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During the month of July a new ledger was designed on the lines of the "Uniform" schedules as recommended by the Massa- chusetts Bureau of Statistics, and entries were made therein as of March 1, 1909, setting forth the assets and liabilities as far as they could be determined at that time.
Additional entries were made consolidating the transactions in the old ledger up to the time of transfer, and a balance of July 31 was established in agreement with the cash book.
Since that time the treasurer has been keeping the ledger as nearly upon the "Uniform" lines as the old by-laws will permit, and such modifications have been made in the original balance sheet as additional information has rendered necessary.
In order to make the work as thorough as possible, the various
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town departments should be required to keep simple and ade- quate accounts in conformity with the treasurer's schedules, and thus interlock with him and at the same time enable the depart- ments to keep supervisory control of their appropriations.
We also made an investigation into earlier years to determine the cause of the gradual increase in the excess of the temporary loan balance over the taxes uncollected. We have reported upon this with schedules, covering the years ending February 28, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, which report we will not repeat here, deeming it sufficient to state that the financial methods have been so im- proved during the past year that the trouble has been |remedied, and with the new methods of accounting can probably be pre- vented from recurring. Enough cash is available at this time to pay off this excess of the temporary loans, etc.
We wish to state that the Treasurer has co-operated with us in every way possible, and has put in a great deal of time familiar- izing himself with the new methods during the year, evidently appreciating the advantage of having a better method of ac- counting.
We submit herewith comparative tables of the receipts and disbursements for the two years ending February 28, 1909 and 1910, arranged on the "Uniform" schedules of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, and a set of comparative balance sheets showing the current assets and liabilities, the Trust Funds and their investments, the Bond and Debt accounts with the excess of assets or liabilities in each case, and a statement of the net debt. The great improvement in the condition of the town during the past year is readily seen from these comparative tables.
Very respectfully,
HARVEY S. CHASE & CO.,
Public Accountants and Auditors.
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REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES
An amendment to the by-laws of the Library was adopted by the Trustees early in the year by which the hours of opening the main library were made from 2 to 9 o'clock P.M. on Wednesdays, and from 3 to 9 o'clock P. M. on Saturdays, the earlier opening hour on Wednesdays being to accommodate the school children.
The library of the late Charles H. Draper, of Brookline, con- sisting of two hundred and fifty-eight volumes, bequeathed by him to the Wayland Library has been received, and the thanks of the Trustees for this valuable gift conveyed to the executors of his estate.
At the Cochituate Branch, the books on the shelves, the use of which has hitherto been restricted to the reading room, have been placed in circulation, and may be taken out on cards as in the main library. This collection has been increased during the year, and it is intended that the increase be continued as fast as funds applicable to the purpose are available. To further increase the availability of the library privileges in Cochituate, the Trustees have caused two hundred books of the main library, one half of which are fiction, to be placed in the branch for circulation. This lot of two hundred books is to be returned to the main library at the end of two months and a new lot of the same number sub- stituted, this rotation to be continued indefinitely.
As the Cochituate reading room is open every evening during the winter, the facilities for use of the Library are thus much in- creased, the appreciation of which is plainly evinced by the in- creased circulation, as shown by the Librarian's annual report to the Trustees; herewith submitted.
AMOS I. HADLEY, Chairman. ALFRED W. CUTTING, Secretary. JOHN CONNELLY, ALFRED A. CARTER, ANDREW A. NORRIS, FRANCIS SHAW,
Library Trustees.
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
To the Trustees of the Public Library :
The Librarian submits the following report for the year ending January 31, 1910.
Number of volumes - classified :
Fiction
4,152
Non-fiction .
9,802
Total
13,954
Unclassified :
3,087
Total
17,041
Number purchased
147
Number presented .
285
Number replaced
8
Number lost .
4
Circulation for the year
From main Library
7,255
From Cochituate Branch
1,461
Sent to Cochituate Branch on cards
2,249
Total
10,957
Number of Juveniles taken out in main Library and Cochituate Branch Number of cards in use . 696
2,468
The following periodicals are to be regularly found in the read- ing room: Atlantic, Bookman, Century, Collier's, Garden Maga- zine, Harper's, Ladies' Home Journal, Our Dumb Animals, Re- view of Reviews, Saturday Evening Post, Scribner's, St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion, Cochituate Enterprise, Cochituate Review.
