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The stop-gate at the Cambridge city line is to be opened only in case of a temporary failure in the supply from the regular sources ; and a similar precautionary measure having been taken by the cities of Boston and Charlestown, in the latter named city, our town, in case of emergency, can be supplied with either the Fresh Pond, or the Lake Cochituate water.
LOAN.
The loan of $50,000, authorized by the town on the the 26th of April last, has been effected by the issue and disposal of a Coupon Bond for that sum, denominated " Somerville Water Loan," and numbered 4, dated July Ist, 1869, payable July 1st, 1872, with interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, payable semi-annually.
Construction account, as will be seen, shows an excess in expenditures of $10,392.16 over the amount of this loan, and the loan authorized and effected in 1868: this excess has been paid from the funds in the Treasury of the town, to be reimbursed when required by the Treas- urer, by the effecting of a loan for a part of the $20,000, authorized by the town on the 2d of Nov. last.
MAINTENANCE.
" Water Distribution " account of the Town Treasurer
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shows the net cost of maintaining the works the past year, to have been $2,815.87, or a tax of about twenty- six cents on a thousand dollars, town valuation.
The water is now supplied to 552 dwelling houses, (occupied by 672 families); 43 stables ; 11 stores and shops ; 4 meeting-houses ; 2 manufactories ; the Middle- sex Bleachery ; American Tube Works ; the Mass. Brick Company, and the McLean Asylum.
The Committee are again under obligations to the Water Commissioners of Charlestown; to the Clerk of the Board, and to the Superintendent of the Works, for their many courtesies and kindly remembrance.
Our thanks are also due to the Authorities of the city of Cambridge for the spirit of fairness exhibited by them in the nogotiations for the purchase of pipe of that city.
Rendering thus an account of their second year's work, the Committee have only to add, that they have endeavored to discharge faithfully the trust reposed in them.
AARON SARGENT, C. E. RYMES, R. A. VINAL, R. E. DEMMON, CUTLER DOWNER.
Committee.
Somerville, January 1, 1870.
REPORT
OF
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
So little change from year to year has occurred in the nature of the applications for relief, and the distribution of aid to the destitute, that the history of preceding years is very nearly the history of the municipal year that has just closed.
The sum appropriated by the town for this department was $3,000, nearly all of which has been expended in relieving pressing wants of the destitute.
For a few months past, there has been considerable sickness in our town, especially of Typhoid fever, which thus tended in no small degree to increase the expense required for the relief of the indigent and suffering.
Allusion has been made in former Reports to the Act of our Legislature in 1865, called the Military Settlement Law, and to the recent repeal of the Naturalization clause hitherto existing, as conferring Settlements on a very large number of persons in our town, the result of which is becoming very apparent, from the fact that three fami- lies are now receiving partial support at the town's ex- pense, by virtue of acquiring such settlements.
This, with the rapid increase of population of the town, will operate to very much augment the disbursements in future, for the relief of the poor.
It will be necessary for the town to appropriate, at
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east $3,500 the ensuing year, for this department to meet its legitimate wants.
Our course has been to assist widows with families of children attending our schools, although they have no settlement in the State ; where the required amount of id did not seem to be too considerable for the town to neet, where there was no legal responsibility on its part, Fuel for a part of the year, enables most of such widows o keep their families together, and in comparative com- fort, until their children shall attain the capacity for pro- viding for themselves. We feel assured that aid thus rendered, has prevented much suffering, and will, we hope, be fruitful only of good.
The State has liberally provided well-furnished Alms- Houses, under the management of suitable and compe- ent persons, where the destitute, having no settlement n any place in the State, may go and receive comforta- le support ; to which persons having no settlement, and who are permanently incapacitated to provide for them- elves should go, unless they have friends who will pro- vide for them.
It is no act of charity to render some small assistance to such persons, in filthy and comfortless abodes, who have oo much pride to allow them to dwell in an Alms-House, out feel it to be proper, and eminently just to subsist upon he charities of the town.
It is no part of the duty of the town to support this lass of persons, and would be much more for their com- ort to be removed to a State Alms House ; and with the argely increasing number who will ask for, and who can laim aid, it will be necessary to thus remove many of this class of persons, who have continued to receive aid by our board for a considerable part of the year.
