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direction. The moral wholesomeness of such training has been demonstrated repeatedly not alone in the education of boys and girls in the public schools but by the effects of industrial train- ing upon the negro, indian and criminal as seen at Tuskegee, Carlisle and Elmira.
Again, manual training dignifies manual labor in the thought of the pupils. One of the most silly and harmful notions in the minds of American youth is that manual labor is degrading. Our boys and girls need to have it impressed upon them that dignity and merit do not depend upon the kind of work one does, but upon the spirit and efficiency with which he does it. He is the most hopeless slave who is a slave to his own vanity. Independence and self-reliance are royal qualities and should be cultivated. Honest industry is always more honorable than indolence however affluent. The human parasite excites dis- gust in every normal mind and it is impossible for him to have true self-respect, lacking which, he may easily degenerate to any evil or meanness. But the child whose whole training for life has been without physical effort may naturally infer that he is expected to live by his wits rather than by hard work. Not a few parents encourage this sentiment in their children. In the serious affairs of every day life, however, soft-handed vanity is no match for hard-headed common sense ; and the wise can only pity the one while they approve the other. Alas for the youth who is the first and only one to discover that he is of too fine a mold for honest toil. Alas for the boys and girls so educated that they are ashamed of laboring parents ; ashamed to work but not ashamed to consume in indolence the small and hard-earned means of those parents. The desire to live without work is as unwise as it is unworthy. If one wishes to be healthy and happy, to say nothing of being useful, he must occupy his time and energy in some legitimate industry. The ambition to im- prove one's condition should receive every encouragement but whoever suggests any other way than by hard work, frugality, self-improvement and integrity, is an unsafe adviser, for these are the only keys that will unlock the doors to merited promotion and greater opportunities. Then let our boys and girls be
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so trained that they will not hesitatate to take the position for which their talents best fit them, since there lies the greatest happiness as well as the highest dignity and honor.
Again, manual training offers the pupil another opportunity to find himself-to discover his talents and tastes and so reduce the chances of his becoming a misfit and failure in life.
Finally, if the son of capital works in the manual training shop side by side with the son of labor, both will be benefited by the association. They will understand and respect each other. One will cease to look upon manual labor with con- tempt, the other cease to look upon it with shame. Both will discover that the accident of fortune has nothing to do with natural ability or intrinsic worth, and forgetting other things each will appreciate the other for what he is and what he can do. The mutual sympathy and confidence established in school days will not easily yield to distrust and injustice in later life.
While I by no means believe that manual training will cure all our educational ills and banish human folly I do believe that it is necessary to secure the best development of our children, and therefore recommend it for its educational value, its moral influ- ence and its social effect, to supplement the usual academic studies.
The system of manual training best adapted to the needs of the elementary schools, as it seems to me, is the one in most general use, Sloyd. "Sloyd, " says Mr. Gustaf Larsson, "is not the outgrowth of a single mind, nor of the experiments at any one time or place, it is the result of the work of wise investiga- tors and practical teachers in many countries. Sloyd aims primarily, by its appeal to many activities to make the boy, and not the wooden model. Sloyd is tool work so arranged and employed as to stimulate and promote vigorous, intelligent, self- activity for a purpose which the worker recognizes as good."
At present the girls of the grammar schools are taught sew- ing, but Sloyd is adapted to both sexes. Our first need, how- ever, is to provide for the boys of the grammar grades so they can have Sloyd while the girls take sewing. Now the boys seem to be a superfluity during the sewing period and they sometimes
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feel that what is given them to do during that period is quite as much for the purpose of killing time as for anything. This is unfortunate in every respect. They are of just as much im- portance as the girls and need the manual training just as much. They should be provided for. If a preliminary course could be provided for the boys of the fifth and sixth grades and shop work for those of the seventh and eighth, it would be a most happy solution of our difficulty.
Time Apportionment.
