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The exhibition was visited by all the pupils of the schools at special times assigned to the several classes, and by many citizens. The purpose was to show the results of two years' work in these lines, and to bring the people nearer to the schools, and enable them to better understand some of the objects now considered essen- tial features of our educational system. The effect was undoubtedly an incentive to the teachers and pupils, and has had a permanent influence upon our work.
SLOYD SCHOOL.
During the summer vacation, Mr. Morse, principal of the Bell School, and Mr. Hathaway, principal of the Lincoln, who, with other principals and teachers, had completed a course in Sloyd at the North Bennett-street Industrial School through the kindness of Mrs. Shaw, solicited funds, and, having secured the use of the basement room of the Bell School, fitted up benches and purchased tools for Sloyd work. Four classes of sixteen boys each, from all parts of the city, attended the school for six weeks and maintained a great interest throughout the course. Each class had three two-hour lessons a week, and very good results were attained. At the close of the term, a public even- ing session was held, which many citizens took advantage of. After witnessing the boys at work, the people assembled in the hall upstairs, and were addressed by Professor Ordway, of New Orleans, Mr. Lars Ericsson, of the North Bennett-street School, the superintendent of schools, and others.
'The experiment showed that boys are sufficiently interested in manual training to voluntarily devote part of their vacation to it,
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not only for the knowledge to be obtained, but for the sake of having something to do. It also demonstrates the fact that there are peo- ple in Somerville who are sufficiently interested in the introduction of manual training to put their hands into their pockets and pay for an experiment.
It was an illustration of what might be done in this direction by the School Board for those who need to be employed during the long vacation, as outlined and urged in last year's report.
Great credit is due Mr. Morse and Mr. Hathaway for their in- terest and energy in the matter, and the city is under obligation to the generous donors of the funds which supported the enterprise. I sincerely hope that arrangements may be made by which the work can be carried on.
With this brief and superficial review of the work in the schools during the year, I turn to the consideration of measures demanding attention in the near future.
TRAINING OF TEACHERS.
In my last annual report I devoted a chapter to this subject, and in it I made the statement that I was not prepared to advocate the establishment of a training school, but gave some considerations which might be urged in favor of providing some means of training for those who are capable of becoming good teachers, but who can- not take a normal-school course. I have been convinced that the time would come when the city would be driven to the necessity of establishing a training school.
In January last the Board, through the committee on High School, to whom power was given in the premises, authorized me to organize a training class to be composed of young ladies who were in the list of substitutes. A meeting was accordingly held, and the plan laid out. The young ladies very willingly and earnestly entered into the work, were assigned to particular schools for observation and practice, and began a course of reading on the subject of teaching. I continued meetings once a week at first, and then once in two weeks, at which the principles and methods of teaching were consid- ered, and the various experiences of the members of the class related and discussed. The following young ladies were members of the class : Florence E. Baxter, Lena B. Blaikie, Maizie E. Blaikie, Mary
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Blodgett, Emma Burckes, Eula M. Byrns, Martha E. Daniels, A. B. Goucher, Mary E. Lacy, Nettie M. Orne, Minnie A. Perry, Martha M. Power, Hattie E. Richardson, Fanny M. Seymour, Grace M. White. All but one were graduates of our High School ; two were graduates one was a student of the Salem Normal School, and two came from the Quincy Training Class.
The experiment was a success in many ways. They engaged in systematic work, became posted in our methods, and competent to substitute successfully. Two of these are now teaching out of town at good salaries, one has entered the Bridgewater Normal School, and the others are teaching here as assistants, or as regular teachers, with fair success.
I have not organized a class this term because of unusual de- mands upon my time; but there are several young ladies ready to enter such a class.
The amount of instruction and practice was inadequate as a preparation for teaching. At least a year should be given these young teachers to qualify them for their work, but it has been impos- sible to continue the class this fall, and they have depended wholly upon what they could gather up for themselves.
