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1894
161 Nellie T. Alden
Agnes B. Jenks
37
219
Bertha E. Thomas
268
Nancy G. Field
220 Lottie W. Tinkham
269
James F. McClusky
221 Minnie B. Tobey
270
Theodore H. Miller
271 Edgar A. Paun
1897
272
Stanley L. Porter
222
Ruth H. Alden
274
Frederic M. Ryder
223
Grace E. Bailey
275
George B. Ryder
224 Isabelle M. Briggs
276
Olive W. Sullivan
225 Charles E. Brown
277
Grace E. Wood
226 Hattie M. Chace
227
Clarence L. Cushman
1900
228
Abby F. Driscoll
229
Annie M. Fielding
278
Betsy Alden
230
Helen W. Ham
279
Lottie N. Besse
231
Ruby L. Howes
280
Pamelia F. Caswell
232
Elizabeth Landgrebe
281
James H. Creedon
233
Annie G. Leahy
282
Laura J. Eaton
235
Jennie R. Monroe
284
Mary M. Harper
236
Clara E. Parker
285
Viola L. M. Kirkpatrick
237
Florence I. Reed
286
Bessie C. Packard
238
G. Arthur Sampson
287
Winifred T. Packard
239
Ella H. Stetson
288
Edith T. Pierce
240
Bessie L. Thomas
289
Edna G. Potter
241
Theodore N. Wood
290
Wardel H. Roberts
291
William T. Shaw
292
Howard L. Stevens
242
A. Delle Alden
294
Marion K. Tillson
243
Jessie W. Coombs
295
Frederick S. Weston
244
Ruth H. Cushman
296
Charles K. Woodbridge
246
William O. Eddy
297
Sumner B. Woodbridge
247
Arthur S. Gibbs
248
Almon W. Harlow
249
C. Florence Hathaway
298
Polly J. Clark
251
Ida L. Magoon
300
Herman T. Gammons '
252
Annie W. Morse
301
James R. Glidden
253
Myron D. Place
302
Luke F. Kelley
254
C. Allen Porter
303
James D. Kirkpatrick
255
Estella J. Shaw
304
Mary S. Morse
256
Ethel M. Shaw
305
Henry C. Perry
257
Cyril A. Smith
306
Maude B. Perry
258
Lizzie E. B. Sparrow
307
Jennie C. Potter
259
Lillie M. Tinkham
308
Angie L. Rose
260
Effie D. Williams
309
Wallace L. Sampson
261
Asa I. Winslow
310
Dennis E. Sheehan
262
Lillian F. Wood.
311
Mary E. Sheehan
1899
313
Ernest C. Staples
263
Ichabod F. Atwood
314
Frederica H. Thomas
264 Lena M. Baldwin
315
Walter C. Thomas
265 Harry B. Caswell
316
Alice C. Tinkham
266 Laura C. Deane
317
Bourne Wood
267 Bessie R. Dunham
1901
250
Nellie G. Kelley
299
Harold C. Eddy
1898
293
Mary A. Surrey
245 Florence L. Dean
283
Wendell E. Harlow
234
Eliza A. McTaggart
273
Alton G. Pratt
312
Fred S. Sparrow
38
1902
368
Abbie N. Lucas
369 Helena K. Macomber
370 Ruth F. Martin
320 Ethel N. Bolles
321 Ethel F. Evans
322 Irene H. Fielding
374 George T. Richardson
323 Clyde L. Harlow
