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" The committee further find that all the rents and inter- ests and all the revenues from whatever source have been duly collected and properly secured.
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"The remaining funds of the library, exclusive of the above mentioned balance, consist of five thousand (5000) dollars invested in a promissory note of the town of Randolph, bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, and the sum of ten thousand (10,000) dollars as the ' Turner Fund' invested as follows :
" One bond of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad of $1000.
" Two bonds of the Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railroad $500 each.
" One bond of the Old Colony Railroad Company of $1000.
" One bond of the Western Telephone & Telegraph Com- pany of $1000.
"Two bonds of the Chicago & West Michigan Railroad Company of $1000 each.
" Three bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad Company of $500 each.
" Thirty-three shares of the preferred stock of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
"One bond of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company of $1000. This is a new investment, having been substituted for a C. B. & Q. bond of $1000, which was paid during this year.
"The Royal W. Turner bequest is invested as follows :
"Ten Old Colony Railroad bonds $1000 each.
"Ten Wayne County, Michigan, bonds $1000 each.
" The committee consider that the income of the funds will be sufficient to meet the current expenses of the ensuing year, and, therefore, recommend that no appropriation be solicited from the town."
Randolph, December 31, 1904.
A detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures for
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the year ending December 31, 1904, will be found in the report of the treasurer hereto annexed.
The following extracts taken from the twenty-ninth annual report of the Librarian, Dr. Charles C. Farnham, to the trustees, contain a condensed statement of the present con- dition and uses of the library :
" To the Trustees of the Turner Free Library :
" Ladies and Gentlemen,- In presenting for your con- sideration this my twenty-ninth annual report it gives me pleasure to assure you of my continued interest in the library and its mission, and to say that the accustomed work of the library has been carried on regularly and successfully during the entire year.
" The increasing usefulness of this educational agency is attested by the large number of books borrowed and read by its patrons, as well as by the formation of literary and scientific societies which avail themselves of the special privi- leges accorded them here.
" The clubs, the teachers and the scholars are each in their turn the recipients of special favors and assistance, but this is only in the line of a policy long since adopted by the trustees and librarians to provide every reasonable facility in enabling all patrons to get the best possible results from the library and its continuous additions. In this way we think we can best express and fulfil the generous purpose of the founders of the library and most faithfully the require- ments of the public.
GENERAL STATEMENTS.
" The general condition of the library is as good as can be expected after nearly thirty years of constant service. The annual examination was made in August. All books accounted for and all properties in good condition.
"The library has been open to the public 277 days, dur
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ing which time 20,804 books have been issued in the circu- lating department (last year 19,574), making a daily aver- age circulation of 72. The largest daily issue of books was on April 16, when 520 were charged ; the smallest on July 5th, when only eight were drawn. There have been charged on special teachers' cards 2471 books, and 424 volumes have been added, making the total of accessions 18,294.
" There has been $46 collected for fines, which has been duly paid to the treasurer.
WORK WITH THE SCHOOLS.
" As has been stated, the teachers have borrowed 2471 books on their special cards, a notable increase over the 1872 reported last year. In addition to these so reported, a large number of volumes have been selected by teachers and have been read at the library by the visiting scholars. The afternoon hours at the annex have been made bright and cherry by the presence of many of these student readers. Too much praise cannot be accorded the principal of the Prescott Grammar and the first assistant of the High School for their share in this largely extended work.
REFERENCE ROOM.
" It is not possible to furnish accurate statistics of the work done in the reference department or the large number of works consulted, as much of the study in this department is done by visitors without especial assistance. But even then the demands made and the help rendered has often been sufficiently long and painstaking to keep the librarian and his assistant very busy.
ART EXHIBITS.
" The following exhibitions of views furnished by the Massachusetts Art Club have been given to the public :
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"Granada and the Alhambra."
" Pagan Rome. (The Forum.)"
" Pagan Rome. (Outside the Forum.)"
" Plymouth, and the Courtship of Miles Standish."
" South Kensington."
" Florence, No. 5."
" Venice, No. 4."
" Holland, No. 1."
