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E. M. Plummer
44.9
42.0
93.7
10
16
66
F. M. Morton .
64.8
59.6
91.9
12
8
Edgerly 66
Lillian Nealley
55.5
43.5
95.6
6
9
Ada Cowles .
51.6
47.6
92.2
24
1
Davis
F. A. Robinson
44.6
42.2
94.6
14
21
G. A. Earle .
45.2
41.5
91.8
18
8
L. V. Bell
E. L. Schuh
47.5
44.6
94.2
S
6
Cummings
A. M. Brown
55.8
52.6
94.3
23
13
66
A. M. Houghton
57.7
52.3
90.6
15
0
Prospect Hill
L. W. Parkhurst
66.8
62.8
94.0
33
31
66
L. E. Clark .
45.4
40.8
89.9
28
38
Brastow
H. M. Dodge
49.1
44.0
89.6
27
17
Bennett
A. E. Searles
42.8
38.7
90.4
129
13
Jackson
F. L. Gwynn
36.9
33 0
89.4
63
7
Webster 66
A. L. Savage
46.1
43.8
95.0
39
13
Union
A. E. Robinson
43.8
39.2
89.5
59
32
Forster
M. A. Osborne .
43.5
40.7
93.6
7
13
66
L. V. Colby .
44.0
41.1
93.4
10
10
66
L. G. Perry .
71.0
65.9
92.8
11
7
Bingham.
Alice Simpson .
44.0
39.6
90.0
31
42
66
N. F. Byard
48.3
45.9
94.9
2
6
66
Cora Foster .
56.1
52.6
93.7
19
7
Cedar Street
A. M. Porter
33.1
28.3
85.5
37
12
Beech Street
M. E. Bosworth
36.4
34.6
95.2
S
14
Spring Hill .
B. L. Emerson .
43.2
41.2
95.4
31
35
Franklin
A. C. Damon
44.4
41.0
92.4
49
30
Harvard .
F. B. Ashley
43.1
39.3
91.1
117
20
Burns .
H. M. Hood
38.6
35.2
91.0
16
17
66
A. L. Brown
33.8
31.2
92.1
19
15
Highland
S. E. Pray
47.7
44.6
93.4
8
14
Elm Street
Mary Winslow .
34.6
30.7
87.4
10
6
Lincoln
C. F. Mott .
48.4
44.6
92.1
18
10
A C. Thayer
42.4
39.0
91.9
13
9
2,237.7
2,064.8
92.3
1,432
648
.
C. I. Houghton
50.6
44.7
88.2
43
11
Annie Sheridan
45.3
40.8
90.1
48
18
I. E. Taylor
51.8
46.1
88.9
83
15
L. G. Allen .
38.5
35.1
91.2
123
0
A. E. Crimmings
49.0
46.0
93.7
38
0
I. F. Fillebrown
31.6
28.3
89.6
49
8
A. S. Gage .
45.4
42.2
92.9
7
3
P. A. Merritt
54.8
49.7
90.7
15
6
Annie Coffin
50.1
46.5
92.8
18
4
·
C. S. Plimpton
46.4
43.4
93.5
29
18
M. E. Emerson
53.9
50.7
94.0
17
33
N. W. French
36.6
33.6
91.9
23
6
C. M. Bagley
48.6
44.8
92.3
17
6
M. B. Currier .
48.1
46.2
96.1
4
11
149
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Two grammar schools have been formed within the year, - one in each of the new buildings.
Present number of grammar schools 59
Number of pupils in attendance in January 2,652
Number received from the primary schools
549
Number in attendance in December
2,809
Boys, 1,539 ; girls, 1,270.
Average number to a school in December 47
Number over fifteen years of age .
196
Whole number registered during the year
2,956
Thursday, May 26, was assigned as the "Public Day," on which all the schools in the city were open to visitors. On that day a large number of parents and others interested availed them- selves of the opportunity to witness the ordinary exercises of the schools.
