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6th year. 3 hrs. per week. Introduction to modern Ger- man Literature : Representative modern dramas and novels studied and discussed. Poetry : Special study of Heine and Ruckert.
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FRENCH.
( Elective: three recitations a week.)
Teacher .- KATHARINE WALKER. Aim and scope of department.
1st year .- Pronunciation. Spelling. Vocabulary 1000 words. Translations : reading Alm's 1st Reader and Method. Elementary composition-Grammar oral.
2d year .- Pronunciation. Spelling. Translation. Read- ing Rollins' 1st Reader. Grammar oral. Nouns, adjectives, verbs, Ist conjugation, participles, elementary letter writing composition. Conversation.
3rd year .- Pronunciation. Spelling. Rollins' 1st reader. Translation Guerard's grammar to Syntax. Letter writing, com- position, conversation.
4th 'year .- Pronunciation, spelling, Translation Guerard, Syntax, literature, conversation. Reading LaFontaine, Sans Famille, LaBelle Nivernaise, Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre, L'Abbe Constantin.
5th year .- Grammar, literature, composition, Racine, Corneille.
6th year .- Special course, according to ability of pupils, in either old French or a literary course in modern French.
LATIN.
( Elective.) Teacher,-EDITH H. WILDER. Aim and Scope of Department.
1st year .- Forms. Simple sentences and narrative ia Latin and English.
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2nd year .--- Viri Romæ, Cæsar. Latin Composition based upon the text read. Sight reading.
3rd year .- Cæsar, continued. Cicero, Orations against Catiline, with Archias. Written and oral composition. One lesson a week in sight reading.
4th year. Sallust's Catiline. Selections from Ovid amount -. ing to 2000 or 2500 lines. Three orations of Cicero, largely at sight. Latin composition continued.
5th year .- Four recitations a week. Six books of Virgil, Sight reading from Nepos with composition based upon that text. Study of Roman manners and customs. Grammatical review.
The work indicated above constitutes a thorough prepara- tion in Latin for any of the colleges. In the case of students who do not intend to go to college, the reading outlined for the fourth year may be abridged, a part of Virgil studied then, and selections from Livy and Horace inserted in the fifth year. Throughout the course particular attention is given to the sub- ject matter and literary style of the works read as well as to sentence structure and grammatical form. If desired, this literary and historical investigation will be continued, as gradu- ate work, by a general course in Latin Literature and - Roman Antiquities.
GREEK.
(Elective.)
Teacher,-EDITH II. WILDER.
The Department of Greek was not opened until this year ; therefore, the first year's work is all that is represented in the school. The course will aim to give a thorough preparation for college and will follow substantially the outline given below :
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: Ist year .- Four recitations a week. Beginner's work Forms, vocabulary and common constructions.
2nd year .- Four recitations a week. Xenophon. Greek Composition based upon the text read. Sight reading.
3rd year .- Four recitations a week. Homer. Herodotus. Sight reading. Composition based upon Attic prose. Gram- matical review. Greek manners and customs.
BUSINESS COURSE.
Teacher,-CHARLOTTE J. BURGESS. -
2nd year .- Stenography : Principles of Phonography. Book-keeping: Single and double entry. Business practice. Arithmetic : Commercial Arithmetic.
3rd year .- Stenography : Practice in writing and reading Phonography. Type-writing: Practice in copying English prose, business letters and statements.
4th year. Stenography : Speed practice in writing and reading notes. Type-writing: Same as above with writing . from dictation.
5th year. Stenography: Speed practice in writing and reading notes. Type-writing : Practice in writing from Short- hand notes and from dictation.
NOTE: In all subjects accuracy, methodical habits and neatness are aimed for, rather than great speed and poor work,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
This subject is pursued during the school course, with one recitation a week.
What to read and how to read it are among the ends aimed at. A general knowledge of the world's doings is desired : dis- crimination in selecting important news is cultivated. No
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"item" is read as class work; the subject must become the pupil's own. This affords practice in good English expres- sion.
Sometimes the lessons take the form of discussion.
The diplomatic relations of the United States, England, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, etc., are carefully followed.
: Constitutional questions and the ethics of social questions are considered by the upper classes.
It is difficult to define this work precisely ; it enters into every department of school-work ; it gives a good knowledge of Geography and History"; keeps in touch with the new litera- ture and all the latest scientific research; it watches both American and Foreign affairs; it interests its students in the world of business and finance ; in the religious world ; the po- litical and social world ; in short, it produces in the students broader sympathy and wider intelligence.
