Official reports of the town of Wayland 1912-1914, Part 12

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 776


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Classroom and Campus


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Dorothy Dainty's Holidays Amy Brooks


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Dotty Dimple at Her Grand -. mother's Sophie May, pseud.


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Dotty Dimple at Home Sophie May, pseud.


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Dotty Dimple at Play Sophie May, pseud.


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Dotty Dimple's Flyaway


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Dotty Dimple out West, Sophie May, pseud.


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Dragon Days R. D. Paine


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Fall of the Year


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Fourth Down L. W. Quirk


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Freshman Dorn, Pitcher L. W. Quirk


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Garden of Eden .


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Rupert S. Holland Knights of the Golden Spur R. S. Holland Lady of the Lane F. O. Bartlett


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Lickey and His Gang Grace S. Mason


Little King and the Princess Ture


Mary E. Hardy


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Lucky Sixpence E. B. and A. A. Knipe Ned Brewster's Year in the Big


Woods C. J. Hawkins


Peggy Stewart at School G. E. Jackson


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Pluck on the Long Trail Edwin L. Sabin


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Quarterback Reckless Hawley Williams Rowena's Happy Summer C. M. Robinson Secret of the Clan Alice Brown


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Their City Christmas


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Turkey Doll Josephine S. Gates Two and Four-footed Friends


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Ward Hill at Weston E. T. Tomlinson With the Indians in the Rockies


James W. Schultz


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PUBLIC SCHOOLS


School Officers


1912-1913.


COMMITTEE.


Harry E. Carson, Chairman, Cochituate 1913


Philip S. Ide, Wayland 1914


Arthur B. Nichols, Secretary, Wayland 1915


SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.


Frank H. Benedict, Cochituate.


TRUANT OFFICERS AND JANITORS.


J. Charles Vincent, Wayland.


Henry G. Dudley, Cochituate.


SCHOOL PHYSICIAN.


O. A. Dudley, M. D., Saxonville.


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School Committee


In presenting its Annual Report, the School Committee of Wayland invites, in the first place, a comparison of the sums of money spent on Wayland schools during the past two years.


In the fiscal year ending March Ist, 1912, the total amount spent on schools was : $17,466.00.


During the past year the total has been : $18,353.00.


Or an amount greater during the past year by : $853.00.


In this connection it is to be noted that, whereas, in the previous year the town voted the extra sum of $600.00 to in- stall a water system in the High School, for the past year no extra money whatever was voted for the schools.


Your Committee desires to draw particular attention to the extraordinary and unforeseen expenses incurred during the past year ; expenses not provided for nor covered by the annual school appropriation.


In the first place, a bill for coal, delivered and used pre- vious to March Ist, 1912, coming over into this past year amounted to $183.46, and the addition of fifty cents to the price per ton of coal last Autumn for the amount of coal so far delivered and used brings this extra amount up to $233.00.


Last Autumn Mr. Francis Shaw wrote your Committee that, in future, the town must pay for removing ashes from the High School and for cleaning out the cess-pool. As this expense, as well as the expense of supplying certain school equipment, had for years been borne by Mr. Shaw, the with- drawal of his aid has meant another item added to school ex- pense account.


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Owing directly to this, and to the fact that the increased use of water in the High School necessitated some new pro- vision for drainage, your Committee adopted what seemed the most practical and least costly expedient ; that of digging a new cess-pool with connections to the old one. This has, so far, proved an adequate and satisfactory solution of the prob- lem and can, if necessary, be made a part of a- future im- proved system of school drainage.


As, according to restricted boundaries, as well as from the fear of polluting both school and neighboring water sup- plies it seemed equally impossible and unwise to dig a leach- ing cess-pool within the school grounds, your Committee for- tunately secured from Mr. Edmund Sears and Mr. Edwin F. Greens permission to dig this cess-pool on the land belonging to them, which has been used as a playground.


As the difficulties affecting the location of this indispen- sable feature of the present school sanitary system could not have been overcome without their prompt co-operation, the School Committee desires here to express to these two gentle- men its grateful acknowledgment of an act of public spirit well and willingly performed.


The transportation of school children has this year cost more than it cost last year by $187.it. This is a matter in which your Committee has no option but to accept the bids submitted. There are five barge routes, and last Summer the Committee received only six bids, all of them being at a higher rate than for the year before.