Grammar School Graduates' Day. - In the evening of Thurs- day, June 30, the graduates of the several grammar schools met in the same place, and received their diplomas from his Honor Mayor Burns. The graduates were honored by the presence of an audience of about fifteen hundred persons, including his Excel- lency, Gov. Ames. The occasion was one of much interest.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
1. VOLUNTARY.
2. PRAYER. REV. J. W. HAMILTON.
3. * SINGING. - Anthem : "Lift up your heads." Glück.
4. ADDRESS HIS EXCELLENCY, GOV. OLIVER AMES.
5. SINGING. a. Bass Solo: "The Ocean." . Clarke.
b. Tenor Solo: "The Serenade." Verdi.
6. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS MAYOR MARK F. BURNS.
7. SINGING. - Semi-Chorus: "May-Time." Glover.
8. ADDRESS . HON. CHARLES J. NOYES.
9. SINGING. - " The Banner of the Free.". Richards.
* Director. - S. HENRY HADLEY, Teacher of Music.
150
ANNUAL REPORTS.
LUTHER V. BELL SCHOOL.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
CHARLES I. SHEPARD. ALPHONSO H. CARVILL. JAMES F. BEARD.
Principal, HERBERT L. MORSE. Assistants, ABBIE C. HUNT, MAY E. BERRY.
GRADUATES.
George W. Andrews.
Grace L. Boyden.
Charles A. Bridges.
Maud P. Brackett.
William C. Brooks.
Miriam Cavanagh.
Patrick H. Beirne.
Julia A. Cooney.
Thomas J. Callahan.
Ellen E. Crowe.
William C. Cavanagh.
May G. Canfield.
J. Arthur Clark.
Nellie F. Daly.
Joseph A. Connelly.
Fannie M. R. Douthart.
Frederick W. Cook.
Sarah A. Davis.
George W. Creelman.
Minnie H. Eastman.
Sears E. Condit, jun.
Gertrude L. Folan.
Frederick W. Cummings.
Alida B. Goucher.
James A. Daniels.
Mabel E. Guild.
George F. Doherty.
Viana L. Glass.
James F. Flynn.
Bozenka A. Haderbolets.
William E. Goss.
Jessie A. Handley.
Timothy F. Goulding.
Emma L. Ireland.
Frederick Haynes.
Bertha F. Jones.
Henry M. Haven.
Lillian F. Lansing.
George O. Harrington.
Laura L. Leighton.
Arthur F. Hutchinson.
Lillian T. Maguire.
William J. Kaula.
Gertrude H. Miller.
J. Edward McLean.
Mabel M. Mckenzie.
Jeremiah L. Manning.
Mirion H. Milner.
Edward F. Roche.
Mary G. Norton.
Robert C. Sanborn.
Adalaide E. Opper.
Allen E. Shannon.
Lydia Spencer.
John Percival Sylvester.
A. Maud Spry. Effie K. Stevens.
Herbert L. Tuttle.
Albert H. Vickers.
Margaret E. Sheridan.
William F. Young.
Edith A. Tilden.
Viola M. Towle.
Mabel G. Barnes. Emily F. Barton.
Olive C. Waining.
Mabel P. Warner.
151
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
PRESCOTT SCHOOL.
S. NEWTON CUTLER.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE. HORACE C. WHITE. J. HASKELL BUTLER.
Principal, G. A. SOUTHWORTH. Assistant, ANNA M. BATES.
GRADUATES.
Burton N. F. Bush. Fred R. Curtis.
Maud R. Connolly. Annie L. Daley.
Frank C. Dowd.
Florence N. Day.
Irving J. Enslin.
Lizzie E. Doe.
Henry B. Going.
Annie D. Dutcher.
Arthur E. Ham.
Lizzie H. Dutcher.
Frank B. Harmon.
Lena A. Dyer.
Jeremiah E. Higgins.
Florence E. Forrester.
Samuel E. Hopkins.
Leona M. Goodspeed.
Henrietta Harper.