From this experience and from the experience of others, I am prepared to ask for the establishment of a training class, with a defi- nitely prescribed course of study and practice, covering at least a year, under rules similar to those in practice in other cities. I would also recommend that the new grammar school now being erected at the corner of Washington and Boston streets, be designated as a train- ing school, in which there should be model teachers in charge of the several rooms. I mean by that, teachers of experience, who would be expected to take under their direction the several members of the training class. There should also be a teacher of methods who could instruct the class in the principles and methods of teaching. The school should be in charge of a principal, as all grammar schools are, and the whole should be designed and equipped for special work. I consider this matter of vital importance to the city and to the school system, and I invite the immediate consideration of the Board to the subject as a special undertaking. The establishment of the school for this purpose would not in the least interfere with its mission as a grammar school. The organization, gradation, course of study, and general rules of government and administration would be identical
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with those of other schools. It would simply be a designation for the purposes of a model school, and it would furnish a domicile for the class.
VACATION SCHOOLS.
One other subject I wish to bring to your attention as worthy of immediate action. In my last annual report I presented some views upon this subject and related the experience of other cities, speaking of it as a matter for future consideration. Now the needs of the pupils for whom vacation schools are designed come to me with irre- sistible force. The children who live in districts where these schools should be opened not only have a long summer on their hands in which to grovel in dirt, fall into bad company, acquire the habit of idleness, learn the lessons of truancy, but also become the most unteachable pupils in our schools. They are the boys and girls who have to leave early to go to work, and can ill afford two months of idleness in the dullest industrial part of the year. In the country they could find useful employment and learn by the occupa- tion. In the city is nothing but a dreary waste. President Eliot said in a recent address : "The children cannot afford to have so large a proportion of vacation as is now given to them, particularly in cities, where the immense majority of the children are unable to leave town, and where they have no adequate occupation for a vaca- tion of two months. This need not mean, of course, that the teach- ers are not to have a vacation. It seems to me that the teachers do need a vacation, but the pupils do not need it so much. But we en- counter always, when we ask for more time for schools, this objection : 'The children can hardly stand the stress to which they are now.sub- jected.' I believe," he says, " there are three good answers to this objection. First, ventilation. Second, gymnastic movements during school hours in the class-room. It is conclusively demonstrated that very brief intervals of gymnastic exercises throughout the public schools of Scandinavia and Germany do keep the children in good condition, do enable them to do a much greater amount of intellect- ual labor than American children. Third, by making the work inter- esting, etc."
I would like to have the Board take up this matter for special
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consideration before the appropriations are asked for, in order that, if thought practicable, something may be done this year.
GRADUATIONS.
The graduating exercises of the High School were held as usual in the First M. E. Church, and were of a high order. The diplomas were awarded by his Honor Mayor Pope.
The programme was as follows : -
THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1890, AT 9 A. M.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
PRAYER. REV. GEORGE W. DURELL. SINGING .*- CHORUS: "Unfold, ye Portals." "Redemption." Gounod.
(With organ and orchestra.)
1. SALUTATORY IN LATIN.
CHARLES ST. C. WADE.
2. ESSAY. The Real and the Unreal. ALICE M. NICKERSON.
3. READING. THE ESCAPE OF JEAN VALJEAN. JOSEPHINE F. A. HOPKINS.
Hugo.
SINGING .- LULLABY. (Female Voices.)
Chadwick. CHORUS OF DERVISHES. (Male Voices.) "Ruins of Athens." Beethoven.
4. READING. A FEW FRIENDS.
H. OSGOOD LACOUNT.
5. Entwirrungsspiel.
EDITH A. CHAPMAN, CHIARLOTTE M. LEONARD,
ALICE M. EMERSON, ALICE M. LIBBY,
ABBIE G. FISH, LEILA I. PRIMUS,
CORDELIA A. FOSTER, CLARA B. SNOW,
FLORENCE E. WHITMAN.
SINGING. - SEMI-CHORUS : " Dreamy Lake." (Unaccompanied.) H. K. H. " Whither." (Müller-Longfellow.) Composed for and dedicated to the Class of 1890, by Henry K. Hadley.
6. ESSAY. Lesser Lights. MARY E. NICKERSON. * Singing accompanied by Hadley's Orchestra.
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7.
READING. THE CRICKET FIDDLER.
Bates.
HARRIETTE N. HAYDEN.
CORNET SOLO. SOUVENIR DE LA SUISSE. Liberati.
CARL E. MERRILL.