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CLASSES OF READING BY PER CENT
Fiction
80.1
History
5.1
Sociology
.7 Biography
2.4
General Works
3.9 Natural Science
1.5
Art
1.8 Literature
3.6
Religion
.5
Philosophy
.4
MARGARET E. WHEELER,
WAYLAND, February 9, 1910.
Librarian.
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ACCESSIONS
GENERAL WORKS
050-AT6 050-C33
050-H226
050-L71
050-R32
050-SCR3
131-W89C
135-SP8
131-W89L
150-M92
131-M92
136-D43
Atlantic monthly. Vols. 99-102.
Century magazine. Vols. 114-19.
Harper's monthly. Vols. 114-117.
Littell's living age. Vols. 251-258.
Review of reviews. Vols. 35-38.
Scribner's magazine. Vols. 41-44.
PHILOSOPHY
Christian religion as a healing power. E
Worcester.
Intra muros. R. R. Springer.
Letter of hope. E. Worcester.
Psychology and the teacher. Hugo Munsterberg
Psychotherapy. Hugo Munsterberg.
Sex equality. E. Densmore.
RELIGION
245-H92H
Hymns of the ages. 3d series
242-B75
Leadership. C. H. Brent.
Religion and miracle. G. A. Gordon.
Song of our Syrian guest. W. A. Knight.
252-M61
When the song begins. J. R. Miller.
Why I am a new churchman. C. Giles.
SOCIOLOGY
347-C81 332-M7
American agriculturist law book. H. B. Corey. Banking and currency problem in the United States. V. Morawetz.
332-G42
Graded banking system. T. Gilman.
304-D56
Modern symposium. G. L. Dickinson.
370-P181
301-ST3
332-C59
Teacher, The. G. H. and A. F. Palmer.
Upbuilders, The. I .. Steffens.
Wall street point of view. H. Clews.
230-G65
223-K74
289-G39
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PHILOLOGY
425-F39
Working grammar of the English language. J. C. Fernald.
NATURAL SCIENCE
523-C55 598-C36C
Astronomy from a dipper. E. C. Clarke.
Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. F. M. Chapman.
523-R74
Conquest of the air. A. L. Rotch.
582-H81
Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada. R. M. Hough.
582-SA7
552-P66
590-W85T
Manual of the trees of North America. C. S. Sargent. Rocks and rock minerals. L. V. Pirsson. Trespassers. J. G. Wood.
USEFUL ARTS
694-B76
Box furniture. Louise Brigham.
610-P42
Friend in need. J. F. Perry.
658-D37
Imagination in business. L. F. Deland.
613-P81
Number one and how to take care of him. J. J. Pope.
612-L95
Physiology. A. T. Lowe.
613-M56
Prolongation of life. E. Metchnikoff.
614-C63
Quarter century of cremation in North America. J. S. Cobb.
610-C11
Social service and the art of healing. R. C. Cabot.
630-B15T
Training of farmers, The. L. H. Bailey.
FINE ARTS
701-R19A 749-M78.
Art in theory. G. L. Raymond.
Collector's manual. N. Hudson Moore.
701-R19Ę
Essentials of æsthetics. G. L. Raymond.
701-R19G
Genesis of art-form. G. L. Raymond.
755-J23M
755-J23L 750-J23
Legends of the Madonna. Mrs. A. B. M. Jameson. Legends of the monastic orders. Mrs. A. B. M. Jameson.
Memoirs of the early Italian painters. Mrs. A. B. M. Jameson.
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738-M78. 701-R19PA
Old china book. N. Hudson Moore.
Painting, sculpture, and architecture, as repre- sentative arts. G. L. Raymond.
736-R24
Pewter and Sheffield plate. W. Redman.
701-R09PO
Poetry as a representative art. G. L. Ray- mond.
701-R19P
Proportion and harmony of line and color. G. L. Raymond.
701-R19F
Representative significance of form. G. L. Raymond.
701-R19R
Rhythm and harmony in poetry and music. G. L. Raymond.
