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It is interesting to note how universal the use of vertical writing is wherever rapid and legible writing is required.
Much of the success of vertical writing in our schools is due to the "Natural System" which you adopted. It is adapted perfectly to the nature of the child and meets every requirement of speed, legibility and ease in learning, and it is to be commended highly for its simplicity and beauty.
CLASS ROOM DECORATIONS.
A good beginning has been made during the past year in the artistic adornment of the school buildings. With the proceeds of an entertainment by the Monatiquot school, which was generously patronized by our citizens, the following pictures were purchased and placed upon the walls of the class rooms of that school; Acropolis of Athens, Capitol at Washington, The Soul's Awaken- ing, Millet's Gleaners, First Sunday in New England, Coliseum at Rome, Abraham Lincoln (full length), Battle between Monitor and the Merrimac (in colors), Notre Dame Cathedral at Paris, Court of Lions of the Alhambra Palace, St. Mark's Cathedral of
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Venice (in colors), Grand Canon of Colorado. General Sylvanus Thayer, Post 87 G. A. R., presented the school with a beautiful engraving of Washington Crossing the Delaware. Pictures of the poets, Longfellow, Whittier and Bryant had been previously sup- plied to the school.
The teacher and pupils of Miss Whelan's room in the Union school, have supplied their room with beautiful pictures of Long- fellow, their favorite poet, and the Sistine Madonna.
The citizens of East Braintree have continued interest in the de- coration of the class rooms of the Jonas Perkins school. Pictures of Lincoln and Washington have been given by Mr. Thomas A. Watson; a picture of Washington, The Soldier's Honor, Origin of the Stars and Stripes, Decoration Day and The Spirit of "1776," by Mr. Benjamin J. Loring ; and a picture of General Sheridan, by Mr. Morris Gurney.
COURSE OF STUDY.
No radical change has been made in the course of study during the past year. The teachers have been encouraged to break away from the formalism of the text books, in some respects, and to teach real things. They have been led to see more clearly that the pupil's immediate environment affords the best materials for training in observation and thought; that these materials are essential means of interpreting the objects of study beyond the immediate experience and observation of the children; and that the best books of history, biography, poetry and story are the treasuries of ideals of conduct.
Although it requires greater effort and skill to lead children to interpret the meaning of literature and the phenomena of nature and to understand the complicated forms of industry about them than to hear them recite memory tasks in definitions that they do not understand, or lists of words and columns of figures that have no meaning, our teachers have been gladly moving towards this higher form of educational effort.
During the past few years elementary education has been pass- ing through a period of important changes, and many thoughtful people have been in doubt in respect to their value; but as the
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new education begins to take form it is clearly seen that the formal subjects of language, arithmetic, etc., are no longer to be taught as separate subjects and ends in themselves, but that they shall be practiced and perfected in their application to the prob- lems of real value in life. Every thing taught or done in the schools is to have a definite purpose or end in view, and is to be justified by a worthy and final aim. Such a form of education will furnish, in itself, the strongest moral and ethical incentives.
MANUAL AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
The development of manual skill can be made as highly educa- tional as training in any of the intellectual branches. There is the greatest economic and practical demand for this form of train- ing in our schools. The chief distinction of modern industry is its demand for skill, and those who do not receive the proper training are hopelessly consigned to inferior positions.
Conditions concerning apprenticeship in the manual arts have changed so completely in recent times and manual training has been so generally introduced into schools, that it is doing the chil- dren of our schools great injustice to place so much emphasis upon purely intellectual culture to the total exclusion of manual and in- dustrial interests. Ninety per cent. of all human effort is manual. Physical energy is the basis of all intellectual activity. All fail- ure in human effort has a physical basis. People who have re- ceived thorough manual training, will perform the same tasks with half the expenditure of energy.
