Report of the city of Somerville 1884, Part 8

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 364


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149


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


It is cause for congratulation, that our teachers, with scarcely an exception, are faithful, earnest, and effective. A large proportion of them are performing their work with the skill and efficiency that result from liberal endowments and long and varied experience. They are progressive : they diligently seek, and promptly apply, the most highly approved methods of instruction and general manage- ment. We bespeak for them the continuance of the confidence and co-operation which have been awarded them hitherto by all classes of the community.


Of the whole number of teachers in our public schools, forty-eight are graduates of our high school ; twenty-five have attended normal schools, and twenty-one are graduates of those schools.


Whole number of teachers


115


Male teachers, 8 ; female teachers, 107.


Number of teachers in the high school .


8


Male teachers, 2 ; female teachers, 6.


Number of teachers in the grammar schools


61


Male teachers, 5 ; female teachers, 56.


Number of teachers in the primary schools


45


One teacher of vocal music.


SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


Salaries.


When Elected.


High


George L. Baxter


$2,400


1867


Frank M. Hawes


1,800


1879


66


Sarah F. Litchfield


850


1880


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


66


Mary E. Northup


625


1878


.‹‹


Mary E. Stiles .


600


1883


Ellen H. Wilde .


600


1882


Frances M. Guptill


600


1869


Lizzie F. Clement


600


1884


66


Agnes L. Adams


575


1884


Alice A. Batchelor


575


1877


66


Addie S. Winnek


575


1883


66


.


Martha H. Pennock


550


1873


66


Leila V. Colby .


550


1879


.


.


Sarah W. Fox .


1,050


1868


150


ANNUAL REPORTS.


SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS- Continued.


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


Salaries.


When Elected.


Forster


Annie S. Gage .


$550


1883


66


·


Lizzie G. Perry .


550


1878


66


Nora F. Byard .


300


1884


Prescott


G. A. Southworth


1,900


1873


66


Anna M. Bates .


700


1874


66


.


Adelaide Reed .


650


1877


Clara G. Fogg .


600


1883


66


Emma M. Cate .


600


1882


Mary L. Lewis .


600


1884


66


Abbie A. Anderson


600


1878


66


Amelia I. Sears


600


1873


66


Catharine T. Brown


575


1868


66


Clara Taylor


575


1871


66


Sarah E. Pratt .


600


1877


66


Florence M. Morton .


500


1882


Edgerly


Frank P. Hudson


800


1877


66


Hattie M. Pierce


575


1882


66


Anna L. Prescott


550


1873


66


H. V. Hathaway


550


1875


66


Clara M. Bagley


550


1873


66


Ada Cowles


550


1875


66


Florence A. Robinson


550


1883


Lucretia A. Burns


550


1882


Robert Bickford


1,800


1879


66


66


Elvira Morrill


600


1884


66


.6


Minnie H. Marden


600


1876


Frances J. Emerson


600


1884


Ellen M. Gooding


600


1868


66


66


May E. Berry


600


1880


Fannie A. Wilder


600


1874


66


66


Emma F. Schuh


600


1874


66


Anna M. Snow .


575


1866


66


Lydia J. Page


575


1869


66


66


Augusta M. Houghton


550


1877


66


66


Eliza L. Schuh .


500


1SS2


66


66


Kate L. O'Brien


350


1883


66


Annie Coffin


300


1884


Prospect Hill


Helen Tincker .


650


1872


66


.6


Nellie A. Hamblin


500


1882


66


66


Ellen Ledyard .


575


1874


66


66


Mary B. Currier


550


1873


66


66


Lucy E. Clark


300


1884


66


66


Charlotte I. Houghton


550


1875


.


Elgina M. Plummer Lillian Nealley .


550


1877


66


550


1882


Harriette H. Winslow


575


1881


Fannie F. Fuller


575


1884


Tufts Street Luther V. Bell .


66


Abbie C. Hunt .


625


1873


66


66


.


151


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS - Concluded.


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


Salaries.


When Elected.


Brastow


Sarah E. Pennock


$575


1871


66


Helen M. Dodge


300


1884


Bennett


Augusta A. Roberts


625


1861


66


Isadore E. Taylor


350


1883


Jackson


Annie E. McCarty


625


1880


66


Maud M. Hobson


550


1879


Annie E. Crimmings .