LITERATURE
811-R19 820-WN2
Dante and collected verse. G. L. Raymond. Hand book of English literature. F. H. Un- derwood.
814-C88H
Holmes. S. Crothers.
808-H34
Jewels from the quarry of the mind. J. H. Head, ed.
811-N36
Land of make-believe and other poems. W. Nesbit.
818-B15 822-Z1
Life in Danbury. J. M. Bailey.
Melting-pot, The. I. Zangwill.
814-W24M
My summer in a garden. C. D. Warner.
814-W48
Privileged classes, The. B. Wendell.
808-R72
Roses and holly. Saunterings. C. D. Warner.
814-W24S 818-B28
Songs and saunterings. W. G. Barton and G. J. Breed.
808-SP32 811-V28
Speaker's garland and literary bouquet. White bees. Henry Van Dyke.
HISTORY AND TRAVEL
914.9C77
Alps in nature and history. W. A. B. Cool- idge.
914.2-R43
At Hawarden with Mr. Gladstone. W. H. Rideing.
937-F41
Characters and events of Roman history. G. Ferrero.
917.2-T72 914.2-C692
Cradle of the deep, The. Sir Frederick Treves. England and the English from an American point of view. P. Collier.
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909-B81
919.9-SH1
Heart of the Antarctic, The. 2 vols. E. H. Shackleton.
916-P27I
In the grip of the nyika. J. H. Patterson.
971-G86 916-R13
Land of the lion, The. W. S. Rainsford.
915.1-C76
Letters from China. Sarah P. Conger.
915.2-F86
Letters from Japan. Mrs. Hugh Fraser.
917.4-B13L
Literary pilgrimages in New England. Bacon.
E. M.
916-P27 916-C47 915-M61
917.4-V28
917.4-L97
Old New England traits. . George Lunt.
914.8-R44
914.2-H83
914.4-P35
Through the French Provinces. Ernest Peix- otto.
970.1-M38 True stories of our pioneers. A. L. Mason.
974.4-R36A
Vital records of Ashburnham, Mass.
974.4-N44BI
Vital records of Billerica, Mass.
974.4-R36BR
Vital records of Brookfield, Mass.
974.4-ES7D
Vital records of Danvers, Mass.
974.4-R36DU
Vital records of Dudley, Mass.
974.4-ES7E
Vital records of Essex, Mass.
974.4-ES7H
Vital records of Hamilton, Mass.
974.4-N44HO
Vital records of Holliston, Mass.
974.4-R36MA
Vital records of Marlborough, Mass.
974.4-T62ME 974.4-N44MI
Vital records of Middlefield, Mass.
974.4-N44SH
Vital records of Sharon, Mass.
Vital records of Spencer, Mass.
Vital records of Winchendon, Mass.
BIOGRAPHY
B-C366B B-F545 B-F954S
B-SH54H
B-H833
Channing, W. E. Chas. T. Brooks.
Dunn Browne's experiences in the army.
Fulton, Robert, and the Clermont. A. G. Sutcliffe.
Home letters of General Sherman. M. A. D. Howe, ed. Howe, S. G. Letters and journals of. 2 vols., Mrs. L. E. Richards, ed.
974.4-R36SP 974.4-R36WI
Man-eaters of the Tsavo. J. H. Patterson.
My African journey. W. S. Churchill.
New far east, The. T. F. Millard.
New New York, The. J. C. Van Dyke.
Old Town (Ribe, Denmark). J. A. Riis. Seven English cities. W. D. Howells.
Vital records of Methuen, Mass.
Great events of the world in poetry and prose. R. W. Brown, ed.
Labrador. W. T. Grenfell and others.
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B-P318
B-B632 B-SA24
B-AD11
B-H785
B-P544
B-C597.
B-SA52
B-H832
Reminiscences. Mrs. J. H. Howe.
B-SH19
Shaler, N. S. Autobiography.
FICTION
H138 M544AD M134A
Abbe Constantin. L. Halévy.
Adventures of Harry Richmond. G. Meredith.
Alternative, The. G. B. Mccutcheon.
M544B S084CA
Beauchamp's career. G. Meredith.
Capitola, the madcap. Mrs. Southworth.
