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In the enlargement fine architectural proportions have been preserved, and the building, as completed, is one of the most beautiful and commodious in the city. It was occupied by the schools, eight in number, Monday, Sept. 15.
EXHIBIT OF THE SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN THE SEVERAL DISTRICTS.
DISTRICTS.
BUILDINGS.
No. of School- Rooms.
No. of Grammar Schools.
No. of Primary Schools.
Total.
No. of Pupils in December.
High School ..
2
Winter Hill.
Forster
10
6
4
11
498
Cedar Street .
2
89
East Somerville. 66
Prescott
12
7
5
12
582
Edgerly
8
3
8
405
Prospect Hill
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Prospect Hill .
6
4
2
6
269
66
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Brastow
2
1
1
2
90)
66
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Bennett
4
1
2
3
171
66
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Jackson .
4
1
3
4
225
Webster
4
1
1
2
97
66
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Union.
1
1
1
60
Spring Hill
Morse
6
6
6
260
66
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Beech Street ..
2
2
2
98
66
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Franklin
4
2
2
4
194
66
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1
1
1
44
West Somerville. 66
Highland.
8
5
3
8
381
Lincoln
4
1
1
2
81
Total
94
49
38
89
4,511
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Tufts Street .. L. V. Bell ....
1
1
1
47
12
9
3
12
602
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1
1
39
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Spring Hill ...
1
Harvard
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ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATIONS.
During the last twelve years the population of the city has in- creased eleven thousand, or seventy five per cent, and the num- ber of schools thirty-seven, or seventy-one per cent. Within that time school buildings containing forty-two school-rooms have been constructed or purchased, at a cost, including the amount paid for land, of about $230,000.
The number of dwelling houses in the city on the first day of May, 1881, was 4,305, and on the first day of May, 1882, 4,462. Increase for the year, 157. The number of dwelling-houses is
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279
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2
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about equal to the number of pupils in the public schools. Hence fifty new dwellings require the formation of a new school. The present rate of increase in the population of the city, and the consequent demand for additional school accommodations, will prob- ably continue for many years.
Each section of the city is provided with school conveniences sufficient for present necessities, except Winter Hill district. In the summer of 1881 two school-rooms were constructed in the hall of the Forster School-house, making ten school-rooms in that building, all of which are occupied. One school, recently formed, is located in the hall. It will be necessary to convert the remain- ing portion of the hall into school-rooms during the next long va- cation.
The Cedar Street School-house is insufficient to accommodate the pupils residing in its immediate neighborhood. A school building located on or near Lowell Street would relieve the schools in the Forster and Cedar Street School-houses.
TEACHERS.
From various causes the number of changes in the corps of teachers during the year has been unusually large. Fifteen teachers have resigned. To fill vacancies and for the new schools, twenty-three teachers have been elected.
ELECTED.
Mr. William M. Stevens, principal of the Morse School. Miss Mina J. Wendell; first assistant in the Morse School.
Miss Ella F. Gould, teacher in the Morse School. Miss Fannie W. Kaan, teacher in the High School. Miss Eudora Morey, teacher in the High School. Miss Minnie C. Clark, teacher in the High School. Miss Laura E. Giddings, teacher in the High School.
Miss Ellen H. Wilde, teacher in the Forster School. Miss Mary E. Wild, teacher in the Forster School. Miss Emma F. Stratton, teacher in the Prescott School. Miss Lillian Nealley, teacher in the Prescott School.
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Miss Florence M. Morton, teacher in the Prescott School. Miss Emma E. Cate, teacher in the Prescott School.
Mrs. Clara J. Whittemore, principal of the Jackson School. Miss Abbie F. Bosworth, teacher in the Edgerly School. Mrs. Hattie M. Pierce, teacher in the Edgerly School. Mrs. Lucretia A. Burns, teacher in the Tufts Street School. Miss Eliza L. Schuh, teacher in the L. V. Bell School. Miss Mary E. Bosworth, principal of the Beech Street School. Miss Eveleen I. Bense, principal of the Franklin School. Miss S. Adelaide Blood, teacher in the Highland School. Miss Carrie M. Smith, teacher in the Highland School. Miss Nellie A. Hamblen, teacher in the Prospect Hill School.