8. SCENE FROM "THE ILIAD."
ELIZABETH M. WOOD, FRANK S. HIGHT,
ARTHUR D. FLITNER, WARREN D. HOLT,
LAWRENCE A. MURPHY.
RECESS.
MUSIC. - OVERTURE : " William Tell.' Rossini.
ORCHESTRA. 1
SINGING. - UNISON SOLO: "The New Kingdom." (With organ and orchestra. Orchestration by S. Henry Hadley.)
9. ESSAY. The Great Picture of Weinbrenner. ALICE M. LAVERS.
10. A la pension à Paris.
MARY BAYFIELD, AGNES W. CROSBY,
NETTIE M. LOVERING,
M. AGNES SHERIDAN,
AROLINE B. ELLIS,
BESSIE W. YEATON,
BERTHA A. GOULD, CHARLES E. GILES, JR.,
EDITH L. HUNNEWELL,
CARL E. MERRILL,
CARRIE T. LINCOLN, HARRY G. WATERS.
ORGAN SOLO: FANFARE. Lemmens.
FREDERIC W. FITTS.
11. READING. THE RUGGLESES' DINNER-PARTY. Kate Douglas Wiggin.
ANNIE L. RICKER.
12. POEM. BERTHA L. BARTLETT.
SINGING. - CHORUS: A Peasant Wedding in Karinthia. Koschat.
(With orchestra.)
13. DECLAMATION. EDUCATION. T. M. DAVID MCCLOSKEY.
Mann.
14. PROPHECIES. ARTHUR M. COFFIN.
15. VALEDICTORY. EDITH M. WALKER.
16. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. BY HIS HONOR MAYOR POPE.
17. PARTING HYMN. WRITTEN BY HELEN G. FRYE. (Music by Henry K. Hadley.)
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MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS.
Bertha Leavitt Bartlett.
Charles Edwin Giles, Jr.
Mary Bayfield.
George Edward Howe.
Edith Azubah Chapman.
Ned Herbert Janvrin.
Agnes Warren Crosby.
Henry Osgood Lacount.
Aroline Bradford Ellis.
Thomas M. David McCloskey-
Alice Maud Emerson.
Carl Edward Merrill.
Abbie Gertrude Fish.
Arthur Bigelow Roberts.
*Cordelia Arlington Foster.
Helen Gertrude Frye.
Howard Hanchett Weston.
Bertha Annie Gould.
Harriette Nash Hayden.
Course Preparatory to College.
Josephine Frances Augusta Hopkins.
Walter Channing Bailey, Jr.
Edith Louise Hunnewell.
Harry Aldrich Barnes.
Elizabeth Amelia Lambert.
John Lawton Butler.
Alice Mary Lavers.
Alexander Dewing.
Charlotte Marie Leonard.
Arthur Dow Flitner.
Alice May Libby.
Frank Sawyer Hight.
Carrie Tapley Lincoln.
Warren Dustin Holt.
Nettie Maude Lovering.
Freeman Lamprey Lowell.
Mary Emma Nickerson.
Lawrence Aloysius Murphy.
Leila Isabelle Primus.
Ernest Wallace Noone.
Annie Lillian Ricker.
William Henry O'Connell.
Annie Louise Shedd.
Charles Erwin Parkhurst.
Mary Agnes Sheridan.
Charles St. Clair Wade.
Grace Shorey.
Clara Belle Snow.
Lillian Sara Allen.
Eva Margarett Veazie.
Grace Lizzie Atkins.
Florence Evelyn Whitman.
Lena Walker Briggs.
Bessie Winn Yeaton.
Alice Mary Nickerson.
Mabel Edith Townsend.
Arthur McArthur Coffin.
Edith Marion Walker.
Arthur Clifton Dyer.
Jennie Webb.
Frederic Whitney Fitts.
Elizabeth Morris Wood.
* Diploma not received on account of the omission of a part of the Course of Study.
GRADUATION.
The graduation exercises of the grammar schools also took place in the First M. E. Church. Addresses were given by Rev. Dr. Miner, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, and the superintendent of schools.
Harry Granville Waters.
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The diplomas were awarded by His Honor Mayor Pope, who also gave a brief address. The following is the programme :-
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1890, AT 7.30 P. M.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.