The home life of children has changed radically in recent times. Compare the experience of the son of the city artisan of to-day with the life of a boy on a typical New England farm half a cen- tury ago, or the duties of girls at the present time with those of girls formerly when few objects of home decoration and few pieces of wearing apparel could be purchased in the shop. Through the extensive specialization of industry, children have been separated from practical industry and have no appreciation of serious pro- ductive vocational interests. The only possible substitute for this earlier child life, and one of which our children have the greatest need, is manual and industrial training in the schools.
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The regular expense of education need not be increased with this added instructtion, and the first outfit need not be expensive.
HIGH SCHOOL.
The graduating exercises of the Braintree High school were held in the Town Hall, Thursday evening, June 18.
PROGRAM.
"Greeting Song"
. Chorus by School Prayer ·
" Vos morituri salutamus."
Salutatory and Essay . "Different Forms of Carbon." SANDY ROULSTON. " Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur."
Reading. "The Front-door and Side-door to Our Feelings." Holmes MARY LIZZIE KINGSBURY. " Valet anchora virtus."
"Composition of Water."
MARY WHITE THAYER. "Ubi libertas, ibi patria."
Declamation "What Labor Has Done for the West" EDWARD JOSEPH BRANLEY. "Qui non proficit deficit."
"DeKoven and His Works"
· Illustrated by Solo FLORENCE MAY ARNOLD.
"Haec olim meminisse juvabit."
"Scenes in a Railway Station." . MARY EMMA PUTNAM. "Caelebs quid agam ?"
"A Newsboy's Work."
· ARTHUR INCREASE FISHER.
" Sic semper tyrannis."
"The Fate of Virginia." .
ALICE HENRIETTA COX.
.
Macaulay
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" Virtus inactione consistit."
"History of the Latin Language." · MABEL EMMA MELLEN. "Principia non homines." "The Destiny of the United States." GEORGE DEXTER FINNEGAN. "Esto perpetua."
"Early and Modern Composers" with Piano Solo JOSEPHINE MAUD WRIGHT. "Nec scire fas est omnia." "Roentgen's Discovery." · .
· HERBERT FOSTER PLUMER. "A posee ad esse."
"What Has History Said ?,' · ALICE EDITH HAYDEN. "Per aspera ad astra."
"Nil Desperandum." . MABEL FORREST MELLEN. "Nobis cura futuri."
"What Will History Say ?" · · · MAY ELLA STODDARD.
FREDERICKA CHARLOTTE RYMARCZICK.
"Sion." Chorus for Girl's Voices Rodney
"Data fata secutus."
"Statistics."
IRVING NEWCOMB HOLBROOK. "Hodie mihi, cras tibi."
"Charge to Under-graduates." . JULIAN EDWIN MORROW. "Procul o procul este, profani."
Valedictory and Essay
· "Scenes about Concord" MARY GENEVIEVE LORING.
Singing. Class Song.
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" Acti labores jucundi, sed graviora manent."
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. COL. A. C. DRINKWATER. ' "Consuetudo pro lege servatur."
Benediction
Parts not assigned for excellency in scholarship.
Stage furnished by C. S. Hannaford's Furniture Store, South Braintree.
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The course of study pursued by the pupils who graduated from the High school last June were elective with the exception of Eng- lish. The following table shows that substantial and continuous courses were chosen. The figures indicate the number of certifi- cates obtained in each study. A certificate was given for each one hundred recitations or their equivalent :-
PUPILS AWARDED DIPLOMAS.
Algebra.
Geometry.
English.
French.
History.
Physics.
Latin.
Arithmetic.
Chemistry.
Book-keeping.
Commercial Law.
Physical Geography.
Total.
Florence May Arnold .
2
2
3
1
4
1
2
2
3
20
Edward Joseph Branley
2
2
4
1
4
2
2
1
18
Alice Henrietta Cox .