375 Helen C. Ryder
324 James F. Harvey
376
Minerva M. Sisson
325
Harriet E. Holloway
377
Jean I. Surrey
326
Winifred B. Jackson
378 Grace A. Tinkham
327
Bethia S. Keith
379 Julia E. Tirrell
328
Helena McFarlin
380
Edith Whitman
329
Grace G. Pierce
381 Wallace S. Wright
330
Alice L. Porter
1905
332 Ethel F. Roberts
382
Lea E. Auger
333 Sarah M. Shaw
334
Isabel M. Thomas
384
Albert W. Bates
385 Grace C. Bates
386 Arthur J. Bryant
335
Etta W. Allen
387
Edith G. Cody
336
Lizzie E. Bump
388
Maude Demaranville
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337 Wayland F. Chace
389
Phineas P. Dorr
338 Florence E. Cox
390
Agnes B. C. Dudley
339 Theodore S. Davis
391
Ruth E. Eaton
340
Faye H. Deane
392
Emma F. Elwell
341
Hattie R. Dunham
393
Laura G. Finney
342
Mattie K. Dunham
394
Mildred K. Glidden
343
Mariquita P. Eddy
395
Eva F. Harlow
344
Blanche E. Ellis
396
Lewis F. Harding
345
Mary P. Glidden
397
LeRoy H. Leggee
346
Lewis E. Herne
398
Will P. Murray
347 Annabel Landgrebe
399
Sarah E. Murtagh
348
Alice B. Le Baron
400
Edith M. Perkins
349
Henry E. Libby
401
Christina Pratt
350
James C. Murray
402
Ernest S. Pratt
351
Mary A. O'Hara
403
Louise B. Pratt
352
Ruth H. Peirce
404
Cordelia B. Richmond
353
Marjorie L. Ryder
405
Henry W. Sears, Jr.
354
Isabelle M. Smith
406
Franklyn H. Standish
855
Lottie A. Thomas
407
Rose Standish
356 Helen P. Wood
408 Roswel Stearns
357
Louisa B. Wood
409 Alberta F. Stickney
358
Ruth P. Wood
410 Joseph F. Westgate
1904
1906
359 Susan F. Bump
411 Pearl G. Ashley
360 David H. Cunningham
412 Wales H. Andrews
361 Harriet I. Cushing
413 Harold C. Bailey
362 Annie M. Dorr
414 Amy L. Britton
363
Joseph W. Hathaway
415 Vira N. Campbell
364 Josephine C. Holloway
416
Bartlett E. Cushing
365 Percy A. Jackson
417
Frank W. Davis
366
Helen E. Kingman
418 Philip B. Deane
367 Mary A. Libby
419 Irene J. Hatch
318
Bessie Bailey
319 Ethel M. Bartholomew
371 Florence McDermid
372 Edith F. Orcutt
373 Mary S. Pierce
331 Grace C. Reed
383 Mary L. Bump
1903
39
420 George L. Hathaway
472
George L. Barney
421 Mary W. Holloway
473 Harry R. Belmont
422 Harry W. Howes
4.74 Gertrude L. Cox
423 Elsie Landgrebe
475 Edith H. Cushing
424 Viola E. Letcher
476 Mildred C. Cushman
425 Catharine M. Lewis
477
Ruth M. Davis
426
Norris M. Macomber
478 Martinia K. Donahue
427 Alta M. Maxim
479 Reginald W. Drake
428
John A. Miller, Jr.