Our acts have been criticized by some of our fellow-
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citizens, in some cases, as being too narrow and illibera and as not coming up to the spirit of the town.
We do not object to any just and impartial scrutiny ( criticisms. There has no doubt been destitution and su fering in many cases, notwithstanding what has bee done to mitigate and prevent it.
Intemperance ever has exerted a potent influence t beget want and wretchedness, and where there is dissip tion in either head of a family, there will be suffering and mi ery in spite of the efforts of Overseers of Poor Boards o Charity, or the munificence of the town. The way of th transgressor is hard, and we do not expect to make i easy or comfortable.
James M. Burns, was for insanity, removed to the Worcester Lunatic Asylum, some eight months ago where he is supported at the expense of the town amounting to about $4.00 per week.
There are two insane persons receiving full support a the Vermont Asylum. Two sane persons at the Charles town Alms-House, and one in a private family in Boston
We claim to have expended the money kindly en trusted to our care with fidelity to the town, and for the purposes, for which it was intended. And, that the pool and destitute have not been more liberally provided for, nor received fuller relief, in any of the contiguous cities for the past year, than in Somerville.
Respectfully submitted.
PATRICK RAFFERTY, CLARK BENNETT, ABRAM WELCH,
Overseers of Poor.
Somerville, Fan. 1, 1870.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF SOMERVILLE,
FOR THE YEAR 1869-70.
BOSTON: W. F. BROWN & CO., PRINTERS, NO. 50 BROMFIELD STREET.
1870.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
-
OREN S. KNAPP,
Term Expir April 187
LEONARD ARNOLD,
JOHN A HUGHES,
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SAMUEL A. CARLTON,
66
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ENOCH R. MORSE,
66
HENRY F. SPENCER,
66
187
GEORGE W. DURELL,
JOSHUA H. DAVIS,
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ORGANIZATION.
Chairman.
OREN S. KNAPP.
Secretary and Superintendent. JOSHUA H. DAVIS.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
ON EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS, . . Messrs. DURRELL, MARSHALL, SPENCER. 66 KNAPP, DURELL, MARSHALL.
ON BOOKS, .
ON FUEL,
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CARLTON, MORSE, SPENCER.
ON REPAIRS,
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HUGHES, ARNOLD.
ON SCHOOL FURNITURE,
HUGHES, KNAPP.
ON MUSIC,
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DURELL, CARLTON, MORSE.
ON FINANCE AND INSURANCE, .
MR. J. H. DAVIS.
The Superintendent is ex-officio a member of all the Committees.
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JOHN P. MARSHALL.
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REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
IN compliance with Statute requirements, we respect- illy submit the following as the Twenty-Eighth Annual leport of the School Committee.
We enter upon a review of our work with a grateful . ecognition of Him who has crowned the year with his oodness, and rendered it one of more than ordinary prosperity.
The lives and health of our children and youth have een preserved in a remarkable degree. Only three of he twenty-five hundred pupils have been removed by eath.
Our schools continue to merit the commendations of ormer years.
We take pleasure in bearing testimony to the faith- ulness and devotion of the teachers, and the general in- lustry and correct deportment of the pupils, and would xpress our gratitude for the cheerful and almost univer- al co-operation of parents in the performance of our luties.
Great harmony has pervaded every department, and he entire machinery has moved on with little friction, onsidering its extent and complication.
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Each succeeding year develops improved methods instruction and additional facilities for imparting know edge. The profession of the teacher is constantly gai ing in popular esteem, and as a consequence, a high‹ order of talent is being attracted to it. Teachers al bringing to their work more ample qualifications and broader culture. The art of teaching is better unde stood. In the maintenance of order the moral elemer is superseding the physical. We are learning more gel erally that the noble natures of children and youth ca be influenced most effectively through their higher ser sibilities.
The discipline of the school is becoming more like tha of a well-ordered family, and its attractions are constantl increasing.
In our estimation, the school-room should always be cheerful place, and no needless shadow should ever b suffered to dim its brightness. While laboring, therefore to secure the proper intellectual development of ou children and their rapid advancement in knowledge, i has been our constant endeavor to render their school life bright and joyous. For there are no more certain guarantees of a virtuous and useful life, than a happy childhood and youth.