1. OVERTURE. Raymond.
2. PRAYER.
A. Thomas. REV. C. L. NOYES.
3. SINGING .*- SOLO AND CHORUS : "Let the People Praise Thee," from " Eli." Costa.
COMBINED GRAMMAR CLASSES. (Accompanied by orchestra and organ.)
4. ADDRESS. SUPT. C. E. MELENEY.
5. ADDRESS. REV. A. A. MINER, D. D.
PART II.
6. SINGING. - "Sweet Summer Morn." Smart.
(With orchestra.)
7. ADDRESS. MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE.
8. SINGING. - TRIO : " Rest Thee on this Mossy Pillow." Smart.
FEMALE VOICES.
9. ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES AND CONFER- RING OF DIPLOMAS. MAYOR CHARLES G. POPE.
10. SINGING. - CHORUS: "Early Morning." (With orchestra and organ.)
Kreutzer.
* Director - S. HENRY HADLEY, Teacher of Music.
LUTHER V. BELL SCHOOL.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
CHARLES I. SHEPARD. JAMES F. BEARD. MAYOR POPE. ALPHONZO H. CARVILL.
Principal, HERBERT L. MORSE. Assistants, ABBIE C. HUNT, MAY E. BERRY.
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GRADUATES.
Frederick W. Adams.
Margaret Adam.
Joseph Adler.
Elizabeth M. Baldwin.
Edward A. Ashe.
Mabel E. Barr.
William H. Atwood.
Maude E. Bickford.
Thomas D. Bennett.
Flora M. Blaisdell.
Louis H. Birmingham.
Grace L. Boynton.
Harry B. Bullen.
Ida F. Brooks.
Edward S. Chapin.
Addie P. Chappell.
Daniel J. Cotter.
Josephine E. Coggin ..
William L. Crowe.
Elvira C. Cole.
George B. Cutter.
Mary D. M. Cooney.
John W. Diskin.
Kate M. Dane.
Alvah F. Dole.
Susie E. Dewing.
Clara B. Dickey.
Kate A. Diggins.
J. Frederick Farrell. James R. Fidler.
Daisy B. Farnum.
Charles E. French.
Minnie S. Farrell.
Martin Garrity, Jr.
Bertha L. Frazier.
Henry A. Goddard.
Lizzie C. Frazier.
Daniel I. Gooding.
Ada B. Gilmore.
Carl R. Gossweiler.
Lottie H. Godfrey.
William C. Hammond.
Florence W. Gooding.
Louis L. Hanaford.
Grace M. Gordon.
Harry A. Harmon.
Ella M. Griffith.
William Higgins.
Hattie M. Hamblin.
John W. King.
Hattie M. Hanson.
Albert E. Lincoln.
Elsie G. Hatchard.
Charles E. Lord.
Katherine C. Heffernan.
Robert J. Lynd.
Clara G. Hegan.
John J. McCarty.
S. Elizabeth Hight.
Robert J. McIntire.
Maud A. Holbrook.
Charles W. McIntosh.
Cora I. Howe.
Corbett J. McLean.
Blanche M. Huse.
Thomas Miller, Jr.
Annie F. McFadden.
Harry L. Morse.
Alice R. L. McGann.
John J. O'Connell.
Annie M. Mahoney.
Walter L. Peavey.
Bessie F. Manning.
John H. Rafferty.
Lura M. Messer.
Francis F. Rogers.
Ethel S. Mills.
J. Frederick Singleton.
Josephine L. Mitchell.
William H. Smith.
Grace H. Morse.
Francis A. Twitchell.
A. Adella Myers.
Alexander McK. Watt.
Annie G. O'Connell.
Fred S. Eveleth.
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Nathaniel Webb, Jr.
Harriet F. Olin.
Richard I. Webb.
Jennie R. Oliver.
Arthur J. Wier.
Bertha L. Peirce.
Frederick A. Worden.
Mabel A. Pettes.
Leila H. Sprague.
Isabella H. Pousland.
Mary E. Ware.
Eleanor E. Priest.
Alice L. Westgate.
Nannee M. Sargent.
M. Gertrude Wetherbee.
Ada B. Scales.