GYMNASTICS.
(Required : two lessons a week.)
Teacher, HELEN L. BLACKWELL.
1st, 2nd and 3rd years. Preliminary work in Swedish Gymnastics, Free Exercise, Wands and Bells.
4th and 5th years. Advanced work in the above, with Club Swinging, Preparatory Fencing and Apparatus work.
Graduates. Still more advanced work in the above exer- cises, also Delsarte Movements and Drills.
The work in Physical Training aims to educate the physical faculties with the mental, to develop parts of the body undeveloped, to secure better control of nerve and muscle, to obtain a more correct carriage of the body, and seeks for general development and improvement throughout.
Measurements are taken at the beginning and at the end of the year, to ascertain the condition of the pupil and to mark any improvement.
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DEPARTMENT OF ART.
Teacher-GEORGIANA C. LANE. (Required : One Lerson a week.)
This subject is required of each pupil :-- The study of art must necessarily be considered as a whole rather than the work of the different classes, for it is the prerogative of the instructor in that branch of study to arrange the course of drawing to meet the needs of the individual student and vary it to suit any special requirements.
The elements of art are given in such a way that pupils are prepared to continue their studies in higher schools with noth- ing to unlearn.
The general plan of the course of drawing is as follows :
Free hand drawing of objects and principles of perspective. Study of form, light and shade.
Study of Historic ornament. Study of Design, applied decoration.
Study of Color.
MUSIC.
(Required. )
Teacher, MAUDE E. RICE.
The aim of the work in music is to cultivate a taste for good music and to enable the girls to read readily and intelligently such music as they are likely to meet in chorus singing.
Although no special individual work is attempted, the girls incidentally receive considerable training in vocal culture.
Quality of tone is sought rather than volume.
The school sings together two half-hour periods a week. In addition to this each class has a forty minutes period once a week.
The work consists of choruses by the school, selected. choruses, quartettes, trios and duets.
COURSE OF STUDY .== January 1897.
FOURTH YEAR.
FIFTH YEAR.
FIRST YEAR.
5
English,
5
Englishı,
6
English,
6
English, 6
English,
3
History.
1
History,
3
History,
2
History,
History,
3
Natural Science,
3
Natural Science,
6
Natural Science, 4
Natural Science,
4
Algebra,
1 News of the Day,
1
lege preparatory,
4
Math. Reviews 5
News of the Day,
1
News of the Day,
1
Drawing,
1
News of the Day,
1
Drawing,
1
Drawing,
1
Drawing,
2
Mușic,
2
Drawing,
2
Music,
Gymnastics,
2
Gymnastics,
2
Gymnastics,
2
Music, Gymnastics,
2
Gymnastics,
Electics.
Electives.
Electives.
Electives,
Electives.
German,
3
German,
3
German,
3
French,
French,
3
French,
3
French,
4
Latin,
3
Latin,
5
Latin,
1
Greek,
4
Greek,
3
Commercial Arith-
Stenography, 1
3
Typewriting,
3
Type-writing,
3
metic,
3
Typewriting, 5
Political economy, 3
NOTE.
The numeral follow- a subject indicates the number of recitations per week.
An elective may take substituted for solid ge- the place of either Al- ometry. If three foreign gebra or Science. languages be elected. history and science may be omitted.
NOTE.
NOTE.
NOTE.
An elective may be
If three foreign lan- quages be elected, Sci- nce may be omitted, as ilso other History or Mathematics,
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German, 3
3
German,
3
3
French,
Latin,
4
Bookkeeping and
Greek,
Stenography,
3
Stenography,
2
Music,
2
Music,
3
Algebra,
3
Solid geometry, or col- Trignometry or
4
Geometry,
1
News of the day ,
1
2
THIRD YEAR.
SECOND YEAR.
2
Natural Science, 4
4
Latin,
COURSE OF STUDY, -= April, 1894.
GRADE VI.
GRADE V.