With no special appropriation voted last year for new sanitary and heating systems, or even for repairs to the ex- isting systems, and with a condition of things which might perhaps have meant the closing of the High School for a time, on account of insufficient heat and flagrantly unsanitary conditions, your Committee set itself the task of correcting. for the time being, some of the worst features; with the re-


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sult that by renewing old pipes, flues and chimney caps which had rusted and fallen from the chimneys, by repairing the sanitaries, by patching the antiquated and wasteful furnaces and by repairing a leaky roof, all at a cost of $463.15, the building was rendered tenantable for this year.


In pursuance of a policy of increasing the efficiency of the teaching force and of engaging the best available new ma- terial to fill vacancies, your Committee voted last Autumn an increase of salaries amounting up to March Ist, 1913 to $240.00.


Taking all of the foregoing into consideration it will be noted that our school appropriation has actually been ex- ceeded by only a very moderate amount.


In regard to the condition of the High School building, the town will be obliged to consider, at no distant date, and indeed should consider at the next Town Meeting, the mat- ter of painting the exterior of the building, the installing of new sanitary and heating systems and the wiring and electric lighting of the school. The efficiency of the equipment in the Cochituate School, and the complete success of the pumping installation in the High School indicates the economic and hygienic value of up-to-date appliances.


That the teaching force of Wayland schools has, during the past year, been materially strengthened, is shown in no- ticeably improved discipline and in the general morale of the school. There is reason to believe that, as a whole, the pupils have done more willing, and so more effective work this year than last, and it is that spirit and that kind of work which, in the end, makes for the higher standard of scholarship which we are trying to attain. No such ideal conditions can, how- ever, be brought about entirely by the schools and in the schools. The interest of the parents, very generally lacking, in the progress of their children and their realization of the value of encouragement and stimulation at home is a potent


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and indispensable factor in the proper education of children.


The response to the School Committee's efforts to add strength and greater prominence this year to the Commercial Course of study has been most gratifying, and apparently in- dicates a somewhat widespread desire for the permanence of such a course in our community. Of a total of sixty-six pupils in our High School no less than thirty are taking this com- mercial course, or parts of it, and of these, twenty are pupils of the first and second years. Last year the total number tak- ing this course or parts of it was twenty-three.


It is still a little early in the year to measure results in- telligently in regard to this course, but if it should continue to grow in popularity it is not too much to predict for the fu- ture the possibility of such a thorough and effective business course as is given in a number of our Massachusetts schools.


It is always to be born in mind, however, that all such re- sults, and this applies to manual training as well as to all so- called vocational courses-mean a yearly increasing expendi- ture for salaries and equipment.


Educationally we cannot progress without actually going forward.


To stand still is insensibly to go backward.


It is for the people of Wayland to say which it shall be.


Respectfuly submitted,


HARRY E. CARSON, Chairman. PHILIP S. IDE. ARTHUR B. NICHOLS, Secretary.


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Financial Report of School Committee. Salaries of Teachers.


WV. Herbert Moore


$1,260.00


Inez Bowler


730.00


Mary J. Sweeney


290.00


Katherine E. Barrett


390.00


Alice Carey


220.00


Elizabeth G. Hodge


390.00


Mabel C. Whitten


$550.00


Edna D. Taylor


587.38


Alice S. Kenyon


600.00


Emma J. Kennedy


220.00


Ethel M. Hamilton


360.00


Lucy E. Reynolds


550.00


Marie L. Leach


550.00


Grace C. Loker


550.00


Sylvia E. Prescott


550.00


Catherine E. Maloney


570.00


Emily Prichard Moore


30.00


Leroy K. Houghton


930.00


Agnes E. Boland


200.00


William B. Hazelton


700.00


Louisa A. Nicholass


2.16


$10,229.54


Supplies


Holt and Bugbee Co.


$99.33


Ginn & Co. 3.84


Milton Bradley Co.


55.89


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J. H. Lee


24.70


Carpenter, Morton Co.


1.00


American Seating Co.


9.75


Rawles-Cobb Co.


II.00


A. B. Nichols


5.85


Revere Rubber Co.


7.00


Wayland Water Board


102.00


Edward E. Babb & Co.


166.47


Edison Electric I11. Co.


2.70


Weston Electric Co.


3.00


Chandler, Barber Co.


31.64


Howe & Co.


.70


Underwood Typewriter Co.


50.00


Remington Typewriter Co.


51.50


E. A. Putney


5.20


A. W. Atwood


10.46


Suburban Press


$24.95


L. L. Hammett & Co. 486.55


Oliver Ditson Co.


19.37


L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.