1
2
3
5
2
2
2
1
18
George Dexter Finnegan
2
2
13
1
2
4
1
18
Arthur Increase Fisher
2
2
5
1
2
2
3
1
18
Walter Irving Glover
2
2
1
5
2
2 12
4
CHICO
20
Alice Edith Hayden
2
2
3
3
2
6
2
20
Irving Newcomb Hol- brook
2
2
1
5
1
2
1
4
18
Mary Lizzie Kingsbury
2
2
3
3
4
2
2
1
19
Mary Genevieve Loring
2
2
3
3
2
4
2
2
20
Mabel Emma Mellen
2
3
3
4
2
6
2
22
Mabel Forrest Mellen
2
2
3
3
2
1
6
1
1
21
Julian Edwin Morrow .
2
2
4
2
2 12
4
3
18
Herbert Foster Plumer .
2
2
3
3
2
2
4
2
12
22
Mary Sophia Roulston . Sandy Roulston .
2
2
2
3
4
1
2
2
1
19
2
2
2
5
?
2 1}
2
3.
19
Fredericka Charlotte
Rymarczick
2
2
3
3
4
6
2
22
May Ella Stoddard
2
2
3
3
4
2
2
2
2
22
Mary White Thayer
2
2
3
3
4
2 13
2
1
CHICO
21
Josephine Maud Wright
2
2
3
3
4
2
2
18
41 36 503 37 813 22 48 39 8 41
3|414
-
.
2
2
3
3
4
1
6
21
Mary Emma Putnam
.
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The following table represents, in a graphic way, the work of the High school during the school year ending June 18, 1896 :-
FIRST YEAR IN SCHOOL.
SECOND YEAR IN SCHOOL.
THIRD YEAR IN SCHOOL.
Pupils in
Classes.
Recitations.
Certifieates
Granted.
Failures.
Pupils in
Classes.
Recitations.
Certificates
Granted.
Failures.
Pupils in
Classes.
Recitations.
Certificates
Granted.
Failures.
English
43
19
24
26
22
15
11
22
5
32
12
French
21
23
17
4
12
5
24
0
Latin .
36
5
32
28
12
5
22
2
6
5
10
2
Greek .
·
·
.
44
5
53
30
1
5
0
8
5
r
10
0
Algebra
ão
5
65
21
1
5
0
2
Geometry
22
5
38
5
1
5
2
0
History
19
22
7
12
Commercial Law
5
01
or
0
Book-keeping
31
5
12
5
16
5
Physics
·
·
·
Chemistry .
7
5
8
5
Physical Geography
5
5
4
1
154
19
5
36
2
·
.
.
·
11
5
00
19
18
5
co
5
9
7
.
.
·
·
·
.
1
3
5
5
Arithmetic
·
·
·
·
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The following table shows the branches of study taught in the High school during the present year, the number or pupils pursu- ing each, and the year in the school of each class :
BRANCHES OF STUDY.
First year in
School.
Second year
in School.
Third year
in School.
Fourth year
in School.
Totals.
Arithmetic .
63
12
1
3
79
Algebra
51
1
1
53
Geometry .
17
1
18
English Language and Literature
66
30
17
1
114
Latin .
31
11
5
47
Greek
2
2
French
18
9
1
28
Fhysics
29
29
Chemistry
11
1
12
History.
18
10
16
44
Book-keeping
12
4
16
Shorthand
10
2
12
Penmanship
53
9
2
3
67
Drawing
34
12
5
1
52
It will be seen that the work in this school is given largely to what are popularly known as the more practical studies. With such an educational institution as The Thayer Academy in our midst, and open free of tuition to the pupils of the town, this condition seems natural and proper, and is in accordance with the expressed wish of the administrative authority of the. public schools during many years past. There may be some apprehen- sion that many of those pupils who apparently desire to pursue only the so-called practical studies, have no disposition to attack any educational subject with energy and vigor.