But as the fairest day has its clouds, and human life under the most favorable circumstances is but an alter nation of light and shade, it may be unreasonable, to ex- pect perpetual sunshine even in the best regulated school. We will not cease, however, to aim at the sun though our arrows may not always reach the mark.
The intellectual and moral culture of the young isa work of transcendant moment. We cannot over-estimate its magnitude and results. In an important sense the happiness, present, and prospective, of our children is
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ommitted to our keeping. Each day we are making delible impressions upon those who are soon to take ur places and assume our duties, and are giving direc- on to natures bearing the impress of immortality.
Their characters are being moulded by our own ; their inds will bear no higher stamp than we imprint upon hem. How important then that we adorn ourselves ith " Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are ›vely, whatsoever things are of good report ;" that we lay be fitted for a work whose results reach to eternity. "No unskillful hand should play upon a harp whose ones are left forever in the strings."
The character of the community to be formed of those ow composing our schools will depend in a great measure pon our fidelity, or remissness in their training during nese years of their pupilage.
Ever seeking the guidance of unerring Wisdom, we ould prosecute our work with a steadfast purpose, with atient continuance, and an earnest zeal.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
I. POPULATION.
stimated population,1
. 13,200
Population in 1842,
1,013
" 1850,
3,540
66
" 1855, .
5,806
" 1860, .
8,025
" 1865,
9,353
66
" 1868,
12,535
u'mber of persons in the town between the ages of
five and fifteen years, on the first day of May last, . 2.511 crease for the year, .
119
umber of pupils over 15 years of age, . 159
* From Statistics contained in Town Report of 1868.
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II. PROPERTY.
Estimated value of School Houses, furniture, land, & $207,702.39.
Our School Buildings are all in good condition, we furnished, pleasantly located, and of easy access, with tl exception of the Jackson School House.
That building is so unfavorably situated, and the schoo occupying it are rendered so uncomfortable in cons quence, we feel constrained to urge upon the considera tion of our citizens the importance of its immediat removal to a more pleasant and accessible location.
III. SCHOOLS.
Number of rooms used for school purposes, 6
School Rooms, . 56
Recitation Rooms, . 6
Number of Sittings, . 3,22
Number of Schools, . . 4
High, 1
Grammar, 14
Sub-Grammar, . 12
Primary,
21
Four new schools have been organized during the year. One in the Forster School House, one in the Prescott, one in the Bennett, and one in the Webster.
All the rooms in Prescott School House are occupied but there are two vacant rooms in Forster School House.
As Walnut Street is one-eighth of a mile nearer Forster School House, than Prescott School House, it is proposed to make the district line more central, and to relieve Prescott School by transferring to Forster School those pupils who reside in the vicinity of Walnut Street, and north of this central line.
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IV. TEACHERS.
Number of Torchers in High School, . 5 (Principal and + female assistants.)
Number of Teachers in Grammar Schools, ·
14
Males, 4 Females, 9
Number of Teachers in Sub-Grammar Schools, . 12
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6: Primary 66 21
)ne Teacher of Vocal Music, Total number of Teachers, 53
The following changes hive taken place during the rear.
RESIGNED.
brotta T. Knight, Assistant in Prescott Grammar School.
Harriet E. Bennett,
Mary E. Proctor, Teacher 66 " Sub-Grammar
Jattic F. Brigham,
" Forster
Mary E. Adams, " Prospect Hill Sub-Grammar School,
Mary L. Dyer, Teacher in Union Primary School, S. Anna Gilson, " " Bennett 66
By these resignations the town has lost some of its nost faithful and successful teachers.
TRANSFERRED.
Harriet N. Sands, from Sub-Gram. to Gram. in Prescott School. Suc S. Stetson, from Franklin Primary to Gram. Prescott School. Catharine T. Brown, from Jackson Primary to Bennett Primary School,
ELECTED.
William B. Allen, Principal of Franklin School.
Annette E. Long, Assistant in High School. Mary E. Nason, 66 " Forster Grammar School. Frances M. Guptill, Teacher in Forster Sub-Grammar School. Mary E. Eddy, Assistant in Prescott Grammar School.