D294CA L316C G764C Chippendales, The. Robert Grant.
B443CL
Climber, The. E. F. Benson.
R565DA Danvis folks. R. E. Robinson.
R565D B935D M544E
Egoist, The. G. Meredith.
M544EV G655F G135F G787. H148G F624G
Gypsy queen's vow. M. A. Fleming.
H494H
Halfway house. M. Hewlett.
R874H
Helmet of Navarre. Bertha Runkle.
IN64
Inner shrine. Basil King.
D3955I It never can happen again. William De Morgan
C151J
Jack Hall at Yale. Walter Camp.
L243K Katrine. Elinor M. Lane.
Kin?smead. Bettina von Hutton.
H976K B935LN Land of the blue flowers. Mrs. F. H. Burnett.
K584LA Lanier of the Cavalry. Capt. Chas. King. L723LI M544L Little sister Snow. Frances Little. Lord Ormont and his Aminta. G. Meredith. W217MR Marriage à la mode. Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Letters from Port Royal. E. W. Parsons, ed.
Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne. 3 vols. Memories of fifty years. Lady St. Helier. My literary life. Mme. Edmond.
Not at home. Hattie Horner.
Phillips, Wendell. L. Sears.
Recollections of Grover Cleveland. G. F. Parker.
Recollections of seventy years. 2 vols. F. B. Sanborn.
Captain Macklin. R. H. Davis. Catherine's child. Mrs. Henry de la Pasture.
Danvis pioneer, A. R. E. Robinson.
Dawn of to-morrow. Mrs. F. H. Burnett.
Evan Harrington. G. Meredith.
Foreigner, The. Ralph Connor.
Friendship Village love stories. Zona Gale. Gallops. David Gray. Golden arrow, The. Ruth Hall.
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H435M H228M
Master of the Inn. Robert Herrick. Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly. Harker.
Mrs. L. A.
OP55MI
Missioner, The. E. P. Oppenheim.
P224N
Northern lights. Gilbert Parker.
R2560
Old rose and silver. Myrtle Reed.
M5440
One of our Conquerors. G. Meredith.
H4940
Open Country. M. Hewlett.
W933P
Poppea of the post-office. M. O. Wright.
B645P
Post-girl, The. E. C. Booth.
M122R
Red Horse Hill. Sidney McCall.
M544R
Rhoda Flemming. G. Meredith.
G464R
Romance of a plain man. E. Glasgow.
P278
Romance of the new Bethesda. J. L. Patterson.
R565S
Sam Lovell's boy. R. E. Robinson.
M544S
Sandra Belloni. G. Meredith.
L794
Septimus. W. J. Locke.
W6723S
Set in silver. C. N. and A. M. Williamson.
M544SV Shaving of Shagpat. G. Meredith.
M544SH
Short stories. G. Meredith.
T345
Single gentleman, A. T. Thistle.
H137
Six stories. R. B. Hale.
ST97S
Stephen Calinari. J. Sturgis.
C854ST
Stradella. F. Marion Crawford.
R444SU
Susanna and Sue. K. D. Wiggin.
P544T
Three brothers. E. Phillpotts.
M544T
Tragic comedians. G. Meredith.
K611TR
Transfiguration of Miss Philura. F. M. Kingsley.
M134T
Truxton King. G. B. Mccutcheon.
R565U
Uncle Lisha's outing. R. E. Robinson.
M544V Vittoria. G. Meredith.
M295W West Point Yearling. Capt. P. B. Malone. D294W White mice. R. H. Davis.
C122W
White prophet. Hall Caine.
C854WH
White sister, The. F. Marion Crawford.
K624WI C948
Wolf hunters, The. J. O. Curwood.
JUVENILE
j-B935B
Barty Crusoe and his man Saturday. Mrs. F. H. Burnett.
j-B611B
Book of dragons. E. Nesbit Bland.
j-AD13
Chief of the school. H. C. Adams.
j-P163
College years. R. D. Paine.
Dorothy Dainty. Amy Brooks.
j-B7943DD
With the night mail. R. Kipling.
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Dorothy Dainty at school. Amy Brooks.