In some respects this is apparantly true at the present time. In short, the one great need of this school now is that the pupils who enter it shall become thoroughly imbued with the idea that it is reasonable and necessary for them to pursue the studies which
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they take up with energy and vigor, that time spent in this school by pupils of high school age without this seriousness of purpose, is worse than thrown away.
It should be noted that the changed requirement of twenty-four certificates instead of eighteen for a diploma of graduation, essen- tially making the course four years instead of three, applies to the present third-year class. For this reason there will be no gradua- ting class at the close of the present school year.
THE MONATIQUOT GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES JUNE 24, 1896.
E. Gertrude Barnes.
*Walter Abbott.
Helen A. Cuff.
Henry E. Adams.
Edna M. Cobb.
L. Tennyson Bunker.
Fannie E. Dike.
Charles R. Cummings.
E. May Dimmock.
Chester W. Dailey.
Lila B. Dimmock.
* Lilla Dustin.
Peter Donahue. Ellis F. Dyer.
Jennie M. Dyer.
Merton L. Emerson.
Leila M. Foster.
Edward H. Fenderson,
Annie G. Gallivan.
Harry W. L. Fox.
Fannie B. Hayden.
* Emma Hippler.
H. Chester Gage. James W. Hawes.
*Grace Holland.
Joseph Q. Hawes, Jr.
Grace M. Hollinshead. Lulu C. Hollis.
James T. Kirby.
Gertrude B. Jones.
Francis J. Mischler.
Florence E. Killian.
Elihu A. Oliver.
M. Emma Learned.
George F. Parker.
Howard M. Saunders.
Grace J. Loring. M. Mildred McGlauflin.
Joseph E. Shea.
Anna L. Parker.
Charles L. Smart.
Cora L. Perry.
Harry C. Snow. L. Thurlow Torrey.
Clara Shea.
Winnie Shea.
*Carl Vinton.
Carlton L. Kennedy.
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*Bertha White.
Weston C. Walter.
C. Wesley Walter. George A. Whiting.
G. Dallas Willis.
GRADUATES OF THE JONAS PERKINS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL, JUNE 24, 1896.
Charles H. Brooks.
Marian F. Baldwin.
Marion F. Barker.
*Lillie Custance. Vesta M. Dobson.
Richard F. De Neill.
*Fred S. Hanson.
Elsie Horsman. William P. Kelley.
Alexander M. Lang. *Eva G. Lawe. Charles E. Orr.
Bertha M. Perry.
Otto S. Rymarczick.
*Henry Ryan. Alice Stevens. Edna A. Stewart. Thomas B. Watson.
*All of the grammar graduates whose names are not starred, entered the High school.
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PROMOTIONS, ETC.
The following table gives a record of the schools in respect to promotions, enrollments, transfers and withdrawals during the school year ending June 18, 1896 :-
SCHOOL.
Grade.
Previous year
enroliments
re-enrolled.
First enrollments.
| Enrollments from
Withdrawals to
other towns.
Withdrawals to
other schools in
Transferred to a
lower class.
Special promo-
Promoted at the end of school year.
Monatiquot
.
-100 00 00 -100 00
57
4
7
55
58
6
9
2
49
56
11
3
4
65
Jonas Perkins .
20
3
1
3
19
6
33
2
2
1
1
31
5
25
1
2
3
21
4
38
3
3
2
7
1
28
3
41
1
14
27
2
37
1
3
11
2
27
1
25
29
1
3
1
19
1
32
Pond
5
35
13
2
2
11
1
38
4
33
1
4
1
3
2
36
3
33
3
1
1
25
8
29
1
47
1
18
7
14
Union
5
33
5
1
3
1
30
4
35
4
3
3
2
1
32
3
22
4
3
1
4
1
21
0
35
12
10
5
1
25
7
30
1
13
42
1
6
1
19
7
22
Total
.
