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REPORT
OF THE
Superintendent of Schools
OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH
TOWN OF RANDOLPH
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Randolph.
Gentlemen:
I present herewith my third annual report of the Super- intendent of Schools, covering the school year ending June 30, 1915.
Summary of Statistics
Population of Randolph, 1910. . 4,310
School Census, 1915
Children from 5 to 16 boys, 520 girls, 475 995
Children from 5 to 7 boys, 77 girls, 97 174
Children from 7 to 14 boys, 369 girls, 309 678
Children from 14 to 16
boys, 74 girls, 69
143
Enrolment-Membership and Attendance
Total enrolment boys, 454 girls, 412
866
Under 5.
boys, 1 girls, 1 2
From 5 to 7. boys, 81 girls, 81 162
From 7 to 14, compulsory age . . boys, 300 girls, 255 555
From 14 to 16 boys, 55 girls, 52 107
Over 16 boys, 17 girls, 23 40
Total membership 935
Average membership 825
Average attendance . 781
Per cent. of attendance 94.7
Aggregate time all schools were in session 155 m., 4 d.
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Average time schools were in session. 9 m., 2 1-2 d. Average time elementary schools were is session. . 9 m., 2 d. Aggregate days' attendance of all pupils. 138,645 Number of teachers required . . men 3, women 18 21
Graduates of Normal School .men 1, women 6 7
Special teachers, part time. music 1, drawing 1 2
Graduated from eighth grade . boys 41, girls 28 69
Stetson High School
Teachers on full time men 1, women 4 5
Graduates of College . men 1, women 3 4
Length of school year 38 w.
Number of days school was in session 182
Enrolment. boys 74, girls 74 148
Average membership
141
Average attendance .
134
Per cent. of attendance.
95.2
Graduates, June, 1915 boys 8, girls 18 26
Number entering, Sept., 1915. . boys 36, girls 21 57
Average Yearly Expenditure per Pupil
Total expenditure for support of schools . $20,504 37
Average membership, all schools . 825
Average expense per pupil, all schools $24 85
Expenditure, elementary schools . $12,923 13
Average membership, elementary schools 684
Average expense per pupil . $18 89
Expenditure for High School $5,830 96
Average membership . 141
Average expense per pupil . $41 35
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Comparisons
Annual enrolment for past five years:
1911 779
1912 836
1913 867
1914.
844
1915 866
Percentage of number enrolled found in High School:
1911 16.
1912
16.7
1913
18.6
1914
16.9
1915.
17.1
Tests for sight and hearing :
Number
Defective Defective
examined.
sight.
hearing.
Parents notified.
1911
767
97
17
54
1912
809
101
15
97
1913
817
48
14
31
1914
796
73
16
60
1915
759
80
13
64
Enrolment in the Schools, October 1, 1915
High School .
160
Prescott, Grade 8
45
Grade 7
47
Grade 6
49
Grade 5.
54
Grade 4 .
44
Grades 3-4
41
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Prescott Grade 3 . 45
Grade 2 45
Grade 1 . 50
Belcher, Grades 7-8. 66
Grade 6. 41
Grade 5. 46
Grades 3-4 52 Grades 1-2. 60
Tower Hill, Grades 1-4 . 34
West Corner, Grades 1-2 39
Total. 918
Resignations
Miss Olive E. Fuller
Miss Gladys Haynes
Miss Frances L. Bacon
Retired
Mr. Joseph Belcher
Appointments
Miss Frances L. Bacon
Miss Elsie L. Nourse
Miss Livia M. Bizzozero
Miss Pearl F. Goddard
Miss Mary J. Cahill
Mr. William J. O'Keefe
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GRADUATIONS
BELCHER GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Class of 1915
Mary P. Brennan
Seth S. Mann
Ida E. Burrell
Gertrude M. MacDermott
Edward F. Cochran
Joseph McDonald
Comelius T. Corrow
Lawrence C. McGrath
Eugene Dickey
Katherine Puzone
Ruth S. Dupras
Alma M. Sanders
Mary E. Fahey .