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Nancy W. Proctor, Teacher in Prescott Sub-Grammar Schod
M. Ellen Eddy, 66 66
66
66
Lydia L. Gordon, 66 66 Prospect Hill Sub-Gramm: School.
Mary E. Hartshorn, Teacher in Bennett Primary School.
Lydia J. Page,
66 Jackson 66
Ada L. Sanborn, 66 Webster 66 66
Rebecca A. Fillebrown, Teacher in Union
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Ida F. Paul, " Franklin Primary School
There are forty-six female teachers, eighteen of whor were educated in our own schools, and have been mem bers of our High School.
It has long been the policy of the Committee in mak ing their selections of teachers to give the preference to graduates of our High School, other things being the same.
IN MEMORIAM.
It is our sad duty to record the death of one of ou: male teachers, an event new in our experience as a town
John D. Marston, Esq., Principal of Franklin Grammaı School, died on the 4th of November last, after a brie illness, aged 42 years. He was highly esteemed as a cit izen, and greatly beloved as a teacher. By uniform ur- banity and untiring devotion to his pupils, he secured in an unusual degree, their confidence and love. He pos- sessed great purity of character, and those qualities of mind and heart, that admirably fitted him to excel in his profession, and in his death not only his school but the community has sustained a severe loss.
V. PUPILS.
Pupils who complete the course of study prescribed for the Public Schools, pass through thirteen separate
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asses ; three in the Primary School, two in the Sub- rammar, four in the Grammar School, and four in the igh School.
It requires one year for pupils of ordinary capacity to complish the work assigned to each class.
Largest number of pupils belonging to all the schools , one time during the year, 2,480.
HIGH SCHOOL.
First Class, 17
Second "
38
Third "
44
Fourth "
59
- 158
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
First Class, 92
Second “
. 123
Third 66 145
Fourth €
. 229
- 589
SUB-GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
First Class,
287
Second "
326
- 613
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
First Class,
329
Second "
. 369
Third 66
422
Total,
2,480. .
-- 1,120
high School contains 6.37 per cent of the whole number of pupils.
rammar Schools 23.75 66
ub-Grammar 24.72
rimary 45.16 66 66
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Per cent of attendance at High School,
97.5
66 66
" Grammar Schools, . 96.0
66 " Sub-Grammar Schools, 95.0
66
66
" Primary 66 92.2
Number of pupils graduated from the Grammar Schools, . 6
From the Prescott School, 20
66 Franklin 66
18
66 66 Forster 66
13
66
Prospect Hill School 9
Lincoln
5
The following are the names of pupils who passed the required examination for admission to the High School in September, 1869.
FROM THE PRESCOTT SCHOOL.
Fred. W. Atwood,
Sarah B. Freeman,
S. Newton Cutler,
Mary A. Gross,
Edward N. Lovering, Lottie C. Holt,
James A. Magoun, Mira Hollander,
Caleb B. Underhill, Ada F. Hughes,
Frederick G. Watson.
Nellie F. Hardy,
Lizzie Aspley, Abbie M. Moore,
Emma C. Durell, Lonie J. Suydam,
Lilly E. Dickson, Carrie E. Woods.
Average per cent of correct answers, 84.6. Average age 14} years.
FRANKLIN SCHOOL.
Joseph N. Damon,
Isaac M. Story,
William C. Foster,
George Salloway, Charles F. Tufts,
John Flanagan,
Frank O. Hcald,
Maggie D. Barter, Nellie Kimball,
Thomas H. Hollingworth,
J. Edward Hall, Ella A. Pratt,
John J. Kelley, Katic Paul,
Samuel T. Kirkpatrick,
Adella A. Tower,
John L. Nichols,
Emma Vialle.
Average per cent of correct answers 83.76. 1 Average age 132 years.
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FORSTER SCHOOL.
Charles E. Dickerman,
William H. Stimpson,
Frank W. Downer,
Emily G. Colman,
Samuel O. Eldridge,.
Martha A. Cushing,
Mark Fisk,
Marietta Fuller,
Francis W. Ring,
Mary E. Wiggin.
Average per cent of correct answers, 81. Average age, 142 years.
PROSPECT HILL SCHOOL.
S. Eddie Brown,
Nora A. O'Leary,
Arthur Vinal, Susie C. Nelson, Addic C. Smith,
Belle Houghton,
Anna P. Vinal.