" Velasquez."
" German Festoons."
"Ten in all. These views have given pleasure and help- ful aid to our patrons, and are always of great educational value.
" If the exhibits were more generally visited and more carefully studied our friends would find this diversion a pleasant and helpful aid in obtaining information."
At the close of another year the trustees desire again to express their appreciation of the valuable services rendered by the librarian and the assistant librarian in the faithful discharge of their respective duties.
Respectfully submitted,
J. WHITE BELCHER, President of the Board of Trustees.
Randolph, December 31, 1904.
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RANDOLPH, MASS., January 1, 1905.
To the Trustees of Turner Free Library :
In compliance with the requirements of the by-laws, I hereby submit my annual report as treasurer of Turner Free Library.
RECEIPTS.
Income Turner Fund
$502 00
Income R. W. Turner legacy ·
800 00
Rent Randolph Savings Bank .
300 00
Rent C. Fred Lyons
250 00
Rent Ladies' Library Association
15 00
Interest on Town of Randolph notes
200 00
Town appropriation insurance
393 00
From Randolph Savings Bank, fuel
100 07
Fines and collections
57 00
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy bond
1,000 00
Balance January 1, 1904 .
551 14
$4,168 21
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid for books and periodicals
$663 59
binding
53 90
salary of librarian
500 00
salary of assistant
250 00
salary of janitor
125 00
electric light
108 10
supplies
21 77
express
13 90
insurance
393 00
repairs
20 15
fuel
.
.
312 75
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Paid for rent safety deposit box $10 00
rent of post-office box 2 40
New York Central & Hudson River R. R. bond 1,000 00
Balance December 31, 1904 .
693 65
$4,168 21
In August a $1,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy bond of the Turner Fund was called and paid; the amount was reinvested in a New York Central 4 per cent bond.
The Turner Fund is invested in :
1 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. bond of $1,000
2 Chicago & West Michigan bonds of . 1,000 each
1 Old Colony R. R. bond of . 1,000
1 Western Telephone & Telegraph Co. bond of . 1,000
2 Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western R. R. bond of 500
3 Union Pacific R. R. bonds of 500
33 shares of the preferred stock of the Union Pacific R. R. Co.
The Royal W. Turner legacy is invested in :
10 Old Colony R. R. bonds of $1,000 each
10 Wayne County, Michigan, bonds of . 1,000 each
The remaining funds of the library are represented by a note of the Town of Randolph for $5,000, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum.
Respectfully submitted,
N. IRVING TOLMAN,
Treasurer.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
FOR 1904.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
ROYAL T. MANN, CHAIRMAN. REDMOND P. BARRETT, SECRETARY.
REDMOND P. BARRETT
Term expires 1907
JOHN E. McDONALD
Term expires 1905
ROYAL T. MANN
. Term expires 1906
Trustees of Stetson School Fund.
ROYAL T. MANN, Chairman. FRED M. FRENCH, Secretary.
REDMOND P. BARRETT
Term expires 1907
JOHN E. MCDONALD
Term expires 1905
ROYAL T. MANN
. Term expires 1906
Superintendent of Schools. Dr. JOHN E. BRADLEY.
Office, School Committee Rooms. Tuesday and Thursday, 3 to 4 o'clock P. M. Regular meeting of the School Committee last Friday of the month, 7.30 P. M.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
To the Citizens of Randolph :
The School Committee hereby make and submit their annual report for the year ending December 31, 1904. In accordance with the vote of the town at our last annual meeting, the addition to the North Grammar School build- ing has been made, at a cost of $933.50, exceeding the appro- priation by $33.50. It was found that a one-story addition would destroy the architecture of the building. The Com- mittee, therefore, decided to make it two stories, thereby adding to its symmetry. A room on the lower floor has been finished and furnished for the third and fourth grade school, and is a commodious and attractive room. The upper story remains unfinished, and can be utilized at any time when another room is needed, Last September, at the opening of the fall term, the Committee voted to close the school in the No. 1 district ; the school numbering only nine- teen pupils, we thought best to transport them to Prescott School, thus saving to the town the necessary expenses of one school and affording better opportunities for the child- ren to attend a school where only one grade is taught.
