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Sight reading. Prose composition.
IV. Virgil, Æneid, books I-VI inclusive.
Sight reading. Prosody. Prose composition.
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DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES
FRENCH
I. Pronunciation.
Grammar: Conjugation of regular verbs, and a few irregular verbs.
Simpler uses of tenses and moods. Syntax.
Memorizing: Prose selections.
Reading: Lectures Faciles, Le Francais et Sa Patrie or La Tache du Petit Pierre.
II. Dictation.
Conversation. Paraphrasing.
Composition.
Grammar: Continuation. Conjugation of irregular verbs. Uses of tenses and moods.
Reading:
de Maistre's Prisonniers du Caucase. Sandeau's Mlle. de la Seigliere.
Daudet's La Belle-Nivernaise.
Le Gendre de M. Poirier. Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon.
Memorizing: Poetry.
III. Dictation.
Conversation.
Constant practice in translating into French.
Memorizing: Prose and poetry.
Grammar: Review and continuation of difficult points, especially the subjunctive.
Study of idioms.
Reading: Moliere's L'Avare. Corneille's Le Cid. Merimée's Colomba. Balzac's Eugenie Grandet.
Prose Composition : Francois.
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GERMAN
I. Pronunciation.
Grammar: Declension. Conjugation of weak verbs and of the more usual strong verbs.
Simpler uses of tenses and moods. Prepositions. Syntax.
Memorizing: Vocabulary for oral and written work. Prose and poetry selections.
Composition : Translation into German. Transposition.
Reproduction. Dictation.
Easy Conversation.
Im Vaterland, Storm's Immensee.
II. Grammar: Conjugation of strong and irregular verbs and modal auxiliaries.
Order of words.
Translation : Schiller's Der Neffe als Onkel.
Arnold's Fritz auf Ferien. Gerstacker's Germelshausen. Hillerne's Hoher als die Kirche. Wildenbruch's Das Edle Blut. Sight reading from easy texts.
Memorizing: Poetry.
III. Prose Composition.
Grammar: Continuation of difficult points. Conversation.
Memorizing of German Folk Songs.
Translation : Gerstacker's Irrfahrten. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. Schiller's William Tell. Freytag's Die Journalisten.
Selected books for supplementary reading.
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DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE
I. Introduction to Science - to teach the meaning of science as a whole and to develop a taste for science as a prep- aration for subsequent work by making it both useful and attractive. This is done by including in the course subjects of common interest like the following: How to read a meter; water supply systems; adulterants and simple methods for their detection; color in foods; headache preparations; removal of stains; the camera and photographic printing.
II. Biology. This is made to include the functions of all living things, both plant and animal, as they relate to man; movement, irritability, nutrition, respiration, excretion and reproduction.
Birds, reptiles and mammalia from the economic stand- point.
Health and disease from the standpoint of private and public hygiene.
Protective medicine and sanitation.
The relations of insects and animals to the spread of disease. Man is the center of the course, and at the close all bio-
logical principles studied are applied to the human mech- anism.
In the spring a small herbarium is made.
III. Chemistry or Physics.
A class in one subject only will be formed for those elect- ing science in the third year.
IV. Physics or Chemistry.
The subject not taken in the third year is offered in the fourth.
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
I. Elementary Algebra.
II. Plane Geometry,- demonstrations and original work. III. College reviews.
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS
FIRST YEAR
Commercial Arithmetic. A Review of fundamental processes. Short methods and drill in business problems.
THIRD YEAR
Bookkeeping. Double and single entry.
Stenography. Principles of stenography.
Typewriting. Touch method.
FOURTH YEAR
Stenography. Practice in reading and writing shorthand.
Typewriting. Transcribing shorthand notes. Copying. Dupli- cating.
Commercial Geography. A study of commercial and industrial conditions, products and countries.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL TRAINING
I. Physical examination. Prescription and individual work, when necessary. Class work: Free gymnastics, bar work, rings and clubs. Games: Basket-ball, tennis and outdoor games, when the weather permits.
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Simple dancing steps, including the polka and schottische steps. Folk dances.
Physiology twice a week during the year. Practical demon- strations in first aid to the injured.
II. Physical examination and prescription work. Class work: Muscle free work as well as apparatus work, which in- cludes bar, rings, wands, dumb-bells and clubs.
Games: Basket-ball, tennis and outdoor games. Folk dancing and fancy steps.
III. Physical examination and prescription work.
Class work the same as that of the second year, but more advanced. Games: Basket-ball and tennis.