480 Achsie M. Godfrey
429
Margaret Parnell
481 Frank H. Harrington
430
Gertrude M. Robinson
482
Willis C. Holcomb
431
Dorothy Shaw
483
Alice S. Howes
432
Myrtie A. Shaw
484
Ruby M. Keedwell
433
Walter L. Shaw
485
Sarah Z. Letcher
434
Inez E. Smith
486
Ethel Macomber
435
Mark G. Snow
487
Mildred C. Martin
436
Willis V. Snow
488
Annie E. McQuade
437
Stanwood W. Sparrow
489
James R. Murray
438
Arthur H. Swift
490
Ethel Norris
439 Alice M. Ward
491
Bessie M. Norton
440
Susie L. Whitcomb
492
Lillian M. O'Neil
441
Louise S. Wilber
493
Annie J. Pasztor
442
Elizabeth Williams
494
Rose V. Pasztor
1907
496
Leo A. Quindley
443
Lester H. Allen
498
Evelyn H. Reed
445 Kenneth L. Childs
500 -
Theresa V. Sheehan
447
Clara B. Cushing
502
Mattie W. Snow
448
Lewis S. Eaton
503
Sarah H. Surrey
449
Nahum W. Ellis
504
Bradford E. Swift
451
Katharine G. Hayden
506
Clarence H. Wilbur
507
James E. Williams
453
LeRoy M. LeBaron
454
Bertha M. Lyon
455
Chester S. Lyon
456
Charlotte E. Perkins
508
Annie H. Andrews
457
Louis T. Perkins
509
William C. Andrews
458 Isabel L. Pratt
510
Mary C. Azevedo
459
Mildred L. Pratt
511
Arnold J. Bailey
460
Charles E. Reed
512
Inez W. Bassett
461
Lillie R. Rogers
513
Winsor A. Carver
462
Mary Shaw
514
Gertrude M. Coombs
463
Elmer A. Sisson
515
Erna L. Cornish
464
Irene L. Sullivan
516
Ruth M. Cox
465
John V. Sullivan
517
Ella G. Glendall
466 Edgar H. Stafford, Jr.
518
Ruth A. Hathaway
467
Mildred A. Thomas
519 Miriam L. Holloway
468
Herbert L. Wilber
520
George E. A. Jones
469
Harold S. Wood
521
Mason H. Leggee
522 Harold A. Lovell
1908
523
Carrie B. Manton
470 Albert Alden
524
Charles E. McCarthy
471 Myra A. Andrews
525
Orton C. Newhall
444
Ralph H. Blanchard
499
Helen S. Robbins
446 Shirlie C. Clark
501
Gladys P. Shockley
450
Emma J. Farrar
505 Florence L. White
452
Ruth W. Holloway
495
Perlie M. Phinney
497
Gilbert M. Ramsey
1909
40
526 Herbert C. Osborne
578
Caroline L. Jones
527 George B. Purdon
579 Lester F. Morse
528 Arthur C. Ripley
580 William A. Lang
581 Mertie E. Philbrook
530 Alfred E. Standish
582 Edward A. Ramsey
583 Lysander Richmond
532
Ernest E. Thomas
584
Dorothy E. Snow
533
Leslie M. Thomas
586
Marion H. Thomas
587
Waldo S. Thomas
536
Chester M. Witbeck
588 Helen E. Tinkham
589 Annie H. Wilbur
1910
590 Margaret O. Wood
537
Susie L. Allen
1912
538
Alta E. Battles
591
Ruth F. Beckman
540
Irma H. Carleton
593
David W. Burgess
542
Elsie L. Cole
594
Maude G. Churbuck
543
Josiah S. Cushing
595 Herbert W. Ellis
544
Malcolm C. Drake
596
Florence Frost
545
Elsie H. Dunham
597
Benjamin K. Glidden
546
Marian F. Dunham
598
Darragh L. Higgins
547
Lillian F. Farrington
599
Martha W. Keith
548
Merena J. Farrington
600
Percy N. Lane
549
Agnes M. Fenno
601
Helen E. LeBaron
550
David M. Gammons
602
Benjamin Levey
551
Florence A. Hunt
603
Lyda E. Long
552
Edna I. Klar
604
Francis J. Mahoney
553 Helen S. Jackson
605
Annie F. McCarthy
554
Arthur H. Leonard, Jr.
