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0 Still-Born.
24 Ellen Dowd.
2
5
Lung Fever.
24 Humphrey Moynihan.
80
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. . Old Age.
24 Reuben Ricker.
53
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16 Consumption.
27 Hannah Harmon.
56
11
8 Cancer.
31 Hattie G. Glover.
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7
14 Congestion of Brain.
8 Margaret R. Derry
1
1
14
11 Priscilla Sampson
79
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Tumor.
15 Edward Scannell
1
11 6
20 Peverly (Infant)
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. . Dropsy.
26 Abbie Bass ...
30
4 10
26 Consumption. 66
3 Sidney C. Curtis.
9
15 Lung Fever.
3 Frederick Mayhew Marsh.
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6
12 |Disease of Bowels.
6 Mary E. Mullin
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10
15 Cholera Infantum.
10 Martin Dunn.
79
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. . Dropsy.
14 Honora Lyons .
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22 Charles A. French
1
6
. . Dysentery.
26 Lucy Faxon ...
21
2
20 Cholera Morbus.
28 Sarah H. Souther.
42
10
23
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3 | Nettie Frances Noble
4 Alexander Gavin.
28
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. . 21 Cholera Infuntum.
.. |Killed in a fight.
Aug.
4 Eliner T. Coval.
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11
. . Cholera Infantum. 66 66
20 Mary Holohan ...
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21 Israel Luscomb.
58
23 Brougham Faxon
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Sept.
1 Willie V. Kidder
1
6 Daniel Lord.
76
7 Thomas J. Talbot.
2
3 . . Dysentery.
11 Arthur H. Fuller
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4
1 Cholera Infantum.
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. . Inflam. of Bowels.
25 Liba A. Litchfield
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5
.. Paralysis.
Oct.
June
2 Otis Hollis
42
.. Killed on R. R. track.
11 Archibald Bean.
85
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Paralysis.
4
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Dropsy.
30 Mary Furbush
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. . Consumption.
16 Albert L. Jones
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3
.. Cholera Morbus.
26 Catharine Enderlee
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3
26 Spinal Disease.
29 Ellen Bagley .
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. . Asthma & Heart Dis.
July
Y.
M. D
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Infantile.
14 John Kenney.
1
2
9 Inflam. of Bowels.
28 Mary Sullivan
34
· Consumption.
.. Suicide.
7 Cholera Infantum. 66 0|Still-Born. 66
2 23 Disease of Spinc.
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. . Paralysis.
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DATE.
NAME.
AGE.
CAUSE.
Y.
M.
D.
Oct.
4 Patrick J. O'Neil.
21
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Lucia C. Butler
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6 11
Phthisis.
10 Dennis Dailey .
1
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Lung Fever.
15 Mary D. Dwille
79
8
.. Old Age.
15 Thomas McCarty
40
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.. Consumption.
15
Hersey (Infant)
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16 Ellen M. Hersey
34
7
.. Apoplexy.
18 Connor Ansties.
65
.. Heart Disease.
20 Charles H. Newcomb
20
11
.. Kidney Disease.
20 Joseph Burns
6
8
.. Rheumatic Fever.
21 Edward Lancaster
84
. . Old Age.
23 Joseph Bernard Dunn.
3
11
32 Measles.
24 Richard Smith.
12
7
20 Lung Fever.
26 Clara A. Taunt
6
7
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Croup.
2 Jennie Trefrey
2
4
. . Inflam. of Lungs.
6 Katie Ellen Coyle
1
4
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.. Dropsy.
11 Charles W. Hutchins
81
8
12
Old Age.
18 John Green
87
2
18
Consumption.
25 Sarepta J. Hardwick
2
11
2
Measles.
26 Cora Estella Soule.
2
11
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. . Old Age.
13 Climena Brown
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4
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Pneumonia& Pleurisy
20 Ann Newcomb.
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26 Albion K. P. Dearborn
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7
23
Chronic Diarrhoea.
26 Abbie E. House
19
20 Measles.
27 Susie F. Parker
5
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.. Pleurisy.
29 Sally Presby.
83
4
.. Paralysis.
31 Edna B. Lapham
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4
8 Lung Fever.
Whole number of deaths registered, 186.
BIRTHS
REGISTERED IN QUINCY DURING THE YEAR 1868.
Males,
77
Females, .
161
Dec.