Advanced folk dancing and fancy steps.
IV. Physical examination and prescription work. Class work: Free work and apparatus work. Games: Basket-ball and tennis. Advanced folk dancing and æsthetic dancing.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
. Ancient History. (a) A preliminary consideration of the origin and races of mankind - their primitive condition, migrations, and progress toward civilization.
(b) A brief study of the extinct civilization of the East.
(c) Greek history to the death of Alexander.
(d) Roman history from the founding of the city to 800 A. D.
II. Mediaval and Modern History.
III. American History, special attention being given to the forces which have shaped the Government of the United States and developed its present institutions. Civil government of the United States.
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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
The aim of the department of music is to cultivate a taste for good music and to prepare the pupils for intelligent and appreciative work in the further pursuit of the art in its various branches.
The vocal and choral study includes vocalization, solfeggio, sight reading, dynamics, breath control, intonation, enunciation, unison and part singing.
The elementary theoretical work (required) aims to give the pupil a thorough foundation in the elements of music and includes rhythm, meter intervals, the derivation and construction of our present-day tonalities, major, all minor forms and chromatic scale in all keys, triads, chords of the dominant and diminished sevenths and cadences, leading to the study of
Harmony - elective, but strongly advised for all pupils in vocal or instrumental study.
Individual class work, one period weekly.
Vocal and choral work (entire school required), one period weekly.
DEPARTMENT OF ART
The study of art must necessarily be considered as a whole rather than the work of different classes; therefore, the course in drawing is arranged to meet the needs of the individual student and is varied to suit any requirements.
Pupils are not only fitted for continuing their studies in ad- vanced schools, but also to appreciate the best in art.
The general plan is as follows:
Freehand drawing of objects in pencil, and pen and ink, and principles of perspective.
Study of form, light and shade.
Study of design, applied decoration.
Study of color in waters and in oil.
Modeling and casting.
Mechanical drawing.
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SEWING
The course in sewing is given as an elective only in the senior year. The aim of the course therefore is an entirely practical one; namely to give a good understanding of hand-sewing, machine sewing and the use of commercial patterns.
The following gives an idea of the kind of work taken up during the year.
1. Sewing bag.
(a) Pincushion.
(b) Needlecase.
(c) Emery.
(d) Spool case.
2. Muslin sewing apron with lace and insertion.
3. Cotton chemise or combination.
4. Cotton nightgown or kimono.
5. Woolen dress.
6. Hand-knitted sweater.
7. Hemstitched towel with embroidered initial.
8. Silk shirt waist.
9. White dress skirt.
10. Summer dress.
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FOUNDER'S DAY, WOODWARD INSTITUTE Friday Evening, March 14, 1919, at eight o'clock
PROGRAM
PART ONE
1 The Shepherd Lady Armstrong Soprano Solo by Edla Viden, '19
2 Twilight Abt.
3 Japanese Love Song Thomas
PART TWO
A Pantomime, The Fish and the Kite
A Story of Japan
CHARACTERS
The Lord High Mikado, Emperor of Japan Marion Gurney, '20
The Empress Flubtub, his wife . Clarissa Brady, '21 Prince Charmo, Mikado's Nephew . Mayblossom, the Prince's sweetheart Mabel Richards, '21 Alice Morton, '21 Little Ah Feather, her brother Frances Adams, '21 Lord High Counsellor Knowitall Olive Hillman, '21 Lord High Executioner Cutoff Verna Kelley, '21 Myrtle Parker, '20
Dewitt, maid of the Empress
Reader, Alice MacConnell, '20
JAPANESE DANCERS
Thelma Keay, '22
Ruth Blaisdell, '19 Martha Bixby, '19
Mary McNeice, '19
Alice Tucker, '19