606
Ralph B. Mendall
555
James C. McManus
607
Eleanor B. Monroe
556
Florence A. Norris
608
Dalton L. Penniman
557
Neal R. O'Hara
609
Fred E. Sherman
558
Lily A. Pasztor
610
. Madeline S. Smith
559
Emil B. Perry
611
Marshall A. Snow
560
Susie A. Pitman
612
Albert F. Soule
561
Nina L. Seymour
613
Florence W. Swett
562
Edith A. Sheehan
614
Forest E. Thomas
563
Lillian A. Ward
615
Margaret E. Thomas
564
Florence G. Washburn
616
Earle P. White
565
Kendrick H. Washburn
617
Laurence W. Wilbur
566
Allerton E. Wilbur
618
Roger Wood
567
Ellis M. Wilbur
1913
1911
619
Fred B. Alger
568
Elmer G. Allan
620
Florence I. Bailey
569
Helen N. Anderson
621 Everett W. Clough
570
Timothy E. Anderson
622
Eleanor W. Coolidge
571
Edward A. Begley
623
John Coolidge
572
Helen M. Braley
624
Arthur H. Dunham
573 Merton L. Braley
625
LeRoy S. Dunham
574 Caroline S. Buck
626
Mary A. Dunham
575 Gladys M. Elliott
627
Ethel E. Fagerberg
576
Verna L. Francis
628 Esther L. Holloway
.577
Harold W. Gibbs
629
Herbert E. Godfrey, Jr.