John H. Kelley. William R. Kenny. Daniel F. McAdams.
Cora C. Howes. Fannie C. Jenkins.
Peter S. McAdams. Frank W. Merriman.
Louise M. Jones.
Thomas F. Naugler.
Franklin O. Poole.
Lillian T. King.
Lizzie A. Lauriat.
Clara P. Marshall.
Ida M. Rich. Mabel J. Story.
Marion K. Story.
Lucy E. Thacher. Annie L. Titus.
Georgietta C. A. Walker.
Leora M. Wannamaker. Mary F. Wield.
MORSE SCHOOL.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
MARTIN W. CARR. BENJAMIN G. BROWN. HORACE P. MAKECHNIE.
Principal, HORATIO D. NEWTON. Assistant, MINA J. WENDELL.
GRADUATES.
Francis D. Carr. Wilfred J. Doyle. John W. Eklof.
John W. Harford. Harry B. Hayward. William L. Hill.
Olive R. Brackett. Mabel W. Brown.
Grace L. Cate.
Edna M. Kelley.
Charles F. Porter. Asa B. Prichard. William F. Remick.
Frank D. Sanborn.
F. Irving Sewall. James S. Snow. Nathaniel W. Tucker.
Mabelle W. Houghton.
152
ANNUAL REPORTS.
James W. Hyson. John F. Lynch. Felix F. McGirr. William M. Miley. Edward Mink.
Herbert Raymond Morton.
Philip J. Purcell.
Harry F. Reitenbach.
Frederick L. Richards.
Stephen D. Salmon.
Lewis H. Shepheard.
Ira Andrew Smith. John C. Spring. Rupert Bligh Telfer.
Edmund A. Wellington.
A. Louise Hoffses. Myra W. Hunnewell. Myrtie M. Hutchinson. Gertrude G. Kendall. Ella Velina Pearson.
Elizabeth Hogarth Swann. Maude R. Vanderslice.
HIGHLAND SCHOOL.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
HORACE P. MAKECHNIE. BENJAMIN G. BROWN. MARTIN W. CARR.
Principal, GEORGE E. NICHOLS. Assistant, LILLA A. HAYWARD.
GRADUATES.
Warren H. Beckley. Maurice L. Davis. Frank L. Eastman. Daniel F. Fitz.
Edward M. Jouett.
Harlan B. Kimball.
Albert J. Kretschmar.
Nancy E. Merrill.
Grace T. Merritt.
Estella C. Mann.
William R. Whitehorn.
Stephen C. Wood. Jared S. Wood.
Prescott A. Warren.
Etta R. Atwell. Esther S. Bailey. Margaret F. Berton.
Myrtle M. Bruorton. Josephine C. Bray. Grace E. Duncklee. Bertha L. Dillaway. Luella M. Eaton. Grace E. Hayward. Mabelle B. Huckins.
J. Edwin Lacount. Harry S. Paige. Henry Sander. Frank G. Trott.
Eva A. Ross. Elizabeth B. Scofield.
Josephine Smith. Alice M. Stoddard. Julia A. Sweeney. Emma L. Stevens. Minnie L. White. B. Viola Wilcox. Lilla M. Wilcox.
Linnet Blanche Baker. Elizabeth Gertrude Buckley. Ella Louise Daniels. Carrie Gertrude Day. Ada Frances Fellows. Annie C. Garde. Frances Olive Gilson.
Hattie B. Harrington.
Grace Anna Hitchcock.
153
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
FORSTER SCHOOL.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
NORMAN W. BINGHAM. QUINCY E. DICKERMAN. WILLIAM P. HILL.
Principal, JOHN S. HAYES. Assistant, MARY E. NORTHUP.
GRADUATES.
Norman W. Bingham, jun.
S. Boyd Darling.
Thomas M. Ducey.
Leonie M. IIollis.
William A. Dykeman.
Emma L. Huse.
Fred Haley.
Nellie F. Litchfield.