300


1884


Webster


Mary L. Longfellow .


625


1884


66


Clara J. Whittemore


550


1883


Union


Isabella M. Prince


550


1876


Morse


Henry C. Parker


1,600


1884


66


·


Stella Hall


600


1884


66


Anna E. Sawyer


600


1873


66


Mary A. Haley .


575


1868


66


Laura J. Brooks


575


1883


Beech Street


Mary E. Bosworth


575


1882


Spring Hill


Emma J. Rowley


550


1884


Franklin


Hattie A. Hills


650


1874


Emeline C. Summerhayes .


575


1876


Harvard Highland


George E. Nichols


1,600


1877


66


Lilla A. Hayward


600


1884


Lizzie J. Conwell


600


1873


66


S. Adelaide Blood


575


1882


Annie R. Cox


575


1883


Alice P. Lord


550


1881


Sarah E. Pray


550


1878


Carrie M. Smith


55


1882


66


Hallie M. Hood


350


1884


Lincoln


Mary A. Paul


600


1879


66


Alice B. Chadwick


575


1883


Susie A. Mattoon


350


1884


Cedar Street


Alice Simpson .


550


1872


66


66


Alice M. Porter


550


1880


Teacher of Music


.


S. H. O. Hadley


1,333


1868


66


Helen M. Meade


550


1884


Anna C. Damon


550


1879


Caroline S. Plimpton


550


1859


Annie E. Robinson


550


1876


Alice E. Gage


675


1881


Jennie Colburn .


600


1875


Pauline S. Downes


600


1872


Ella F. Gould .


600


1882


Annie L. Savage


550


1873


Mina J. Wendell


625


1882


Lena G. Allen


300


1884


550


1870


Maria Miller


.


.


152


ANNUAL REPORTS.


PUPILS.


The average annual increase in the school population of Somerville, since its organization in 1842, has been 130; and, for the last ten years, 263.


Number of pupils in attendance in January . . 4,753


" 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


. 6,032


Increase for the year


. 554


Number between eight and fourteen years of age


. 3,577


66 in attendance in December


. 4,984


66 in the high school .


300


66 66 grammar schools . 2,479


66


" primary 66


2,205


Number over fifteen years of age in December 461


Whole number registered during the year


6,014


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


19


29


48


18 years 6 mos.


.963


66


Second


26


36


62


17


6


1.244


66


Third


27


49


76


16


6


1.525


Fourth


47


67


114


15


9


2.287


Grammar


First


112


134


246


14


10


4.935


66


.


Second


127


141


268


14


66


2


5 377


66


·


Third


169


165


334


13


1


6.701


66


Fifth


293


219


512


11


4


66


10.273


Sixth


377


283


660


10


5


13.242


Primary


.


Seventh


321


243


564


9


66


3


11.317


66


Eighth


402


287


689


8


2


13 825


66


·


Ninth


556


396


952


6


6


19.102


Total


.


2,725


2,259


4,984


.


·


.


100.000


.


.


.


.


Fourth


249


210


459


12


2


9.209


·


.


.


153


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


ATTENDANCE.


Average whole number in all the schools for the year . .


4,804.2


high school


273.2


grammar schools


2,419.5


primary 66


2,111.5


Average attendance in all the schools for the year


4,533.6


high school


265.0


grammar schools ·


2,307.4


primary 66


1,961.2


Per cent of attendance in all the schools for the year . 94.4


high school


97.0


grammar schools


95.4


primary 66


92.9


Number of tardinesses in all the schools for the year . ·


2,706


high school


281


grammar schools


1,021


primary


1,404


Number of dismissals in all the schools for the year


2,251


high school


592


grammar schools


953


primary 66


.


706


MONTHLY REPORTS OF THE TRUANT-OFFICERS.


1884.


Cases Investigated.


Cases of Truancy.


No. placed on Probation.


No. sent to House of Reformation.


January


22


10


3


February .


11


6


1


March


19


8


1


April


15


7


2


1


May


25


13


-


-


June


13


6


-


September


17


10


October


15


7


2


November


20


11


-


-


December


11


6


-


Total


168


84


4


6


WM. H. BRINE, JAIRUS MANN,


Truant-Officers.


-


-


-


I


154


ANNUAL REPORTS.


PRIMARY SCHOOLS.