539
Susan A. Bishop
592 Alma S. Bennett
541
Laura C. Clough
585 Lillian S. Stenhouse
534 Lyman H. Thomas
535 Maud B. Wesson
529 Mabel B. Sears
531
Ella C. Tall'man
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630 Parker H. Kennedy
684
Alfred F. Tinkham
631 Theodore F. Mendall
685 Jennie Wilbur
632 Dorothy M. Nute
686 Melville O. Wilkins
633 Olive F. Perkins
634
Sarah E. Quelle
1915
635 Madeline M. Reed
636 Cora F. Shaw
687
Stanley F. Alger
637
Sara E. Thurston
688
Edward B. C. Bailey
638 Florence L. Tinkham
689 Ruth H. Baxter
639
Alden G. Vaughan
690 Theophilus L. Bearse
640 Gertrude L. Vaughn
691
Maurice S. Bowen
641
Albert W. Ward
692
Beulah A. Briggs
642 Horace C. Wilbur
693
Helen S. Bump
643 Julian H. Witbeck
694
Marguerite Carr
695
Esther F. Churbuck
1914
696
Cecil H. Deane
645
Austen L. Beals
646
Mary D. Begley
700
Etta F. Eaton
647
Mendall L. Boehme
701
Anna C. I. Erickson
648
Amelia G. Berry
702
Granville D. Fuller
649
Bertha W. Bradford
703
Mildred A. Gilman
650
Earle E. Caswell
704
Hazel L. Godfrey
651
Everett L. Caswell
705
Verna M. Hopkins
652
Arleen F. Cross
706
Lucy V. Huntley
653
Henry M. Cushing
707
Clifford L. 'Keith
654
Minnie L. Davis
708
Roger W. Kelley
655
Josiah M. DeMaranville
709
Marjorie B. Kendall
656
Katherine M. Dowling
710 Franklin P. L. Kenyon
657
Lillian R. Foye
711 Catherine M. Larkin
658
Edith Frost
712
Marian L. Maxim
659
Mildred S. Giddings
713 Lucretia F. Morgan
660
Bessie F. Leonard
714 Helen B. Pasztor
661
William A. Lewis
715
Bertha S. Richmond
662
Adele L. Levey
716
Marjorie E. Robinson
663
Gladys A. Lovell
717
Ralph A. Seaver
664
John J. Martin
718
Robert T. Shurtleff
665
Ralph J. McCarthy
719
S. Eileen Simmons
666
Clifton A. McCrillis
720
Elva M. Staples
667
Ralph J. McQuade
721
Priscilla Stetson
668
Charles S. Miner
722
Ethel H. Tallman
669
Rachel Mostrom
723
Eleanor H. Thomas
670
Walter E. O'Hara
724
Elwood M. Tillson
671
Wilma M. Osgood
725
Bertram Tripp
672
Roy F. Perkins
726 Priscilla A. Wadsworth
673
Helen E. L. Perry
727
George T. Washburn
674
Flora G. Porter
728
Roger L. Wilkins
676
Sara O. Reed
1916
677 678
Gladys E. Shaw
729
Arthur F. Belcher
679 Hannah L. Shaw
730
Zilpah C. Bennett
680
Minnie H. Shurtleff
731 Mary J. Boucher
681
Annie M. Sinclair
732 Jennie B. Bradford
682
Melvin L. Southwick
733
Lucy B. Braley
683
Clarence E'. Soule
734 Robley E. Buckman
644
Leon V. Alden
697
Andrew J. Decker
698
Judith B. Dunham
699
Dorothy H. Eaton
675
Bernice M. Reed
Julia Sampson
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735 Mildred F. Burkett
789
Everett L. Saunders
736 William S. Chandler
790
Alice D. Shaw
737 Verna L. Clark
791 Florence L. Shaw
738 Alicia V. Clough
793 Arthur E. F. Thomas
739
Max A. Cohen
740 Edward T. Deane
794
Edna S. Thomas
741 Viola H. Foye
795
Bertha A. Thompson
742
Margaret J. Guerini
796
Benjamin F. White
743
Gladys J. Harrington
797
Dorothy White
744
Kenneth B. Keedwell
798
George P. Whitten
745
Ruth M. Ladbury
799
Edward V. Whitty
746
Kenneth C. Leonard
800
Henrietta C. Wilbur
747
Everett H. Lynch
801
Lloyd H. Winnell
748
Francis E. McCarthy
802
John A. Witbeck
749
Louise A. Miller
803
Doris A. Wood
750
Hazel H. Read
751
Stella R. Pedigree
1918
752
Ruth N. Shaw
804
Rena F. Anderson
754
Alberta N. Soule
806
Ralph E. Belcher
755
Phyllis Sullivan
807
Ruth M. Bryant
756
Roger W. Tillson
808
Leland M. Buckman
757
Harold M. Warner
809
Charlotte E. Bump
758
Annie M. Wiley
810
Madaleine P. Burgess
759
Dana P. Vaughan
811
Joseph W. Cooper
812
Lillián A. Cronan
760
Mildred F. Alden
814
Wilfred D. Deane
761
Dolph P. Alger
815
Winifred S. Deane
762
David P. Ashley
816
Donald T. Dempsey
763
Mildred A. Ashley
817
David W. Dimmock
764
R. Anita Atwood
818
Marjorie A. Dinsmore
765
Marian Beals
819
Margaret W. Drew
766
Alice R. Begley
820
Dorothy M. Fessenden
767
Ethel M. Benton
821
Flora E. Forsberg
768
Richard G. Bowen
822
Selene Gifford
769
Dorothy H. Bradford
823
Sylvester Greene
770
Angeline Candella
824
Ida M. Hanson
771
Doris Cline
825
Gerald A. Harrington
772
Harold L. Dunham
826
Elmer C. Hatch
773
Catherine E. Eaton
827
Gretchen Hiltz
774
Irene B. Endres
828
Doris A. Holmes
775
Mildred H. Gates
829
Eleanor C. Johnson
776
Ruth P. Jenkins
830
John S. Johnson
777
Roger P. Jenks
831
Francis J. Maddigan
778
Doris A. Kelley
832
Beatrice L. V. Martenson
779