760
159
90
62
16
201 38
731
67
01 01
6
10
53
16
1
1
1
16
23
1
4
19
37
2
25
27
4
4
·
this town.
tions.
other towns
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The following tables show the ranges and totals of the ages of both boys and girls on May 1, 1896, both by grades and by ages of all who were enrolled in the schools during the school year end- ing June 18, 1896. They will be especially valuable as furnishing a necessary basis for comparison of schools :-
YEARS.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
S
9
10
11
12 13
Females.
Total.
4 Years Male.
24
24
4
66
Female
36
36
1 60
5
66
Male. .
33
10
1
44
5
66
Female
29
8
37
81
6
Male.
12
33
4
49
6
66
Female
12
25
6
43
92
7
66
Male.
1
20
17
4
3
45
7
Female
2
24
24
9
59
104
8
66
Female
1
8
18
17
3
47
106
9
66
Male.
6
5
20 10
7
1
7
49
98
10
66
Female
3
3
3
11
20
4
44
81
11
Female
1
5
8
7 13
5
39
98
12
66
Male.
1
1
3
10 12 15
4
46
75
13
66
Male.
2
2
4
5
18
2
43
13
60
Female
2
1
4
5 16
14
3
45
14
Male.
1
8 2 10 15 3 4 9 7
7 9 10
2
1
27
59
16
66
Female
2
2
5
20
34
17
66
Male.
1
1
6
17
6.
Female
10
16
18
.6
Male.
4
2
6
18
66
Female
1
1
7
19
Male.
1
1
1
20
66
Male.
1
1
2
2
20
66
Female
150 150 111 103 98 106 81 81 84 49 31 24 4 543 529
1072
.
49
9
66
Female
2
7
12
16
1
37
11
Male.
2
7
8
20
19
3
59
12
66
Female
1
1
2
4
7
9
4
1
29
88 70
14
Female
5
1
35
15
66
Male.
3
2
S
7
9
5 4
1
14
16
66
Female
2
1
4
2
4 2
7 2 9
1
19
66
Female
11
20
16 11
1
59
8
10
66
Male.
1
7
10
35
15
Male.
1
32
-
1
GRADE.
! Males.
Male. .
9 24
160
YEARS.
GRADE.
-
4 5 6
7
8
9
10 11|
12
13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
Males.
| Females.
Totals.
1. Male .. .
24 33 12
1
70
80
150
2. Male .
10 33
20
11
6
80
70
150
3. Male .
1
4
17
20
5
1
2
1
51
3. Female ..
6
24
18
7
3
1
1
60
111
4. Male .
4
16
20
7
7
1
2
4. Female ..
9
17
3
5
1
2
5.
Maie .
3
11 10
12
8
3
2
ɔ̃.
Female. .
3
24
11
00
2
1
49
98
6.
Male .
59
6.
Female ..
7
20
7
4
4
5
47
106
7. Male
43
7.
Female ..
4 13
5
1
38
81
8.
Male .
3
15
10
10
4
2
9
3
2
2
37
81
9.
Male .
4 18
15
7
1
1
9.
Female.
4 14
9
1
38
84
10.
Male .
2
7
10
2
25
10.
Female ..
1
3
9
7
4
24
49
11.
Male
2
2
2
11.
Female ..
9
7
9
25
31
12.
Male
1
4
1
4
1
1
1
14
24
13.
Male . .
1
2
3
1
-
4
1
-
1
1
60 81 92 104 106 98 81 98 75 88
70|59
34 16
7|1
2 543 529
1672
1
--
-
-
-
-
1. Female ..
36 29/12
2
1
2. Female ..
8 25
24
8
2
3
57
46
103
49
1
7 16
20
10
4
1
.. 2
5
2
3
8.
Female ..
5
16
46
2 4
6
12.
Female ..
1
5
5
1
13.
Female. .
1
1
19
44
STATISTICAL REPORT. HIGH SCHOOL.
. TEACHERS.
Grade.
Enrollment.
Maximum
Class Room
Enrollment
since Sept.