8
English,
5
English,
6
English,
6
English,
6
English,
8
English,
3
History,
3
History,
4
History,
4
History,
2
History,
2
Geography,
3
Geography,
3
4
Science,
3
Science,
3
Science,
7
ography, Science,
3
Algebra,
1
Math. Reviews,
2
Arithmetic,
4
Arithmetic,
4
1
Geometry,
3
Algebra,
4
Geometry,
4
Geometry,
4
Geometry,
1
Geometry,
News of the day 3
1
Drawing,
1
Drawing,
1
Drawing,
1
Drawing,
1
Drawing,
1
Drawing, Music,
1
Music,
1
Music,
1
Music,
1
Music,
1
Music,
1
Manual training 1
Manualtraining 1
Physical train- ing
1
Physicaltrain- ing,
1
Electives.
Electives.
Electives.
Electives.
Electives.
Electives.
German
3
Latin, German oľ
3
Latin,
5
Latin,
5
Latin,
5
Latin,
5
German,
3
German,
3
German,
3
German,
3
or
French,
French,
Bookkeeping
3
Telegraphy,
3
Stenography,
3
Typewriting,
3
This course of study is tentative and will be subject to whatever change the best interests of the school may demand.
The number following a study represents the number of recitations per week.
NOTE.
NOTE.
NOTE.
An El ctive may take
If three foreign lang-
If three foreign lan
t' e place of either Al. nages be elected in the guages be elected in the gebra or Science college c urse, History college course Science The entire business and Science may be may be omitted as
course may be com- omitted. pleted at the close o he year.
An elective may be Economy. substituted for either Algebra or Geometry.
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French,
3
French,
3
French,
Greek,
5
Greek,
4
Greek,
4
and commer- cial law,
GRADE III.
GRADE II.
GRADE I.
GRADE IV.
2
History,
Physical Ge-
3
Science,
3
Science,
News of the day 1
News of the day 1
News of the day 1
News of the day, 1
News of the day 1
French,
3
3
also History or Political
Pol. Economy
Woodward Institute.
DAILY PROGRAMME, 1896-7 .- MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY.
TIME.
MISS SMALL.
MISS BURGESS.
MISS FRANKLIN.
MISS HOLMES.
MISS LANCE.
MI
III. Type-Writing. M
IV. B Geology. MI
Grad. German. M
8.30.
WV
III. Type-Writing. W IV. Physics. W
Grad. German. W
Grad. German.
V. Grammar. F
II. Rhetoric, M
9.10.
WV
IV. Stenography.
III. Physics.
IV. German.
II. Rhetoric. W
II. Literature.
M W
IV. Arithmetic. M II. Stenography. W
F
II. Stenography. F
V. Botany. F
II. A German. W
I. Rhetoric.
10.30.
Recess.
M
10.55.
V. News of the Day. W
I. Stenography.
II. Composition W
I B German.
III. Rhetoric. W
11. Physics.
Grad. German.
III. Literature. J+
M
II. Type-Writing. M III. Type-Writing. W II. Type-Writing. F F
I. Chemistry. M W
I. Chemistry. F
I. A German. F
Grad. Rhetoric. F
IV. Botany. M
IV. Physics. W
II. B German. W
1. B German. F
Grad. Literature. IV. Grammar.
W
12.15.
M W
III. Type-Writing. M LI. Type-Writing. W
F III. Type-Writing F
V. Physiology. MI
IV. German. M
1. Literature. M
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9.50.
I. Chemistry. W
1. A German. W
III. Literature.
III. Rhetoric. M
II. Physics. M
V. German. M
I. A German. M
IV. Literature. M
W
11.35.
I. News of the Day.
III. German. W
Ill. German. M
II. Composition. M
III. Composition. M V. Literature. W
FF
III. Type-Writing. F IV. B Geology.
TIME.
MISS G. C. LANE.
MISS S. W. LANE.
MISS RICE.
MISS WALKER.
MISS WILDER.
8.30.
V. Drawing M
I. Composition.
M
G & I. Geometry
W
M W F
IV. A French.
II. & III. Latin.
9.10.
V. Geometry. W
M W F
V. French. M
I. Drawing. M
Grad. Geometry. M
V. Geometry. F
I. French. F
II. Drawing. M
M
M W F
III. French. MI
9.50.
G & II. Algebra. W
III. History. F
Grad. French. F
10.30.
IV. Drawing. M
G & II. Algebra. M IV. Algebra. W
M W F
Grad. French. W
I. Latin.
W
IV. Algebra. F
V. French. F
I. Latin.
F
III. Drawing. M
I. & II. Algebra. M
W
IV. History.
II. French.
V. Latin.
11.35.