John C. LeBaron
833
Mary A. McGrady
780
Doris L. Leonard
834
Stella M. Norris
781
A. Emilia Mahony
835
Melvin H. Parker
782
J. Everett McManus
836
Doris M. Penniman
783
Ida M. Merrihew
837
Frances E. Penniman
784
Verna C. Mosher
838
Dorothy S. Perkins
785 Henry F. Palmer, Jr.
839 Lois E. Perkins
786
Doris F. Peirce
840 Earle P. Robinson
787
Clara E. Playse
841
Alice M. Roht
788
Marie Quelle
842
Elsie M. Sawyer
1917
813
George P. Deane
753
Elizabeth C. Smith
805
Catherine Bates
792 Edna G. Taylor
43
843 Mabel J. Shaw
870
William J. Glover
844 Nellie L. Shaw
871 Howard A. Hopkins
845 Mildred A. Soule
872 Louisa Hunt
846 Helen A. Sullivan
873 Carolyn R. Jenkins
847 Thalia Stetson
874 Isabel L. Keith
848
Bradford S. Thomas
875 Lauretta F. Leary
849
Lura A. Thomas
876 Hazel F. LeBaron
850
George L. Tillson
877
Samuel Lepre
851
Mearl A. Tribou
878
Percy C. Lutz
852
Burnham S. Walker
879 John F. Mahoney
853
Sarah M. Weeman
880
Ruth M. Martenson
854
Gladys D. White
881
Howard W. Maxim
855 Doris M. Wood
882
Helen A. McDonald
883
Stella B. Norris
1919
884
Helen E. Perkins
856
Albert J. Arsenault
886
Ada M. Peterson
857 Miriam A. Bassett
887
Halbert W. Reed
858 Thomas F. Begley
888
Helen C. Ryder
860
John A. Burgess, Jr.
890
Hattie A. Sears
861
Luke F. Callan
891
Constance A. Sellers
862
Doris A. Clarke
892
Russell Shurtleff
863
Fannie R. Cohen
893
Bessie S. Sisson
864
Walter G. F. Cornell
894
Etta E. Skillings
865
Edna M. Eayrs
895
Emma L. Soule
866
Charles V. Giberti
896
Cora L. Staples
867
Franklin M. Gifford, Jr.
897
Helen G. Swett
868
A. Samuel Gillis, Jr.
898
John T. Wholey
869
John A. Glover
899
Alden D. Wilbur
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER SAMPSON,
Principal of the High School.
885
Katherine Perkins
859 Arthur E. Boardman
889
Helen Sampson
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REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
Mr. Chas. H. Bates,
Supt. of Schools, Middleboro, Mass.
Dear Sir :- It is with pardonable pride that I present my report of the progress in music for the past four months. The splendid co-operation of the grade teachers makes it possible for me to say that matters are progressing in a most satisfying manner.
The music period is not the time for the' teacher to make up back work on other subjects and leave the pupils to shift for themselves, thereby permitting boisterous sing- ing, bad intonation or wrong intervals. Such, I am pleased to say, is not the condition in Middleboro.
The child voice is a very delicate instrument and can be permanently harmed by the loud and strained tones which I have heard demonstrated in other localities. My aim is to have quality rather than quantity.
The music in the High School is on a plane with that of any school of its size in the country, the Boys' Glee Club, while not as large as one could wish, owing to the fact that many of the boys are employed in the afternoon, is made up of enthusiastic young men who love to sing, the Girls' Glee Club numbers about fifty voices and the interest manifested by them is surprising, it being possible to hold their atten- tion for long rehearsals and hard drill accomplishing much.
The High School Chorus is one of the best it has been my privilege to hear, we are working on Tennyson's "The Village Blacksmith," the music of which is composed by Noyes, to be presented in March, for the benefit of the athletic fund of the school.
We have some unusual voices in the chorus among both boys and the girls and I predict a brilliant future in music for many of them. If some kindly disposed millionaire wanted to leave a monument to perpetuate his memory, let him present to the High School a grand piano or a phono- graph or both and posterity will bless him forever and a day. Nothing stimulates the ambition to dig and delve in music like hearing the best and that condition can be obtained in no
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other way that I know of except by the reproduced efforts of some of our great artists on the phonograph.
We have formed an orchestra in the grammar school and have rehearsals every Monday afternoon and the music is of the highest order. Who can tell, possibly a future performer in the Boston Symphony Orchestra is getting his experience in the grammar school orchestra of your city.