Average
Half-day
Absence.
Average
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Truancies.
Visitors.
Aver. Age of
Pupils, Sept. 15, 1896.
Oliver R. Cook, Principal
*13
01
2.
28
93.9
0
0
Ella Macgregor
12
24
22.
324
93.5
110
42
00
Myra I. Bean
11
31
26.9
780
87.3
93
28
0
M. Agnes Lane
10
49
43.1
754
92.3
164
26
0
1 47
January to June.
Y. M.
Irving W. Horne, Principal .
13
5
3.7
76
86.5
co
6
16 0
Ella Macgregor
12
17
15.1
254
88.9
26
22
00
16 7
M. Agnes Lane
11
00
30
29.5
286
93.6
42
46
00
95
14 7
September to December.
June. Dec.
For the Year
13
5-5
2.7
104
90.3
co
6
12
24-17
19.3
578
91.9
136
64
11
31-30
28.
1066
90.3
135
74
10
49-66
50.3
1074
94.3
208
120
0
242
Totals .
109-118
160.3
2822
92.6
482
264
0
242
.
* Grade 13 is the highest and 10 is the lowest class in this school.
161
21
15 5
Julia Ellsworth
10
66
63
61.1
320
96.6
44
94
.
.
·
.
·
000
Membership.
JONAS PERKINS SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
Grade.
Enrollment.
Maximum
Class Room
Enrollment
Since Sept.
Membership. Average
Half-day
Average
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Truancies.
Visitors.
Aver. Age of
Pupils, Sept. 15,1896.
Victoria P. Wilde, Prin. .
9
23
21.
319
93.3
73
14
0
93
Nellie E. Bowles
8
18
17.1
261
90.7
35
18
0
0
Mary E. Vining
·
24
22.8
313
93.8
52
15
0
32
May A. Wilson
6
34
30.
448
93.5
93
37
0
23
Nellie F. Monk
5
26
22.8
496
90.5
114
19
0
41
Mellie M. Kyte
4
41
32.7
1014
86.4
189
8
1
57
Helen A. Mitchell .
3
35
32.4
984
86.7
244
16
0
23
Robertina B. Trask
2
44
38.1
1330
84.7
59
9
3
70
January to June.
1
55
38.1
1362
84.3
36
3
0
88
Y. M.
Victoria P. Wilde. Prin. .
9
17
17.
160
93.4
51
15
0
43
13
0
Nellie E. Bowles
8
21
20.7
153
95.1
14
10
0
0
12
7
Mary E. Vining
7
35
35
34.2
322
93.8
34
21
0
19
11
6
May A. Wilson
6
21
21
19.9
172
94.3
52
10
0
11
10
9
Nellie F. Monk
5
33
32
31.2
260
94.5
76
7
0
24
9 11
Mellie M. Kyte
4
35
35
33.5
361
90.9
83
5
0
22
8
1
Helen A. Mitchell .
3
42
41
38.4
602
89.6
111
12
1
25
7 3
Robertina B. Trask
2
44
44
41.1
440
93.
31
9
0
51
6
4
September to December.
1
53
51
47.
286
96.
10
2
0
76
4
4
.
·
.
.
.
.
·
·
·
·
.
·
·
162
38
Absences.
June. Dec.
For the Year
9
23-17
19.4
479
93.8
124
29
0
136
18.5
414
94.5
49
28
0
0
1
24-35
27.4
635
94.5
86
36
0
51
6
34-21
25.9
620
93.8
145
47
0
34
5
26-33
26.1
756
92.
190
26
0
65
4
41-35
33.
1375
89.1
272
13
1
79
3
35-42
34.8
1586
88.8
355
28
1
48
2
44-44
39.3
1770
88.2
90
18.
3
121
1
55-53
41.6
1648
87.3
46
5
0
164
Totals .
·
300-301
266.
9283
90.8
1357
230
5
698
.
