from other texts, Curtius, Holm, Greenidge, Tarbell, Plutarch, Pelham, How and Leigh, Mommsen, etc.
American History and Civil Government.
American History from earliest times to 1900 A. D. (about two terms).
Civil Government (about one term).
Text books, Channing's Students' History of the United States. Fiske's Civil Government in the United States. Readings from Fiske, Parkman, Thwaites, Hart, Wilson, Lodge, Lecky, Rhodes, Winsor, etc. And readings from the sources as in American History Leaflets, and American History told by Contemporaries.
Readings from Bryce, Hart, Wilson, Hinsdale, Stanwood, etc.
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NEWBURYPORT HIGH SCHOOL
LATIN.
Latin A.
Collar's "First year Latin" completed and Caesar begun. Latin B. Seven periods per week.
(I) For pupils taking the college course. Caesar continued-Nepos. Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar and Pearson's Latin. Prose Composition to Part 3.
Latin G. (2) Five periods per week.
For pupils taking the Scientific or General course. Caesar continued-Nepos. Pearson's Latin Prose Composition to Part 3.
Latin C. Virgil. Books I to VI inclusive.
Prose (Jones). Once a week.
Latin D.
Sallust-Grammar Reviews-Prose based on Caesar.
Review of Virgil and Caesar.
Latin E.
Cicero, four orations against Cataline, Manilian Law and Archias, Ovid, Prose once a week, (Jones completed and continuous passages based on orations against Catiilne.
GREEK.
Greek A.
White's "First Greek Book" and Anabasis begun, with easy prose composition on the same.
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COURSES OF STUDY
Greek B.
Anabasis (first four books); Jones' Greek Prose Composi- tion once a week.
Greek C.
Pearson's Greek Prose Composition with Sight Reading from Anabasis and continuous prose passages based on Anabasis.
Greek D.
Homer's Iliad. Sight Reading from Anabasis. Jones' Greek Prose Completed, and' continuous passages based on Anabasis.
FRENCH.
FIRST YEAR. Beginning Fourth Class. A.
Chardenal: Complete Course 150 pages. Simple text with composition followed by Super's Reader, Poems, Dictation. Beginning Third or Second Class.
B.
Chardenal: Complete Course 182 pages, or Aldrich and Foster's Grammar (complete).
Introductory Prose Composition Francois Part I. I. Super's Reader, Sans Famille, La Poudre aux Yeux.
2. Dictation, Poems, Irregular Verbs, Sight Translation, Reproductions.
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NEWBURYPORT HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND YEAR. Beginning Fourth Class.
C. Complete Chardenal Grammar.
Worman's Grammaire Francaise.
French the language of the class as soon as possible. Super's Reader, Sans Famille, La Poudre aux Yeux. Beginning in Third or Second Class.
D. Complete Chardenal Grammar. Bouvet's Syntax and Composition. Francois: Introductory Prose Part 2, or
Prose based on stories read. Colomba, Trois Contes Choisis, L'Abbe Constantin, La Poudre aux Yeux, Super's Readings from French His- tory. B 2.
THIRD YEAR.
E.
Grammar Fraser and Squair or Chardenal.
Composition Advanced Francois Part I or Fraser and Squair exercises pp. 337 to 394, or Bouvet's Compo- sition.
Translation: La Belle Nivernaise, Mlle. de la Seigliere, La Tulipe Noire, Le Pecheur d'Islande, Super's Readings from French History. B 2.
FOURTH YEAR .
F.
Grammar and Composition suited to needs of class. Translation: La Chute, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Cid, Labartine's Scenes de la Revolution Francaise, Miche- lets Abrege d'Histoire re France, Le Cure de Tours. B 2.
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COURSES OF STUDY
GERMAN.
Four Periods a Week.
A. Vos' Essentials of German.
Guerber's Marchen und Erzahlungen, Zschokke's Der Zerbrochene Krug.
Storm's Immensee.
Dictation and memorizing of poems.
B. Harris's German Composition; Joynes Meissner German Grammar; Baumbach's Der Schwiegersohn; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Heine's Harzreise. Dippold's Scientific German Reader.
Dictation and memorizing of poems.
PHYSICS.
Elementary-The course consists of simple quantitative ex- periments by the student, illustrative experiments by the instruct- or and discussions of the phenomena in class.
. College Preparatory-The course consists of at least thirty- five quantitative experiments by the student, illustrative experi- ments by the instructor, discussions in class and helpful problem work.
CHEMISTRY.
The course consists of a treatment of the subject as found in Newell's escriptive Chemistry, the experimental portion of which is followed, with some modifications to comply with local conditions.
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NEWBURYPORT HIGH SCHOOL
BOOKKEEPING II.
The simplest forms and methods in general use in book- keeping are introduced; day-book, journal, ledger, and cash-book. The first few month's work consists of journalizing accounts. posting into the ladger and finally making trial balances, balance sheets and inventories.
Williams and Rogers system of bookkeeping, "Office Rou- tine," is used in which each student becomes bookkeeper for a hay and grain concern. Actual business is carried on by means of incoming vouchers, acquainting the students with business forms of bill heads, receipts, notes, drafts, checks, and railroad bills-of-lading, etc.
BOOKKEEPING I.
More difficult bookkeeping is taken up the second year in- cluding the work as done in retail and wholesale stores, manu- factories and corporations. New time-saving books are used as shipment, consignment and purchase ledgers, pay-roll books, clerks daily sales, clerk's time book and abstract of daily sales. In this work also actual business is carried on by means of incoming vouch- esr. These are used in connection with Williams & Rogers' "Office Routine."
PHONOGRAPHY II.
The first year's work in phonography consists of a thorough study of the principles, no attention being given to speed. The science of phonetics is brifly studied as far as it concerns the out- lining and skeleton formation of words and brief sentences.
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COURSES OF STUDY
PHONOGRAPHY I.
The first two or three month's work is a general review of the principles learned in the preceding year. Slow dictation is now be- gun, at the rate of about ten words a minute. This is gradually in- creased as fast as the abilities of the students warrant, until the speed of one hundred words per minute is reached. This is required for graduation.
COMMERCIAL LAW.
The elements of business law and customs are studied. This in- cludes such subjects as contracts, negotiable paper, sale of real estate and personal property and common carriers.
TYPEWRITING II.
First Year-Brief study of the mechanism and proper use and care of machines. Finger exercises on the keyboard, and copying of printed matter including simple tabulation. Touch writing is taught entirely, sight writing being eliminated as much as possible.
TYPEWRITING I.
Second Year-Transcription of shorthand notes and speed work and practice in the use of the mimeograph and in manifolding. This is followed by more difficult tabulation and later by dictation directly on the machines.
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