The Suburban schools, owing to the limited amount of time allotted per week for the study of music and the vary- ing age of the pupils, are a difficult problem to handle, how- ever the teachers are deeply interested in the subject and I am sure you will be pleased in the results obtained. It has been possible to visit each school on the appointed day up to the present time and I see no reason why the program as laid out by you cannot be carried out to the letter.
It is stated by a reliable authority that, in one of Eng- land's largest colleges, ten percent. of the pupils elected to take up the study of music and seventy-five percent. of the honor awards were won by this same ten percent., a partial proof that the study of music quickens the perception., If this is so we are not laboring in vain.
Respectfully submitted,
WIRT B. PHILLIPS, Supervisor of Music.
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MUSIC SUPERVISOR'S TIME SCHEDULE.
First and Third Mondays.
Town House School.
A. M. 9:30-10 10:10-10:30 Union Street Grade II. 10:30-10:45 Union Street Grade I. 10:45-11:05 Union Street Grade III.
11:05-11:30 Union Street Grade IV.
P. M. 1:30- 1:50 West Side Grades I and II. 2:00 2:30 West Side Grade III. 2:30- - 3:00 West Side Grade IV. 3:00- 3:30 West Side Grades V and VI. 3:45- 4:45 School Street Orchestra.
First and Third Tuesdays.
A. M. 8:20- 9:10
High School. 9:40-10:00 Forest Street Grade I. 10:00-10:25 Forest Street Grades II and III.
P. M. 3:30- 4:30 High School Girls' Glee Club. 4:30- 5:30 High School Boys' Glee Club.
Second and Fourth Mondays.
School Street Grade IX.
A. M. 9:15- 9:45 9:45 __ 10:15 School Street Grade VII. 10:15-10:45 School Street Grade VII. 11:00-11:30 School Street Grade VI. 11:30-12:00 School Street Grades VIII and IX.
P. M. 1:30- 2:00 School Street Grade V. 2:00- 2:30 School Street Grade V. 2:30- 3:00 School Street Grades V and VI. 3:00 - 3:30 School Street Grade IV.
3:30- 4:30 School Street Orchestra.
Second and Fourth Tuesdays.
A. M. 8:20- 9:10 High School. P. M. 3:30- 4:30 High School Girls' Glee Club. 4:30- 5:30 High School Boys' Glee Club.
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First Wednesday and every following third week.
A. M. 9:00- 9:30 South Middleboro Grades I and VIII.
10:00-10:30 Rock Grades I and VI. 11:00-11:30 Thomastown Grades I and IX. P. M. 1:00- 1:30 2:15- 2:45 Fall Brook Grades I and VII.
Wappanucket Grades I and VIII.
Second Wednesday and every following third week.
A. M. 9:00- 9:30 Pleasant Street Grades I and V.
10:30 __ 11:00 Plymouth Street Grades I and V. P. M. 1:00- 1:30 Purchade Grades I and VII.
Third Wednesday and every following third week.
A. M. 9:00- 9:30 Waterville Grades I and VII.
10:00-10:30 Soule Grades I and VIII. 11:15-11:45 Thompsonville Grades I and IX. P. M. 1:00-1:30 Greene Grades I and VI.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF PENMANSHIP.
Mr. Chas. H. Bates,
Supt. of Public Schools, Middleboro, Mass.
Dear Sir :- I find it a little difficult to report on the writing in our schools after so short a period of contact with them. I shall try, however, to present the problem as I see it.
The system that we are teaching is intended to produce a writing that "combines legibility, rapidity, ease and endur-
ance. " I know that it will do this if followed enthusiastic- ally through each grade. I feel that it is our duty to see that there is no break in the course thereby losing at least two years' construction work. Each teacher must "carry on" to a great degree of perfection the work of the class as it comes to her. If the work be new to her, she must practice and study to acquit herself of her responsibility for her stage of the course.