III. Algebra. F
IV. History. F.
M
I & II. Drawing. M
IV. Algebra. M
III. Greek.
W
12.15.
I & II. Algebra. W
III. Greek.
F
II. Algebra. F
V. History. V. History. F
M W
Grad. French. M
III. French. W
III. French. F
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I. French. M
M
10.55.
I. French. W
Grad. Latin.
V. French. W
IV. Latin. M
I. History. F
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY.
TIME.
MISS SMALL.
MISS BLACKWELL
MISS BURGESS.
MISS FRANKLIN.
MISS HOLMES.
8.30.
9.00.
II. News of the Day. Tu Th
G. Gymnastics. Tu
I. & II. Th
I."Type-writing. 'Tu' Th
Tu Th
V. German. Tu Grad. German. Th
9.30.
IV. News of the Day. Tu 'Th
III. Gymnastics
Tu Th
Tu IV. A. Physics. Th'
II. B. German. Tu V. German. Th
10.00.
Tu Th
I. & II. Gymn'tic Tu G. Gymnastics Th
IV. Book-keeping.
V. Physiology.
I. B. German. T'u II. B. German. Th
10.30.
Recess.
10.55.
III. News of the Day. Tu Th
IV .. Gymnastics
G. Stenography Tu III. Type-writing Th
I. Chemistry. Tu Tb
I. A German. 'T'u III. German. Th
11.35.
Th
Tu Th
III. Stenography.
IV. A. Physics. Tu V. Botany. Th
II. A. German Tu I. A. German 'Thì
12.15.
Tu Th
V. Gymnastics. Thì
II. Stenography. Tu G. Stenography. Th
Tu
II. Rhetoricals Th
Grad. German. Tu. IV. Rhetoricals. Th.
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.
Tu
TIME.
MISS LANCE.
MISS LANE.
MISS RICE.
MISS WILDER.
Music.
8.30.
1
I. Latin. Tu
9.00.
V. Literature. Th
III. History.
IV. History.
Grad. Latin. Thì
9.30.
I. Rhetoric. Tu Grad. Literature. Th
II. History. Tu Th
V. Music. Tu
I. & İl. Music.
III. Greek.
10.00.
G. Composition. Tu Th
III. Algebra.
Th
10.30.
Recess.
10.55.
II. Literature. G. Composition. Th
I & II. Algebra. Tu II. History. Th
Tu
V. History. Thị
V. Composition. Tu. I. Latin. Th.
11.35.
G. Literature. I Literature. Th
V. Geometry. Tu
Th
IV. Music. Th
II & III. Latin. Th
12.15.
IV. Literature. Tu III. Rhetoricals. Th
I. History. Tu
Tu
I. Rhetoricals. Th
III. Music .*
Th
V. Rhetoricals. 'Th
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Tu
IV. Latin.
Th
Il & III. Latin. Tu
Tu
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GRADUATION EXERCISES.
Of the Class of 1896.
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PROGRAMME.
Chorus,-"Hark ! from the Woods," Abt.
Double Trio,-"The Moths," G. Palicott.
Chorus,-"The Grasshopper and the Ant,"
Moreau-Rees.
Address, --- "The New Education for Women, and the Old-time Graces,"
MERRILL E. GATES, LL. D.,
President of Amherst College.
Class Song.
Presentation of Diplomas, by Rev. Ellery Channing Butler, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
CLASS SONG.
Written by Miss F. C. Lance.
CHORUS OF GRADUATES :
When silver stars of morning First heralded the day, They sang of love and learning Along their shining way ; They sang of hope and promise, And a gladsome day to be, For every heart that watching, Its happy light should see.
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CHORUS OF UNLEI GRADUATES
Day of Joy, for them thou'rt passing, And thy dying hours they tell; School-mates, teachers, loving, learning, Bid they herea long farewell !
CHORUS OF GRADUATES :
Ah, Day is just beginning: The stars are chanting still; And hope and love, and learning Illume each waiting hill ; We climb to meet their shining, At our feet the wide, wide world ;--- The Day the stars have promised Has eternal light unfurled !
CHORUS OF UNDERGRADUATES :
Day of Life, they too sing ever ; In thy sunlight aye they dwell ; Time and Place may change, but never Shall they bid thy gifts farewell !
Class of 1896.
Lillian Kimball Bates, Clara Leavitt Baxter,
Maud Hudson Cudworth, Eloise Perry Flood,
Susan Adams Packard. Ruth Randall,
Anna Gertrude Whitman.