For the convenience of teachers in making out their daily programs and to secure an apportionment of time between the various subjects that shall approximate their relative importance in the several grades, the following table was prepared. It gives the weekly division of the teacher's time when the schools are in session 1,350 minutes a week. The division of the pupils' time should approach this as nearly as practicable. Every teacher should see that her daily program not only provides for the weekly apportionment of time as suggested in the table but for the length of recitations as well. Of course it is not ex- pected that the programs will conform to the table exactly-to a minute-but shall closely approximate it.
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Grades
I II III
IV
V
VI VII VIII
Length of recitations
15
15
20
20
25
25
30 30
Opening, general and phys-
ical exercises
175 150 125 125 125 125 125 125
Mathematics
150 250 300 300 300 300 300
Physiology and science
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
Reading
675 450 375 300 225 175 165 150
Spelling
50
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
Language and grammar
75 100 100 125 125 150 150 175
Geography
75
75 100 100
50
75 130 130
Writing
75
75 100 100 100
100
30
-
Drawing
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
Music
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
Sewing *
*
*
*
%. Time to be taken from that assigned to other subjects.
Flag Days.
To associate the national flag with the public schools is very appropriate but to display it constantly may not be the best way to impress upon the children its meaning or to secure their deepest love and reverence. In this case familiarity may not breed contempt but it does dull the keen edge of interest and enthusiasm. If the flag is displayed every day it becomes in the mind of the child a part of the school building and at- tracts little more attention than any other part. In order that the flag may be significant to the children-may really be the emblem of our nation in its best and greatest achievements,- it should be associated in their thoughts with the persons and events of our history through whom and by which the nation has lived and become great. Around it should cluster the names of our wisest and noblest men and the memories of our greatest and worthiest deeds.
Therefore a list of about sixty Flag Days, including the anniversaries of important events and the birthdays of great
(125 125 150 150
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commanders, statesmen, inventors, and writers, has been pre- pared for the schools. On the days indicated it is expected that the flag will be displayed and that an appropriate lesson will be given in each room. No dates in July and August are given because the schools are not then in session.
Valuation.
Valuation, 1901,
$21,335,800 00
Gain over 1900,
1,053,344 00
Total tax levy, 1901,
375,153 64
Rate per thousand
17 60
Budget of the School Board.
Asked.
Expended.
Salaries,
$81,865 00
$80,554 98
Fuel,
6,500 00
6,566 19
Janitors,
7,000 00
6,896 06
Transportation,
950 00
840 60
Evening Schools,
1,400 00
1,551 90
Books, Supplies, Sundries, 10,000 00
11,299.40
Rents,
650 00
487 50
$108,365 00
$108,196 63
Appropriation,
$108,365 00
Expended,
108,196 63
Unexpended Balance
168 37
School Property.
SCHOOLS.
BUILT.
EN- LARGED.
*VALUE.
ROOMS. PACITY.
TSEATS.
MATE- RIAL.
JIEAT- ING.
LATION
SANITARY.
Iligh,
1894
$77,000
12
400
411
Brick
Hot-air
Good
Dry closet
Adams,
1855
1879
25,000
10
466
467
Wood
Hot-air
Good
Dry closet
Coddington,
1855
1876
26,500
91
390
448
Wood
Stoves
None
Water4
Cranch,
1900
40,000
9
426
426
Brick
Steam
Good
Water
Gridley Bryant,
1896
38,000
9
426
126
Brick
Steam
Good
Dry closet
John Hancock,
1886
45,000
9
450
490
Brick
Steam
Fair
Lincoln,
1892
28,500
CC
396
427
Brick
Steam
Good
Dry closet
Massachusetts Fields,
1896
39,075
9
426
426
Brick
Steam
Good
Dry closet
Quincy,
1873
20,500
8
288
380
Wood
Steam
None
Dry closet
Washington,
1858
1874
10,400
8
304
340
Wood
Hot-air
None
$
Willard,
1891
117,500
182
891
900
Brick
Hot-air
Good
Water
Wollaston,
1873
1890
27,000
SB
330
360
Wood
Hot-air
Good
Water!