Mary Polk, '22 Dorothy Henniger, '19
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PART THREE
Piano accompanist, Mary Mc.Nally, '19
VIRGINIA REEL
Livia Bianchi, '22
Elizabeth Morrison, '22
Constance Stecher, '22
Hope Robinson, '21
Margaret Mullarkey, '20
Elsie Hay, '22
Irene Rafferty, '21
Beryl Johnson, '20
KAMARINSKAIA
Sadie Barrett, '19
Edith Cameron, '21
Abbie Curtis, '21
Mabel Kappler, '20
Edna Snow, '21
Natalie Ryder, '22
Dorothy Macleod, '22
Katherine Murphy, '22
SKATING DANCE Thelma Keay, '22
DANCE OF THE CLOWNS
Ingrid Liukkonen, '19
May Kappler, '19
Sabra Ryder, '19 Lillian Tinney, '19
Mary Williams, '21
Miriam Hutt, '20
Anna Lamb, '19
Ethel Smith, '21
Emma Savoie, '20
Alice Knight, '22
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CLASS OF 1919
WOODWARD INSTITUTE GRADUATE EXERCISES
Thursday Evening, June 26, at eight o'clock
PROGRAM
MUSIC BY THE SCHOOL
1. LOVE'S DREAM Liszt
2. DE BOGIE MAN Bassett
3. SOPRANO SOLO
The Lass with the Delicate Air Dr. Arne
MISS EDLA VIDEN, '19
4. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Kremser
ADDRESS
MISS LOUISA I. PRYOR Agent of the State Board of Education
CONFERRING OF DIPLOMAS REV. ADELBERT L. HUDSON
Chairman of the Board of Trustee
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CLASS OF 1919
Sadie Helen Barrett
Marion Mary Bishop
Martha Woodbury Bixby Ruth Blaisdell
Elizabeth Frances Falvey Mae Elizabeth Gilmartin Blanch Hope Graham Alice Catherine Gustafson
Florence Viola Hall
Eleanor Bishop Parsons Edith Gertrude Pettee Helene Marie Pinel Julia Esther Polk
Elizabeth Ruth Keating
Anna Frances Knight
Bertha Minnie Koegler
Florence Amanda Swanson
Madeline Ida Swanson
Anna Ward Lamb Katherine Almira Lamont
Eleanor Swift
Muriel Langelier
Marguerite Louise Thompson
Ingrid Impi Liukkonen
Nora Cecelia Mahoney
Rachel Lucinda MacTear Helen Grace McGillicuddy Gertrude Anna McGrann Mary Helena McNally Mary Josephine McNeice Ruth Helen Morton Mildred Hagar Newman Margaret Marion O'Brien
Mary Dorothy Hennigar Dorothy Holmes May Frances Kappler
Doris Morton Prout Sabra Ryder
Lillian May Tinney Alice Gertrude Tucker
Edla Christina Viden
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CALENDAR FOR 1920
First Term: Monday, December 29, to Friday, February 20.
Second Term: Monday, March 1, to Friday, April 23.
Founder's Day: Friday, March 12.
Third Term: Monday, May 3 to Friday, June 18.
Graduation: Wednesday, June 16.
Fourth Term: Wednesday, September 8 to Thursday, Decem- ber 23.
Holidays: February 23, April 2, April 19, May 31, June 17, October 12, and the remainder of the week from Wednesday next preceding Thanksgiving.
Annual Report
OF THE
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
OF THE
City of Quincy MASSACHUSETTS
For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1919
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Published by THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1919
Chairman HON. JOSEPH L. WHITON, MAYOR
Vice-Chairman DR. NATHANIEL S. HUNTING
Term Expires
HON. JOSEPH L. WHITON . December 31, 1920 29 Whitney Road, Quincy.
MR. ROBERT E. FOY . December 31, 1919
13 Eliot Street, South Quincy.
DR. NATHANIEL S. HUNTING December 31, 1919 1136 Hancock Street, Quincy.
MR. CHARLES W. BAILEY December 31, 1920 365 Highland Avenue, Wollaston.
DR. DANIEL A. BRUCE . December 31, 1920
139 East Squantum Street, Atlantic.
MRS. ALICE M. ARNOLD December 31, 1921 57 Spear Street, Quincy.
MR. GEORGE W. ABELE December 31, 1921
64 Presidents Lane, Quincy.
Secretary of Board and Superintendent of Schools MR. ALBERT LESLIE BARBOUR 14 Linden Place, Quincy
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Advisory Committee on Industrial Education for Men
MESSRS. SAMUEL W. WAKEMAN, W. H. BENSON, ALEXANDER W. RUSSELL, HERBERT S. BARKER, CHARLES L. GILLIATT
Advisory Committee on Industrial Education for Women
MRS. WALTER S. PINKHAM, MRS. ROBERT E. FOY MRS. GEORGE W. ABELE
Stenographers
MISS MARION NILSEN MISS HELEN CANTY
Office: Cliveden Building, 1535 Hancock Street
Office hours: 8 to 12 M., 2 to 5 P.M .; Saturdays, 8 to 12 M.