Most of the teachers elected during the year have had long and successful experience, and a term of service that entitles them to the maximum of salary.
TRANSFERRED.
Miss F. P. Hudson, from the Prescott School to the position of principal of the Edgerly School.
Miss Amelia I. Sears, from the Prescott School to the Edgerly School.
Miss Harriette H. Winslow, from the Prescott School to the Edgerly School.
Miss H. V. Hathaway, from the Tufts Street School to the Edgerly School.
Miss Ada Cowles, from the Tufts Street School to the Edgerly School.
Miss Anna L. Prescott, from the Edgerly School to the Prescott School.
Miss Emma F. Schuh, from the Prescott School to the L. V. Bell School.
Miss Hattie E. Boardman, from the L. V. Bell School to the Pros- pect Hill School.
Miss Mary A. Haley, from the Beech Street School to the Morse School.
Miss Ada L. Sanborn, from the Prospect Hill School to the position of principal of the Webster School.
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RESIGNED.
Miss Sarah L. Graves, teacher in the High School. Miss Annette E. Long, teacher in the High School. Miss Kate W. Cushing, teacher in the High School. Miss Stella M. King, teacher in the Forster School. Miss V. E. Hapgood, teacher in the Prescott School. Miss Emma F. Stratton, teacher in the Prescott School. Mrs. Augusta M. Cowles, principal of the Edgerly School. Miss Harriet N. Sands, teacher in the Edgerly School. Mrs. Clara N. Marston, teacher in the Morse School. Miss Carrie N. Sanderson, teacher in the Morse School. Miss Nellie P. Nichols, teacher in the Morse School. Miss Georgiana Cutter, teacher in the Highland School. Mrs. Jane E. Clark, principal of the Franklin School. Miss Eveleen I. Bense, principal of the Franklin School. Miss Nora O'Leary, principal of the Jackson School.
With two exceptions, the teachers who have resigned have been connected with our schools several years. and have rendered faith- ful and valuable service in their respective places.
In September, leave of absence for one year was granted to Miss Sarah W. Fox, the accomplished and highly esteemed first assistant in the High School, for the purpose of travelling and studying in Europe.
Whole number of teachers, 101 (male teachers, 8; female teachers, 93).
Number of teachers in the High School, 7 (male teachers, 2 ; female teachers, 5).
Number of teachers in the grammar schools, 55 (male teachers, 5 ; female teachers, 50).
Number of teachers in the primary schools, 38.
One teacher of vocal music.
Increase in the number of teachers for the year, 5.
At the close of last year two crowded schools had two teachers each ; hence the increase in the number of teachers is two less than the increase in the number of schools.
In Memoriam.
Mr. Chas. C. Hunkins, for five years principal of the Morse Grammar School, died at his residence, Jan. 9, after a protracted sickness.
Mr. Hunkins possessed many excellences of character that greatly endeared him to his wide circle of relatives and friends. He was affable in manner, strong in his attachments, and firm in his friendships. As a teacher he was earnest, faithful, enthusias- tic, and constant in his devotion to his work and the best interests of his pupils.
The School Board, at their meeting next succeeding the time of his death, placed upon their records a memorial of their high appre- ciation of his character and work.
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SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Salaries.
First Elected.
High
Geo. L. Baxter
$2,200
1867
Frank M. Hawes
1,500
1879
Sarah F. Litchfield
800
1880
66
Fannie W. Kaan
850
1882
66
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Eudora Morey.
800
1882
66
Minnie C. Clark
800
1882
66
Laura E. Giddings
700
1882
Forster
John S. Hayes. ..
1,800
1878
Mary E. Northup
625
1878
Nellie M. Whitney
600
1878
66
Ellen H. Wilde .
500
1882
66
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Frances M. Guptill
600
1869
Mary E. Wild.
500
1882
Alice A. Batchelor
575
1877
66
Martha H. Pennock
550
1873
66
Leila V. Colby
500
1879
Alice T. Couch .
550
1881
Lizzie G. Perry
550
1878
Prescott
G. A. Southworth
1,900
1873
66
Anna M. Bates
675
1874
66
Adelaide Reed.
650
1877
66
Emma M. Cate
600
1882
Abbie A. Anderson .
600
1878
66
Catharine T. Brown
575
1868
66
Clara Taylor
575
1871
Sarah E. Pratt.