In methods of instruction, and in general management and efficiency, marked and important advances have been effected in the schools of this grade during the last twenty years. When I entered upon my duties as superintendent, in 1866, all pupils of primary schools were without desks, and were subjected to great inconvenience and dis- comfort in consequence. The tedious and irksome alphabet method of teaching reading was universally practised. There was no slate- work, and no instruction in writing and drawing. Very little was done to interest children, or to enliven the tedium of their school- life. Much of the time and energies of teachers were applied to the maintenance of order, and the repression of the activities of pupils who were nearly destitute of congenial employment.


At the present time, all school-rooms occupied by primary schools are supplied with comfortable and convenient furniture, and, by means of pictures and other devices, are made pleasant and attractive. Pupils are provided with interesting employment, and in various ways their school life is made an agreeable and profitable pastime.


When children are pleasantly employed, they are easily controlled. From many of our primary schools, corporal punishment is nearly excluded ; and in several of them no case has occurred for a series of years. Under the present régime, time is economized also. Much more is accomplished in forty weeks of twenty-five hours of school- time, than formerly in forty-two weeks of thirty hours each. When pupils of the primary schools are promoted to the grammar schools, they have made creditable advances in all the rudiments of learning usually taught in those schools, and are well prepared to prosecute advantageously the grammar-school course.


Number of primary schools 45


of pupils in January . 2,168


66 admitted during the year 519


66 promoted to the grammar schools 482


in attendance in December . 2,205


Average number to a teacher .


50 .


Number registered during the year . .


. 2,965


155


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


EXHIBIT OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS.


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


Average Average Whole No. Attendance. Attendance.


Forster


M. H. Pennock


43.7


41.5


95.0


66


L. V. Colby


45 2


42.8


94.8


A. S. Gage


45.6


43.0


94.3


L. G. Perry


49.2


44.7


90.9


N. F. Byard


40 3


38 6


90.7


Prescott


S. E. Pratt


50 9


48 3


95 0


E. M. Plummer


52.0


48.9


93 9


Edgerly


A. L. Prescott


51.0


48.8


95.6


66


C. M. Bagley .


51.8


48.4


93.4


Ada Cowles


48 4


43.6


90.2


Tufts Street


L. A. Burns


.


35.7


33 5


94.0


L. V. Bell


Kate L. O'Brien


60.4


55.6


92.0


Augusta M. Houghton


58.4


54.0


92.4


66


Eliza L. Schuh


67.0


61 7


92 0


Prospect Hill


M. B. Currier


41.1


38.8


94.2


60


66


C. I. Houghton


51.7


48.1


93.0


Brastow


H. M. Dodge


49.8


45 9


92.1


Bennett


Maria Miller .


49 8


46.4


93 2


66


M. S. Turner .


51.0


46 6


91.3


I. E. Taylor .


54.5


48 2


88.4


Jackson


M. M. Hobson


45.5


42.6


93 6


L. G. Allen


58.8


52 6


89 4


A. E. Crimmings


59.5


56.5


93 3


Webster


C. J. Whittemore


36.5


33 5


91.7


A. L. Savage .


51.3


47.5


92.6


Union


I. M. Prince .


39.9


37.8


94.8


Beech Street


M. E. Bosworth


40.6


39.2


96.5


66


H. M. Meade


45 3


43 2


95 3


66


66


E. J. Rowley .


47.4


44 8


94.5


Franklin


.


C. S. Plimpton


51.8


50.7


97.8


Harvard


A. E. Robinson


44 0


39.8


90.4


Highland


A. P. Lord


42.7


40.1


93.8


S. E. Pray


45 9


43.0


93.6


C. M. Smith


.


49.4


45 7


92.5


H. M. Hood .


24.7


22.2


90.0


Lincoln


S. A. Mattoon


57 0


50.0


87.7


Cedar Street


Alice Simpson


39.5


37 0


93.6


Alice M. Porter


42.1


33.7


80 0


Total .


.


2,111.5


1,961.2


92.9


Lillian Nealley


52 3


48.5


92.8


H. V. Hathaway


48.9


46.8


95 7


F. A. Robinson


48.2


45.6


94 6


F. M. Morton


49 9


45 8


91.8


L. E. Clark


47.8


45.0


94.1


.


.


A. C. Damon .


45.0


42.2


93.3


.