Alice M. Wood.
Esther Shaw.
Annie J. Wood.
Alice M. Singleton.
PRESCOTT SCHOOL.
HORACE C. WHITE.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE. S. NEWTON CUTLER. SANFORD HANSCOM.
Principal, G. A. SOUTHWORTH. Assistant, ANNA M. BATES.
GRADUATES.
Annie M. Almeida.
Gertrude A. Strout.
Olive Z. Burkett.
Gertrude E. Taylor.
Agnes Burns.
L. May Wellington.
Lizzie P. Chapman.
Susie A. Wentworth.
Florence R. Conant.
Blanche Wheeler.
Lillie E. Corson.
Mabel V. White.
Mabel J. Crisp.
Edith A. Winship.
Jennie L. Curran.
Willard H. Andrews.
Mabel G. Delano.
Charles D. Babb.
Agnes C. Edworthy.
Fred T. Baker.
Maude J. Craig.
Albert M. Burbank.
Annie A. Gee.
James E. Charlesworth.
Mabel A. Grant.
Paul K. Clymer.
Josephine W. Hale.
Fred B. Crowell.
Lura S. Hall.
Arthur W. Fitzgerald.
Gertie E. Hammond.
Stanley D. Fobes.
Lillie M. Johnson.
Frederick T. Grant.
Bessie M. Junkins.
Arthur D. Hadley. Henry D. Newell.
Bertha Lawrence. Mattie L. Littlefield.
Percy F. Parsons.
James R. Pitman, Jr.
Katie M. McCarthy. Ruth J. McGregory. Ida G. Norton.
Joseph W. Ralph.
Nathan P. Reed.
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Mabel Olmsted. Lily Peterson. Carrie M. Prentiss. Mattie I. Purinton.
Herbert Richardson. William H. Taplin. Benjamin H. Thacher. Samuel G. Underhill.
HIGHLAND SCHOOL.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
GILES W. BRYANT. MRS. ADDIE B. UPHAM. MARTIN W. CARR.
Principal, GEORGE E. NICHOLS. Assistant, M. ALICE PAUL.
GRADUATES.
Malcolm C. Anderson.
Arthur B. Kempton.
C. Ellie Atwood.
Alice Maud Kimball.
Arthur R. Barnes.
Henry Lavers.
Emma A. Barnes.
Annie May Mckean.
John W. Berry.
Sadie A. Merry.
Lottie G. Bowers.
Ada G. Morton.
Herbert E. Bowman.
James Munn.
Bertha E. Brown.
Norman S. Muzzey.
Clara H. Brown.
T. Bartie Nicholson.
James F. Brown.
George F. Nichol.
Jules W. Brown.
Arthur W. Orrill.
Samuel P. Capen.
Carrie E. Perry.
Ethel M. Carley.
Edith W. Richardson.
Florence E. Caseau.
J. Fred Ruston.
Florence W. Chase.
Harrison F. Sargent.
Fred D. Dion.
Mattie W. Sargent.
T. Milton Dillaway.
Edwin A. Shaw.
Edith B. Dodge.
Katharine L. Stebbins.
Minnie G. Dodge.
John F. Stevens.
Katie E. Dolbear.
Arthur E. Thayer.
Alice G. Durnin.
Lizzie E. Thorpe.
Herbert W. Easton.
Coleman Tousey.
Inez M. Felt. Grace M. Foster.
Frank H. Walker.
Rebecca J. Green.
Elizabeth M. Ward.
Miriam Gunsenhiser.
Mirriam B. Ward.
Louisa D. Haartz.
Grace R. White.
Emma M. Haskell.
Andrew A. Wilson.
Jennie M. Young.
Mattie E. Vincent.
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MORSE SCHOOL. -
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
MARTIN W. CARR.
MRS. A. B. UPHAM. G. W. BRYANT.
Acting Principal, MINA J. WENDELL. 1
GRADUATES.
Tennyson L. Baker.
Eleanor A. Hurl.
Edith M. Barrows.
M. Gertrude Hyson.
Samuel T. Birmingham.
Thomas M. James.
D. Wilbur Bowie.
Robert H. James.
Joseph Andrew Boyle.