42.00


A. W. Atwood


9.10


I. A. Lupien


13.27


A. N. Palmer Co.


1.60


Dutton & Clarke


7.10


E. W. Jennison


.50


W. S. Lovell


.60


Kee Lox Mfg. Co.


2.25


American Book Co.


9.90


F. W. Martin Co.


28.25


Silver Burdett Co.


14.71


C. C. Burchard


2.II


L C. Smith Bros.


.75


$1.305.04


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Transportation


Middlesex & Boston St. Railway Co. Barges :


$705.00


Thomas Hynes


722.00


E. J. Gazard 285.00


L. Buoncore


46.00


J. H. Lee


127.40


E. G. Lee


336.00


Alexander Holmes


328.00


Thomas Bryant


226.00


Mayme Bonney


5.76


$2,781.16


Fuel, Light, Power


Edison Elec. Il1. Co., Boston


$4.00


Weston Electric Light Co.


6.00


A. W. Atwood 669.61


Herbert Parmenter


66.00


J. W. Doon & Son


95.47


Robinson, Jones Co.


261.15


C. W. Fairbank


4.00


$1,106.23


Supervision


Frank H. Benedict


$800.00


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Salaries of Janitors


Henry G. Dudley J. Charles Vincent


$500.00


450.00


$950.00


Incidentals :


American Seating Co.


$11.00


T. Weld Frost


5.10


W. Herbert Moore


4.36


H. G. Dudley


12.22


C. W. Fairbank


10.00


A. B. Nichols .


12.00


Griffiths-Stillings Press


96.50


A. W. Atwood


4.80


Howe & Co.


.90


F. C. Beane


.20


Cochituate Grange


12.50


F. H. Benedict


33.83


Louisa A. Nicholas


4.14


F. J. Barnard


35.00


Wayland Water Board


15.00


The Morse-Whyte Co.


2.25


Union Lumber Co.


1.50


Weston Electric Light Co.


3.00


J. C. Vincent


10.00


E. G. Lee


7.00


Boston Woodworking Co.


II.55


William S. Lovell


10.30


Geo. T. Johnson


$5.75


Henry G. Dudley


2.40


Thos. Bryant


1.00


$312.30


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School Committee :


Harry E. Carson


$50.00


Harry E. Carson, expenses


7.56


Philip S. Ide


50.00


Philip S. Ide, expenses


8.50


Arthur B. Nichols, Secretary


60.00


$176.06


Repairs


E. P. Butler


ȘIO.So


Auto-Force Ventilating System


52.00


American Seating Co.


23.55


F. H. Marsden


11.00


L. C. Smith Bros.


7.73


$105.08


Repairs, Heating, Ventilating Plant : Stone, Underhill Heat. & Vent. Co. $299.00


Howard E. Haines


52.01


J. C. Massey


106.74


H. B. Smith Co.


5.40


$463.15


Repairs, Cesspool :


Wallace C. Smith


$86.03


E. G. Lee


10.00


Fiske & Co.


29.23


$125.26


$1.181.85


Recapitulation Expenditures


Salaries of Teachers


$10,229.54


Transportation


2.781.16


Supplies


1.305.04


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Fuel, Light, Power


1,100.23


Miscellaneous


1,181.85


Supervision


800.00


Salaries of Janitors


950.00


$18,353.82


Receipts.


Town Grant


$16,000.00


Tuition of children from state


307.46


Received from County Dog Tax


153.06


Received from State Superintend- ent's salary


208.33


Received from State teachers' salaries


312.50


Tuition from Town of Natick


19.00


Sale of books


10.00


Income from Trust Fund


8.00


Tuition of children-City of Boston


6.00


$17,024.35


Overdrawn


$1,329.47


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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


To the School Committee of Wayland,


Gentlemen :- The following report of the public schools of the town is respectfully submitted for your consideration. This is the fifteenth in the series of annual reports by the Su- perintendent of Schools, and the third by the present incum- bent of the office.


Your schools are in charge of a corps of teachers espe- cially strong in power to discipline, to interest, and to in- struct. They are interested in the welfare of every child, sym- pathetic and earnest. There has been no marked change of policy in the administration of the affairs of the schools, nor is there prospect of any near-by innovation. Because of these conditions, the generosity of the town toward her schools, and the general good faith in the servants of the schools, space will be given herein to touch upon the general trend of edu- cational thought and criticism and the efforts afoot for edu- cational advancement, that you may understand that we are interested in the progressive necessities now before the gen- eral public, and that we are studying intently all efforts that we may be ready to fall into line and to keep step with the procession in assisting you to direct the future policy of the schools of Wayland.