Per cent of


156


ANNUAL REPORTS.


GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.


The schools of this grade are wisely directed, skilfully and faithfully instructed, and are making commendable advances in the various studies pursued. They contain about one-half of all the pupils in our public schools, and are always justly regarded with special inter- est and solicitude. The six years required for the completion of the work assigned to these schools constitute an interesting and most important period of life, - a period in which character is easily moulded, and habits of lifelong continuance are contracted and confirmed.


The studies pursued in the grammar schools are indispensable as a basis for higher courses of instruction, and embrace subjects a knowledge of which is not only helpful, but essential to the successful prosecution of the ordinary avocations of life. Hence, they are of vital importance to all classes of the community.


Our estimate of the value of these schools is enhanced by a con- sideration of the fact that a very large proportion of our school popu- lation do not pursue a more advanced course of study, but terminate their period of pupilage when they leave the grammar schools. It is ascertained from a computation based upon the averages of ten years, that only twenty-eight per cent of the pupils who enter the grammar schools complete the entire course, and graduate ; seventeen per cent enter the high school ; and seven per cent complete the high-school course, and graduate.


At the close of the school year, in June, one hundred seventy-five pupils were graduated at the several grammar schools : -


From the Prescott School, 54 : boys, 25 ; girls, 29.


L. V. Bell 50 : 23; 27.


Forster 26 : 12; 14.


66 Morse 66 26 : 13; 13.


Highland


19 : 66


3; 16. · 196


Number promoted to the first class in June .


"


66 second class in June


. 260


66 third 66


"


· 384


66 fourth


66


· 356


66


66


66 fifth 66 66


.


. 451


66


66


66


sixth 66 66


.


. 482


157


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


One hundred eleven of the graduates from the grammar schools en- tered the high school in September : --


From the Prescott School, 31 : boys, 14; girls, 17.


L. V. Bell 26 : 11; 66 15.


Forster 66 19 :


8 ; 66 11.


Highland 66 18 : 66 3;


66 15.


66 Morse 66 17 : 66


8; 66


9.


Number of grammar schools


56


Increase for the year


6


Number of pupils in January


. 2,311


received from the primary schools


482


in attendance in December


2,479


Average number to a school .


44


Number over fifteen years of age in December registered during the year


2,648


EXHIBIT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


Average Average Whole No. Attendance. Attendance.


Forster


J. S. Hayes


32 7


31.4


95.9


66


.


E. H. Wilde .


43.6


41 8


95.8


66


F. M. Guptill .


42.7


40 7


95.3


6


L. F. Clement


37.5


35 8


95.3


66


A. L. Adams .


42.1


39 5


93 9


66


A. A. Batchelor


48.1


45.4


94.2


66


A. S. Winnek


38.3


35 9


93.7


Prescott


G. A. Southworth


54.8


53 8


98.1


Adelaide Reed


33.2


32.0


96.3


66


C. G. Fogg


33.6


32.5


96.1


66


E. M. Cate


37 3


35.8


96.0


66


A. A. Anderson


48.8


46.6


95.4


66


A. I. Sears


47.4


45.5


96.0


66


C. T. Brown .


48 1


45.8


95.3


66


Clara Taylor .


53.7


50.9


94 7


Edgerly


F. P. Hudson


40 2


39.2


97.4


66


H. H. Winslow


54.2


52.8


97 4


66


F. F. Fuller


51 4


48 9


95.1


Luther V. Bell


Robert Bickford


74 1


72.0


97.1


66


M. H. Marden


44.1


42.6


96.6


66


F. J. Emerson


40.5


38 2


94 3


66


.


E. M. Gooding


45.7


43 0


94.2


.


M. E. Stiles .


38.2


36.3


95.0


·


.


M. L. Lewis


38 3


37.1


96.7


H. M. Pierce .


48.9


47.4


96.7


.


.


193


Per cent of


158


ANNUAL REPORTS.


EXHIBIT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS - Concluded.


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


Average Whole No.


Average Per cent of Attendance. Attendance.