Blanche L. Saunders
Earl H. Hewins
Arthur D. Scott
Arthur Hylen
Viola M. Teed
Ernest Hylen
Walter Wanag
Frederick W. Jope
Virginia O. Wheeler
Philip S. Kent
George N. Wilbur
Karl L. Macauley
Luke C. Wrisley
PRESCOTT GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Class of 1915
Francis W. McCarthy
Helen F. Conlon
Vernon I. Bell
Blanche M. Le Roy
Edward J. Brennan
Olive M. Nunes
Alice E. McEntee
Reginald C. Hogan
Dorothy Carney
Gladys M. Champion
Arthur Kane
Ellen A. Nelson
Frank J. Morgan
Thomas H. Mellon
Lawrence Crovo
Raymond J. Murphy
Mabel T. Mann .
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Timothy Lyons Mary O'Brien
Edward J. Lonergan
Michael J. Dianto
Raymond J. McGerigle
Warren M. Holman
Allen D. Howard
Margaret E. Messier
Ruth B. Squire
Vera I. Simcoe
William F. Moore
Milton H. Robbins
Elizabeth J. Hand
Eustace Scannell
Roderick White
Louis C. Crovo Kathryn M. Kelliher
Kathryn E. Madigan
Marie A. Dean
Walter Stevens
John J. Dowd
Blanche Coolidge
Jecelyn Teece
Elizabeth Purcell
Walter J. Good
Arthur J. Messier
Elementary Schools
Since the opening of the schools in September the teachers of the Elementary Grades have been working on a course of study prepared under the direction of the State Board of Education. This course consists of outlines of work for the several studies pursued in the grades, prepared by commit- tees appointed by the State Board of Education, and present- ed for consideration at a conference of superintendents and teachers held at Cambridge during the first week of last July. At that conference the outlines, after being fully discussed and revised, were adopted as a preliminary course of study for the first six grades, and the superintendents were asked to put them on trial in the schools during the present year. After a year of trial there will be a final re- vision and the school authorities will be asked to adopt the outlines as a permanent course of study.
In order to reach an intelligent interpretation of the out- lines, the superintendent held, at the Stetson High School,
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Randolph, a series of ten meetings which were attended by the teachers of the elementary grades in the three towns of the district. At these meetings the course of study for each grade was discussed and plans were made for the year's work. Later in the year a similar series of meetings will be held to compare results and suggest changes in the course.
When the course is completed and in operation we should secure a more definite purpose in conducting the work and a decided improvement in the character of results attained. A further advantage will be that, since the course will be uni- form in the Towns of the State, pupils may more readily pass from the schools of one community to those of another with- out loss of grade.
In my last report I recommended the adoption of some method of arm movement for teaching penmanship. Mr. C. W. Jones, principal of the Brockton Business College, gen- erously offered to furnish copies of his "Method of Business Writing" for the pupils of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and the high school; the offer was accepted by the Committee, the books were furnished and Mr. Jones has freely given much time to teaching and supervising the work. Since Mr. Jones' books are intended only for the higher grades, the Zaner Method of Arm Movement Writing was adopted for the first five grades.
In my first report I called attention to the necessity of relieving the congested condition of the four lower grades at the Belcher School. At the opening of schools last Septem- ber there was an enrolment of fifty-seven pupils in the lower room; grades one and two, and about the same condition in the adjoining room, grades three and four. These rooms are much smaller than regulation size and not suitable for more than forty pupils in each room. The Committee de- cided to open another school in the unoccupied room in the four-room building at the Prescott School. This room was
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made ready for occupancy and the school was opened on January 3d with Miss Mary F. Forrest, of the Tower Hill School, as teacher, and thirty pupils, fifteen from the fourth grade at the Belcher School and an equal number from the Prescott fifth grade, where there were fifty-five pupils during the fall term. This action has relieved the congestion in two schools, but in the first two grades at the Belcher the condition is not favorable for good work.