Charles J. Houghton.
Mabel E. Mansir.
William Arthur Lincoln.
Viola B. Miles.
Louis M. Martin.
Annie F. Mullin.
Harry N. Pillsbury.
Katie E. Murley.
C. Eugene Record.
Lilian H. Nickerson.
Dennis S. Sullivan.
F. Mabel Norcross.
Annie J. Osgood.
Ella L. Raymond.
Alice L. Richardson.
Miriam Louise Woodberry.
The number graduated was 221, - being 28 in excess of the number graduated last year, - boys, 103 ; girls, 118.
From the L. V. Bell School, 67: boys, 31 ; girls, 36.
66 " Prescott 52 : boys, 23 ; girls, 29.
Morse 66 37 : boys, 21 ; girls, 16.
66 Highland 37 : boys, 15 ; girls, 22.
Forster 66 28 : boys, 13 ; girls, 15.
One hundred and forty-six of the grammar school graduates entered the high school in September : boys, 55 ; girls, 91.
From the L. V. Bell School, 42 : boys, 16 ; girls, 26.
Highland 31 : boys, 10 ; girls, 21.
Prescott 66 28 : boys, 10 ; girls, 18. 66 Morse 66 26 : boys, 13 ; girls. 13. 66
66 Forster 66 19 : boys, 6 : girls, 13.
Herman A. Savage.
William O. Woodberry.
Mary A. Cain. Betty Goldsmith.
154
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Number promoted to the first class in June, 275. Per cent 96.4.
66
95.1.
66 .
66 " third
66
428.
66
91.8.
66
66
" fourth 66
66
426. 66 92.2.
66
fifth
66
66
556.
66
66 88.1.
66
" sixth 66
66
549.
66
66 91.3.
Ninety-three per cent of all pupils in the grammar schools were promoted in June.
EXHIBIT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Average Whole No.
Attendance.
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Prescott
G. A. Southworth .
58.6
56.9
97.1
4
3
66
Adelaide Reed .
35.7
34.2
95.7
1
7
A. C. Hudson
34.1
33.1
97.1
1
5
66
A. A. Anderson
42.3
40.8
96.4
0
7
66
C. T. Brown.
53.1
49.1
92.5
6
17
66
Clara Taylor
48.9
45.8
93.6
5
14
Edgerly
L. J. Pike
42.4
40.4
95.4
5
11
66
H. M. Pierce
51.3
48.9
95.4
4
15
Davis
L. A. Burns .
41.0
39.3
96.0
10
24
L. V. Bell
H. L. Morse.
34.0
32.5
95.5
23
22
34.6
33.9
97.8
2
15
66
H. E. Adams
53.2
51.3
96.4
22
52
L. M. Walton
44.5
42.4
95.3
47
33
46.3
44.2
95.4
28
25
E. F. Schuh.
48.1
46.2
96.0
12
24
A. M. Wight
46.0
44.2
96.1
36
25
F. A. Wilder
49.6
47.9
96.4
6
10
N. A. Hamblin
52.1
48.0
92.1
30
22
A. I. Norcross .
53.0
50.0
94.3
59
54
30
Cummings
.
L. J. Page .
50.0
47.8
95.6
29
17
Prospect Hill 66 66
Helen Tincker ·
46.5
43.5
93.5
14
5
66
·
Ellen Ledyard
55.0
51.8
94.2
17
43
Brastow
Maria Miller
40.1
38.2
95.1
21
34
Bennett
M. B. Smith .
40.4
36.4
90.1
61
94
Jackson
A. E. McCarty .
35.0
32.7
93.4
49
45
Webster
C. E. Cobb
31.0
28.4
91.6
2S
17
.
E. M. Cate
43.5
41.5
93.1
7
4
A. I. Sears
50.7
48.4
95.6
6
22
F. P. Hudson
39.8
38.7
97.0
3
S
F. F. Fuller .
51.0
48.7
95.5
10
17
H. L. Morse .
N. A. Knowlton
53.2
50.3
94.6
26
·
S. A. Tuttle .
47.2
44 4
94.1
14
37
E. M. Gooding
Average
Per Cent of
" " second " "
348.