That we are in an epoch of general educational dissat- isfaction is evidenced by the vast amount of critical current literature from laymen and educators. This condition, ana- lyzed, antedates the present by some years, is the result of natural causes, has been approaching a long time, has come with overwhelming rapidity as has the industrial develop- ment of the country, has been watched with apprehension by educators, also welcomed, as all true educators are progress- ive and metropolitan, interested in the welfare of every


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child. This unrest is being met by proper solutions of edu- cational problems, and I believe, will be increasingly em- battled through the perfecting of plans already afoot to make the educational institutions-the schools of training for manhood and womanhood-more effective, more far- reaching.


The disaffection centers, particularly about the high school, involves the upper grades, is erroneously, in my opin- ion, carried into the primary grades by visionary and imprac- tical or ignorant critics, reaches out to the period of life fol- lowing the elementary schools for those not entering high schools, and includes in some measure the administration of our colleges.


The primary causes for this disaffection are the changes in industrial, commercial and agricultural life, the new de- mands upon our youth to meet the exacting conditions in these basal fields, the high cost of all things, the call for scientific farmers, and the call for greater skill in the so-called pro- fessions. And again, because it is more and more imperative that our youth have a high-school education with a result that our high schools are composed of a student body, of which approximately only six to ten per cent. will attend col- lege, or other higher institutions of learning. So that a great body of thinking people have come to ask for schools for "All the children of all the people."


The result is that first of all, Greek has been dropped from nearly all high schools, Latin and other subjects are on trial as against courses in Practical Arts. Business courses and woodwork first appeared. They have found their places, but are inadequate. .


Massachusetts made the first move to meet this wave of necessity by appointing an Industrial Commission under Governor Douglas. This Commission has been merged with the re-organized State Board of Education and with Dr.


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Snedden as Commissioner is committed to the policy of pro- moting industrial training in connection with the educa- tional system of the State.


Local conditions call for different lines and place barriers as to policy. But we find that a goodly number of vocational schools have appeared in our cities that we have in our midst part-time schools for those who wish to work or must go to work that the agricultural college is reaching out to interest boys and girls in improved agricultural study, that there are agricultural schools, that there are agricultural courses in high schools, that the state offers aid in support of same, that bills have appeared before the legislature for special grants to establish County Agricutural schools, that bills have appeared to grant permission, or to make it obligatory on municipali- ties to support continuation schools. Boys residing in towns. and supporting vocational courses may, as in other high-school work, go to towns or cities offering such work, and the resi- dential town must pay the tuition. Our larger high schools and some smaller ones are offering courses in cooking. sew- ing. shop work, printing, and so forth. Many communities are developing home gardening, and there are some substan- tial prizes offered for members of successful corn and potato clubs.


Outside of our own state, the story is repeated, some states being much more aggressive than are we. "Barley goes to college in Wisconsin," and corn is much improved in the corn belt through courses given therein. Then we have before Congress the Page Bill, which will, if carried, appropriate $14.000,000 to be distributed throughout the country for the advancement of vocational training, but more especially agri- cultural training.


In a recent address, Dr. C. N. Schaeffer of Pennsylvania, said: "There are today at least forty vocations which require a high-school education by way of preliminary training, and


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the boy who quits school before finishing the four years' high school course, shuts against himself the door of opportunity.


"He makes it impossible for himself to enter the vocations which aspire to be ranked with the professions, and which have within their ranks the leaders of American civiliza- tion."


We are endeavoring to impress the force of the above statement on the young people of this community; to make them feel something of the seriousness of these years given them for study and development and the splendid opportunity that should not be lost, and that some sacrifice on their part in personal comfort and enjoyment should be made for all that is done for them.


Accepting the fact that we must soon reach out to indus- trial training in some line, somehow, we have endeavored with a goodly measure of success to strengthen the Com- mercial Course this year.


From the Cochituate school entertainment given last March. $55.75 was realized. Cochituate Grange and individ- ual members gave the use of their hall. The expenses were $1.25 for printing. Three dollars have been donated by the Teachers' Club. There are now on deposit, subject to the chairman's order. $57.50 in the Natick Five Cents Savings Bank. We trust soon to see this expended for the piece of statuary for which purpose it was raised.