5 Phebe Green
80
8
Inflam. of Bowls.
20 Sarah Marsh.
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1
21 Infantile.
6 John E. Parker
Dropsy on Brain.
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10 18 Whooping Cough.
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30 James Ham.
Nov.
0 Still-Born.
Inflam. of Brain.
84
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2 Emma E. Newcomb
STATE AID.
Amounts paid by the Selectmen to Soldiers or their Families from Jan. 1, 1868, to Jan. 1, 1869.
Armstrong, John L. $36 00
Hobbs, John G. $18 00
Basley, George W.
48 00
Hodgkinson, William 72 00
Bent, William H.
45 00
Howard, Alonzo 72 00
Bryant, Edward G.
32 00
Hughes, James
48 00
Buchan, William
96 00
Hurley, David 72 00
Bullock, Alfred W.
15 00
Burke, William
72 00
Jones, Joshua 36 00
*Carver, Charles W.
20 00
Lawless, Richard
48 00
Chadwick, Samuel S.
48 00
*Lincoln, Benjamin C. 96 00 Lunt, Theodore H. 48 00
*Chubbuck, James
20 00
Lycett, James 18 00
Colburn, Lemuel A.
48 00
Lynes, Daniel 18 00
Crane, Seth
68 00
*Mahoney, James 9 00 Marrah, Jeremiah 36 00
Cummings, Noah L.
64 00
McCarty, John 27 00
Curry, Patrick S.
21 00
McGann, John
96 00
Dailey, Albert H.
48 00
McLay, James
48 00
Dailey, Garrett
48 00
Moriarty, Dennis 96 00
Durgin, Jonathan C.
96 00
*Ela, Elisha T. C.
44 00
Faircloth, John
18 00
Fenton, Michael
96 00
Newcomb, Isaac T.
48 00
Field, William A.
54 00
Nott, Francis L. 96 00
Flynn, William
48 00
O'Brien, Timothy 48 00
*Harmon, William M. 28 00
Parsons, Joseph A. 48 00
Hart, Bernard
36 00
Pearce, Thomas L. 36 00
*Jones, Alonzo 9 00
Burke, Walter
96 00
Keenan, Matthew 48 00
*Christian, James B.
24 00
Cronin, John
48 00
Morrisson, Sylvander H. 48 00
Newcomb, Henry A. 68 00
Newcomb, II. G. O. 54 00
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Perry, Samuel N.
96 00
Thayer, William F.
48 00
Pope, William O.
48 00
Usher, James 96 00
Price, Peter W.
48 00
Whitney, Luther W.
72 00
Record, Samuel S.
48 00
Wildman, Wilson
54 00
Smith, Martin 36 00
Williams, John
36 00
Souther, Francis L.
96 00
Wood, Thomas
96 00
*Spear, Warren Q.
24 00
Thayer, James W.
36 00
Whole amount,
$3,536 00
*Thayer, Nelson L.
24 00
* Those marked thus have ceased to receive aid.
THOM
OURI PATRIOT SOLDIERS.
1 1868.
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
DEDICATED JUNE 25, 1868.
THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
The design for the monument was made by our late lamented townsman, Mr. Chester Mitchell, of which the following is a mi- nute description, viz. : -
" It is thirty-four feet and three inches high and weighs thirty- five tons. It rests on a rubble foundation nine and one-half feet square and six feet in depth, and contains about forty-five tons of stone. The bottom base is eight feet square and sixteen inches thick, and weighs eight tons ; the second base is six and one-half feet square and eighteen inches thick, and weighs five tons. On the front side, on a raised band, are the figures 1868. The third base is five and one-half feet square and sixteen inches thick, with a heavy moulding ; this stone weighs three and one-third tons. Resting on this is the die, four and one-half feet square and six and one-fourth feet high; it has a heavy circular overhanging moulding, with tablets of bronze inserted in panels on each face, with inscriptions in raised letters ; the weight of stone is nine tons ; this die supports a smaller die three and one-third feet square and three and one-half feet high, and weighing two and one-half tons ; it has graceful overhanging mouldings, and on the front side in large raised polished letters are the words, "In honor of our Patriot Soldiers." On the opposite side is the familiar shield over- laying two crossed muskets. On the right-hand side is an anchor cut in bold relief. On the left-hand side are represented two can- nons and two naked swords. Most appropriate designs are happily blended in position, representing both army and navy. Above this is the shaft, clean and smooth, with the exception of the front, on which is a large raised shield, with raised letters on
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the same, of U. S. This is fourteen and one-half feet in height, two and one-half feet square at the base, and tapering to the top to twenty-two inches, and weighing six tons. Next comes the base of the capital, forming by its lower band the necking of the shaft. This is two and one-half feet square and fourteen inches thick, and weighs a quarter of a ton. The ornamentation of this stone is three large raised stars on each of its sides ; this is surmounted by the capital, two and five-sixths feet square at the base, and four and one-half feet high, and weighing one and a quarter tons ; it is pyramidical in shape, with slightly concave sides, capped with tri- angular sides, ornamented with large stars and a ball. The whole is a chaste, symmetrical, and beautiful monument, and is alike an honor to the town, and a fitting memorial to the Patriots who sacri- ficed life that our Country might live.