Dorothy Dainty at the shore. Amy Brooks. Dorothy Dainty's gay times. Amy Brooks.
j-B236D j-B611E j-T594FS j920-K615
Double play. R. H. Barbour. Enchanted castle, The. E. Nesbit Bland.
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For the stars and stripes. E. T. Tomlinson.
Four American explorers. N. F. Kingsley.
Four American inventors.
F. M. Perry.
j920-P42 j920-P42P
Four American pioneers.
F. M. Perry.
jB-G764N j600-AD1 j790-J65
Harper's machinery book for boys. J. H. Adams. Home occupations for boys and girls. Bertha Johnston.
j-SH63I
Ike Partington. B. P. Shillaber.
j-B776 j-B611N
Little lad Jamie. M. D. Brine.
New treasure seekers. E. Nesbit Bland.
j-W6721
On the gridiron. J. L. Williams.
j-B7240
On the old Kearsarge. C. T. Brady.
j-P9940
Otto of the silver hand. H. Pyle.
j-B835 j-B611P j-B611R j050-SA2 jB935SA
Paul and Persis. M. E. Brush.
Phoenix and the carpet, The. E. Nesbit Bland.
Railway children, The. E. Nesbit Bland.
Saint Nicholas. 2 vols. 34-35. 2 pts. each.
Sara Crewe and other stories. Burnett.
Mrs. F. H.
jB-G654L j-B611S j916.4-W17
Story of General Gordon. Jennie Lang.
Story of the Amulet. E. Nesbit Bland.
Tangerine, a child's letters from Morocco. T. E. Waltham, ed. Uncle Sam's business. C. Marriott. When mother lets us garden. F. Duncan. Wolf boy of China. W. Dalton. Wouldbegoods. E. Nesbit Bland.
j973.9-M34 j630-D91 j-D175W j-B611W
Grant, U. S. Helen Nicolay.
j-B7943DS j-B7943DA j-B7943DG j-B7943DP Dorothy's playmates. Amy Brooks.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The annual appropriation of the Town of Wayland for its public schools has been used by the School Committee for the maintenance of the Town's school buildings, for the purchase of school supplies, and for the payment of the salaries of the admin- istrative force.
In the maintenance of the school buildings, we have repaired the boiler in the Cochituate Schoolhouse under the order of the State Police. We have repaired the sanitaries in the Wayland school building.
With a special appropriation we have fitted in thorough manner a much needed new classroom for the use of the High School, and we have prepared the vacant space in the third story of the Wayland building for the manual training work which was formerly done in the present new class room.
The town is indebted to Mr. Francis Shaw, who has paid for the changes in the heating apparatus required in the new classroom.
Mr. Shaw has also paid for a large, new, hot water heater, for radiators in corridors and manual training room, and for a general rearrangement of the piping system.
The purchase of the school supplies has been conducted with economy. The problem of the manual training department has increased the difficulties of this part of our work. We have fre- quent requests from citizens of the town that the manual train- ing department have its work extended. If this be deemed ad- visable, an increased appropriation by the town is absolutely necessary, the present appropriation merely covers the salary of our manual training teacher, and the supplies for this branch of our school work make great inroads into the regular supply fund.
This condition should be understood and considered.
The most important use of the town appropriation is the pay- ment of the salaries of the teachers through whose efforts our schools are efficient or inefficient, our school system successful or unsuccessful, and our children educated or uneducated citizens.
The salaries of our school superintendent and all our teachers are most important expenditure and bring the greatest return.
If the appropriation for schools could be increased we recom- mend urgently a gradual increase in the salaries of our hard-work- ing and deserving school corps.
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The administrative proper of the school work has been done through officials trained and experienced in that work.
Our superintendent has kept the school committee in close touch with the work of each school and each teacher, and con- stantly in sympathy with his own work by the full and candid monthly report which he has written and presented at the request of the Committee. It is fitting that we express our appreciation of the attitude and work of our superintendent and of the high grade of work we are getting from most of our teachers.
The parents are kept aware of the progress of their children by monthly report cards, and much has been gained in the work of the individual children by the sending of monthly notices in all cases of delinquent pupils.
Midyear promotions-have taken place where pupils have been fitted to do the work of a more advanced grade.
