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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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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
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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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
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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ANNUAL REPORTS.
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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