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Translation: Schiller's Der Neffe als Onkel.
Arnold's Fritz auf Ferien.
Gerstacker's Germelshausen. Hillerne's Höher 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.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE
I. Introducing 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.
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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.
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.
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REPORT OF WOODWARD INSTITUTE
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.
Simple dancing steps, including the polka and schottische steps. Folk dances.
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
I. 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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 12, 1920
PROGRAM
Under the direction of MR. JOHN D. BUCKINGHAM
1 CHORUS
Come Sweet Morning . Arr. by Matthews
2 PIANO SOLOS
a Selection from Papillons Schumann
b Gavotte
Bach-Saint-Saens
MISS CAROLINE SIMMONS, '21
3 SONGS
a Allah .
Kreamer
b In an Old Fashioned Town . .
. Squire
c The End of Day . .
Cox
MISS EDLA VIDEN, '19
4 VIOLIN
Andante and Allegretto Settz (4th Concerto) MISS RUTH ANDREWS, '21
5 CHORUSES
a Ave Maria . (Soprano obligato) MISS MIRIAM MILLER
Mendelssohn
b Jerusalem (from Gallia) Gounod
6 PIANO SOLOS
a Shadows on The Water Debussy
b Scherzo. op. 31 .
. Chopin
MISS DOROTHY LAVERY
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7 SONGS
a Song of the Black-Bird . Cyril Scott
b Secret Languages . Fay Foster
c Nymphs and Fauns Bemberg
MISS MIRIAM MILLER, '12
8 VIOLIN
a Melody
Bohm
b Concerto in A Minor . .
. Accolay
MISS EMMA M. SAVOIE, '20
9 BRIDAL CHORUS . Cowen
SCHOOL
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CITY OF QUINCY
CLASS OF 1920.
WOODWARD INSTITUTE GRADUATION EXERCISES
Thursday Evening, June 16, 1920
PROGRAM
MUSIC BY THE SCHOOL
Under the direction of MR. JOHN D. BUCKINGHAM
1. MINUET Boccherini-Ambrose
2. GAELIC AIR
Turn to Me W. Rigby
3. WALTZ SONG
Murmur soft, ye breezes Wekerlin
ADDRESS
MR. FRANK W. WRIGHT of the State Department of Education Director of the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and Normal Schools
CONFERRING OF DIPLOMAS
REV. ADELBERT L. HUDSON
Chairman of the Board of Trustees .
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CLASS OF 1920
Katherine Cecelia Ash Grace Carmel Callahan Edith Amy Cameron Doris Anna Clark Abbie Ludden Curtis Kathryn Marion DeCoste Anna Ottilia Eckblom Dorothy Elizabeth Fitts Edith Frances Fitts Sarah Lois Fuller Marion Roosevelt Gurney Miriam Alice Hutt Beryl Kathryn Johnson Rhoda May Johnson Mabel Gertrude Kappler Mildred Viola Kappler
Anna Wilhelmina Lofgren Alice Emily MacConnell Mary Elizabeth McNeice Margaret Clara Mullarkey Anna Carolina Nelson Edith Matilda Osberg Myrtle Adeline Parker Emily Catharine Perry Marjorie Pinkham Irene Gertrude Rafferty Mary Regina Reardon Emma Mary Savoie Beatrice May Sherman Ethel Marion Smith Agnes Lillian Swansen Clara Swanhild Turnquist
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CITY OF QUINCY
CALENDAR FOR 1921
First Term: Monday, January 3, to Friday, February 25.
Second Term: Monday, March 7, to Friday, April 29.
Founder's Day: Friday, March 11.
Third Term: Monday, May 9, to Friday, June 24.
Graduation: Wednesday, June 22.
Fourth Term: Wednesday, September 7 to Thursday, Decem- ber 23.
Holidays: February 23, March 25, April 19, May 31, June 17, Octo- ber 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, 1920
1640
1625
MANET
: 1292
QUINCY 1888
Published by THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1920
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. 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 31 Spear Street, Quincy
MR. GEORGE W. ABELE . . December 31, 1921
64 Presidents Lane, Quincy
MR. ROBERT E. FOY. December 31, 1922 13 Eliot Street, South Quincy
DR. NATHANIEL S. HUNTING.
December 31, 1922
1136 Hancock Street, Quincy
Secretary of Board and Superintendent of Schools MR. ALBERT LESLIE BARBOUR 14 Linden Place, Quincy
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
Stenographer Bookkeeper
MISS MARION NILSEN MISS HELEN M. 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:
We herewith submit to our fellow citizens the Annual Report of our Board for the year 1920.
The thought uppermost in our minds as we begin a brief review of the past year is that of the loss the City has sustained in the resignation of Mr. Albert L. Barbour, for eleven years our Super- intendent, who has removed to another Massachusetts City. Haverhill is to be congratulated in acquiring the services of a Superintendent who has made an enviable reputation as a thorough business administrator and a progressive educator, and while the Committee has placed upon its records an appreciation of his worth we want here publicly to express our regret at his leaving Quincy, and to wish him continued success in his new field.