Average per cent of correct answers, 80 43. Average age, 14} years.
LINCOLN SCHOOL.
John J. Carrol, Emma S. Dow, Jennie L. Holland,
George Davis,
Emily A. Russell.
Average per cent of correct answers, 82. Average age, 143 years.
Average per cent of correct answers by all the pupils, 83.33. Average age of all the pupils, 14 years, 32 months.
VI. SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
For convenient supervision by Sub-Committees, the chools are grouped into five Districts, as follows :
Forster, Franklin,
Prescott, Lincoln,
Prospect Hill.
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Forster District embraces the six schools in Forstr School House, and contains 264 pupils, as follow :
Grammar Department, 102 or 38.6 per cent of the whole numbe, Sub-Grammar 56 “ 21.2 66
Primary
106 " 40.2
SUB-COMMITTEE. Messrs. Carlton and Spencer.
TEACHERS. Charles G. Pope, Principal,
Emily M. Warren, assistant in Grammar Department.
Mary E. Nason,
Frances M. Guptill, teacher in Sub-Grammar Departmer
Ellen P. Shute, teacher in Primary Department.
Edith C. Long,
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Prescott District embraces the ten schools in Pre cott School House, and contains 535 pupils, as follows :
Grammar Department 196 or 36.5 per cent of the whole numbe
Sub-Grammar 66 . 140 “ 26.2 66
66 66
Primary 66 199 " 37.3 66 66
SUB-COMMITTEE.
Messrs. Hughes and Davis.
TEACHERS.
John Wilson, Principal.
Isabel S. Horne, assistant in Grammar Department.
Harriet N. Sands,
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Mary E. Eddy,
Anna A. Hall, teacher
Sub-Gram. 66
Nancy W. Proctor, 66
66 "
M. Ellen Eddy, 66
66
Susan M. Priest, 66
Primary 66
Augusta M. Cowles, 66
66 66
Harriet A. Adams, 66 66
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Prospect Hill District embraces nineteen schools and 015 pupils, as follows :
In Prospect Hill School House, 6 schools, 333 pupils.
In Brastow
66
66
2
66
100
In Bennett
66
4
66
223 66
In Jackson 66
66
3
164
In Webster
66
3
66
156 66
In Union .6
66
1
37
66
frammar Department 155 or 15.3 per cent of the whole number.
ub-Grammar 66
300 “ 29.6
66
66 66
rimary
SUB-COMMITTEE. 1
Messrs. Knapp and Arnold.
TEACHERS.
Samuel C. Hunt, Principal.
nna M. Snow, assist. in Grammar Depart. P. H. School House.
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66
66
ydia L. Gordon, t'ch'r
Sub-Gr.
66
66
rene E. Locke,
Prim. 66
66
Brastow
66
'lla M. Gooding, aroline S. Plimpton, ugusta A. Roberts, “ atharine T. Brown, " Harriet A. Locke,
Sub-Gr.
Bennett
66
Prim. 66
66
66
66
66
66
.
66
66
66 66
Iary E. Hartshorn, " izzie W. Shelton,
Sub-Gr.
66
Jackson
66
Prim.
66
66
66
rebecca F. Woodberry, ydia J. Page,
66
66
66 66
ue S. Lathe, 66
Sub-Gr.
Webster
66
lizzie C. Howe,
66
Prim.
66
66
66
da Sanborn, 66
66
66
66
rebecca A. Fillebrown,
66
Union
66
rances L. Childs, "
66
inna M. Leland, 66
66
66
Sub-Gr.
Prim.
66
66
558 “ 55.1
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Franklin District embraces eight schools and 38 pupils, as follows :
In Franklin School House, 4 schools, 206 pupils.
In Bell 66
1 school, 39 66
In Spring Hill
55 66 In Harvard 66
66
66
66 44 66
In Room on Park Street, 66 " 41 66
Grammar Department 100, or 26 per cent of the whole numbe;
Sub-Grammar "
106, 27.5 66
Primary 66
179, 46.5 " 66 66
SUB-COMMITTEE. Messrs. Morse and Durell. TEACHIERS. William B. Allen, Principal.