Rebekah A. Jenks.
Percival Richards Bowers.
Franklin C. Kendall.
Charles I. Bucknam. .
Mary L. LeBosquet.
Michael J. Carey.
Lida A. Littlefield.
Ethel M. Chabot.
Emily C. Lochman.
Arthur A. Clarke.
William L. Morehouse.
M. Emma Clarke.
C. Frances Connell.
Hugh J. O'Neil.
Edward S. Cox.
Emma L. O'Neill.
Sallie Harris Davenport.
Mabel Gray Paul.
James Q. David.
Edward A. Purcell.
James H. Farrell.
Charles F. Quick.
J. William Fellows.
Bessie Rapp.
C. Grace Richardson.
Ida Z. Forrest.
Edith N. Rockwell.
Charles H. Fuller.
Arthur B. Robinson.
Clara M. Shea.
John W. Shepherd.
Harry C. Garland.
William G. Walker.
Arthur L. Hale.
Jennie M. Waterman.
Cora M. Hanscom.
Edith Adams West.
John W. Higgins.
Alice M. Horrigan.
Grace Clementine Howes.
M. Edith Winslow.
J. Almond Worcester.
Henrietta L. Yelland.
Roswell L. Gardner.
Francis P. Garland.
William Z. Flemming.
Marion Bonacina McNear.
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FORSTER SCHOOL.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
NORMAN W. BINGHAM. QUINCY E. DICKERMAN. CHARLES B. OSGOOD. WILLIAM P. HILL.
Principal, JOHN S. HAYES. Assistant, MARY E. NORTHUP.
GRADUATES.
Louis E. Allen.
Julia A. Cotter.
Arthur L. Burckes.
· Georgina Crosby.
James A. Fitzgerald.
Bessie A. Dadmun.
Harry E. Hastey.
Emma C. Darling.
Edgar H. Hunter.
Mabel G. Fisher.
Holbrook F. Learned.
Mabel A. Fitz.
Wayland H. Lewis.
Jane H. Flaws.
George B. Nason.
Ethel G. Hodgkins.
John E. O'Brien.
Ula Hollis.
Austin J. Palmer.
Alice E. Holway.
Charles R. Raymond.
Laura Gertrude Little.
Hiram L. Rich.
Elizabeth A. Lucas.
Frederick A. Smith.
Mabelle E. McKim.
Arthur C. Tracy.
Mary L. Murray.
Cyrus E. Wheeler.
Evangeline Norwood.
Carlton M. Woods.
Etta I. Piccott.
Mabel L. Bement.
Harriett M. Piccott.
Blanche I. Bennett.
Ethel F. Tucker.
Josephine E. Bingham.
Bessie M. Wallace.
Mary Brown.
Grace I. White.
Dora E. Cilley.
Florence C. White.
Alice R. Collins.
Mattie G. York.
Carrie J. Coombes.
IN CONCLUSION.
In concluding this brief report, I wish to acknowledge the con- sideration of the Board and its several committees, and to express my cordial gratitude for the assistance of individual members who have advised and cooperated with me in the arduous duties of the year. Again I must acknowledge the untiring zeal, and faithful, painstak-
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ing work of the principals and the regular and special teachers. It is my hope that we may always administer the affairs of the schools to merit the approval of considerate citizens, and our energetic and progressive press.
Respectfully submitted,
C. E. MELENEY, Superintendent of Schools.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Estimated.
Expended.
Deficit.
Salaries of teachers .
$97,000
$100,733 72
$3,733 72
Salary of superintendent
2,500
2,500 00
Salaries of truant officers
950
950 00
Salaries of janitors
7,100
7,539 17
439 17
Water and gas
900
996 72
96 72
Text-books .
Writing and drawing books
8,600
8,690 31
90 31
Stationery and supplies
350
546 23
196 23
Miscellaneous
1,100
1,141 69
41 69
Total
$118,500
$123,097 84
$4,597 84
Amount received for tuition of non-resident pupils, $111.56.
TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, AND PUPILS, THE NUM- BER IN THE NINTH CLASS, AND THE AVERAGE NUMBER TO A SCHOOL IN THE SEVERAL DISTRICTS IN DECEMBER.
DISTRICTS.