School census taken September 19, 1904, shows the num- ber of children between the ages of five and fifteen to be six hundred twenty-nine, a decrease of twenty-four from the previous year.
The report of the Superintendent of Schools is subjoined, giving a detailed account of the condition and work of the schools for the past year.
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A detailed statement of the expenditures in this depart- ment for the year ending December 31, 1904, is annexed to this report.
The Committee ask the town to raise and appropriate the following sums of money to meet the expenses of the schools for the year ending December 31, 1905 :
For teaching
$7,780 00
Care of rooms
600 00
Fuel
600 00
Books and supplies .
1,100 00
Miscellaneous, incidental and permanent repairs
1,000 00
Transportation of pupils
.
250 00
Superintendent of Schools
600 00
$11,930 00
Less estimate revenue from dog tax, State School Fund and Codding- ton Fund
. $1,100 00
State, for Superintendent of Schools, 300 00
State, for salary of teachers 200 00 ·
1,600 00
$10,330 00
Also for Stetson High School . $2,200 00
Respectfully submitted,
ROYAL P. MANN, JOHN E. McDONALD, REDMOND P. BARRETT,
School Committee.
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EXPENDITURES FOR SCHOOLS, 1904.
FOR TEACHING (39 weeks).
Paid Nelson Freeman . $1,026 48 ·
Joseph Belcher 1,026 48
Katherine A. Kiley
500 84
Ellen P. Henry 461 76
Mary A. Molloy
461 76
Katherine E. Sheridan
429 00
Mary E. Wren
409 50
Katherine R. Molloy
390 00
Clara A. Tolman
390 00
Lucie W. Lewis
390 00
Hannah F. Hoye
390 00
Sarah C. Belcher
390 00
Fannie A. Campbell
390 00
Emma D. Stetson
200 00
Mrs. Boyd
30 00
Ellen E. Mclaughlin
390 00
Katherine J. Kiley .
390 00
Katherine G. Woodbury
156 00
Margaret L. Powers
10 80
$7,832 62
George E. Crafts, music .
25 00
$7,857 62
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Paid John E. Bradley
$600 00
CONVEYING PUPILS.
Paid O. C. St. Railway Co. . $140 00
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BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Paid Ginn & Co.
$162 99
American Book Co.
449 53
Edward E. Babb
202 88
J. L. Hammett Co.
123 05
L. E. Knott Appr. Co.
14 99
T. H. Castor Co.
5 14
Allyn & Bacon
6 68
Oliver Ditson Co.
4 20
D. C. Heath .
6 13
Educational Publishing Co.
8 27
Houghton, Mifflin Co.
15 38
Silver, Burdett Co.
20 73
Milton Bradley
17 60
The Rose Bindery .
4 05
De Wolfe, Fiske Co.
1 96
William Ware
5 70
Thorp-Martin Co.
3 53
American Bible Society
2 75
John A. Boyle
116 17
Rand, McNally
10 90
L. Richmond .
1 75
Continental Brush Co.
65 10
H. W. Kibbe .
6 75
Remington Typewriter Co.
1 50
Loring & Howard .
12 90
P. A. Harrison
3 90
American School Furniture Co.
19 50
$1,294 03
FUEL.
Paid Edwin M. Mann, wood
$31 25
Andrew Hayes, wood
4 00
M. E. Leahy, wood
49 00
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Paid D. B. White, coal .
$44 00
M. E. Leahy, coal . .
567 58
$695 83
CARE OF ROOMS.
Paid George M. Johnson
$116 85
John P. Rooney
379 00
Francis B. Thayer .
20 00
Eleanor Holbrook
39 00
William Carroll
61 63
A. W. Alden
6 00
$622 48
ADDITION TO NORTH GRAMMAR.
Paid William Dear, excavating, building foun- dation wall and laying underpining E. W. Campagna, per contract
$80 00
853 50
$933 50
GENERAL EXPENSE.