In the Wayland Building a good lunch counter has been car- ried on throughout the year by Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, and has added to the comfort and health of pupils, teachers, and occasional guests.
The Teachers' Club has courteously included the School Com- mittee in its meetings and has given one open meeting of great profit to which the townspeople were bidden.
The School Committee is gratified that it may truthfully report to the people of the town a year of progress and harmony in the school work.
(Signed) FRANK I. COOPER, H. E. CARSON,
Approved.
PHILIP S. IDE, School Committee.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Gentlemen of the School Committee:
Herewith is submitted my second annual report, the twelfth in the series of superintendents' reports since the formation of the present union district.
The record of your schools for the year is not one of innova- tions. The law of change is ever operative, however, and schools do not remain permanently in one condition. It is therefore a pleasure to be able to state that, although no radical changes have been made, a good degree of progress and improvement has been maintained. Being principally intensive in character, and relating to the raising of the standard of work along lines generally followed in the schools, the gains that have been made are not able to be so impressive in effect of enumeration as when new depart- ments have been established, new schoolhouses erected, or new organization effected, nor are they so readily recognized except by those who cultivate an intimate acquaintance with what is being done. They are, nevertheless, important in the develop- ment of your schools.
Teachers
The year has been notable for the small number of changes in the teaching corps. Only two vacancies have occurred since the last report, and these have been filled by the election of well- trained and experienced teachers who are maintaining the effi- ciency of their schools.
There are many elements which may contribute to the cause of good schools in a community, but more than any one or all com- bined, the quality of the teaching force determines the character of the schools. This fact is evident to all. Another ought to be equally evident, viz., that a community, can, as a rule, secure and retain the kind of teachers it desires by paying them the sal- aries their services are able to command elsewhere. These facts, though trite, have a more definite relation to the school affairs of a community than is generally considered. If the teachers are the fundamental factors in the schools, and thier average
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quality depends upon the salaries that can be paid them, the ap- propriation for teachers' salaries indicates quite closely the kind of schools the community elects it can afford. If, then, the schools compare favorably with those of communities paying similar salaries to their teachers, there can be no just basis of complaint. In this connection some one tells the story of Mark Twain's pilot who was found fault with for landing his boat on a sand bar and who explained that he was doing piloting as well as possible for $40. "All over this land we expect men and women to pilot the youth of the country over rapids, through narrows, and past sand bars, at salaries which would be scorned by the demonstrator of a new kind of baking powder. We expect and - what is remarkable - often receive $150 services for $40 wages." In the last state report the average salary of female teachers in Massachusetts is given as $59.58 per month. The average in Wayland at that time was $45.12. An increase of 20% per cent in local salaries has been granted since the date of the report, but they are still below the now increased average of the state.
The above figures are not given as an argument for a present increase. They are given merely to indicate a fact which in some degree conditions the efficiency of the schools.
In communities located as is Wayland, near cities and larger towns, ideals of what schools should accomplish are high. There is inevitable comparison of results in local schools with those secured under better conditions of equipment and expenditure. This is not entirely undesirable, for ambition is thereby aroused and efforts put forth which make for improved results in the home schools. When, however, ideals outrun possibilities, and ex- pectation cannot be supported by appropriations, intelligent, fair- minded criticism, a help to the schools, easily degenerates into faultfinding,- something decidedly harmful.
In my judgment, the teaching corps, as a whole, is giving full value in service for expenditure incurred. In several instances it would be impossible, unless by rare good fortune, to replace present teachers at the same salaries. In training, skill, ability to secure results, and in earnestness of purpose, the present teach- ing force, compared with that of towns where similar salaries prevail, will be found superior.
Cochituate School Building
A new building at Cochituate is still a matter of the future.
Is is useless to indulge in wearisome repetition of the defects of the present building. There is practical unanimity of belief in the need of remedying conditions, and this belief has existed
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for several years. Disagreement in regard to plans of improve- ment and method of procedure continues to act as an effectual barrier to all accomplishment. To all who have the cause of the children at heart, it is discouraging to consider how long this condition may have force. It is to be hoped, however, that the time is near at hand when the improved financial status of the town, and the plain desire that all show to give the children of Cochituate better schoolrooms, will lead to a harmonizing of efforts toward this end.
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