Attendance Officer
MR. CHARLES H. JOHNSON
Office: Cliveden Building, 1535 Hancock Street. Office hours: 8 to 9:30 A.M., and from 1:30 to 2 P.M., 4:30 to 5 P.M .; Saturdays, 8 to 12 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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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Quincy:
The Committee has the honor to submit to the citizens of Quincy the annual report of the conduct of the schools for the year 1919.
With the ending of the war, conditions have begun to return to normal but are still far from reaching it. As usual the urgent need in the city is for more school accommodations for the children. We have this fall about 760 more children in the schools than during the last year. The only new school rooms are those in the new building at Squantum which care for about 100 children. The result is that all school buildings are over crowded and every nook and corner is utilized for class room purposes. Rooms for mentally defective children and for those with defective eyesight are not available although urgently required by necessity as well as by law.
The new 18-room school building now being erected by the Government will relieve in large measure the congestion at Quincy Point.
The High School has been conducted on a two-session basis and has produced fair but not altogether satisfactory results. It is to be hoped that conditions in the coming year may be such as to warrant the erection of a suitable addition to the High School quarters.
The question of teachers is also one of prime importance at present. The release from the war work of large numbers of young men has rendered available a certain number for high school work but in the elementary schools the conditions have become most alarming. The excessive cost of existence together with the high wages paid in many commercial pursuits, especially when under Government supervision, have tended to call from the schools many of the teachers. Also the pecuniary inducement to enter the teaching profession has been so slight that the attendance at all normal schools has fallen to a marked degree which means that the natural loss to the teaching profession is not being replenished.
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The result has been that rural communities throughout the coun- try are entirely without trained teachers - their places being taken by young girls or former teachers who return to fill in.
The State Supt. of Schools of Maine reports that at present 80 schools are closed for lack of teachers with the probability that 500 schools will be closed next year. Under these conditions the competition for teachers has been very keen and it has been found impossible to keep teachers already in service or obtain new ones when necessary without a material increase in salary. To remedy this condition and as a matter of justice to our loyal teaching force it has been deemed advisable to raise all salaries and to equalize the salaries of those few who have not profited by recent advances.
In this way we hope to be able to retain our good teachers now in service and to offer sufficient inducements to young women to enter the training schools to fit themselves properly for the pro- fession of teaching. Only in this way may the high standard of the schools be maintained and the forces of ignorance and evil now so rampant in this country be overcome.
Realizing the dangers of ignorance among the foreign born of our citizens, and realizing also the importance of Americanization of all these elements, the Committee has maintained the usual evening classes for illiterates and non-English speaking foreigners. Miss Shanahan who has shown exceptional ability in that line has been detailed to take charge of these classes and to organize classes for foreign born mothers of all nationalities as well as factory classes at the Fore River Shipbuilding plant. We are glad to report most gratifying results to date.
In the matter of public health considerable progress has been made. The school dentist at the Coddington School building has done excellent work as shown by the following statistics, condensed from his report which appears on a later page.
Number new patients, 1919 1,002
Total number of visits, 1919 4,317
Total number of operations, 1919 8,266
Total number patients treated since opening clinic 3,119
The school nurses have also done commendable work in looking after the general health of the children.
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It would seem that the work of medical inspection might be made more efficient by having one physician who should give his whole time under the direction of the School Committee. The work is so great that the present staff is greatly overworked and can make but slight impression.
The American Red Cross since the termination of most of its war activities is devoting itself to the service of Public Health and in this connection the Quincy Branch of the Red Cross has voted to equip another dentist and pay his salary and also pay the salary for another school nurse for the coming year. This should go far toward improving the health of the children and is a welcome addition to our working force.
The foregoing report, presented by a special committee con- sisting of Dr. Nathaniel S. Hunting and Mr. Robert E. Foy, was adopted as the Annual Report of the School Committee of 1919.
ALBERT L. BARBOUR, Secretary.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Mrs. Arnold and Gentlemen:
I submit herewith my eleventh annual report as Superin- tendent of Schools in this city, it being the forty-fifth in the series of such reports.
The past year has been one of adjustment in educational as well as in all other lines of human interest. This adjustment is still far from complete and apparently cannot be brought to com- pletion as readily as had been anticipated before the world war closed.
For at least two years before the close of the war, that great struggle had been a dominant interest in the school room and the shadows of its operations and the demands for universal participation were influencing to a great degree all school activities.