.
8
18-21
V
163
MONATÍQUOT SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
Grade.
Enrollment.
Maximum
Class Room
Enrollment
since Sept.
Membership. Average
Half-day Absences.
Average
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Truancies.
Visitors.
Aver. Age of
Pupils, Sept. 15, 1896.
Joseph A. Ewart, Principal .
9
72
53.8
918
93.3
230
66
6
76
Susan A. O'Rourke
8
62
54.4
1092
91.2
151
69
0
85
Josephine B. Colbert .
7
64.
50.6
1191
89.7
201
41
4
58
Hattie F. Weeks
6
67
66.4
1436
90.5
163
74
0
262
January to June.
Y. M.
Joseph A. Ewart, Principal .
9
58
57
54.7
458
94.5
33
24
0
15
13
6
Susan A. O'Rourke
8
48
46
42.6
527
95.
57
40
1
37
12
7
Josephine B. Colbert .
7 A
41
50
44.
625
90.6
38
12
0
35
11
8
Annie E. Crowell .
6 A
53
53
50.6
380
95.1
11
9
0
50
10
8
Margaret E. C. Bannon . ·
7B
26
17.
271
89.4
14
12
0
20
September to December.
6B
22
19.9
319
89.5
29
9
4
19
For the Year
9
72-58
54.2
1376
92.5
263
90
6
91
8
62-48
49.7
1619
91.7
208
109
1
122
7
64-67
54.8
2090
90.5
253
65
4
113
6
67-75
67.7
2135
90.9
203
92
4
331
Totals
265-248
226.4
7220
91.6
927
356
15
657
·
·
Annie E. Crowell .
.
·
·
·
·
·
.
June. Dec.
40
POND SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
Grade.
Enrollment.
Maximum
Class Room
Enrollment
Since Sept.
Membership. Average
Half-day
Absences.
Average
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Truancies.
Visitors.
Pupiis Sept. 15,1896.
Sarah L. Arnold, Prin.
C
48
41.5
820
91.3
32
38
0
133
Emma M. Kane
4
38
35.3
514
93.6
22
11
0
117
Frances P. Ayer
3
38
37.7
701
91.8
24
27
1
143
Emily A. Lapham .
2
56
45.4
1197
88.4
62
114
1
122
Harriet M. Hill
1
48
23.3
539
89.9
0
0
0
154
January to June.
Y. M.
Sarah L. Arnold, Prin.
5
49
48
46.9
301
95.8
16
9
3
27
9 7
Emma M. Kane
4
42
43
39.3
305
94.9
10
14
0
36
8 5
Annie M. Brooks
·
.
3
41
44
37.6
342
94.
38
5
0
30
7 9
Emily A. Lapham .
2
60
56
47.9
716
90.2
41
4
0
25
6
6
Harriet M. Hill
1
34
33
27.7
411
90.2
0
0
0
September to October.
June. Dec.
For the Year
5
48-49
43.7
1121
93.1
48
47
3
160
4
38-42
36.9
819
94.2
32
25
0
153
3
38-41
37.6
1043
91.2
62
32
1
173
2
56-60
46.4
1913
88.9
103
118
1
147
1
48-34
25.
950
77.9
0
0
0
209
Totals .
228-226
189.6
5846
91.9
245
222
5
.
·
.
.
·
.
.
·
.
.
·
·
.
Aver. Age of
165
UNION SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
Grade.
Enrollment.
Maximum
Class Room
Enrollment
since Sept.
Membership. Average
Half-day
Average
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Truancies.
Visitors.
Aver. Age of
Pupils Sept. 15, 1896.
Avis A. Thayer, Principal
5
32
29.9
264
96.1
6
12
0
295
Hannah C. Whelan
4
17
14.6
. 128
96.2
4
9
0
0
Mabel L. Bates
4
25
19.8
393
98.
31
9
0
105
Elizabeth B. Pray .