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THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE INSCRIBED ON THE TABLETS.
Killed in Battle.
At Fort Randall,
Bull Run,
Sergt .- Maj. E. F. Trask.
Peter P. Marque,
Big Bethel,
Samuel S. Pierce.
Antietam,
Francis L. Souther.
Newbern,
Horatio N. Faxon. Fredericksburgh,
James Ryan.
Malvern Hill,
Patrick Dermody.
Galveston,
Francis L. Nott.
Wilderness,
· : ··· ·· · John Dag,
Corp. Richard Lawless. Weldon Railroad,
Joseph Flynn,
Joseph M. Luzarder. Spottsylvania,
George Wyman.
Cedar Creek,
Elisha T. C. Ela,
John P. Brown. Petersburgh,
Timothy Sheahan,
Sergt. Edwin L. Joyce, 66 Wm. L. Burrell,
George W. Turner,
Thomas Wood,
Capt. Charles F. Pray,
Osmand Bennett,
Sergt. James Chubbuck,
Lawrence McLaughlin.
William H. H. Lapham.
Died of Wounds received in Battle.
Bull Run, Weldon Railroad,
Corp. Loring Bigelow,
James Hughes.
Henry A. Holden,
Antietam,
Luther M. Bent. Wilderness,
Noah L. Cummings,
Michael McGlone. Fredericksburg, Henry F. Packard.
Serg't. Lemuel A. Colburn, Charles W. Carver. Petersburg, Matthew Keenan,
George W. Basley. Port Hudson, Garrett Fleming.
John Manning. Gainsville,
John Horgan. Whitehall,
James Kelley. Jr. Hatcher's Run,
James Donlan. Coal Harbor,
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Died of Disease contracted in the Army.
Captain Joseph W. Morton, Corporal L. B. Harrington,
Assistant-Surg'n G. L. Smalley,
Uriel Josephs,
Sergeant Charles D. Riley, 66 Morton Packard,
Charles E. Messer,
Erasmus Thomas,
Michael Manning,
T. Baxter, Jr.,
Corporal Henry Trask,
S. A. Nightingale.
Died of Disease contracted in the Army.
Richard B. Hayden,
Charles H. Graham,
George F. Lapham,
John Kehoe,
Dennis Moriarty,
Ezra Badger,
Michael Enright,
George Starbuck,
Obed F. Allen,
William Flynn,
Seth Crane,
George Burns,
Frederic Fletcher,
David W. Bates,
William Price,
Eli Pierce,
Garrett Dailey,
Henry C. White,
William Buchan,
John McGann, Edward J. Gibson,
Lorenzo D. Parker,
Francis G. Chubbuck,
Greenleaf P. Foster,
William Sheahan,
Josiah N. Kittredge,
Ebenezer F. Cleverly,
Michael J. Howley,
Theodore H. Lunt,
Henry T. Packard,
Benjamin R. Pierce,
Isaac T. Newcomb,
Edward L. Perkins,
Charles G. Duggan,
Adam Algoe,
Sylvander H. Morrison,
James Usher, 2d,
Walter Burk,
Samuel B. Cook.
Died in Prison.
Andersonville, Georgia,
Samuel N. Perry,
Bryant Newcomb, Jr.,
William H. Burns,
Timothy Conlin,
H. A. Newcomb,
Vernon Smith. Belle Isle, Virginia,
Arthur Dunn, Thomas Mullany. Florence, So. Carolina,
Corporal F. M. Totman. Millen, Georgia, William F. Thayer, John Cronin.