Luther V. Bell


M. E. Berry .


48.6


46 9


96 4


F. A. Wilder .


45.6


44.2


96 9


E. F. Schuh .


45.7


44.3


96 9


66


66


L. J. Page


60.0


57.8


96.3


66


66


N. M. Richardson .


45.5


44.0


96.7


Prospect Hill


66


66


Ellen Ledyard


50.4


47.1


93.5


Brastow


S. E. Pennock


50.6


47.5


93.9


Bennett


A. A. Roberts


41.1


38.7


97.0


Jackson


A. E. McCarty


51.4


48.0


93.2


Webster


M. L. Longfellow


29.4


26.4


90 0


Morse


H. C. Parker .


28.2


26.4


93.6


66


P. S. Downes


45.5


44.7


98.2


66


A. E. Sawyer .


45.6


43.6


95.6


66


E. F. Gould .


52.0


48.4


93 1


M. A. Haley .


40.4


38.6


95.5


66


L. J. Brooks


32.0


30.8


96 2


Franklin


H. A. Hills


32.2


31.2


94.0


E. C. Summerhayes


38.4


35.4


92.2


Highland


G. E. Nichols


47.2


45.5


96.4


A. E. Gage


40.4


38.9


96.2


Jennie Colburn


48.1


44.8


93.1


L. J. Conwell .


48 4


46.0


95 1


S. A. Blood


52.0


48.0


92.4


A. R. Cox


47.9


46.3


96.6


Lincoln


M. A. Paul


26 2


25.4


96 0


66


A. B. Chadwick


37.9


35.7


94.2


2,419.5


2,307.4


95.4


66


.


66


66


A. M. Snow


53 4


52.0


97.3


Helen Tincker


42.5


39 6


93.0


N. A. Hamblin


44.8


41.0


91.5


66


Stella Hall


30.6


29.3


95.7


159


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


GRAMMAR MASTERS AND THEIR TERM OF SERVICE.


PRINCIPALS.


SCHOOLS.


FROM-


To


William E. Graves


·


Prospect Hill


April 23, 1842,


Oct.,


1846.


George Swan


.


Low. Winter Hill,


1844,


Sept.,


1851.


William E. Graves


Franklin


Oct.,


1846,


Aug.,


1852.


Martin Draper, jun.


.


Prospect Hill


66


1846,


May,


1852.


Robert Bickford


·


Prescott 6


April,


1852,


Nov., 1853.


Charles S. Lincoln


Prospect Hill


May,


1852,


April, 1853.


Oren S. Knapp


Franklin


Oct.,


1852,


Sept.,


1867.


H. O. Whittemore


.


.


Nov.,


1853,


Aug.,


1854.


Daniel B. Wheeler


66


Sept.,


1854,


6.


1859.


John Jameson


Forster


Feb.,


1855,


Jan.,


1860.


John Wilson .


Prescott


.


Aug.,


1859,


Feb.,


1872.


Edward W. Howe .


Forster


Jan.,


1860,


Aug.,


1864.


George R. Bradford


Prospect Hill


March,


1864,


May,


1866.


Charles G. Pope


Forster


Aug.,


1864,


Sept.,


1870.


Samuel C. Hunt


Prospect Hill


May,


1866,


1874.


Horace P. Makechnie


Lincoln


Jan.,


1867


Franklin


Sept.,


1867,


Feb.,


1868.


John D. Marston


March,


1868,


Nov.,


1869.


William B. Allen


Morse


Nov.,


1869,


July,


1877.


George R. Bradford


Forster


.


Sept.,


March,


1872,


May,


1872.


Luther B. Pillsbury


66


June,


1872,


July,


1873.


Gordon A. Southworth


66


Sept.,


1873.


Samuel C. Hunt


.


Luther V. Bell 66


66


1876,


1879.


John S. Hayes


Forster


66


1878.


Robert Bickford


.


Luther V. Bell


66


1879.


Charles C. Hunkins


.


Morse


66


1877,


Jan.,


1882.


George E. Nichols


.


Lincoln


66


1877,


July,


1881.


George E. Nichols


Highland


66


1881.


William M. Stevens


Morse


Jan.,


1882,


Feb.,


1883.


Frank F. Murdock


66


Feb.,


1883,


July,


1884.


Henry C. Parker


66


.


.


.


Sept.,


1884.


Feb.,


1864.


George T. Littlefield


Prescott


.


.


.


·


.


.


.


.


.


.


.


.


1874,


July, 66


1876.


Samuel C. Higgins


.


Prescott


.


1870,


1878.