The work done on the Wayland furnaces last summer has removed the lack of ventilation in the sanitaries, has made better heating of the rooms possible. but the ventilation of the rooms is unchanged. By opening the windows every hour, while physical drill is given, and also by vacating rooms at recesses and opening windows, we have kept them in com- fortable condition in the grades. The ventilation has been better in the high-school rooms.


It is needless almost to remind you that the Wayland building needs painting as a matter of economy. It speaks


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for itself to every passer-by. Some of the rooms have hard looking ceilings and walls.


In closing, I respectfully commend to you for careful consideration and study the issues briefly raised earlier in this paper. These serious and difficult industrial educat- ional problems cannot, in my opinion, be wisely turned aside by the school authorities and citizens of this town.


Respectfully submitted,


FRANK H. BENEDICT.


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REPORT OF PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL


REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL


Mr. Frank H. Benedict. Superintendent of Schools,


Dear Sir :- My second annual report of the Wayland High School is herewith presented for your consideration.


Eleven pupils were graduated from the High School last June. Of the eleven graduates, two are now attending the Framingham Normal School, one is in training for a nurse at the Boston City Hospital, two are taking special training for musical careers, one is at Lowell Textile School, one at Tufts Dental School, while an eighth is at the New England Co-operative School of Engineering in Boston. The rest are at work at or near their homes.


We have a total enrolment this year of sixty-nine, and of this number sixty-six are in school at the present date. This is an increase of four pupils over the total registration of last year.


The regularity of attendance on the part of some pupils has not been all that it should be. It is essential that a pupil should be present at each school session if he is to secure the most good from his studies. Attendance at High School should be considered a privilege. No pupil can afford not to avail himself of this opportunity which costs him only the effort. A day out of school, or even one lesson missed. is a privilege lost. The habit of punctuality is a most valuable asset for future success. Excuses for tardiness and absence should be sent to the principal at the next session attended by the pupil. May I ask parents to carefully co-operate with the teachers in securing better results in this matter ?


Referring to our system of reporting the standing of pupils, I wish to make the following explanation in order that parents may aid us in making the system more efficient. Dur- ing my administration, report cards bearing the ranks in all


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subjects have been sent by each pupil to his or her parents at the middle and end of each term,-making a total of six times a year that a parent should receive a full report of the pupil's work. These cards should be signed and returned promptly to the principal. In addition to these report cards, a special deficiency report is mailed to the parent at the end of every period of four weeks. These special reports are sent only for subjects or parts of subjects in which the pupil's work appears unsatisfactory for the previous four weeks. By bring- ing the attention of the pupil and parent to unsatisfactory work in any given subject, it is hoped that special energy may be brought to bear upon that subject, and possible failure for the term's work avoided. In several cases this year, the at- tention which parents have given thest reports has had very gratifying results.


The attitude of the pupils toward their work has been generally good, but, on the whole, it is to be hoped that an even higher standard of scholarship may be obtained. To se- cure a mere passing mark should not be a satisfactory ideal for any pupil. Many who are receiving simply passing marks are capable of doing "A" work with greater application. No student has time to get all his work done in school hours, and a minimum of two hours a day of home study is abso- lutely essential. A pupil's fundamental duty in the high school is to study. Other activities, social and athletic, must have their proper part in the development of youth, but they must be subordinated to this.


The choice of the right studies is often of the utmost im- portance to the pupil's success in high-school work To this end, we placed in the hands of the pupils last spring an Out- line of Courses of Study, with description of each, to be a guide in making their elections. The courses are grouped un- der three heads, namely :- College preparatory, scientific, and commercial. The requirements in English and Mathematics


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are the same in the three courses. This grouping gives the pupil a definite plan which he must follow in case college is his aim. We have tried to strengthen the requirements in the commercial course so that this course may be considered on a par with the others. The results so far are very satisfactory.


Let me add a word of explanation in regard to our rela- tion to the New England College Examination Board. Our high school is at present, not on the published list of ap- proved schools of the Board, not because our curriculum, staff and equipment are not approved by them, but because during the last two years at least, no graduate has desired to ma- triculate at any of the colleges which come under the juris- diction of the New England College Board. The following colleges are represented on the Board: Amherst College, Bates College. Brown University. Colby College. Dartmouth Colege, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Tufts College. University of Vermont. Wellesley Colege. Wes- leyan University, and Williams College. This Board grants to certain schools the privilege of admission without examina- tion, on certificate of the principal. Entrance to Harvard, Yale, and Mass. Institute of Technology may be obtained only by passing examinations.




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