The vacancy at the Tower Hill School caused by the trans- fer of Miss Forrest was filled by the election of Miss Mary J. Cahill of East Braintree, a graduate of Bridgewater Normal School, Class of 1915.
Under the direction and supervision of Miss Rose G. Hand, the department of music continues to produce very satis- factory results. In February, 1915, Miss Olive E. Fuller resigned as supervisor of Drawing and Miss Frances L. Bacon was appointed for the remainder of the year. Miss Elsie L. Nourse was elected to take charge of the work dur- ing the current year. Miss Nourse is a graduate of the Nor- mal Art School and came highly recommended as a teacher of successful experience. Under her direction the pupils are doing very excellent work.
The High School
Miss Gladys Haynes, teacher of the Commercial Depart- ment, resigned in June to accept a similar position in Hart- ford, Conn., and Miss Livia M. Bizzozero, a graduate of the Chandler Normal Shorthand School, was elected to fill the vacancy.
In order to meet the requirements of the State Board of Education, the number of assistants in the high school has been increased to five by the election of Miss Pearl F. God-
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dard, a graduate of Boston University, Class of 1915. With this addition to the teaching force, we have been able to open classes in chemistry and physics, to reduce the number of daily recitations conducted by the principal to four, as re- quired by the State, to provide for supervision of classes beginning typewriting, and to substantially meet the require- ments that no teacher shall have a sum of more than 125 pupils in the classes assigned to her.
The State Board approves the high schools and classifies them as belonging to Class A or to Class B. To be approved as belonging to Class A, the school must meet the require- ments for that class which are considerably higher than those for Class B. To be approved as belonging to Class B, the school must be making reasonable progress towards meeting the requirements of Class A. The agent of the Board vis- ited the school last May and recommended its approval in Class B, with the understanding that an additional teacher was to be employed and other changes made in accordance with the requirements.
The advantage of being in Class A is that a high school in Class A may certificate to a State normal school any grad- uates in subjects in which they have a mark of A or B, while a high school in Class B may certificate only those who are in the upper half of the graduating class and have attained a mark of A or B in at least 10 of the 15 units counting towards graduation.
In order to place our school in Class A, we shall have to employ six teachers exclusive of the principal, and if the number of pupils should increase beyond the present member- ship we shall have to employ seven.
I have given this matter so much space in this report be- cause I feel that the citizens should clearly understand what is being required, that they may give the Committee their hearty support in the effort to raise our high school to the
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highest possible degree of efficiency. It is clear that we cannot stand still where we are, the school must make reason- able progress toward the higher standard or lose the priv- ilege it has already secured.
My observation of the work of the high school pupils during the past year has strengthened the opinion which I expressed in my last report that the majority of them enter the school before they are mature enough to get the full benefit of the studies there, and I am quite sure that every teacher in the school is of the same opinion, therefore I again recommend that, if preparation for the high school is to be made in eight years, the age of entrance to the first grade be raised to six years.
During the coming year I hope to be able to arrange for a course in home cooking for the girls of the high school. In Holbrook, ten ladies are each giving a lesson every month to classes of girls from the Sumner High School; the lessons are given at the homes of the instructors and over sixty girls are receiving instruction in this practical department educa- tion for the home.
Home Gardens
The children continue to show an interest in their home gardens. Last year the State Agricultural College furnished seed for potatoes, corn, beans, beets and tomatoes and the children purchased a large number of penny packets of other seeds. The season was too wet for the potatoes and some of the other vegetables, but was very favorable for flowers, which were in greater variety and of better quality than ever before. At the exhibition held in the high school assembly room in September, the Randolph Grange furnished a com- mittee to receive and arrange the exhibits and another com-
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mittee to act as judges. The School Committee voted ten dollars to be awarded as premiums and special prizes were given by the Grange, and Mr. Louis Graton. For the com- ing season, Mr. Willard A. Munson, agent for the Norfolk County Farm Bureau, has offered his assistance, the Ran- dolph Grange is interested and Professor O. A. Morton of the Agricultural College will visit the school and tell the chil- dren how to get better results.