Augustus Linfield .


1877.


George R. Bradford


.


1853,


March, 1852.


McLaurin F. Cook


Sept.,


1851,


.


·


.


160


ANNUAL REPORTS.


HIGH SCHOOL.


As early in our history as 1647, the General Court of Massachusetts Colony passed an ordinance making education universal and free, and requiring every town containing one hundred families to maintain a grammar school, to be kept by a master who " should be able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University." 1


In compliance with statute requirements, the citizens of Somerville, so early as 1851, inaugurated measures for the erection of a building and the establishment of a high school. The first high-school house was formally dedicated April 28, 1852 ; and, on the third day of May following, a school composed of sixty-one pupils, selected from the several grammar schools, was established.


In 1860, two courses of study, each requiring four years for its completion, were adopted, - a regular course, including the study of the Latin language ; and a course preparatory to college. The adop- tion of these courses of study was the introduction of a new and most prosperous era of the school, during which it has constantly increased in numbers, efficiency, and popular favor.


In 1862 diplomas of graduation were first awarded. In 1870 an English course of four years was adopted. Since the school was organized, 2,227 persons have enjoyed its advantages ; and since 1862, 564 have graduated. Of the graduates, 133 completed the course preparatory to college, and 11 entered the School of Tech- nology.


It is the constant aim of the school board to make the school as profitable as possible to all persons who avail themselves of its privi- leges, and to secure the highest good of the greatest number. The three courses of study - English, Regular, and Classical - most admirably and fully meet the wants of those who pursue either of them to completion. 6 Many pupils who do not complete either course, enter the school with the intention of graduating, and conse- quently, during their connection with it, pursue some one of the regular courses of study.


Since their aims are various, and the time of their continuance in the school is uncertain, no definite course of study can be arranged that will be adapted to those who enter the school with no intention of graduating, but who desire to supplement the grammar-school course and to remain in the school as long as circumstances will


1 The existing law, pertaining to the maintenance of high schools, was passed in 1826.


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permit. But great liberality is exercised towards this class of pupils. They are permitted to elect, from the various studies pursued in the school, such as will be of the highest practical value to them in their contemplated pursuits in life.


Whole number of different pupils during the year . 401


Largest number at one time .


315


Number admitted during the year


128


From our grammar schools 111


From other schools 17


Number graduated


46


of graduates who entered college


10


who entered U. S. Military Academy at West Point 1


who entered the School of Technology 2


who have left the school during the year, exclusive of graduates 54


Whole number at the present time


300


Number over fifteen years of age . 268


in course preparatory to college


85


pursuing the regular course


174


pursuing the English course


41


in the first class on entering the school


94


at the present time .


48


in the second class on entering the school at the present time .


111


62


in the third class on entering the school


96


at the present time .


76


66 in the fourth class on entering the school .


122


66 at the present time . 114


The class graduated in June last contained 97 members on enter- ing the school in 1880 ; 79 at the beginning of the second year ; 51 at the beginning of the third year ; and 46 at the beginning of the fourth year.


Seven of the graduates entered Tufts College ; two, Harvard College ; one, Dartmouth College ; two, the Institute of Technology ; two, the Salem Normal School; and one, the United States Military Academy at West Point.


Forty-two per cent of all the pupils who entered the school from 1858 to 1880 inclusive, completed the course, and graduated.


162


ANNUAL REPORTS.


THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1884, AT 9 O'CLOCK A.M.


ORDER OF EXERCISES.


SINGING1. - CHORUS : The Heavens are telling. (With orchestra and organ.) " Creation."


1. SALUTATORY IN LATIN (Hexameter verse). J. W. H. WALDEN.


2. ESSAY. " A Soul of Goodness in Things Evil." LILLIAN F. AYER.


3. DECLAMATION. Wendell Phillips. Curtis.


J. FRED GALLETLY.


4. READING. Joel pops the Question. Cape Cod Folks.


MINNIE L. DESPEAUX.


SINGING. - UNISON SOLO : Dormi pure (male voices). Scuderi.


UNISON SOLO : Bedouin Love Song (female voices). Pinsuti.


5. READING. The Sioux Chief's Daughter. Joaquin Miller.


M. LIZZIE GILES.


6. DIE WIEDERHOLUNG (The Rehearsal). (Original. English by Annabel M. Perry.)


LOTTIE M. EDLEFSON, GERTRUDE ELLIS, F. GERTRUDE LEACH, ELENORA H. HITTINGER.