155
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
EXHIBIT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS- Concluded.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Average Whole No.
Average
Per Cent of
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Forster
J. S. Hayes
32.9
32.0
97.2
0
9
M. E. Stiles .
43.3
41.5
96.0
2
13
M. S. Murch
43.6
41.7
95.7
2
11
66
M. L. Wentworth .
37.5
35.4
94.5
3
10
66
F. M. Guptill
48.7
46.0
94.4
5
11
L F. Clement
50.0
47.4
94.7
4
16
66
A. S. Winnek .
40.4
38.0
93.9
6
20
Bingham .
A. W. Emerson
37.6
35.9
95.5
15
9
Morse .
Stella Hall
42.1
39.7
94.2
S
43
6
Franklin
H. A. Hills .
34.4
32.4
94.2
33
25
66
E. C. Summerhayes
39.8
37.2
93.4
54
11
Burns .
L. J. Brooks
41.9
40.3
96.2
22
13
66
M. S. Turner
35.4
32.9
92.8
24
36
Highland.
G. E. Nichols
51.5
49.4
96.0
0
63
66
H. B. Sargent
52.2
49.0
93.9
9
72
F. N. Robbins
46.1
43.1
93.6
6
43
S. A. Blood
45.8
43.6
95.3
12
46
A. R. Cox
42.1
39.5
94.0
18
79
66
J. C. Frazier
46.4
43.6
94.7
17
26
Lincoln
H. A. P. Roth
35.3
33.4
94.6
25
37
66
P. A. Osgood
45.2
43.1
95.3
7
49
2,610.9
2,479.7
94.9
953
1550
E. F. Gould .
37.9
36.2
95.5
15
26
A. E. Sawyer
41.0
38.9
94.6
29
34
M. A. Haley .
55.0
52.3
95.5
33
32
A. A. Batchelor
50.5
47.5
94.1
11
14
H. D. Newton
40.0
38.5
96.2
7
38
P. S. Downes
42.1
41.3
98.3
0
Attendance.
Attendance.
HIGH SCHOOL.
The first high-school house was dedicated April 29, 1852, and occupied by the school, consisting of sixty-one pupils, May 3, 1852. The second story of that building accommodated the school fifteen years, the first story being used, during those years, for town purposes. In 1867, the entire building was applied to the exclusive use of the school.
When Mr. Babcock became principal of the school in August, 1859, it contained forty-three pupils. The course of study re- quired three years. No pupils had been prepared for college, and there had been no graduation of those who had completed the course. In 1860 a four-years' course was adopted, and in 1862
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
a class consisting of six persons was graduated, and diplomas were awarded. In September, 1867, the year in which Mr. Bab- cock resigned and Mr. Baxter became principal of the school, it contained one hundred and nineteen pupils.
The school held its last session in the old building Feb. 27, 1872, and its first in the new March 4, 1872, at which time it contained one hundred and fifty pupils.
· The following shows the average whole number of pupils each year since the school entered the new building : -
In 1872
151 |
In 1880
224
" 1873
171
“ 1881
237
" 1874
167 “ 1882 247
“ 1875
190 " 1883
261
“ 1876
206
" 1884
273
“ 1877
209
" 1885
320
" 1878
219
" 1886
350
“ 1879
227
“ 1887
350
Twenty-six hundred and ninety-seven persons have been con- nected with the high school, as pupils, during the thirty-five years of its continuance, and seven hundred and twenty-two have received diplomas of graduation.
Whole number of different pupils during the year . 518
Largest number at one time
· 387
Number admitted during the year from our grammar schools
· 160
from other schools .
14
graduated
·
56
of graduates who entered college .