575
1877
66
Anna L. Prescott.
550
1873
66
Elgina M. Plummer
550
1877
Lillian Nealley .
550
1882
Florence M. Morton
350
1882
Edgerly
Frank P. Hudson.
700
1877
Amelia I. Sears.
600
1873
Hattie M. Pierce.
575
1882
66
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Harriette H. Winslow.
425
1881
H. V. Hathaway .
575
1875
66
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Abbie F. Bosworth
550
1882
Clara M. Bagley
550
1873
66
Ada Cowles
550
1875
Tufts Street
Lucretia A. Burns
550
1882
Robert Bickford.
1,700
1879
Minnie H. Marden
625
1876
Abbie C. Hunt ..
600
1873
Ellen M. Gooding
600
1868
Fannie A. Wilder.
600
1874
May E. Berry .
500
1880
Lillian F. Howe.
600
1876
Emma F. Schuh
600
1874
Anna M. Snow.
575
1866
Lydia J. Page
575
1869
Lizzie F. Appleton . .
550
1874
Augusta M. Houghton
550
1877
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Eliza L. Schuh
350
1882
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SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS. - Continued.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Salaries.
First Elected.
Prospect Hill
Helen Tincker.
$650
1872
Hattie E. Boardman
600
1881
Ellen Ledyard .
575
1874
Ada I. Howe. .
500
1880
66
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Nellie A. Hamblen.
350
1882
Charlotte I. Houghton
550
1875
Sarah E. Pennock
575
1871
Lizzie D. Harding
550
1877
Bennett
Augusta A. Roberts.
625
1861
66
Maria Miller.
550
1870
Mary B. Currier
550
1873
Jackson
Nora O'Leary
650
1874
66
Anna C. Damon
550
1879
Maud M. Hobson .
425
1879
66
Annie E. McCarty
425
1880
Webster.
Ada L. Sanborn
625
1869
Union
Isabella M. Prince
550
1876
Morse
William M. Stevens
1,600
1882
Mina J. Wendell .
625
1882
66
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66
Anna E. Sawyer
600
1873
66
Ella F. Gould .
575
1882
Mary A. Haley .
575
1868
Mary E. Bosworth.
575
1882
Zillah E. Freeman
425
1881
Spring Hill
Alice E. Furber
425
1881
Franklin
Hattie A. Hills .
575
1874
Emeline C. Summerhayes . .
550
1876
Harvard
Annie E. Robinson
550
1876
Highland
Geo. E. Nichols .
1,600
1877
Lilla A. Hayward
675
1881
66
Jennie Colburn.
600
1875
66
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S. Adelaide Blood
575
1882
66
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Sarah F. Gibbs
575
1881
66
Alice P. Lord.
550
1881
Sarah E. Pray
550
1878
66
Carrie M. Smith
350
1882
Lincoln
Mary A. Paul.
575
1879
60
Annie L. Clapp
550
1882
Cedar Street.
Alice Simpson.
550
1872
Alice M. Porter
500
1880
Teacher of music. . .
S. H. O. Hadley
1,333
1868
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66
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Brastow
Annie L. Savage ..
550
1873
Pauline S. Downes
600
1872
Beech Street
66
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Lizzie J. Conwell
600
1873
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PUPILS.
Number of pupils in attendance in January .
4,267
Number of persons in the city, between five and fifteen
years of age, on the first day of May last, as ascer- tained by the Truant Officer
5,102
Number between eight and fourteen years of age . 2,958
Number in attendance in December
·
4,511
In the High School
279
grammar schools
. 2,189
primary schools . 2,043
Number over fifteen years of age in December 366
Whole number registered during the year ·
5,576
The whole number of pupils registered during the year is in excess of the average whole number for the year 1,294.
TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PUPILS IN EACH OF THE THIRTEEN CLASSES, IN DECEMBER, THE AVERAGE AGE OF PUPILS IN EACH CLASS, AND THE PER CENT THAT THE NUMBER IN EACH CLASS IS OF THE NUMBER IN ALL THE CLASSES.
GRADE.
Class.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
Average Age.
Per Cent.
High
First
16
30
46
18 yrs. 2 mos.
1.02
Second
20
31
51
17
6
1.13
Third .