In this system our aim is not to secure a perfected form of penmanship in the lower grades, but, stage by stage, to work up to the finished product when the boys and girls leave our schools for life's duties. It is our aim to seek first and always a healthful posture and relaxed condition of the body. In this way we seek to secure "ease and endurance." We stress "rapid," knowing that all really good writing that is practical is done rapidly. We put perfected form last, for pedigogically we know that is its necessary place, and again I say we expect that only in the upper grades-"the finished product." I have gone into this in some detail hoping that parents may read it and understand better the purpose of our teaching from grade to grade.
I think I have shown also how necessary it is that our teachers have a co-operative spirit in completing each stage of the work that falls to them, so that each promotion will send pupils on that are "up to grade" in writing. Each teacher must study her problem and put first in all teaching the step that her grade should make towards the final goal of the upper grades. Our system fails if our advanced-work teachers must dwell on beginners' problems. Such I feel is
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the condition of our work in writing at the present time. This, I believe, cannot be remedied in less than two years. I also feel that not enough stress is laid on the necessity for the practical application of our writing lessons in all written work. I believe this will not be the difficult problem it has too often been considered if it is persistently presented throughout the year, and habits formed at the right stage of the work. There is much praise due some of the work I have examined, but a lack of uniformly good "up to grade" work throughout the system.
It will be my aim to secure the co-operation of our teachers in putting "first things first" in building their part of the finished structure.
Most respectfully yours,
ERNEST N. SEAVEY, Supervisor of Penmanship.
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WRITING SUPERVISOR'S SCHEDULE. TOWN HOUSE SCHOOL.
First week.
Monday
Grade 8
2:15-2:45
FOREST STREET SCHOOL.
First week.
Tuesday Grade 1 2:15-2:30
Grade 2
2:30-2:50
WEST SIDE SCHOOL.
First week.
Thursday
Grades 1 and 2 2:15-2:30
Grades 2 and 3 2:30-2:45
Grade 4 2:45 __ 3:00
Grades 5 and 6
3:00-3:30
UNION STREET SCHOOL.
Second week.
Tuesday
Grade 1
2:15-2:30
Grade 2
2:30-2:45
Grade 3 2:45-3:00
Grade 4 .
3:00-3:20
SCHOOL STREET SCHOOL.
Second week.
Thursday Grade 5, Portable 2:15-2:40
Grade 4 2:40-3:05
Grade 5 3:05-3:30
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SCHOOL STREET SCHOOL.
Third week.
Tuesday Grades 5 and 6
2:15-2:40
Grade 6 2:40-3:05
Grade 7
3:05-3:30
SCHOOL STREET SCHOOL.
Third week.
Thursday
Grade 7
2:15-2:40
Grade 9
2:40-3:05
Grade 9
3:05-3:30
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REPORT OF THE DRAWING SUPERVISOR.
Mr. Charles H. Bates,
Superintendent of Schools, Middleboro, Mass.
Dear Sir :- The following is a report of my work as drawing supervisor in the public schools, during the school year of 1919.
In the free-hand drawing class at the High School, from January through June, the work was mostly design of differ- ent sorts, with two or three stencilling problems. From Sep- tember until the present date, the work has been object draw- ing, pottery, etc., with careful study of proportion and shape. This course was completed with an advertising poster for a pattern firm. For the rest of the year the work will be design, costume design, design of home furnishings and stencilling.
The mechanical class at the High School is in two divi- sions, elementary and advanced. From January through June the advanced work was architectural drawing, copying of floor plans and elevations, drawing everything to scale. One original house plan was included. From September until the present date, the work has been mechanical per- spective. The rest of the year will be devoted to more ad- vanced architectural work with one or two machine prob- lems.
The elementary class from January through June worked on isometric drawings, projections, etc. The present class from September until the present date have been working on geometry problems. They will finish the year with iso- metric drawing, etc.
In the upper grades from January to June the work included perspective, house planning, house furnishing prob- lems, design and nature work. From September until the present date it included lettering, design and color. During the rest of the year, costume, design, perspective, the study of architectural details of local houses, interior arrangements and nature work, will be taken up.
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