Old High,
1852
9,000
3
130
136
Wood
Hot-air
None
Land, Germantown,
100
Land, Quincy Neck,
150
Furniture, books, apparatus, etc.,
20,000
Grand Total,
523,725
5,323 5,637
*Assessors' valuation 1901. 1"Capacity" means the proper limit, and "Seats" the actual number. 1. Two buildings in one yard (6 and 3 rooms.) 2. Third floor unfinished. 3. In addition a small hall poorly lighted. 4. Connected with the sewer. §Old-fashioned out-buildings. |Closets in an adjoining out-building that are "flushed" into a cesspool.
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Repairs.
Charles F. Knowlton, Commissioner of Public Works, re- ports the following outlay for repairs on school buildings;
Iligh,
$302 88
Old High,
47 22
Adams, .
312 22
Coddington,
54 14
Cranch, .
42 20
Gridley Bryant
236 32
John Hancock,
434 74
Lincoln, .
447 11
Massachusetts Fields,
161 54
Quincy,
388 41
Washington,
9 20
Willard, .
768 95
Wollaston,
170 84
Total
$3,375 77
The School Census.
Reported by Charles HI. Johnson, Enumerator, September, 1901.
Age.
Ward I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI. Total.
Five,
65
64
172
239
86
70
696
Six,
74
53
123
152
80
48 530
· Seven,
66
70
133
147
57
76 549
Eight,
72
73
117
140
80
43
525
Nine,
61
52
133
138
75
63
525
Ten,
72
66
128
147
73
54
540
Eleven,
60
50
85
132
55
51
433
Twelve,
67
61
152
130
86
43
539
Thirteen,
52
58
105
110
82
50
457
Fourteen,
83
72
60
100
105
67
487
Total
675
619
1208
1435
779
565
5281
Net gain over Census of 1900,
.
.
·
₱
182
-
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Number of Pupils by Grades.
At the opening of the September term the number of pupils. enrolled in all the schools was as follows :
School. GRADE I. II.
III. 33
IV. 45 44
V. VI. VII. VIII Total 52 41 39-394
Adams,
$ 36 2 33
39
13
19
58 49 48
52 42
32-401
Coddington,
38 50
41 39
35
29 40 44
30 38 39
31
36-356
John Hancock,
5 44 2 31
42
47
42
42
55
44
42
34-428
Massachusetts Fields, 76
Quincy,
§ 56 ₹ 34
60
55 52
63 47
38 48 56
42 51 43
29 44 39
27-356
Willard,
52
40
39
54 54
39 42 40
43 43
38 47 60-855
Wollaston,
51
37
42
38
41
39
35
30-313
IX.
x.
XI.
XII.
GRADS.
High,
228
158
85
57
13
-541
5,015
Attendance.
Whole number of different pupils ;
Boys, 2,617 Girls, 2,593
5,210
Average number belonging,
4,848
Average daily attendance,
4,670
Per cent. of daily attendance, ·
96.3
Tardiness pro rata average daily attendance
0.57
Dismissals pro rata average daily attendance
0.79
Cases of truancy,-different pupils,
76
42
50
45
34-356
Washington,
47 45
60
36
46
43
36
43
40
36 34 28-310
-260
Gridley Bryant,
44
44
42
Lincoln,
60
60
S 2
46 45
34-445
Cranch,
40 42
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The following reports, furnish interesting data :-
1850.
1875
1900.
1901.
Valuation,
$912,105 $7,203,329 $20,219,151 $21,335,800
Population,
5,017 1,079
9,155
*24,500
Census,
1,727
23,899 5,099 · 5,281
Whole number of different pupils,
1,044
1,544
5,254
5,210
Average number belonging,
1,363
4,705
4,848
Average daily at- tendance,
775
1,301
4,403
4,670
Per cent. of at- tendance,
95
93.6
96.3
Per cent. of tar- diness,
2.81
0.57
Teachers,
13
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120+
1311
*Estimated.
t Does not include Special Teachers.
Statistics.
The dividend includes every cent the Board has spent from January 1 to December 31, excepting $1,551.90, the cost of the Evening Schools.
The divisor may be (1) the whole number of different pupils, 5,210; or (2) the averaging number belonging, 4,848; or (3) the average daily attendance, 4,670. All three of these divisors refer to the school year, September, 1900 to June, 1901.