Salisbury, N. Carolina, Corporal C. C. Dickerman,
Wm. E. Colburn, George W. Savil, Edward Damon, Jr., Jonathan C. Durgin, Thomas W. McGann. Unknown, Michael Fenton. Drowned,
William O. Pope, Chase F. Leavitt, Jr.
William Jones,
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF QUINCY,
FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1868-9.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1868-9.
WILLIAM S. MORTON, NOAH CUMMINGS,
H. FARNUM SMITH,
WILLIAM S. PATTEE,
HENRY BARKER,
E. GRANVILLE PRATT.
BOSTON : · ROCKWELL & ROLLINS PRINTERS, 122 WASHINGTON STREET. 1869.
REPORT.
WE, the School Committee of the town of Quincy, in accordance with a time-honored custom, and in obedience to the laws of this Commonwealth, respectfully submit the following Report of the condition of the Public Schools of said town, for the year 1868-9, including such items of in- terest, suggestions, and criticisms, as we deem proper and necessary for a correct understanding by the citizens of the town, of their duties and responsibilities in the cause of popular education.
. SCHOOL-HOUSES.
We have made no change in the High School-house dur- ing the year, worthy of note, as the same was put into good condition last year, so far as the inside improvements and repairs are concerned. Considerable expenditure upon the outside of the building will be necessary for the ensuing year, for the preservation of the house. One of the lower rooms of this building is still occupied by Adams Primary School No. 2. We earnestly recommend that the yard be ornamented with shade trees.
CODDINGTON SCHOOL-IIOUSES.
The repairs of these buildings have been unimportant. We still continue to occupy the hall over the store of Wyman Abercrombie, Esq., for Primary No. 3, and find it better
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adapted for school purposes than any other available build- ing, though the location and surroundings offer slight objec- tions.
Primary No. 2, for want of a more suitable room, still remains in the basement of the main building.
ADAMS SCHOOL-HOUSES.
These buildings have been under the charge of the Pruden- tial Committee during the year, and have undergone some slight alterations. Material changes have been made by him in the location of the several schools. The room formerly occupied by the Intermediate School has been taken for a portion of the Grammar School, the upper room being mani- festly inadequate for the accommodation of this school, and the Intermediate has been removed to the upper room of the Stone School-house, vacated by Primary No. 2, and the last-named school transferred to the room in the High School- house, heretofore used by Primary No. 1. In the Grammar School-room new and commodious recitation seats have taken the place of inconvenient and cumbersome settees, affording much more available space in the room, and leaving the aisles free from obstruction.
WILLARD SCHOOL-HOUSES.
All of these houses have continued under the charge of the Prudential Committee of the West District, and we have noticed no material change in the same during the year. The lower room of the " Old School-house " is still used by Primary No. 3, and the Mixed Primary occupies the same room as formerly, at the " Rail."
Primary No. 2, we regret to say, continues in the base- ment apartment under the main building. We hope the day is not far distant when more suitable rooms will be fur- nished for three of the Primary Schools of this district, and
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when they will be so located that the grading heretofore attempted, can be fully carried out.
WASHINGTON SCHOOL-HOUSES.
The Washington School-house proper has been newly and thoroughly painted on the outside, since our last Report. New curtains have been substituted through most of the rooms, in lieu of the old ones worn out in the service, and, by means of additional desks, provision has been made for the increase in the number of scholars belonging to the Gram- mar School.
QUINCY SCHOOL-HOUSE.
The Prudential Committee of the North District has made various repairs on this building during his term of office. It has been newly painted, inside as well as outside; a new pump placed in the well, and new desks added to the Gram- mar School-room. The rapidly increasing population of this district renders additional school accommodations imperatively necessary. The present rooms are clearly too small to seat the present members of the school, to say nothing of the probable immediate increase. It is evident that a new school must be soon established in this district, and we know of no room that can be procured therefor.
Under all the circumstances we feel justified in recom- mending to the town the erection of a new school-house, with accommodations to meet the future wants of the dis- trict, this being, in our judgment, the most beneficial and economical manner of dealing with the necessities of the case.
CRANE SCHOOL-HOUSE.
No changes have been made on this building during the year.
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TEACHERS.