34
38
72
16
66
5
1.60
Fourth
44
66
110
15
9
66
2.43
Grammar.
First
71
97
168
14
60
5
3.72
Second
110
120
230
14
1
66
5 10
66
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Third
187
164
351
13
2
7.78
Fourth
215
168
383
12
1
66
8.49
Fifth
301
207
508
11
3
66
11 26
Sixth.
311
238
549
10
1
66
12 17
Primary . . ..
First
343
217
560
8
8
66
12.42
Second
293
234
527
7
“ 11
11.69
66
Third
549
407
956
6
4
21.19
Total
2,494
2,017
4,511
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ATTENDANCE.
Average whole number in all the schools for the year · 4,262.7
High School
246.8
Grammar schools
2,160.6
Primary schools .
1,855.3
Average attendance in all the schools for the year
4,005.3
High School
237.8
Grammar schools
2,058.9
Primary schools . 1,708.6
Per cent of attendance in all the schools for the year ·
93.8
High School
96.3
Grammar schools
95.3
Primary schools . 92.1
Number of tardinesses in all the schools for the year ·
2,324
High School
111
Grammar schools
850
Primary schools .
1,363
Number of dismissals in all the schools for the year ·
2,213
High School
447
Grammar schools
855
Primary schools .
911
It is interesting to observe the great uniformity in the per cent of attendance through a series of years, especially in the grammar schools. The following is an exhibit of the per cent of attendance in the several grades for the last eight years : -
High School. Grammar Schools. Primary Schools.
1875
97.1
94.8
90.9
1876
94.7
94.7
91.7
1877
97.7
94.7
92.1
1878
98.0
94.6
91.7
1879
96.9
94.8
91.6
1880
96.1
94.7
92.1
1881
.
95.1
94.9
91.9
1882
.
96.3
95.3
92.1
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The school year of forty weeks gives to the High School 200 sessions and to the grammar and primary schools 400 sessions. By multiplying the number representing the average attendance by the number of sessions, we find that there have been 47,560 oppor- tunities for tardiness during the year in the High School; 823,- 560 in the grammar schools ; and 683,440 in the primary schools. A computation upon this basis gives to each pupil in the High School an average of one case of tardiness in 428 sessions ; to each pupil in the grammar schools one in 969 sessions; and to each pupil in the primary schools one in 501 sessions. In five schools there have been no cases of tardiness during the year ; three schools report one case each ; two schools, two cases each; and five schools, three cases each.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Forty-five and three tenths per cent of our pupils are in the primary schools.
Number of pupils in attendance in January .
1,903
Number admitted during the year
857
Number promoted to the grammar schools
469
Number in attendance in December
2,043
Average number to a teacher at the present time 54
Number registered during the year
2,760
Each succeeding year develops an increasing interest in the primary schools and a higher estimate of the importance of the work to be accomplished by them. Great efforts are made for their improvement ; much care is bestowed to render the school- rooms convenient and attractive ; and teachers of the highest order of talent and skill, and of special aptitude for the delicate and important duties required, are sought for their management. As a consequence, no department of the schools is making more marked and gratifying advanees.
It is our privilege to report that many teachers of our primary schools are earnestly seeking and zealously applying the best methods of instruction, and have attained to a high degree of ex- cellence in their work.
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Teachers of primary schools require special and rare qualifica- tions to insure complete success. Children and the labor of teach- ing them must be congenial. That they may be fruitful in expe- dients to interest their pupils and prevent monotony in the routine of daily duties, they must possess versatility and ingenuity. That their teaching may be wisely applied, they must apprehend quickly and as by intuition the kind and quantity of instruction best adapted to pupils at each stage of their advancement. That " acquire- ment and pleasure may go hand in hand and never part company,', they must possess the ability to impart such instruction as will interest their pupils, and to present it in a manner that will be pleasurable to them, also. Sacchini says, " It is the unvarying decision of wise men, whether in ancient or modern times, that the instruction of youth will always be best when it is pleasantest."
Since the attempt to impart instruction to children before they are prepared to receive it is not only useless, but harmful, teachers should resist the temptation to hasten unduly with their work. " Make haste slowly," is a safe maxim to follow in teaching the young. "Nature waits for the fit time." "Everything natural," says Comenius, "goes smoothly and easily. There must, there- fore, be no pressure. Learning should come to children as swim- ming to fish, flying to birds, running to animals."