Paid George M. Johnson
$22 13
G. A. Dustin .
2 00
Francis B. Thayer
9 75
M. E. Leahy .
53 65
John P. Rooney
22 00
Mary F. Hayden
17 06
George F. Taylor
8 94
William B. Spear
22 11
R. E. O'Brien
114 02
A. W. Alden
10 00
Joseph Belcher
1 34
William Carroll
3 50
J. B. McDonald
129 20
Estate of F. Porter
1 60
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Paid James Hurley
·
$2 50
H. S. Faunce
2 50
C. A. Lyman
15 00
E. W. Campagna
161 77
Charles H. Cole
7 00
E. A. Perry .
52 20
George A. Roel
2 00
James Fardy .
2 45
Eleanor Holbrook
5 00
Lyons Express
17 60
W. F. Barrett
20 00
Taunton Lumber Co.
70
Joseph T. Leahy
36 00
Chandler W. Smith
4 90
Charles H. Nichols
25 59
Dexter T. Clark
2 00
Fred M. French
16 80
J. White Belcher
.77 13
D. H. Huxford
35 00
Frank H. Langley
25
Henry Campbell
4 00
Eugene Thayer
7 06
John J. Thornton
8 47
Nelson Mann .
20 00
Frank J. Donohue
.
20 00
C. Fred Lyons
13 09
Andrew Hayes
8 00
$984 31
RECAPITULATION.
Paid for Teaching . $7,857 62
Superintendent of Schools .
600 00
Books and supplies
1,294 03
Fuel .
·
.
695 83
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Paid for Care of rooms .
$622 48
Addition to North Grammar
933 50
Conveying pupils
140 00
General expenses
984 31
$13,127 77
INCOME FROM FUNDS, TAXES, ETC.
Received for Tuition
$138 00
Superintendent 500 00
Interest on Coddington Fund, 1 year,
64 00
Massachusetts School Fund .
902 92
Dog licenses
535 73
$2,140 65
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STETSON SCHOOL FUND.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES.
To the Citizens of Randolph :
There have been two changes in the investment of this fund since our last annual report. We then held ten shares of Na- tional Bank of Redemption, which bank has been merged into the First National Bank ; in exchange we received five shares of the First National Bank and cash $600. The Webster Na- tional Bank was merged into the Webster and Atlas National Bank; in exchange for six shares of the former bank we received three shares of the latter bank and cash $300. The cash, amounting to $900, received from the two banks has been deposited in the Randolph Savings Bank, thereby increasing that deposit to $1,923.83.
The fund now stands as follows, the valuation being at par :
5 shares First National Bank $500 00
10 shares Eliot National Bank 1,000 00
4 shares State National Bank 400 00
10 shares Exchange National Bank .
1,000 00
10 shares Boylston National Bank · 1,000 00
10 shares Old Boston National Bank
1,000 00
10 shares National Shawmut Bank .
1,000 00
3 shares Webster & Atlas National Bank
300 00
7 Northern Pacific & Great Northern 4 per cent. bonds 7,000 00
Deposit in the Randolph Savings Bank 1,923 83
1 piano, value 375 00
$15,498 83
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The investment of the Turner Fund has not been changed.
The trustees again deem it their duty to call the attention of the voters of the town to the accommodation of our High School building, which is inadequate for the needs of the school. The school has outgrown the building. The trus- tees have been obliged to use the laboratory and cloak room and the office room of the School Committee for class rooms, which are small and unsuitable for this purpose, thereby making it very inconvenient for teachers and pupils.
The plan for an addition to the present building, as pro- posed last year, upon due consideration by the town, was deemed expensive and undesirable, therefore the trustees recommend that the voters of the town take action relative to the erection of a new building at some desirable location for this school. An article for the aforesaid purpose will be inserted in the warrant for the annual town meeting.
Relative to the work of the High School for the past year, see report of the Superintendent of Schools.
The report of the secretary, Fred M. French, Esq., is hereunto annexed.
Respectfully submitted, ROYAL T. MANN, JOHN E. McDONALD, R. P. BARRETT, Trustees of the Stetson School Fund.