In electing as his successor Mr. F. H. Nickerson, the Committee confidentially believes that the high standards already set will be maintained, and that the new Superintendent will in his turn lead in all the progressive movements for which the Schools of Quincy have been noted.
The problems confronting your Committee at the beginning of this year have not all disappeared. The readjustment period has not relieved some of the complications brought about by the war. There has been, however, some reaction from the trend away from the teaching profession which threatened such disastrous results during the world conflagration.
Your Committee has we believe acted wisely in making repeated salary increases to our teachers, not only rewarding the faithful teachers thereby, but making more attractive the profession of teaching, and we hope encouraging more young people to take up normal training.
The new school house built by the Federal Government at Quincy Point is now occupied and affords relief to a badly congested district.
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The High School situation has been given a great deal of study and we have sought expert advice from the office of the Com- missioner of Education at the State House. The original scheme for an addition to our present building did not promise the accom- modations needed, and considering the increasing problem in the Coddington district, the inadequate accommodations for our Home Making School, the inability to find suitable rooms for defective sight and continuation classes, and the meagre quarters occupied by the Industrial School it seemed that a new High School building housing all of these various groups was necessary, and that ample room for growth would best be secured. Under this plan an opportunity will be given for a Junior High School or an additional elementary school in the old High School building. The Committee has already recommended that the land at the corner of Coddington Street and Woodward Avenue adjoining the present Coddington School be taken by the City for this purpose. A completion of plans for a park and playground on land recently conveyed to the City beyond Woodward Avenue and the removal of the houses on Coddington Street including the present Home Making School would seem to make this lot well- nigh ideal for such a building.
The Industrial School is not being used to the extent that it should be in a City such as ours. We believe that better equip- ment in a well lighted, adequate building, would lead to a much larger attendance and be well worth while. We have also taken action looking toward the erection of an addition to school accom- modations in the Massachusetts Fields district. This rapidly growing section should in our opinion have immediate attention in order to prevent serious overcrowding in the present building and in the Parker School.
The importance of the work done in various lines aside of the " three R's" should not be overlooked. There seems to be no end of opportunity for our school nurses and dentists to be of service and a large amount of essential work is being done by the faithful and conscientious directors of this health work. Results being shown in better school work as well as in the general condition of the children.
In the increasing Americanization work which has been energeti-
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cally carried on we feel keenly the loss of Miss Shanahan who resigned to take a position elsewhere that afforded better oppor- tunities.
We believe our entire school system is on the whole in excellent condition and ask your cooperation not only in maintaining it, but in giving the support which is essential to progress.
The foregoing report, presented by a special committee consist- ing of Mr. Charles W. Bailey and Dr. Daniel A. Bruce, was adopted as the Annual Report of the School Committee of 1920.
ALBERT L. BARBOUR,
Secretary.
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MARY E. DEARBORN
The School Board feels that it is fitting to place in this annual report a recognition of the long and unusual service rendered by Miss Mary E. Dearborn, who died in October of last year.
Born in 1844, in Auburn, N. H., of an ancestry dating back to early colonial times, her childhood education was largely derived from " sermons in stones, books in the running brooks" and having nature for a teacher in these early days, no doubt contributed largely to her broad and highly-developed moral, mental and physical character.
Miss Dearborn came to Quincy in September 1876, as a teacher in the Coddington School, and in 1880 became its principal, a position which she held until she retired in 1904. To be principal of a large school at any time calls for many and varied talents, but it was only an exceptional woman who could have met the many requirements, won the respect and confidence of the community and the affection of her pupils during the great "Renaissance of Education of the days of '76."
Coming to Quincy at such a critical time in our school history, she possessed the splendid pioneer qualities necessary to help introduce a new system of education at a time when changes in education were looked upon askance. She retained the best things of the old system, however, while willing and eager to accept the new.
"For such a time as this was Miss Dearborn born" said Col. Parker and his only criticism was, "that she worked too hard." Miss Dearborn was a born teacher and took the greatest pride and joy in that portion of her life spent in the Coddington School. Her teaching was a living thing, her methods were original and stimulating, she thought her profession the finest in the world and she never tired of it. Her influence on her pupils was felt in ways not laid down in the text-books, for she possessed in a remarkable degree the desire and the intuition to understand the individual needs of her pupils and looked quite as carefully after the morals
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and manners and the dignified personal equipment of them as after their mental growth. She loved children without being mawkish about them and her scholars, grown men and women of today, look back with affection and gratitude to her teaching and her influence.
She was a skilled trainer of teachers, the wisdom of her methods being proved by the large number of her teachers who are now holding responsible positions. She felt it her duty to train and discipline them as well as her pupils and she did it with the same impartial thoroughness, sparing neither praise nor blame as the occasion demanded, but always loyally supporting the teacher in public.
As a woman, she was full of life, courage and vigor, broadminded, quick to discover and unveil shams, and to perceive the follies and frailties of human nature but slow to condemn and eager to aid people to better living.
Her quick wit, her wholesome outlook on life, her habit of making the best of things made her a delightful companion and to those nearest and dearest to her she was a tender, devoted and loyal friend.
She met the demands of teacher, friend and townswoman with patience, tact and rare good sense and the impress of her well rounded nature has been far reaching.