Cost :- 1. $20.47+ 2. $22.00+ 3. $22.84+
Comparison.
Average cost per pupil for Massachusetts.
From the Sixty-Fifth Report of the State Board of Edu- cation.
Cost. 1. $22.97. 2. $26.49. 3. $29.00.
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From the same report it is noted that Quincy holds numer- ically rank as follows :
1. Amount of money appropriated for each child between 5 and 15 years : State, 153: County, 20.
2. Comparative amount of money appropriated for each child included in the average number belonging : State, 142 : County, 18.
3. Percentage of valuation appropriated to public schools : State, 155 : County, 12.
4. Ratio of average attendance to the whole number of children between 5 and 15 years : State, 142 : County, 17.
Teachers.
In service at the close of schools in December.
Grade I.
Grade II.
Grade III.
Grade IV.
Grade V.
Grade VI.
Grade VII.
Grade VIII.
Principal.
Head Master.
Master.
Teachers.
Men.
Women.
Total.
High School,
1 1 14 5 111
16
Adams,
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 10
11
Coddington,
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
10
Cranch,
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
*
7
7
Gridley Bryant,
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
7
8
John Hancock,
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1 10
11
Lincoln,
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
*
9
9
Quincy,
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 9
10
Washington,
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
7
8
Willard,
3
3
3
2
3
2
2
1
1
1
19
20
Wollaston,
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
S
9
Special Teachers,
1 13
4
Assistants,
13
13
TOTAL,
18 16 13 12 13 12 12 7 8
13 131 144
1
1
1
1
*
8
8
Massachusetts Fields,
2
1
* In three cases two schools are in charge of one principal. The Adams and Cranch, the John Hancock and Lincoln, the Massachusetts Fields and Wollaston. t This number includes Miss Kennedy who outlines the work in science for the elementary schools.
# This number includes the teacher of cooking although but twenty lessons are given during the year.
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Twenty-two teachers have resigned during the year.
Three have been absent on leave.
Nine have attended a normal school but did not graduate.
Forty-two have graduated from a normal school.
Six have attended college but did not graduate.
Eleven have graduated from college.
Average salary of all teachers in the first eight grades (not including principals), $488.03.
Average salary of all teachers in grades IX, X, XI, XII, (not. including principal), $748.21.
Minimum and maximum salary of principals below High, $1,000-$1,400; High, $1,800-$2,200.
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MRS. LAURA C. F. SMITH Born at Pittsfield, New Hampshire, 1846. Died at Quincy, Massachusetts, June 4, 1901.
Supervisor of Music in the Quincy public schools from April, 1891, to the time of her death. Ten years of cheerful, faithful, efficient service.
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Evening Schools.
The usual number of Evening Schools were maintained last year. They all opened on Monday evening, October 15, 1900. The common schools closed on Friday evening, Febru- ary 15, 1901 and the drawing school closed on the following evening.
The Adams school was unusually profitable. The interest. and attendance being well sustained up to the last. The intro- duction of algebra and bookkeeping doubtless had something to do with this improvement. The whole number enrolled was. 113. Men, 83 ; women, 30. Average attendance, 61. Number of sessions, 44. Average number of teachers, 4.1. The teach- ers for this school were James M. Nowland, Principal, assisted by Thomas B. Pollard, Minnie E. Donovan, Annie E. Burns. and Mary B. Keating. The Willard school was less fortunate as. it was closed for two weeks on account of repairs being made in the school building. During this time many of the pupils lost their interest and did not return. The whole number enrolled was 136. Men, 128; women, 8. Average attendance, 41.5. Number of sessions, 39. The average number of teachers was. 3.3. This school was in charge of Austin W. Greene, Principal, assisted by George E. Adams, Frances C. Sullivan, Annie Z. White, Lauretta C. Shea, and Katherine McGovern.