Following is a list of premiums awarded at the exhibition:
Peck of Potatoes
1st. Bruce Dunbar
2nd. Ralph Hutchinson
3rd. Reginald Pulson
Plate of Tomatoes
1st. Laura Rent
2nd. Charles Preble
3rd. William Curran
Beets
1st. Dorothy Harris
2nd. Helen Harris
3rd. Lester Claff
Beans
1st. Reginald Pulson
2nd. Ralph Hutchinson 3rd. Lillian Aldrich
Winter Squash
1st. Madeline Jennings 2nd. Lawrence Shurtleff 3rd. Mary Finnigan
Collection of Vegetables
1st. Alex Jorgenson
2nd. Carl Jorgenson
3rd. Robert Franke
Sweet Corn
1st. Helen Harris
2nd. Dorothy Harris
3rd. Mary Finnigan
Carrots
1st. Helen Harris
2nd. Dorothy Harris
3rd. Mary Finnigan
Pumpkin 1st. Lillian Wallace
2nd. Lawrence Shurtleff
3rd. Lester Claff
Melon
1st. Lillian Wallace
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Cabbage
1st. Robert Franke
2nd. Stanley Conant
3rd. Reginald Pulson
Radishes
1st. Mary Hogan 2nd. Ralph Hutchinson
Mixed Bouquet 1st. Dorris Perron
2nd. Georgiana Benson
3rd. Anna Clark
Zinnias
1st. Alfred French
2nd. Carl Hylan
3rd. Alice Libby
Everlasting Flowers
1st. Alfred French
2nd. Carl Hylan
3rd. Charles Preble
Nasturtiums
1st. Carl Hylan 2nd. Alice Libby
1st. Carl Hylan 2nd. Alice O'Brien
Special Prizes
Jap Pink Charles Preble
Phlox
Laura Preble
Snapdragon Carl Hylan
Onions
1st. Reginald Pulson 2nd. William Curran
Summer Squash
1st. Lawrence Shurtleff
2nd. Melville Isaac
3rd. Dorothy Cushing
Late Strawberries Special Premium Margaret Maguire
Asters 1st. Laura Preble
2nd. William McDonald
3rd. William Curran
Marigolds
1st. Gladys Fisher
2nd. Laura Preble
3rd. Alice Libby
Calendula
French Marigold Laura Preble Carl Hylan
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Mignonette Laura Preble
Cosmos Alice O'Brien
William O'Brien
Mckinley Plume Alice O'Brien
Special Prizes Donated by Mr. Louis Graton
Alex Jorgenson, one dozen strawberry plants. Madeline Jennings, one dozen strawberry plants.
In conclusion, I wish to thank the teachers for their faithful and untiring efforts to render efficient service, and you, members of the Committee, for your hearty co-opera- tion at all times.
Respectfully submitted,
SAMUEL F. BLODGETT, Superintendent.
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TABLE OF ENROLMENT, MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE.
Enrolment
Schools
Teachers
Grades
Boys
Girls
Total
Membership
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Per Cent. of
Attendance
HIGH PRESCOTT
F. E. Chapin
9-12
74
74
148
148
141
134
95.2
Nelson Freeman
8
25
17
42
43
42
41
97.8
Mrs. E. A. Powderly .
7
26
23
49
50
41
39
95.
Miss H. F. Hoye . .
6
21
27
48
48
45
41
95.
Miss K. E. Sheridan .
5
23
23
46
49
46
43
96.
Miss M. E. Wren .
4
21
27
48
50
49
48
96.
Miss E. E. Mclaughlin .
3
21
23
44
48
42
39
93.
Miss E. Dean .
3-4
27
10
37
43
34
32
93.
Miss F. A. Campbell
2
25
14
39
42
38
36
94.7
Miss K. R. Malloy
1
24
28
52
56
49
46
94.
BELCHER .
W. J. O'Keefe. .
7-8
34
25
59
63
55
52
95.
Miss E. P. Henry .
6
22
17
39
44
38
36
94.7
Miss S. C. Belcher . .