Childhood, like the early springtime, is the period of preparation and not of fruitage. The appropriate and principal work of pri- mary schools is to develop ability and skill for future use. From first to last, self-development and self-reliance should be encour- aged. We cannot begin too soon to teach children to make their own investigations and to draw their own conclusions. It is our province to lead them into the paths of learning and to supply them with proper incentives and opportunities for self-improvement ; but they will be educated only as they exercise their own activities. Agassiz was accustomed to say to his pupils, " I shall never make you repeat what you have been told, but constantly ask you what you have seen yourselves."
For their guidance in their daily duties teachers should have clearly defined and well-matured plans of their own devising. All persons labor most effectively when their practice and their judg-
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ment are in accord. It is strikingly apparent that those teachers secure the most satisfactory results who work in accordance with methods of their own arranging ; who are not mere imitators of performances which they have observed, but intelligent executors of their own thoughtfully wrought methods. They diligently study many systems of instruction, observe various methods, and obtain information from numerous sources ; but plans of procedure which they execute with greatest ease and satisfaction to themselves, and which prove most advantageous to their pupils, are those of their own devising.
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EXHIBIT OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Average Whole Number.
A verage Attend- ance.
Per Cent of Attend- ance.
Forster
M. H. Pennock
49.7
46.9
94.4
66
L. V. Colby
42.0
39.7
94.5
66
A. T. Couch
41.1
37.6
91.4
L. G. Perry
43.0
38.8
90.2
Prescott
S. E. Pratt
54.1
51.1
94.4
A. L. Prescott
49 7
47.2
94.9
6
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F. M. Morton
56.5
48.9
86.5
Edgerly
A. F. Bosworth
42.5
40.3
94.8
66
Ada Cowles
44.5
40 1
90.1
Tufts Street
L. A. Burns
43.5
40.4
92.9
L. V. Bell.
L. F. Appleton
54.2
51.2
94.5
66
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A. M. Houghton
54.7
49.9
91.2
E. L. Schuh
59.3
55.7
93.9
N. A. Hamblen
33.6
31.6
94.0
C. I. Houghton
48.0
44.1
91.8
Brastow
L. D. Harding
54.1
49.8
92 0
Bennett.
Maria Miller
48.0
44.8
93.3
M. B. Currier
59.4
52 4
88 2
Jackson
A. C. Damon
46.8
42.2
90.2
66
M. M. Hobson
46.2
42 5
91.9
A. E. McCarty
52.7
49.5
93.9
Webster
A. L. Savage
56.5
53.2
94.1
Union
I. M. Prince
51.6
48.6
94.2
Beech Street
M. E. Bosworth
55.1
51.0
92.5
66
Z. E. Freeman .
47.2
43.0
91.1
Spring Hill
A. E. Furber
43.8
38.0
86 8
Franklin
E. C. Summerhayes
52 3
49.2
94 1
C. S. Plimpton .
36 2
35.5
98.0
Harvard .
A. E. Robinson
49.6
44.1
88.9
Highland
A. P. Lord
37.2
35.2
94.6
S. E. Pray.
43.0
40.4
93.9
C. M. Smith
47.4
42.2
89.0
Lincoln . . .
A. L. Clapp . .
40.4
35 0
86.6
Cedar Street
Alice Simpso
37.4
35.0
93.4
A. M. Porter
52.4
44.3
84.5
1,855.3
1,708.6
92.1
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54.7
51.1
93.4
66
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Lillian Nealley
56.1
52.0
92.9
60
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66
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C. M. Bagley
70.8
66.1
93.3
Prospect Hill.
E. M. Plummer
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GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
With scarcely an exception the schools of this grade are under the direction of teachers of long experience and of marked intelli- gence and skill. They are wisely conducted, and are doing thorough and substantial work. Forty-eight and one half per cent of all pupils in attendance in the public schools at the present time are in the grammar schools.
Number of pupil in January . 2,148
Number received from the primary schools
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469
Number in attendance in December
2,189
Average number to a school . 44
Whole number registered during the year
2,455
At the close of the summer term one hundred and seventy-two pupils were graduated at the several grammar schools.