14
of graduates who entered Institute of Technology ·
1
66 who have left the school during the year, exclusive of graduates . 87
Whole number at the present time
375
Average number to a teacher
36
Number over fifteen years of age
340
in course preparatory to college
· 108
pursuing the regular course ·
. 197
Number pursuing the English course .
·
70
in the first class on entering the school ·
. 122
146 ·
·
·
157
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Number at the present time 58
in the second class on entering the school 170
at the present time . 72
in the third class on entering the school . 140
at the present time . 104
in the fourth class on entering the school 149
at the present time 141 ·
THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1887.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
SINGING .*- FOUR-PART SONG: "The Stars are shining in Heaven." Rheinberger.
1. SALULATORY IN LATIN. JAMES P. MCADAMS.
2. ESSAY. Hobbies and Their Riders. MARY E. BRADLEY.
3. READING. Harmony Chime. Marie B. Williams.
EMMA F. WILKINS.
SINGING. - TRIO (in canon) : "William Tell." Rossini.
SPINNING-WHEEL CHORUS. (Female voices.) Wagner.
(With orchestra.)
4. READING. . Fourth of July at Jonesville. Marietta Holley.
EVANGELINE F. HOUGHTON.
5. Das Späte Nachhausekommen. CAROLINE E. DENSMORE. NELLIE C. HOPKINS.
ALLICE KENNY.
6. READING. How Christmas came to Simpson's Bar. Bret Harte.
GEORGE STEPHENS.
SINGING. - SOLO: "In questo semplice." Donizetti. SOLO AND CHORUS: Sanctus. Gounod.
(With orchestra and organ.)
7. ESSAY. A Bunch of Rusty Keys. ANNIE E. BOARDMAN.
S. READING. The Overflow. Caroline Southey.
CARRIE A. RAYMOND.
9. FROM " MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM." Original version in Greek.
FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, JANE R. CUTLER,
ARTHUR C. HOLT, ELLA F. ELLIOT,
WILLIAM P. JONES, LILLYE T. LEWIS,
DANIEL RICHARDS, Jun., GEORGE L. NORTH,
JOSEPH L. RUBEL, ANNA A. PICKENS,
JOHN D. SPENCE, JOSIE L. PRESTON.
* Singing accompanied by Hadley's Orchestra.
158
ANNUAL REPORTS.
RECESS.
MUSIC. - POTPOURRI : RUDDYGORE. Sullivan. (Instrumentation by Master Henry K. Hadley.)
SINGING. - HYMN FOR SOPRANO AND CHORUS: "Hear my Prayer." Mendelssohn.
(With orchestra. )
10. ESSAY. Condensation.
GRACE H. DICKERMAN.
11. BULLES DE SAVON.
ALICE G. BAILEY, GERTRUDE M. JOUETT,
EDITH L. BOYDEN,
FRANCES M. SEYMOUR,
ALICE E. COLBURN,
ELLEN F. SHERIDAN,
BERTHA W. EGIN, MARTHA G. SIAS,
SUSIE E. FARRINGTON, WALTER B. GOODING,
JANE M. HORNER, SANFORD JOYCE,
WILBUR D. MERRILL.
12. READING. The Chariot Race. Lew Wallace. ELLA G. WORDEN.
13. POEM. The Modern Knight. MAY U. GRIFFIN.
SINGING. - Twenty-third Psalm. Schubert.
(Young ladies of the graduating class.) SOLO AND CHORUS: "Hail, Lovely Venice." Donizetti.
(Instrumentation by S. Henry Hadley.) Virgil.
14. CERTAMEN. FRED A. HUNTRESS.
15. PROPHECIES. GEORGE A. WRIGHT.
16. VALEDICTORY. MABEL E. NICKERSON.
17. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. BY MAYOR MARK F. BURNS.
18. PARTING HYMN.
WORDS BY HANNAH DEMERITT. MUSIC BY ALICE G. BAILEY.
MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS.
Alice Griswold Bailey.
Edith Louise Boyden.
Nellie Clayton Hopkins.