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FOUNDER'S DAY, 1896.
"Woodward Hymn," "The Bird Carol,"
School
Thoughts from Emerson,
Georgiana Shea
Double Trio, "Sweet and Low,"
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Misses Curley, Rinn, Wilson, Thomas, Wright and O'Neil.
Selections from the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales," Chaucer, Mabel G. Mckenzie
Swedish Gymnastics, Violin Solo,
"In Little Britain," -- Irving,
Eight Girls Clara L. Baxter May Sullivan Eight Girls
Song, "Sur le pont d'Avignon,"
Recitation, "Sir Patrick Spens," Mabel Drew
Vocal Duett, Ich wollt' meine Lieb," Misses Flood and Bates
A Bit of Nature from Hawthorne, Mary J. Dunn Edith Olney
Violin Solo,
Scene from Dornroschen Dornröschen, Ethel Babcock Konigssohn, Edna Miller
(The Sleeping Beauty, ) Die Alte Frau, Mabel Pierce
Quartette, "A Spring Song," § Misses Flood, Bates, Drew and Walsh
Ovid, "Metamorphoses, X," translated and read by,
Ruth Randall
Ovid, "Metamorphoses, X," recited by, Clara L. Baxter Eight Girls
Delsarte Exercises, "Dear Woodward," School
Addresses.
ANNUAL REPORT
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-OF THE-
PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
-OF THE-
City of Quincy, Mass.,
FOR 1896.
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QUINCY
QUINCY: ADVERTISER JOB PRINT, 1897.
School Committee for 1896.
.It Large.
FRANK A. PAGE
Term expires 1896
HENRY C. HALLOWELL
.. 6. 1897
FRANK C. FIELD
1898
By Wards.
Ward 1. CHARLES H. PORTER
Term expires 1897
Ward 2. WALTER R. BREED
66 1898
Ward 3. MABEL E. ADAMS
1898
Ward 4. WILLIAM D. BURNS
1896
Ward 5. WELLINGTON RECORD
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1897
Ward 6. THOMAS GURNEY
6. 1896
Chairman of the School Board. CHARLES H. PORTER.
Secretary of the Board and Superintendent of Schools. HERBERT W. LULL. Office : No. 1, Faxon's Block, Hancock Street. Hours : Monday, 8 to 9 p. M .; Tuesday and Thursday, 5 to 6 p. M .; Friday, 12 to 1 P. M.
The regular meetings of the School Board are held at eight o'clock p. M. the last Tuesday in each month.
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STANDING SUB-COMMITTEES OF 1896.
FOR THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
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Charles H. Porter
CODDINGTON
Mabel E. Adams . Dr. Henry C. Hallowell
JON HANCOCK
Frank A. Page
LINCOLN Frank C. Field QUINCY Thomas Gurney WASHINGTON . Rev. Walter R. Breed
WVILLARD
WOLLASTON
William D. Burns . Dr. Wellington Record
Finance and Salaries. Messrs. Porter, Page, Hallowell.
Books and Supplies.
Messrs. Hallowell, Burns, Record.
Transportation.
Messrs. Record, Gurney, Field.
Evening Schools. Messrs. Burns, Breed, Field.
Text Books.
Messrs. Gurney, Page, Miss Adams.
Report of School Com= mittee.
To the Citizens of Quincy :-
With the completion of another year of school work. it becomes the duty of the School Board to lay before the int- habitants of the city a report of the progress made by the schools the past year, their present condition, and such views and recommendations as their present necessities seem to suggest.
It will be accepted by the citizens, and readily understood by them, that while the members of the School Board have a general knowledge of the condition and working of the schools, as individuals they cannot have that intimate knowledge pos- sessed by the Superintendent; and to his report, therefore, we refer all whose interest in the public schools would avail itself of the best and fullest knowledge of their condition and needs.
In looking at the disadvantages which constantly attend them, it is to be presumed that all observers are agreed as to the greatest one which is the ever constant danger of losing some valuable teacher, as soon as his experience and capacity have caught the eye of some other municipality with a larger treasury, and a consequent ability to offer more than is in the power of your Committee to expend. We have by these (to us) unfortunate conditions lost many a valuable teacher, and it
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is to be expected that the process will continue so long as Quincy is unable to pay the salaries offered by other and richer cities and towns. At the present rate of increase of school population compared to the increase of valuation, it is not believed that the average rate of salaries can be increased for some years to come.