School rooms were depleted of teachers, the curriculum was modified by war demands, and definite tasks and duties connected with the war were assigned to the public schools to perform - all in the interest of the preservation of the government.
It became very apparent at the opening of the present year that although the war had dropped out of the schools' routine as an active interest, the public school system of the country was not to go back to its old pre-war course but was to be modified strongly in the future by new influences and situations which the war had brought forth and which education must take into consideration. In other words, the problems which the war has left behind it bulk almost as large as those of the war itself.
Communism in economic thought and sovietism in political thought, with their novel and many sided appeals, idealistic to some people, selfish and along the paths of least resistance to others, have set up a real menace to representative democracy as exemplified in American life and this menace is one which cannot be overcome by force alone but which must be fought with patience and intelligence. As a consequence among all the subjects which
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obtain a place in the school curriculum today none stand out so prominently as the rather indefinite task of teaching the duties and obligations of American citizenship.
This, above all others, is the real problem of the School Com- mittee and the problem is the greater because it is so universal and of so wide application. In other words, we are to make American citizens who shall be worthy of all that is best in Ameri- can government.
In order to make American citizens, we are to work not only among the boys and girls who have not yet passed the legal school age but also among the men and women of alien citizenship who have come among us to make America their future home.
In undertaking this task we must be quite clear in our minds that teaching children to read, write and speak English, and giving them our school diplomas is not synonymous with making Ameri- cans.
We must be equally sure that teaching the illiterate father and mother to read, speak and understand English does not make Americans of them. It is possible in fact to prepare people for naturalization, go along with them and assist in securing their papers and still fail utterly so far as making good American citi- zens is concerned.
The duty of the schools is much broader than one of academic education and the efficiency of the schools in producing good Americans of alien material cannot be measured by naturalization statistics.
The efficiency of our education is to be measured by the success with which we teach the spirit and the ideals of democracy as practised in a representative form of government.
It is not at all strange that to the foreigner from eastern or central Europe, representative government is difficult to under- stand and appreciate. It must be confessed that too often we American citizens do not exemplify it at its best and it is quite natural that the foreigners coming from an environment where the word government means autocratic repression should fail to understand the meaning of "liberty under law" and should swing by reaction to a spirit of ill-restrained individualism that bows with ill grace to any law. "Liberty under Law" is the keynote of our citizenship. It is understanding and appreciation of this
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motto and acquiescence in it which makes American citizens and to encourage this understanding and acquiescence is the chief task of education.
As has just been said, the responsibility of the School Com- mittee in making Americans is a dual one; first, to train the many children who go through our schools and second, to work with the thousands of adults in our community, typical of all urban com- munities, who at present know nothing of our language, our cus- toms and our ideals.
In their work with children the public schools have always held high aims and ideals; the war and its aftermath has taught the schools wherein their aims have fallen short. These short- comings have not been in the nature of our ideals but in the failure to emphasize sufficiently the duties and the obligations that ac- company the ideals. The great lesson that the war has driven home is the realization that a republican democracy is not a self-support- ing institution but one to which every citizen owes an obligation and only in proportion as the citizens meet their obligations will there be a government worthy the name.
The second task of the School Committee, bringing America into the lives of the adult illiterate immigrants now in our midst, is a task quite similar in purpose to the work with children but very different and most difficult in procedure. For years, the average American community according to its mood has ignored, or tolerated or patronized the non-English speaking foreigner. A careful survey of present day conditions makes it plain that this careless policy has led nowhere except to evil.
Whatever the policy of this nation may be in the future as to the promiscuous welcome of people of all races and tongues coming to our shores, the policy as to those already here is already definitely settled in the direction of earnest effort toward assimilation.
Massachusetts this year passed an Americanization Law pro- viding for work with the adult immigrant in the various towns and cities of the state desiring this co-operation and in recognizing this as a state need has undertaken to bear half the expense.
The national government is already moving toward the same end. As a result, greater progress has been made in the past twelve months toward an intelligent appreciation and handling of this problem than in all the previous years of our national history.
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Feeling this new impulse and anxious to do its share in this work, Quincy this fall has sought the co-operation of the state and as the first move has appointed one of its teachers as supervisor to assist me in giving this phase of educational effort the emphasis and the close skilled supervision it deserved. With a supervisor actively in charge we have been able to make an energetic aggres- sive campaign instead of passively waiting for the foreigner to come to us in our evening schools. In other words, we have gone to work like any business house to arouse interest and to distribute our wares - Americanism.
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