Mary Ellen Bradley. Minnie Elizabeth Buckley.
Jane Marian Horner. * Evangeline Florence Houghton. Gertrude Madora Jouett.
Genevieve Hattie Chase. Alice Eleanor Colburn.
Allice Kenny.
* Bertha Adams Conant. Hannah Demeritt.
Edith Louise Munroe.
Mary Frances Nagle.
Caroline Eaton Densmore.
Mabel Elsie Nickerson.
Grace Harris Dickerman.
Annie Mabel Parsons.
Carrie Alice Raymond.
Mabel Ethelyn Rich.
* Helen Matthews Rogers.
* Diploma not received on account of the omission of a study.
Bertha Wilhelmina Egin. Susie Evelyn Farrington. Margaret Gordon.
May Usher Griffin.
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Frances Marion Seymour.
Robert Burns.
Ellen Frank Sheridan.
Walter Barnes Gooding.
Sanford Joyce.
Wilbur David Merrill.
Joseph Little Rubel.
Emery Gault Smith.
George Stevens. George Alvin Wright.
COURSE PREPARATORY TO COLLEGE.
Frank Henry Hitchcock.
Jane Ruth Cutler.
Arthur Clark Holt.
Ella Florence Elliot.
Fred Albion Huntress.
Lillye Theodosia Lewis.
William Preble Jones.
* Ruth Dingley Loring. Georgie Lincoln North.
James Philip McAdams.
Daniel Richards, jun.
Martha Celina Parsons.
John David Spence.
Anna Augusta Pickens.
Annie Evelyn Boardman.
Josie Larcom Preston.
* Graduated in the Regular Course last year.
ATTENDANCE.
Average whole number in all the schools for the year . 5,198.2
High school
349.6
Grammar school
2,610.9
Primary schools .
2,237.7
Average attendance in all the schools for the year 4,878.5
High school
334.0
Grammar schools
2,479.7
Primary schools
2,064.8
Per cent of attendance in all the schools for the year. 93.8
High school . 95.5
Grammar schools
. 94.9
Primary schools
. 92.3
Number of tardinesses in all the schools for the year . 2.699
High school . 314
Grammar schools · 953
Primary schools
1,432
Number of dismissals in all the schools for the year . 2,775
High school
. 577
Grammar schools ·
1.550
Primary schools
. 648
Martha Genevieve Sias.
Mary Ellen Stackpole. Emma Florence Wilkins.
Ella Grant Worden.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Irregular attendance is the crowning evil of the schools at the present time. Its effect, in lowering the standard of scholarship, preventing promotions, and retarding the progress of improve- ment, surpasses that of all other causes combined.
The studies for the several grades are arranged in accordance with our best judgment of the proper order of their succession, and their adaptation to the average capabilities of pupils at different stages of advancement, and upon the presumption that all the time assigned to the schools will be faithfully and studiously employed, that all principles which are fundamental will be com- prehended in their order, and that all difficulties will be overcome as they occur.
Our school time is nominally forty weeks. During the present year there have been eleven holidays. In consequence of stormy weather, the high school has lost six sessions, and the grammar and primary schools eight sessions. Consequently there have been only thirty-seven weeks of actual school time. It must be apparent, therefore, that no pupil of ordinary ability can absent himself any portion of the time the schools are in session, and satisfactorily perform the work assigned.
TRUANCY.
The following is the report of the truant officer, Mr. Lemuel H. Snow, who, in the performance of his duties, has exercised com- mendable vigilance, discretion, and industry : -
Number of visits to the schools 696 ·
Number of absences investigated
. 561
Number of cases of truancy
· 166
Number of different truants
· 115
Number of truants arrested
17
Number sent to the House of Reformation
.