Amy C. Hudson, assist. in Grammar Dept. Franklin School House
Sue S. Stetson, 66 66 66 66
Esther S. Ross, t'ch'r in Sub-Gram. 66
66 66
Mary E. Sargent, " "
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66 66
Caroline A. Osborne, t'ch'r in Prim. Dept. in S. P. School House Ida F. Paul, teacher in Primary Depart. in Bell 66
Emma F. Merritt, " 65
" Harvard
Mary A. Haley, 16 66 66 " Park Street .‘
Lincoln District embraces three schools and 126 pupils, as follows :
In Lincoln School-House, 2 schools, 81 pupils. In Cedar Street School House, 1 school, 44 pupils.
Grammar Department, 26 or 28.8 per cent of the whole number
Sub-Grammar 11 “ 9. 66 66
Primary
78 “62.2 66 66
SUB-COMMITTEE. Mr. John P. Marshall.
TEACHERS. Horace P. Makechnic, Principal. Ella L. Burbank, teacher in Prim. Dept. Lincoln School House Helen E. Magoun, 6
66 Cedar Street
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HIGH SCHOOL.
SUB-COMMITTEE. Messrs. Marshall, Durell, Spencer.
TEACHERS. George L. Baxter, Principal.
Sarah L. Graves, Mary E. Davis,
Sarah W. Fox, Annette E. Long, Assistants.
Whole number of different pupils during the year, . 195
66 66 present time, 150
Greatest number at one time,
158 .
Number of Graduates, . 25
admitted during the year, .
62
Average age of the School, 164 years. Number over 18 years, .
13
in course preparatory for College,
24
Average per cent of attendance, 97.5
Number of visitors during the year,
48
No. of 1st Class on entering the School, 36 ; present No. 17
66 2d 66
66 52; 66 " 37
3d 66
66
66
55; 66 39
66 4th 66
66
59; " 58
The following are the names of those who graduated at the Anniversary of the School, July 16, 1869.
Emma Carmina Chamberlin,
Georgiana Cutter,
Charlotte Riddle Cutter,
Emily Small Davis,
Eva Maria Edmands,
Clara Demoranville Hayden, Beula Amanda Hill,
Maria Augusta Vinal, Sara Etta Whiting,
Fannie Warton Kaan,
Clara Isabel Howe,
Julia Warton Kaan,
Kate Douglass Perry, Ida Florence Paul,
Lucy Ann Savage, Caroline Shute,
Phobe Jenette Teele,
Augusta May Houghton,
Helen Elizabeth Morse,
Lilian Thorning Munroe.
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James Libby Tyler, Jr., Roswell Cutler Downer,
William Edward Weld, . Edward Glines, Frederic Washington Story.
This class numbered thirty-seven, when it entered th School in September, 1865.
Pupils having the industry and perseverance requisit to complete the entire Course of Study prescribed fo the Public Schools, and who graduate at the High School are entitled to consideration, and ever have been regarded by the Committee with special favor.
Their graduation being an important event in thei history, special effort has always been made to rende. the Anniversary of the school an occasion of peculiar in terest, and we would interpose no obstacle to its rationa enjoyment.
But we feel constrained to give expression to our re grets in view of the increasing expense, attendant upor the graduation of classes at the High School.
It is true, that the expense is met by the voluntary contributions of the pupils, but still our convictions are that a needless burden is frequently imposed where it is not always conveniently borne, and that the interests of the school will suffer in consequence.
It is the glory of our Free Schools, that their benefits are accessible to all, and their most honorable positions are open to the meritorious, irrespective of external differences.
We entertain great respect for those who cheerfully undergo privations, and subject themselves to personal discomforts that they may enrich and adorn their minds, and are anxious to remove whatever may prevent them from deriving all the benefits the schools can confer.
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For the accommodation of those who desire to supple- nent their Grammar School studies, but do not wish to pursue the regular Classical Course, we are about to in- roduce an English and Mercantile Course of study into he High School.
Several valuable specimens for the Geological Cabinet, ilso a number of valuable books on the Geology of New England, have been presented to the school during the year, by Charles H. Guild, Esq.
The High School Association have sustained during the winter a highly interesting course of Free Public Lectures, which have been fully attended.
Under the auspices of the Association a class has been maintained for the study of the German Language.
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