7. READING. Norah Murphy and the Spirits. Hatton. REBECCA S. BELL.


SINGING. - PART SONG : Forsaken. Koschat.


SEMI-CHORUS : On the Mountain. Swiss.


8. FROM HENRY IV., PART I. (Original Version in Greek.)


ROBERT C. BROWN, FRANK E. HUNTRESS,


ALBERT C. ROBINSON, HARVEY P. TOWLE.


9. READING. The Peril of the Mines.


JOSEPHINE S. SULLIVAN.


10. ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS. JAMES W. BEAN,


RECESS.


MUSIC. - Overture " Stradella." Flotow.


SINGING. - From " Tannhauser." Wagner.


(a) March (orchestra alone). (6) Chorus.


1 Accompanied by Hadley's Orchestra.


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11. ESSAY. Bread and Circuses.


LUCY F. SMITH.


12. LE MAGNÉTISEUR (The Mesmerist). (Original. Annie Coffin.)


English by


MARY E. DRAKE, IDA F. FILLEBROWN, HATTIE G. FITZ,


FANNIE L. GWYNN, ADDIE A. HODSDON, ALICE T. MUNROE,


FREDERIC U. BURROWS,


JAMES B. MCGRATH,


HAROLD P. PALMER.


C. FRED SMITH,


AMOS E. WOODWARD,


13. READING. Jamie. GERTA M. COLBY.


14. CLASS POEM. Her Level Best. ANNIE COFFIN. SINGING. - SEMI-CHORUS : Song of the Birds (Instrumentation by S. Henry Hadley). Rubinstein.


HUMOROUS GLEE : Humpty Dumpty. Caldicott.


Virgil.


16. PROPHECIES.


WILLIAM E. BRIGHAM.


17. VALEDICTORY. ADDIE M. BROWN.


18. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.


By J. H. DAVIS, Supt.


19. PARTING HYMN.


MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS.


Rebecca Strong Bell. Annie Maria Blake.


Addie May Brown. Annie Coffin.


Gerta Mignon Colby.


Mary Augusta Colson.


Minnie Louise Despeaux.


Mary Elizabeth Drake.


Lottie Maynard Edlefson.


Gertrude Ellis.


Ida Florence Fillebrown.


Hattie Gertrude Fitz. Mary Lizzie Giles.


Fannie Lee Gwynn.


Elenora Hattie Hittinger. Addie Alfreda Hodsdon.


Florence Gertrude Leach. Etta May McLean. Edith Melissa Miles. Alice Towne Munroe. Annabel Maude Perry.


Lucinda Truesdale Sands. Lucy Fairfield Smith.


William Erastus Brigham. Frederic Ulysses Burrows. James Frederic Galletly. James Bernard McGrath. Harold Payson Palmer. Charles Frederic Smith.


Amos Erastus Woodward.


COURSE PREPARATORY TO COLLEGE.


James William Bean. Robert Calthrop Brown. Edward Simpson Eaton. Harry Gordon. Frank Elias Huntress. Albert Carmi Robinson. Walter Herbert Smith. Frank Skinner Stone.


Harvey Parker Towle. John William Henry Walden. Charles Lowell Young. Florence Bertha Ashley. Lillian Frances Ayer. Georgie Leighton Blood. Josephine Smith Sullivan. Mary Carlisle Worden.


15. FATA PRIAMI. CHARLES L. YOUNG.


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TEACHERS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL SINCE ITS ORGANIZA- TION, AND THEIR TERM OF SERVICE.


PRINCIPALS.


ASSISTANTS.


FROM -


To -


Robert Bickford,


Elizabeth C. Babcock. .


1852,


Dec.,


1853.


Charlotte Gardner


Dec.,


1853,


June, 1854.


Rebecca F. Ames .


.


March,


1854,


Sept.,


1856.


Agnes Gillis .


Dec.,


1854,


Samuel J. Pike .


Lucy A. Dudley .


-


1856,


66


1858.


Sarah C. Cushman


.


Feb.,


1857,


66


1857.


Lydia A. Pierce .


Sept.,


1857,


€6


1858.


Isaac N. Beals


.




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