The following is a list of teachers employed during the year : -
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. C. B. Travis, Principal ; succeeded by Mr. H. A Keith ; Miss Annette E. Long, Miss Lucinda P. Cole, As- sistants.
CODDINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. H. B. Brown, Principal ; Miss Annie L. Arnold, Assistant.
Intermediate. - Miss Mary A. Holbrook.
Primary No. 1. - Miss A. M. Porter ; succeeded by Miss Ida Edwards.
Primary No. 2. - Miss Julia E. Underwood.
Primary No. 3. - Miss Ida Edwards ; succeeded by Miss Rebecca P. Basley.
ADAMS SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. A. H. Carvill, Principal ; succeeded by Mr. Seth Dewing, Jr. ; Miss Mary S. Travis, Assistant ; succeeded by Miss Carrie L. P. Torrey ; Miss Annie L. Thayer, 2d Assistant.
Intermediate. - Mrs. Emily A. Hardwick.
Primary No. 1. - Miss Lizzie C. Crowell ; succeeded by Miss Annie L. Thayer.
Primary No. 2. - Miss Mary E. Dinegan.
Primary No. 3. - Miss Eliza C. Sheahan.
Primary No. 4. - Mrs. F. E. Whicher.
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WASHINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. B. T. Hillman, Principal ; Miss Dora A. French, Assistant.
Intermediate. - Miss H. Almeda French.
Primary No. 1. - Miss S. Addie Souther.
Primary No. 2. - Miss C. A. Thomas.
WILLARD SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. Seth Dewing, Jr., Principal ; succeeded by Mr. Granville S. Webster ; Miss S. V. Wilde, Assistant. Intermediate. - Miss Carrie L. Rideoute. Primary No. 1. - Miss E. A. Newcomb.
Primary No. 2. - Miss E. F. Nightingale. Primary No. 3. - Miss M. A. Spear. Mixed Primary. - Miss E. S. Cole.
QUINCY SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. Lewis F. Hobbs. Primary. - Miss Lizzie A. Flint.
CRANE SCHOOL.
Miss M. Lizzie Cobb ; succeeded by Miss L. E. Walker.
GRADING OF THE SCHOOLS.
In the matter of grading our schools we labor under the same difficulties as heretofore, from causes set forth in detail in former Reports, and obvious to any one familiar with the location of our school-buildings. Whenever a change has been suggested in grading, which renders additional travel necessary, it has almost universally been followed by a de- cided opposition on the part of parents interested.
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Therefore we have delayed some alterations which in our judgment would in the main be advantageous, notwithstand- ing weighty objections, rather than to press upon the residents of any portion of the town a grading that would be manifestly distasteful to them. Few changes have been made during the year, and then only in those sections where the fluctu- ating nature of the population has rendered it necessary.
We still regret the defect in grading in the Willard Prima- ries, arising from the isolated location of one of those schools. The removal of the Mixed Primary from the " Rail," and consolidation with the other schools, is the only remedy known to us. About the middle of the year, and after the annual promotions, we found the Adams Grammar School- room far too small to even seat its pupils, - the school at that time numbering one hundred and twenty-eight members. We also found the classes so large that the time allowed each member was unreasonably short. After much consideration it was deemed advisable (though not without objections) to make an additional promotion from the Intermediate School, and add another assistant to the Grammar Department. This change necessitated the use of the Intermediate room for such department of the Grammar, and the fourth class of the school was transferred to this room, under the charge of their former assistant, still being members of the Grammar Depart- ment, and under the control of its principal.
The manifest want of sufficient school-rooms presented a formidable obstacle. The Prudential Committee was notified to furnish sufficient accommodations for the several schools, and he placed the Intermediate in the upper room of the " Stone School-house," and transferred the Primary No. 2 to the High School-house. After very careful deliberation, we con- cluded, as a choice of evils, to discontinue Primary No. 1, and that school was therefore divided between Primary No. 2 and the Intermediate Schools.
The evils arising from a want of proper grading still con- tinue in the Point District ; but an attempt on the part of the
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Committee to effect a union of the two Primary Schools, and a re-division of the scholars according to their relative ad- vancement, met with such decided opposition on t' part of the citizens of the "Neck " village, that we have not thought it best to press the matter in that form.