No. of
Schools.
No. of
Teachers.
No. of
Pupils.
No. in
Ninth Class.
Average No. to
a School.
East Somerville
26
27
1,233
90
47.4
Prospect Hill
46
46
2,187
87
47.2
Winter Hill
20
20
969
50
48.5
Spring Hill
21
21
1,027
55
48.9
West Somerville
14
14
662
47
47.3
127
128
6,078
329
47.8
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Printing
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TABLE SHOWING THE NAME, LOCATION, DATE OF ERECTION, ESTIMATED VALUE, CAPACITY, ETC., OF THE SEVERAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
DISTRICTS.
SCHOOLS.
LOCATION.
When Built.
No. Feet
in Lot.
Estimated
Value.
No. of
Rooms.
No. of
No. of
Classes.
Primary
Classes.
High
Highland Avenue
1871
$44,000
10
4
East Somerville
Prescott
Myrtle Street
1867
21,444
42,000
12
12
8
4
Edgerly
Cross Street
1871
26,428
43,100
10
10
5
3
Davis
Tufts Street
1884
29,584
18,333
4
4
1
3
Prospect Hill
.
L. V. Bell
Vinal Avenue
1874
22,262
43,000
13
13
11
2
66
66
Prospect Hill .
Washington Street
1848
25,313
20,600
6
6
3
3
Cummings .
School Street .
1884
11,300
15,357
4
4
1
3
66
Bennett
Joy Street
1868
20,560
8,300
4
4
2
2
Jackson
Poplar Street
1861
11,212
8,300
4
4
1
3
Webster
Webster Avenue
1868
11,050
8,300
4
4
1
3
66
Union
Prospect Street
1842
9,360
2,600
1
1
1
Winter Hill
Forster
Sycamore Street
1866
32,693
39,422
13
13
9
4
66
Chapel
Sycamore Street
.
1
66
Bingham ·
Lowell Street
1886
20,896
15,105
4
4
1
3
Spring Hill
Morse
Summer Street
1869
29,109
800 45,000
12
11
8
3
Beech-street
Beech Street
1872
6,000
4,750
2
2
2
Franklin
Somerville Avenue .
1846
33,017
14,300
4
4
2
2
Harvard
Beacon Street .
1851
9,810
2,600
1
1
1
66
66
*Burns
Cherry Street
1886
16,080
15,250
4
4
2
2
West Somerville
Highland
Highland Avenue
1880
23,260
43,000
12
11
7
4
Lincoin
Broadway, Clarendon Hill
1885
17,662
15,487
4
4
2
2
143
134
70
58
.
.
-
Bow Street
Concord Square
1989
24,517
32,000
8
8
5
3
Medford Street
1861
10,019
6,250
2
2
1
1
Brastow
.
.
* Receives pupils from both the Spring Hill and the West Somerville Districts.
-
1
Brazilian Hall
Broadway
1
1
-
1
-
1
Cedar-street
Cedar Street
1843
2
1
1
Bow-street .
66
O. S. Knapp
.
=
1
1
1
Classes.
Grammar
No. of
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
220
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TEACHERS.
Number of teachers (including 7 assistants) . Male, 12; female, 147. 10
Number of teachers in High School Male, 3 ; female, 7.
Number of teachers in the grammar grades . 76
Male, 7 ; female, 69.
Number of teachers in the primary grades (including 7 assistants) . 67
Teacher of music .
1
Teacher of drawing
1
Teachers of sewing
2
Teacher of physical culture .
1
Teacher of military drill
1
159
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
WHERE EDUCATED.
Sala- ries.
When Elected.
High
George L. Baxter
Harvard College
$2,400 1867
Frank M. Hawes
Tufts College .
1,800 1879
Charles T. Murray
Dartmouth College .
1,400 1887
46
Sarah W. Fox
High School, Taunton. Instruction in classics and German abroad . . Lawrence Academy, Gro- ton. Private instruc-
1,200 1868
66
Sarah F. Litchfield
tion in Latin, French, and German .
850 1880
66
Fannie W. Kaan
Somerville High School
and Salem Normal School
850 1882
4 .
Eudora Morey
Malden High and Bridge- water Normal School
850 1882
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