5
24
18
42
51
40
36
90.
Miss M. L. Lundergan
3-4
28
18
46
51
46
44
95.6
Miss C. A. Tolman . .
1-2
23
31
54
60
50
45
90.
TOWER HILL
Miss M. F. Forrest.
1-4
16
18
34
43
32
29
90.6
WEST CORNER
Miss A. L. McAvoy .
1-2
20
19
39
46
37
32
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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL
Stetson High School
Randolph, Mass., Feb. 1, 1916.
Samuel F. Blodgett, Superintendent of Schools.
Dear Sir:
Community service appears to be the aim of the Mas- sachusetts State Board of Education in its recommenda- tions to high schools; the high schools of the smaller towns are encountering difficulties in relating courses of study to life, but progress is being made; only a few of the smaller high schools have thus far succeeded in throwing off the shackles of the old-style conventional education; for in- stance, the high school of Petersham in the western part of the state has won the unquali- TWO MODERN SCHOOLS fied approval of the State Board by combining courses in agriculture with the usual work of a country high school. To cite another similar case of the relating of school work to life we may refer to Harwich, Mass., where in a small country high school Sidney Brooks years ago taught navigation to the boys of Cape Cod. Many of the pupils of Sidney Brooks became master mariners as a result of this co-ordination of the work of the school to the problems of life. Now it is to be noted that Petersham is a distinctively agricultural town, while Cape Cod boys naturally incline to follow the sea.
Pursuing this analogy, Randolph ought to teach shoemak- ing in its schools. Can it be done? Has any high school of the state seriously attempted to teach shoemaking? Can we adopt the Fitchburg plan, so called, and allow the boys
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and girls to work two weeks in a shoe shop and spend the following two weeks in school RANDOLPH'S PROBLEM studying in part subjects re- lating to the making of shoes? School work may, however, be related to life in ways not so materialistic, as, in the teaching of community civics. It is to be hoped that this subject may soon be included in our list of electives. All our attempts to introduce community civics have thus far met with failure.
The addition of a teacher of science has marked a decided advance in our course of study. Science teaching has been introduced into the elective studies of the first two years. Another elective given this year for the NEW COURSES first time is "Business Forms," a combi- nation of arithmetic, elementary book- keeping and accounts, and penmanship. Mr. C. W. Jones of the Brockton Business College has been present two days each week during part of the year.
The seventy-eighth annual report of the State Board issued 1915 gives the cost per pupil in the several high schools of the state; taking some of the towns in this vicin- ity, such as Canton, Stoughton, Cohasset, Braintree, Avon, West Bridgewater, Easton, Weymouth, Holbrook, Whitman, Sharon, East Bridgewater and Rockland, we find that in all these towns, with one exception, more money was spent per pupil in the high school than was spent in Randolph. The amount in Randolph is given as $45 per pupil, in Stoughton $51, in Sharon $99, in Bridgewater COMPARATIVE COST PER PUPIL $77, etc. Looking up the amount ex- pended for text books we find Ran- dolph expending $477 for all her schools, while only two of the towns quoted spend less, and in each of these the number of pupils is much less. Ran- dolph expended for stationery and other supplies $975 Co-
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hasset $1,857, Easton $2,094, Rockland $1,210, Canton $1,050. These figures would seem to indicate that extrav- agance is not to be charged against the schools of Randolph, but rather the opposite.
During Electrical Prosperity Week, Nov. 29-Dec. 4, the Randolph and Holbrook Light and Power Associates offered prizes for essays on the subject "Electricity in the Home." The essays were written during one school recitation period and immediately handed to the company for their decision. Horace A. Mann won the first prize of PRIZE WINNERS $10, while Thomas E. Kenney and Francis W. McCarthy were tied for second place, each receiving $5. The Quincy Board of Trade offered a prize for the best essay on "The American Merchant Marine; Its Decadence and Its Restoration." In presenting these essays, the pupils were given the opportunity of pre- paring and writing the themes in any way they saw fit, the only condition being that the essays be handed in as soon as Jan. 1, 1916. The judges were John F. Garrick an editor, William J. Good, an attorney, and James F. Kennedy, a business man. The first place was given to Edward L. Rod- dan, whose essay was then submitted in the state-wide com- petition.