A change is loudly called for in the Quincy Schools, and your committee are unanimously of the opinion, considering the size of the Grammar and Primary Schools, and the rapidly increasing population of the North District, that an Intermediate Department is a present and permanent ne- cessity ; and we recommend the establishment of an Interme- diate School as soon as sufficient school-rooms can be fur- nished.
Your Committee contemplate the consolidation of Cod- dington Primarics No. 2 and 3, owing to the diminished num- ber of pupils in those schools.
We found after the summer promotions, that, owing to the limited numbers of the High School, we could dispense with the labors of one assistant, and during the remainder of the year the principal and one assistant have carried on the school.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Continued attention has been given to the subject of our Primary Schools, of which we have thirteen at present. We are more fully convinced that too much care and attention cannot be given to the selection of teachers for this important position. It is here that children, with no habits ( thought and study, with all the variations of talent, temperament, and disposition, fresh from every shade of home-culture and in- fluence, from dom stic restraint, freedom or license, some wild, wayward; and restless, some giddy and reckless, and others staid and mature beyond their years, with little or no knowledge of what is right or wrong save such as they have learned from the narrow circle of their village homes, or from
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the dangerous influences of the street, are thrown together under the charge of one teacher, and that teacher is expected to bring order and system out of those chaotic and discordant elements, stimulating where persuasion is necessary, checking where restraint is required, and forcing where force only will avail.
Is it a matter of wonder that among the number annually employed in this most difficult position, some should fail to reach that standard requisite to complete success? We con- sider it rather a matter of surprise that so few entirely fail, and so many are even tolerably successful.
It can but be conceded that this grade of schools, forming the basis of popular education, where habits of thought and study are, or should be, formed by the young ; habits that for good or evil will cling to them through life (and, if for evil, will blemish all their after course), should receive our most earnest care and consideration ; especially in schools graded like ours, where each has its specific portion of work to perform, and if not accomplished there, then never done, and where, if poorly done, it will remain defective, almost be- yond the hope of correction. Can a Committee, realizing the weighty responsibility that rests upon them, as legal guardians of these schools, and responsible for their success or failure, both to the present and the future, be justly censured if they shall require their candidates to bring energy, ability, and experience to their work, when such qualities are obtainable ? New applicants often say, "I should not dare to try anything but a Primary School." They had better say, "I dare try anything but a Primary School."
In everything but pure muscular force, the Primary De- partment requires the rarest combination of qualities that go to make up a model teacher. Gentleness blended with firm- ness, and tempered with judgment, energy and enthusiasm, combined with. and regulated by, moderation and prudence, - these and all the cardinal virtues are needful for this po sition. Feeling that in the discharge of our several duties,
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personal preferences and local considerations should be made subservient to the public good, we have endeavored to act accordingly, and if in any case we have given offence this is our only excuse.
With two or three exceptions we feel that our several Primary teachers have been reasonably successful, and have merited the approbation of the Board. Most of them have been with us for years, during which time they have labored with an earnestness of purpose highly commendable ; making from time to time such improvements as their increasing ex- perience dictated, and always willing and zealous to profit by the hints and suggestions of the Committee. We very much regret that two or three of these schools are sadly de- ficient in discipline, and in several qualities necessary to en- tire success. We would emphatically urge upon our Primary teachers an increased attention to the elementary sounds of the letters, to a correction of faulty enunciation, and to the several elements indispensable to an accomplished vocal culture, as we are firmly convinced that many of the present defects in the reading of our Grammar Schools have their origin in a want of due attention to these essentials in the Primary De- partments. We shall earnestly look forward to a radical im- provement in this respect.
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.
We have at present but four Intermediate Schools in town, all of which are doing their allotted work to the satisfaction of the Committee. We speak of them more in detail under their several heads.
The Adams Intermediate continues under the charge of Mrs. Emily A. Hardwick, whose reputation as a teacher is well and favorably known through the town, and its general standing is still good ; but, owing to substantial changes in the composition of this school, made toward the close of the
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term, and mentioned elsewhere, the closing examination in some respects was not quite up to the standard of former ones. We feel satisfied that the work of another term will , restore the school to its accustomed position.
The Coddington Intermediate, under the efficient control of Miss Mary A. Holbrook, a teacher of long and successful experience in the various schools of the town, is entitled to its usual meed of praise. The resignation of the teacher at the close of the year is deeply regretted by all who have the interest of this school at heart. As she leaves her public duties, she has the best wishes and sincere congratulations of the Committee.
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