6
The labor performed by the truant officer in the investigation of the large number of absences reported to him, and in returning to the schools with promptness those who are found to be truants, is by no means insignificant or unimportant ; but it is far from being the full measure of the value of his services to the schools. and consequently to the city. His influence in preventing absenteeism and truaney is even more important. Many pupils who would
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absent themselves from school for insufficient reasons, and thereby become truants and the subjects of all the pernicious consequences that would result therefrom, are restrained by a knowledge of what would follow through the vigilance of the truant officer, and are now regular attendants of the schools and the recipients of their benefits.
Mr. Walton, agent of the Massachusetts Board of Education, in his report on school attendance and truancy, says : " A vigilant truant officer, with a co-operating police force, will make the streets and byways of a city as lonesome to a boy as the tombs of the dead, and the schoolroom, in comparison, a delight."
EVENING SCHOOLS.
The evening grammar schools which were in operation at the close of last year, were continued fourteen evenings, to Feb. 1, and the drawing school twenty-three evenings, to April 1.
Cost of instruction
$344 50
Janitor's services
51 00
Cost of materials
26 00
Gas .
75 00
Total cost of evening schools to April 1 $496 50
Oct. 3, an evening drawing school was opened in the high schoolhouse, and evening grammar schools in the Prescott, L. V. Bell, and Highland Schoolhouses.
Nothing calculated to render these schools profitable and attrac- tive has been omitted. The most desirable schoolrooms in our best school buildings have been occupied by them. They have been supplied liberally with all the conveniences and appliances of the day schools. They have been in charge of the grammar masters, whose instruction has been supplemented by skilled assistants.
In order to insure, if possible, greater regularity of attendance than formerly, the parents and guardians of all applicants, under eighteen years of age, were required, at the beginning of the schools, to signify in writing their intention to have their children or wards attend them regularly and punctually during the entire term of their continuance.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Those who prized their opportunities, and have been regular in attendance and attentive to school duties, have maintained their interest to the end of the term, and have derived great benefit from their privileges ; but the majority of those who entered the several schools have shown, by their irregularity and inattention, a want of appreciation of the privileges afforded them, and, con- sequently, have received but little profit therefrom.
We began with an enrolment of three hundred and thirty-four, and ended with an attendance of ninety.
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXHIBIT OF THE EVENING SCHOOLS FROM OCT. 3, TO DEC. 24, INCLUSIVE : -
SCHOOLS.
Whole No.
Average
Average
Attendance.
Per cent of
Attendance.
Sessions.
Teachers.
Cost of
Instruction.
Total Cost.
Drawing School
83
66
59
89.4
23
2
$184 00
$250 64
Prescott Grammar School .
125
60
44
73.3
46
5
305 00
409 00
L. V. Bell
66
73
46
33
71.7
47
3
267 50
301 60
Highland
53
42
29
69.0
47
3
258 50
342 00
Total
334
214
165
77.1
163
13
$1,015 00
$1,303 24
Total cost of evening schools for the year, $1,799.74.
TEXT-BOOKS.
Since the application of the law requiring free text-books, three and one-half years have elapsed, and the city has expended for their purchase $16,456.
Amount paid in 1884 .
. $7,320 00
" 1885 .
. 3,879 00
" 1886 .
. 2,322 00
66 " 1887 .
2,935 00
Total amount
$16,456 00
For the high school
. $3,516 00
" " grammar and primary schools .
. 12,759 00
" " evening schools
181 00
$16,456 00
.
66
Whole No.
No. of
No. of
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The books are used with much care by teachers and pupils. Pupils are more careful of city books than they were of their own.
It is apparent from the great difference in the amounts expended for books in different years thus far, that sufficient time has not elapsed to furnish data for determining, with any degree of accu- racy, what will be their average annual cost.
MUSIC.
In all the grades, one hour a week is devoted to the study and practice of music, which has been a regular branch of instruction in our schools for nearly thirty years. For the last twenty years, it has been under the direction of Mr. S. Henry Hadley, whose instruction has been ably and successfully supplemented by the regular teachers. Mr. Hadley, by his enthusiasm, and rare ability and skill as a teacher, has ever sustained a commendable interest in this important branch of instruction.
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