"Well done thou good and faithful servant."
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Mrs. Arnold and Gentlemen:
I submit herewith my twelfth annual report as Superintendent of Schools in this city, it being the forty-sixth in the series of such reports.
FINANCES
The expenditures of the School Committee have been greatly in excess of those of preceding years for reasons which are easy of explanation. Practically every item that enters into the school budget has advanced steadily in price for the past five years. The increase in the costs of books and supplies has been especially noticeable. Fuel as is well known has more than doubled in price within two years and the latest increase in teachers' salaries has been no small item in the general expense.
Inasmuch as the conditions of the times have affected the personal budgets of the readers of this report in about the same proportion, this increased cost of school administration will occasion no sur- prise. Moreover, it should be understood that the increases in teachers' salaries granted for the year 1921 will further add to the per capita cost of education.
The increases in teachers' salaries are both well merited and absolutely essential if the city is to maintain in any degree perma- nency of tenure in its teaching corps. Adding to the force of teachers as we do each year, so many ambitious young teachers, it is useless to think that the city can retain their service with their added worth unless the city is willing to pay the market value for that service.
The willingness on the part of the Committee to raise steadily the maximum salary paid both principals and teachers is the wisest policy it possibly could pursue.
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SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS
The city is much better off in the way of school accommoda- tions than it was at the time of writing the last school report. The opening of the new Government school, so called, though it has not yet been accepted by the city has relieved the almost intolerable conditions against which it was necessary to struggle last year.
It would be well worth while if the general public would visit and inspect this building because it embodies the very latest improvements in school architecture and gives a maximum of con- venience, safety and comfort.
At the time the building was furnished, it seemed that if four- teen of the seventeen rooms were provided with furniture, the accommodations would be adequate for some years. As it proved, however, it became necessary to open the entire fourteen rooms at the beginning of the fall term and even then no rooms in the Webster or Washington Schools were left unoccupied.
The increase in school population this fall throughout the city was less than in preceding years and fairly evenly distributed.
Generally speaking, at the present time, the only point of real congestion is at Houghs Neck. The Coddington and the Willard districts will unquestionably require relief in a year or two and possibly the Massachusetts Fields section as well.
The High School situation is the most pressing at the present time and should receive the first attention of the School Committee during the coming year.
At first it seemed that an addition to the present building might be sufficient to solve the difficulty but other conditions were involved which compelled a broader view of the whole field.
The acceptance of the Continuation School Act by popular vote of the city election in December 1919, the general condition of the Industrial School building, the entire inadequacy of the Home Making School accommodations together with the general growth of the upper elementary grades called for a careful consideration of the whole situation. Were the city to build a wing on the present building as at first planned, it would still leave the Con- tinuation School unprovided for, and no provision made for the
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Industrial School, Home Making School or Junior High School extension.
Following a recommendation of your Superintendent that a new building be constructed on another site, Mr. Kingsley of the State Department of Education was invited to study the situation and make a report to the Committee. Mr. Kingsley very kindly consented to do so and advised the Committee not to enlarge the present building but to build instead on another site, a new building which should be a comprehensive High School. In this new building provision would be made for a Senior High School comprising the Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes, the Continuation School, the Home Making School and the Industrial School, each a sepa- rate unit but each responsible to one Head Master. On the erec- tion and occupancy of such a building, the present High School would become the first Junior High School of the city, caring at first for all the present High School Freshmen. As other Junior High Schools were erected in other centers, gradually taking the 7th and 8th grades and Freshmen of those localities, this building would finally become the Junior High School for the central section of the city alone.
This proposal appealed to the School Committee as the logical solution of the high school problem and the Committee requested the City Council to purchase the lot of land on the corner of Cod- dington Street and Woodward Avenue for the erection of the new building and also took steps looking toward plans for the same. Though no progress has yet been made toward building, it becomes more and more evident that this building programme is an ideal one for solving several very pressing problems.
SCHOOL WORK
The greatest hindrance to the type of school work that we should like to maintain in the schools of this city is the constant change of teachers, due in the main to the attraction of higher salaries in other cities.
For the past year or two our schools have been visited in increas- ing numbers by teachers and superintendents from other cities as well as normal school officials. Naturally we have been at the mercy of other communities able to pay much higher salaries and
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have suffered accordingly. Unfortunately this is not a situation that can be relieved by an ordinary flat raise in salary to all teachers alike.
Some plan by which teachers of marked superiority may be retained in the system, irrespective of what the maximum may be, is the only method by which this constant drainage of the best teachers away from Quincy can be overcome.
During the year a large number of teachers took advantage of the provisions of the Rating and Promotion System, receiving credit for professional work done at various educational institutions in Boston and New York, adding thereby to the efficiency of the schools as well as to their salaries.
AMERICANIZATION
Remarkable progress has been made in the past year in the work of Americanization. Due largely to the untiring efforts and skill of Miss Josephine Shanahan, the supervisor, the number of classes increased in one year from 4 to 32; the enrollment from 112 to 893; the aggregate number of sessions from 82 to 561, while the cost to the city increased merely from $1,051 to $2,450.47.
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