3
30
23.
553
89.5
28
4
1
0
2
62
48.3
920
91.6
38
10
3
317
January to June.
1
56
31.4
417
94.2
17
3
0
126
Y. M.
Avis A. Thayer, Principal
5
25
23.4
94
97.4
10
0
137
0
Hannah C. Whelan
4
23
21.1
90
97.2
0
1
0
0
8 8
Mabel L. Bates
4
7
5.7
42
95.2
1
5
1
203
8 1
Elizabeth B. Pray
3
44
40.5
265
95.7
30
4
0
0
7 9
2
57
57
49.3
389
94.8
26
14
()
189
6
4
september to December.
1
39
36
30.5
270
94.2
8
1
0
54
4
8
June. Dec
For the Year
32-25
27.3
358
96.9
16
19
0
432
4
17-23
17.2
218
96.5
13
16
0
0
4
25- 7
14.2
435
92.8
38.
14
1
308
3
30-44
30.
818
92.5
58
8
1
0
2
62-57
48.7
1309
93.3
64
24
3
506
1
56-39
31.
687
87.7
25
4
0
180
Totals
222-195
168.4
3825
94.
214
85
5
1426
166
.
·
·
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
·
·
50
47
Absences.
MIDDLE STREET SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
Grade.
Enrollment.
Maximum
Class Room
Since Sept. Enrollment
Membership. Average
Half -day
Absences.
Averege
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Truancies.
Visitors.
Aver. Age of
Pupils Sept. 15, 1896.
Y. M. 6 8
Mabel T. Knight .
2
9
19
7,8 8.5
71
94.1 87.9
O
00
0
4 2
September to December.
19
16.3
245
90.1
0 0
0 0
0
31
Totals for all schools during 1896
June. 1124 Dec.
967
29,241
92.
3,225 1157
30
3896
1107
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SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING. Elizabeth J. Hilles, High, Monatiquot, Pond, Union.
.
·
1
10
.
124
0
31
.
167
168
IN CONCLUSION,
I am pleased to call attention again to the continued evidence of the great value of the sanitary and heating systems of our school houses and our sanitary regulations concerning the use of books and supplies by the school children. Such evidence is found in the unequaled low death rate of children of school age, their in- creased vigor and vitality and the perfect absence of epidemic, although such diseases as diphtheria have been brought to our town from other communities several times during the past year.
The advantages of the kindergarten form of training have con- stantly become more apparent Our best teachers in the primary grades often speak of their pupils who have received the kinder- garten training as having to a marked degree excellent ideas, power to think clearly, etc. These children can easily be distin- guished in the higher grades by the superior work which they are able to do. They become a valuable and concrete illustration to our citizens of the fact that power to do and to think is the basis of successful education.
The excellent harmony, good will and perfect order that have prevailed throughout the whole school system during the past five years, have been due to your disinterested exercise of authority. Our teachers have constantly been made to feel that promotion and tenure of position depend upon meritorious effort alone. This condition has fostered among them an earnest, progressive and healthful spirit whose value to the schools cannot be overesti- mated. I have spoken of this at this time because the thought comes to me constantly that our citizens ought to have the high- est appreciation of the value of the disinterested conduct of the schools.
No other agency can benefit the schools so much as a spirit of sympathy and common interest among parents and teachers. All children easily and quickly interpret the slightest evidence of the lack or presence of an intelligent, united purpose and effort on the part of the home and school, and govern themselves accord- ingly. I can wish the schools no greater boon for the present year than that each teacher shall strive earnestly to secure the confidence and support of the homes, that every parent shall seek
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to sustain the efforts of the teachers in training the children to obedience, courtesy and studious habits, and that all of our citi- zens shall give encouragement by helpful and sympathetic criti- cism. With this spirit of oneness and unity in aim and effort on the part of all, the schools will attain to excellent results ; without it, much of the best efforts will be wasted.
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