Our graduation exercises at present have in view reasonable brevity and are of a character intended to interest the general public. All the parts are given by members of the graduating class except the music, in which the several school choruses appear. The class elects four of its number to give the class parts, and the teachers select two additional members. To CHARACTER OF GRADUATION EXERCISES this number are added one or two others who have ex- ceptional ability in recita- tion or in vocal and instrumental solos. These selections
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are made without any formal reference to scholarship. The teachers would welcome any suggestions from the Superin- tendent of Schools or the Trustees in regard to these exer- cises. Our general purpose is to have the graduation inter- esting but to avoid in its preparation, as much as possible, interruption of the regular school work. The present plan is very similar to that followed by many of the larger high schools of the state. Class parts properly belong to a special class-day exercise and it is a question whether they should be given at the graduation. The jokes and allusions of these class parts are of somewhat doubtful. propriety when given before a general audience.
Very little discussion of the European War has been per- mitted in our history divisions. The war has now assumed such a protracted character, and THE EUROPEAN WAR extreme partisanship has so sub- sided that it would seem pos- sible to discuss some of the causes of the war, and to trace its progress without arousing undue criticism.
There are at present in the school, 148 pupils, 70 girls and 78 boys. The law relating to the employment of minors under 16 has kept many pupils in school.
A bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe has been placed in Room F by the class of 1919. Each of the recitation rooms now contains a large-sized bust of some noted person.
The class of 1915 gave to the school in June five sections of the frieze from the western front of the Acropolis. The total length of the sections is 24 feet, extending entirely across one wall of Room H. The frieze represents a trium- phal procession in honor of Athena; it was purchased at a cost of fifty dollars and makes a most acceptable addition to our room decorations.
A carbon photo "The Alice Freeman Memorial" has been placed in the assembly room. The plate on the frame is
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inscribed, "In Memoriam, Elinor Elizabeth Smith, 1913, Given by Her Classmates."
The class of 1916, in connection with its study of Shakes- peare, attended the Hollis Street theatre on Jan. 19, wit- nessing Macbeth as interpreted by James K. Hackett and Miss Viola Allen.
Mr. A. L. Wilbur, who takes pride in styling himself a "plain Randolph shoemaker," entertained the girls of the school who play basketball, on January 26 at "Ye Wilbur Theatre."
A rank of 70 on a scale of 100 is now required for promo- tion. This conforms to the state requirements. Report cards are sent to parents in October, December, March and June. Parents are urged to examine these reports with care and to consult with the teachers in regard to any failures in scholarship or adjustments of the studies of pupils.
The class of 1916 has 29 members, 13 boys and 16 girls, an unusually large number. Only one other class, that of 1913, has ever equalled this number at Stetson High.
The privilege of certification to the Normal Schools of the State was extended to the School in May, 1915. This privilege is contingent on our meeting the requirements of the state board. Three of the girls of the class of 1915, Grace M. Gilgan, Margaret M. McAuliffe and Mary E. Riley entered the Bridgewater Normal School in September.
Our school year is now forty weeks in length conforming to the Massachusetts law for high schools.
Thirty-four girls have volunteered to take up cooking as presented by the "Crete System," so-called. These girls are to be divided into groups which will meet at the homes of ladies who are willing to instruct them. The plan has proved to be a decided success in Holbrook. Very little expense is incurred by the town and the results are highly commendable.
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Our Penny Collection Fund this year amounts to $35, of which about $10 has been spent for flowers for the sick. The treasurer of the fund is Ida Greenburg, to whom collectors in the several rooms hand the contributions which they re- ceive. The contributions are nearly all one cent per week per pupil,-some do not subscribe, owing to parental ob- jections, while others cannot afford the tax. The school building and the playground have benefited to the extent of over $500 by reason of the aid given by the Penny Collec- tion.
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