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DR. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN ACCOUNT WITH
1904.
To balance of old account .
$2 02
town appropriation for year .
2,200 00
bank dividends, Eliot .
$70 00
Shawmut
60 00
Exchange
60 00
Boylston
50 00
Old Boston
40 00
Redemption
30 00
State
24 00
First
20 00
Webster
15 00
Webster & Atlas
9 00
378 00
interest on N. P. & G. N. bonds
280 00
Randolph Savings Bank, interest
49 92
rent of hall for year
157 50
rent of piano .
40.00
bank tax refunded by town
.
146 64
$3,248 08
RANDOLPH, January 23, 1905.
The undersigned have this day examined the accounts of the Secretary of the Stetson School Fund and find the same correct with proper vouch- ers for all orders drawn.
WINTHROP B. ATHERTON, CHARLES H. THAYER, JOHN E. McDONALD, Selectmen of Randolph.
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THE STETSON HIGH SCHOOL FUND.
CR.
1904.
By paying F. E. Chapin, salary for year . $1,436 76
Katherine O. Fletcher, salary
564 43
Katherine F. Garrity, salary
564 43
Margaret L. Powers, salary 100 80
George E. Crafts, salary
50 00
Arthur W. Alden, care of schoolroom
96 00
Arthur W. Alden, extras
6 00
Estate of Charles Doughty, lighting and supplies 117 43
Daniel H. Huxford, printing
118 75
James B. McDonald, labor and material
63 20
R. E. O'Brien, labor and material
5 75
Kingsbury Tibbetts, labor and material
18 97
James F. Hurley, labor and material 5 00
2 00
E. W. Campagna, labor and material
7 15
M. E. Leahy & Co., labor and material
12 25
William Dear, labor
1 00
Edward A. Perry, labor
1 25
C. Fred Lyons, supplies
12 52
Estate of F. Porter, supplies
5 55
McAuliffe & Co., supplies
1 40
Charles H. Nichols, expressing and moving,
6 80
P. H. Mclaughlin, towels
1 50
Edwin M. Mann, wood
4 00
H. C. Kendall, filling diplomas
1 75
Charles E. Lyons, labor
3 11
Loring & Howard, mat
2 00
Chase, Parker & Co., muslin
3 00
Flagg & Willis, mirror
1 35
William B. Spear, painting
11 50
M. E. Leahy, coal
21 75
Balance
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·
$3,248 08
FRED M. FRENCH, Secretary.
James Fardy, labor and material
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RANDOLPH, January 30, 1905.
The undersigned, Selectmen of Randolph, having this day made an examination of the accounts of the Trustees of the Stetson School Fund for the year 1904, find them correct.
The investments for the fund are as follows :
National Shawmut Bank, 10 shares . . $1,000 00
Eliot National Bank, 10 shares .
1,000 00
National Exchange Bank, 10 shares · 1,000 00
Boylston National Bank, 10 shares . 1,000 00
Old Boston National Bank, 10 shares
1,000 00
First National Bank
500 00
State National Bank
400 00
Webster & Atlas National Bank
300 00
7 Northern Pacific & Great Northern 4 per cent joint bonds at $1000
7,000 00
Deposit in Randolph Savings Bank . .
1,923 83 .
Piano in Stetson Hall
375 00
.
$16,398 83
We also find in the hands of the secretary a $1000 bond of the City of Minneapolis, Minn., the investment for the Turner Fund.
WINTHROP B. ATHERTON, CHARLES H. THAYER, JOHN E. McDONALD,
Selectmen.
REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
In Memoriam
Emma D. Stetson
November 2, 1904
REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
RANDOLPH, December 31, 1904.
To the School Committee of the Town of Randolph :
Gentlemen,- I have the honor to present to you and through you to the people of Randolph a report of the schools under your charge for the school year ending June 30, 1904 ; also additional statistics and remarks relating to the work of the current year.