In the Evening Drawing school, two classes were main- tained as usual, the freehand class meeting on Monday, Wednes- day and Friday evenings of each week, and the mechanical class meeting on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. The total enrolment in the freehand class was 10. Men, 8; women 2. The average attendance was 5.12. Number of ses- sions, 44. At the close of the season, one two-year diploma,. and four one-year certificates were issued to members of this class. The total enrolment in the mechanical class was 35. All men. The average attendance was 25.38. Number of ses- sions, 41. Twelve one-year certificates were issued at the close of the season to members of this class.
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Both classes were in charge of Mr. Charles C. Bryant of Worcester who has had charge of the Drawing classes for sev- eral years.
Quincy Teachers' Association.
Officers for 1901-1902.
President, Charles E. Finch, Massachusetts Fields and. Wollaston.
Vice President, Elizabeth A. Souther, High.
Secretary and Treasurer, Austin W. Greene, Gridley Bryant. Executive Committee :
Charles E. Finch, Chairman ex officio.
Annie W. Miller, Adams.
Grace E. Lingham, Coddington.
Carrie A. Crane, Cranch.
Austin W. Greene, Gridley Bryant.
Isabel Moir, John Hancock.
Mary M. McNally, Lincoln. Cassendana Thayer, Massachusetts Fields. Charles Sampson, Quincy. Sarah A. Malone, Washington. Chester H. Wilbar, Willard. John O. Hall, Jr., Adams Academy.
Charlotte J. Burgess, Woodward.
Elizabeth A. Souther, High.
General Meetings.
October 31, 1901,-Social Evening. April 24, 1902,-Reception. May 15, 1902,-Business Meeting.
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Entertainment Course.
November 14, 1901, Albion Quartet, assisted by Miss Clara 'S. Gill, Reader, and Mr. George W. Want, Tenor.
December 12, 1901, Dr. Alfred Hennequin,-Siege of Paris by an Eye-witness.
January 9, 1902, Mr. Leland T. Powers,-Monsieur Beaucaire.
January 30, 1902. *Dr. William Everett, Three Trial Scenes.
1. The trial of Warren Hastings .- Macaulay.
2. The trial in Merchant of Venice,-Shakespeare.
3. The case of Bardell vs. Pickwick,-Dickens.
February 6, 1902, Dr. G. Stanley Hall,-Muscles and Motor Education.
March 6, 1902, Boston Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club.
*Kindly contributed by Dr. Everett for the entertainment of the teachers and their guests.
Quincy Grammar Masters' Club.
The officers of the Club for 1901 were as follows :
President, Austin W. Greene.
Vice President, Charles Sampson.
Secretary and Treasurer, Thomas B. Pollard.
During the year eight monthly meetings were held, and papers read as follows :
January 17, Culture or Utility by Miss Mary E. Dearborn.
March 14, The Relation of the Grammar School to the High School by Charles F. Harper.
March 21, Medical Inspection by Charles Sampson.
April 18, Does the Public School Prepare for Citizenship by Chester H. Wilbar.
May 16, True Education by Rev. William W. Dornan.
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September 19, My Trip to Europe by Thomas B. Pollard. October 17, The Public School of the Future by Austin W. Greene.
November 21, Recreation for Teachers by Charles E. Finch.
High School Alumni.
The Association of the Alumni of the Quincy High School has the following officers :
President, Miss Mabel E. Adams, '82.
Vice Presidents, Mr. William R. Thomas, '89; Mr. R. E. Mc Donnell, '98 ; Mrs. James M. Nowland, '91.
Secretary, Miss Lillian Merton Pratt, '97.
Treasurer, Mr. Amos L. Litchfield, '72.
Governing Board with the above,-Mr. Charles F. Harper, Head Master of the High School, Mr. Charles A. Hall, '85 ; Miss Bessie L. Whittemore, '99 ; Miss Tina McPherson, '97; Miss Louise Cook, '96 ; Mr. Frank L. Coe, '96 ; Mr. Herbert Wilkins, '97; Mr. Howard W. Battison, '85; Miss Alice Higgins, 1900 ; Miss Ruth Hayden, 1900; Miss Mary Dinnie, '95.
Objects : To promote the usefulness of the Quincy High School, to furnish opportunity for friendly intercourse among its Alumni, and to create and preserve harmonious relations between the school and the community.