From the Luther V. Bell School . 48
66 Proscott School 46
Forster School . 32 .
Morse School 29 .
Highland School ·
17
Number promoted to the first class in June 178
66 second class in June
246
66
66 third class in June
306
66
66 fourth class in June .
324
66
fifth class in June
403
66 sixth class in June
469
One hundred and five of the graduates from the grammar schools entered the High School in September : -
From the Prescott School 31 .
Forster School . 24
66 Luther V. Bell School 23 .
66 Morse School
18
Highland School
9
In September, Scribner's Geographical Reader and Primer and Greenleaf's Brief Course in Arithmetic were introduced into the
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sixth class. Meservey's Bookkeeping, Single Entry, was intro- duced into the first class, to be used during the last half of the year.
Forty-four of the grammar schools contain a single class each. By the regulations of the School Board, " teachers whose pupils are all of one grade are required to divide their classes into two sec- tions, that, as far as practicable, one section may be studying while the other section is reciting." The object of this requirement is to secure more time to pupils for study during school hours, to make the recitations shorter, to guard against the tendency of the times towards too much teaching and too little studying by the pupils, and to induce pupils, if possible, to become more self-reliant and to depend less upon the guidance and assistance of their teachers.
Whenever the teacher wishes to explain new and important prin- ciples, and in all general exercises, time is economized by uniting the two sections ; but in many recitations a division of the class will be advantageous to the pupils composing it in various ways.
A saving of time for study during school hours is a desideratum. As a rule, school duties should be performed in school. We would not encourage much home study by pupils below the second class of the grammar schools. Time out of school should be devoted to rest, recreation, reading, and the performance of home duties. Ordinarily, under judicious management, school time, industriously employed, is sufficient for the performance of school requirements.
When a class recites in sections the relation of teacher and pupils is more intimate, and, what is especially desirable, each pupil can be brought under observation more than once without pro- longing the recitation to a wearisome length. Recitations, to be of the highest value, must be spirited and receive the undivided attention of every pupil throughout their continuance. Consequently they must be brief. School exercises should never be prolonged beyond the limit of ordinary mental endurance. Otherwise they induce listlessness and inattention, which, of all mental habits, are most to be deprecated and guarded against.
In order to acquaint pupils with the best methods of study, it is well, occasionally, to assist them in learning an entire lesson ; but ordinarily it is better that they study their lessons and overcome
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their difficulties unaided. More lasting good to the pupil often comes from the effort to acquire than from the knowledge which the effort secures. Scholars must break away from the leading strings of their teachers in their search for knowledge would they become robust in intellect and know the substantial delights of study. The exclamation, "Eureka! Eureka !" with which the brave old mathematician of Syracuse caused the streets of the city to resound upon his famous discovery of the fraud in the king's crown, was but the natural expression of satisfaction which is the frequent reward of every thorough and independent student.
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EXHIBIT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Average Whole Number.
Average Attend- ance.
Per Cent of Attend- ance.
Forster
J. S. Hayes ..
32.3
31.4
97.2
66
.
N. M. Whitney
34.3
32.9
95.5
66
.
E. H. Wilde.
44 4
42.1
94 8
66
. .
F. M. Guptill
49.8
47.3
94.9
M. E. Wild
54 2
51.2
94.5
60
A. A. Batchelor
53.9
51.1
94.8
Prescott
G. A. Southworth
43.1
42.6
98.8
66
Adelaide Reed.
43.7
42.7
97.7
A. M. Hammond.
51.3
50 2
97.8
66
.
Emma M. Cate
38.5
37.8
98.2
66
....
A. A. Anderson
43.3
41.7
96.3
66
...
C. T. Brown.
45.2
43.6
96.4
66
Clara Taylor
52.5
49.7
94.6
Edgerly
F. P. Hudson
42.0
41.2
98.1
66
A. I. Sears. ...
44.7
43.3
96.9
66
H. M Pierce.
46.2
44.7
96.7
66
H. V. Hathaway.
48 0
41.8
87.1
L. V. Bell.
Robert Bickford.
48.0
46.9
97.7
66
A. C. Hunt
55.3
54.1
97.8
66
E. M. Gooding
43.6
42.0
96.3
66
· F. A. Wilder
39.6
37.4
94.4
60
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M. E. Berry
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