The interest which the people of Randolph feel in their schools is evinced in many ways. On visiting days and other public occasions it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to provide seats for all who wish to attend. Pupils show an intelligent desire and purpose to improve. The attend- ance is good and steadily improving, and the number of pupils who leave school to go to work before they are six- teen years of age is small. The health of pupils and, with one exception, of teachers has been good; no epidemics have prevailed.
The expenditures for the maintenance of the public schools in most Massachusetts towns far exceed those of any other department, often amounting to one-third or two-fifths of the total of town expenses. No other fact more clearly illustrates the importance of the public schools or the hold which they have upon the popular heart. Moreover, experi- ence, extending over eight generations, has demonstrated the wisdom as well as the strength of this popular sympathy. Those states which have made ample provision for education
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have prospered, while those which have been niggard in their allowance have fallen behind in the general progress. The amount expended for education per pupil is greater in Massachusetts than in any other state in the Union, and eighty per cent more than in the country at large, and the average period of a pupil's school attendance is about eight years, while the average in the whole country is only four years and six months. These and other similar facts are set forth by the United States Commissioner of Education, who also reports that the average wages of laborers per capita in Massachusetts is eighty-four per cent above the average for the United States, despite the fact that she is handicapped by her long distance from the coal fields and the grain and cotton belts and the consequent long hauls for fuel, food and raw materials. With heavy disadvantages in location, soil and climate, Massachusetts gives her laborers the highest wages, the steadiest employment and the best sanitary con- ditions in shop and factory, and at the same time the best educational and the best political conditions of any equal population in an equal area in this or any other country. No one, reflecting upon these facts, can believe that she could have retained her industrial advantages without the educational conditions which have made them possible. And so no one can doubt the wisdom and the patriotism of the widespread sentiment which demands that the schools shall be kept at the highest possible degree of efficiency.
The following are the statistics for the year. Additional details may be found in the appendix to this report.
STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1904.
Number of school buildings . 17
Number of schools keeping separate registers
Number of regular teachers ·
19
Whole number of pupils enrolled .
712
83
Whole number of boys
348
Whole number of girls
364
Average membership
641.74
Average attendance
605.25
Per cent of attendance (based upon average membership) .
94.33
Number of pupils under 5 years of age
1
Number of pupils between 5 and 15
642
Number of pupils between 7 and 14
473
Number of pupils over 15
69
Number of pupils in -
First Grade 80
Seventh Grade . ·
74
Second Grade
76 Eighth Grade . 63
Third Grade 71 Ninth (High School), 46 ·
Fourth Grade 77
Tenth 66
22
Fifth Grade
77 Eleventh
18
Sixth Grade 61 Twelfth 6.
Number of cases of truancy
2
Number who have not been absent
22
Number who have not been tardy · 345
Number who have neither been absent nor tardy, 16
Number of grade promotions .
567
SCHOOL No. 1.
Miss Emma D. Stetson, teacher of School No. 1, was compelled by illness to resign her position in April, 1904. Mrs. Bertha L. Boyd was employed as her substitute and completed the year. Miss Stetson passed away November 2. She had been connected with the schools of Randolph for many years, this had been her home, and her death was felt as a personal loss by many.
In September the committee decided not to re-open School
1
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No. 1, and the pupils were transferred to the Prescott School. While the location is less convenient for most of them, the present arrangement makes it possible for them to be well classified, which is not possible in a school with so many grades.
TIME SERVICE OF SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Miss Woodbury, the supervisor of drawing, has been in charge of her department for two years, and Miss Powers, the special teacher of typewriting and stenography, for one year preceding the present year. In both cases it had, been ' found necessary in the interests of economy to make the time service shorter than was deemed desirable. I am glad to report that we were able at the beginning of the present year to secure an extension of the time given by each of these teachers to this town without material addition to the expense. The additional time is proving a valuable help to. the work.
THE COURSE OF STUDY.
Three years ago the advisability of adding a ninth year to the course of study below the High School was considered by the School Committee. Many cities and towns in this. part of the state have a course of nine years in the primary and grammar grades, and considerable sentiment in favor of extending our course to nine years was found to exist. Action was deferred, however, on account of the increased expense and to give time for further consideration of the questions involved in the proposed change.
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