Members : All those who hold diplomas of the School ; all those who, previous to the first annual distribution of diplomas, had completed a full course of study in the Quincy High School, and who can produce evidence thereof.
Honorary Members : Superintendent of Schools and all persons who are and who have been teachers in the Quincy High School. Other honorary members may be elected by bal- lot.
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Quincy Home Science Association.
The Quincy Home Science Association is able to report more and better work in its vacation classes during the past summer than during any previous season. Besides three free kindergartens averaging forty-five scholars each conducted as usual in the John Hancock, Adams and Gridley Bryant dis- tricts, a free Sloyd class, composed of some thirty boys between the ages of twelve and fifteen years chosen from seven different school districts was formed and under the competent direction of Mr. James M. Nowland at the Cranch school. The enthusiasm, perseverance, and achievements of these boys in the way of well finished and useful articles,-plant sticks, corner shelves, pen handles, sleeve-boards, etc.,-were, in the words of enthu- siastic observers, the best possible argument for the existence of the class and for an extension of Sloyd instruction as soon as. practicable to other Quincy boys.
It was found possible through the cooperation of Miss. Spear, Principal of the Brackett Homestead school, who sup- plied a suitable room, for the Home Science Association to offer to those boys who worked so well during the summer a course of Sloyd lessons during the winter at the merely nominal price of ten cents a lesson. This course was started about the middle of December, fifteen boys availing themselves of the privilege of taking it.
The free summer kindergarten work was most satisfacto- rily conducted. At the Adams, it was in charge of Miss Clara Merrill, Miss Florence Howe, second kindergartner and Miss Jennie J. Harris, assistant ; at the John Hancock, Miss Bertha V. Jameson, Miss Mary K. Graham, second kindergartner and Miss Mary Dunn, assistant ; at the Gridley Bryant, Miss Bertha Waldron, Miss A. G. Von Cramm, second kindergartner and Miss Lola West, assistant.
The work done was on regular kindergarten lines, and is best described by the word "character-building," the effort of the teachers being to win the affection, confidence and respect of the children, to do away with shyness and selfconsciousness,
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to develop powers of eye and hand, to teach them to answer and obey when spoken to, to be neat, courteous, and helpful both to their teachers and to one another.
Special effort is made in the Quincy kindergartens, as in summer kindergartens elsewhere, to develop a love of nature through occasional walks out of doors, and talks and songs about natural objects,-animals, flowers, the rain, sunshine, etc.
Two Mothers' meetings and a Parents' day were held in connection with each kindergarten. These were made enjoy- able and interesting by music, social converse, flowers and sim- ple refreshments arranged by the special committees in charge assisted by kind friends. Talks on the care of children were contributed by Drs. Gordon and Ellsworth of Quincy and Dr. Johnson of Wollaston.
In connection with these meetings it has been gratifying to observe a distinct increase on the part of the parents of cor- dial feeling towards the teachers and ladies managing the kin- dergartens, and, on the part of the latter, a growing realization of benefits received from doing the work. Those who have ex- amined into the methods and results of the kindergarten work in Quincy can but desire its extension to other districts, mean- ing as it does an increase of good feeling and mutual under- . standing throughout the adult portion of the community, and for the children more "character-building" and preparation of the right sort for regular school life.
ELIZABETH JOHNSON.
President of the Quincy Home Science Association.
High School.
This school is doing excellent work but doing it at a great disadvantage. The conditions at the old building do not favor the best results. Even the pupils feel that they are not secur- ing all the benefits that should come to them from the High School course and associations. Recently a piano was pur-
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· chased for this building and regular instruction is given both in singing and drawing.
Your careful attention is called to the following report of the Head Master of the High School which presents the growth and needs of this school in detail.
In closing I desire to express my obligations to the mem- bers of this Board and my appreciation of the earnest efforts and cooperation of the teachers and principals.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK E. PARLIN.
December 30, 1901.
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Quincy Ihigh School.
Mr. Frank E. Parlin, Superintendent of Schools.
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