Report of the city of Somerville 1882, Part 6

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 338


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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


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


. .


Prospect Hill .


6


4


2


6


269


66


. ..


Brastow


2


1


1


2


90)


66


. . .


Bennett


4


1


2


3


171


66


. . .


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


. ....


Beech Street ..


2


2


2


98


66


. ....


Franklin


4


2


2


4


194


66


. ....


..


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


·


Tufts Street .. L. V. Bell ....


1


1


1


47


12


9


3


12


602


. ..


...


·


1


1


39


. ....


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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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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ANNUAL REPORTS.


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


.


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


. . ·


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


...


Harriette H. Winslow.


425


1881


H. V. Hathaway .


575


1875


66


. ...


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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L. V. Bell


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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


. ..


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


·


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


·


S. Adelaide Blood


575


1882


66


. .


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


·


.


...


66


.


Brastow


Annie L. Savage ..


550


1873


Pauline S. Downes


600


1872


Beech Street


66


. .


Lizzie J. Conwell


600


1873


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


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


...


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


100.00


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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


.


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


.


66


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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


.


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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