But notwithstanding our constant losses, we believe we have a teaching force which, guided by the unceasing care and untiring zeal of our Superintendent, for conscientious devotion to its vocation, will not suffer in comparison with that of any other city or town in the Commonwealth. The Superintendent of Schools has, as in past years, received the heartiest of sup- port From your Committee and we firmly believe has ably and conscientiously carried ont his plans to the full satisfaction of all the Board.
The standard of excellence has been gradually lifted from year to year and rigorously maintained by the requirements demanded in the employment of teachers, and by the almost general good will which exists in all the relations between the different individuals concerned in the education of our children, To the citizens of Quincy is due in a large measure the credit for the high position which it takes in the cause of public school education.
A no small cause for congratulation at the present time is the establishment of two new school districts during the past year, one at Norfolk Downs and one at the Rail, and the near gard to the care of the water on Union street and appropriate completion of two new school buildings, in which the city may justly take pride. In one or more of the school districts there is today a growing want of more room and better accommodations for the constantly increasing numbers of little ones forming the first classes, and of better facilities for their proper care and protection.
It will soon be a question for the proper anthorities to consider what to do to meet the demands of the future as well as the necessities of the present whether to remodel or rebuild.
The attention of the city is called to the fact that under the
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'Statute passed in 1894 it becomes imperative upon the Board to ·establish a manual training school in our city. Your Committee are heartily] in"sympathy with this branch of school. work, and the city"must in the near future comply with the require- ments of the Statute. For facts and suggestions relating to this and "other {subjects financial and educational, we take pleasure" in referring to the subjoined report of the Super- tendent, which will be read with interest and profit.
WILLIAM D. BURNS, THOMAS GURNEY, '96
FRANK A. PAGE,
HENRY C. HALLOWELL, CHARLES H. PORTER, '97
WELLINGTON RECORD,
MABEL ELLERY ADAMS,
WALTER R. BREED, '98
FRANK C. FIELD,
Report of the Superin=
tendent.
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To the School Committee of Quincy :-
Your Superintendent herewith presents his fifth annual re- port for your consideration. This report is the twenty-second of those submitted by your Superintendents, and is the forty- seventh of those printed by the town or city.
This is the time of the year when in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Board, the Superintendent may in print present, as the agent of the Board, to the citizens of Quincy a synopsis of the work and the growth of the year and of the immediate needs of the schools. A brief summary of such a nature will be found in the following pages. Though some of the topics may not be of great moment, yet in later years, when it is desired to review a past decade, a running account of the doings of 1896 may be extremely helpful.
SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS.
It is with a feeling of great relief that teachers and pupils see the two new buildings approaching completion. The strain on the teaching corps due to extra work caused by excessive
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numbers-to say nothing of the consequent unsanitary con- ditions of over-crowded rooms, has been very noticeable. This feeling of satisfaction would be more intense, if these two buildings could draw from the whole city ; but it must be re- gretfully admitted that some rooms must seat more than their normal number. This means that this Board must continue its annual demand on the Council for more room ; as the yearly growth in school attendance averages about 200.
By the readjustment of bounds the Massachusetts Fields school will open January 4, 1897, with more than 200 pupils. Then the Wollaston and the Quincy schools will have ample room for all save the lowest grade. To be sure, all the other grades will be so near their maximumn, that in no distant future they must have further provision.
The Gridley Bryant will draw from the Willard school 275. The Willard, in turn, will receive 129 from the John Hancock and 31 from the Lincoln. The John Hancock will then take 58 from the Lincoln. By these tranferences the last two schools will be able in April to accommodate the new children of school age. The Lincoln, however, cannot shelter within its own walls the sixth grade that has been housed in another district for two years.
If a four-room building were built on the land directly ad- joining the Lincoln, and placed under the same principalship and janitorship as the Lincoln, then the Willard, John Han- cock, and Lincoln, would be able to take care of the annual growth for several years.
If the city were to exercise the same foresight that charac- terizes the successful man of affairs, it would secure im- mediately suitable school lots at the foot of Penn's hill, and on Squantum street near Montclair.
The decision of the Committee of the Council on Public Buildings that no money should be spent on the Washing- ton building for any extensive repairs, will meet with the hearty approval of the parents of that district. Lungs and eyes have suffered in the present building. If it seems best to build at the Point, the question of a new site must be
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