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1st Term, 2d year, Algebra completed, Latin, U. S. History, Rhetoric and Chemistry, Compositions and Deela- mations.
2d Term, 2d year, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, French commenced.
1st Term, 3d year, Geometry commenced, French Reader, Physical Geography.
2d Term, 3d year, English Literature, Botany, Constitu- tion of U. S., Astronomy.
Rhetorical Exercises.
CLASSICAL COURSE.
1st Term, 1st year, Arithmetic, Latin commenced, Geog- raphy, Map Drawing, Reading, Writing, Spelling.
2d Term, 1st year, Algebra commenced, Latin Reader, Greek Lessons' commenced, Writing, Spelling, English Prose.
1st Term, 2d year, Algebra completed, Latin continued, Greek Lessons continued.
2d Term, 2d year, Natural Philosophy, Latin Prose Reader ; Greek, Xenophon.
1st Term, 3d year, Latin, Cicero; Greek, Xenophon ; Geometry commenced.
2d Term, 3d year, Latin, Virgil; Greek, Xenophon ; Geometry completed.
1st Term, 4th year, Latin, Virgil; Greek, Homer; Latin Prose Composition.
2d Term, 4th year, Review of Latin, Review of Greek, Review of English Branches.
Weekly Exercises in Declamation and Composition.
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CATALOGUE OF PUPILS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
FIRST CLASS.
Anne L. Savil.
Minnie J. Carr. Abbie L. Ewell. Maggie Thompson. Carrie F. Ricker.
Anne M. Bigelow. M. Jennie Newcomb. Sallie R. Gregg.
Jennie Sampson. Fanny H. Hersey. Angie S. Amsbury. *Florence Randall. Edriana Johnson. James E. Starbuck. Charles L. Hovey. George Cahill.
SECOND CLASS.
Mary L. Flint. Hattie H. Morse. *Ida A. Sleeper. Susie J. Doble. Eliza E. Costello.
Abbie F. Taylor. Lizzie A. McGrath. Emily Whitney. Louise Sampson. Amelia G. Mead. Susie W. Wild. Ida F. Glines.
Mary McDonald. Ella M. Walker. S. Addie Wild. Charles R. Hails. .
* George E. Newcomb. Albert F. Randlett. Daniel W. Lane. *John C. Lane.
THIRD CLASS.
Abby O. Spear. Clara C. Prince. Ella L. Stetson. *Winnie E. Hernan. Anne W. Arnold. Mary E. Ryan.
Mary A. Kapples.
Mary V. Dorrity. Jennie R. Hollister. Sarah V. Jones.
Lizzie Savil.
Henry E. Hardwick. William H. North. Frank A. Spear.
Eugene Nye. Frank M. Wild. Franklin W. Hayden. Michael F. O'Brien. Edwin L. Hill.
Edwin W. Baxter. Edward E. Chapin.
* Have left the school.
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HIGH SCHOOL APPLICANTS.
The following is a statement of the number of applicants for admission to the High School, who passed a favorable examination July 25th, 1868, together with the number from each school, with their percentage of attainments, based upon a standard of 65 per cent., the whole number of applicants being 25.
Applied.
Admitted.
Coddington Grammar School,
8
8
Percentage. 78
Adams
60
3
0
Washington
66
7
7
77
Willard
66
4
4
70
Crane
1
0
Quincy
66
66
2
1
67
-
FINANCIAL.
Appropriation by the Town,
$16,000 00
State School Fund,
365 54
Coddington
75 00
$16,440 54
Expenses of teaching,
$14,756 91
" fuel,
1,371 34
$16,128 25
Less the appropriation,
$312 29
25
20
ESTIMATED EXPENSES OF SCHOOLS.
The salaries of teachers and the expense for fuel for the ensuing year, as estimated by the Committee, are as fol- lows : -
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The salary of Principal of High School,
66 66 Assistants « "
$1,200 800
5 Principals of Grammar Schools, at $1000, 5,000
66 66 66 5 Assistants «
" at $350, 1,750
4 Teachers of Intermediate Schools, at $350, 1,400
" 13 Teachers of Primary Schools, at $325, 4,225
66 66
" 1 Teacher of Mixed School,
350
For fuel,
1,400
$16,125
Statistics of the Schools for 1868-9.
Number of children in Quincy between the ages of
five and fifteen years, May 1, 1867, as per As- sessors' enumeration, 1,534
Number of children in Quincy between the ages of five and fifteen years, May 1, 1868,
1,598 64
Increase,
Number of schools,
25
Number of pupils in all the schools,
1,532
Increase from last year,
11
Average attendance in all the schools,
1,167
Percentage of attendance,
76
Number of teachers, 31
Classification of the schools.
No. of teachers.
High School,
1
3
Grammar Schools, 5
9
Intermediate Schools, 4
4
Primary Schools, 13
13
Mixed School, 1
1
-
25
30
66
66
66
66
93
HIGH SCHOOL.
Number of teachers,
3
Number of pupils,
57
Decrease from last year,
26
Average attendance,
53
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Number of schools,
5
Number of teachers,
10
Number of pupils,
511
Increase from last year,
46
Average number of pupils in each school,
102
Total average attendance,
403
Average attendance in each school.
80
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.
Number of schools,
4
Number of teachers,
4
Number of pupils,
239
Average number of pupils in each school,
60
Total average attendance, 193
Average attendance in each school.
48
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Number of schools,
13
Number of teachers,
13
Number of pupils,
700
Decrease from last year,
13
Average number of pupils in each school,
50
Total average attendance, 490
Average attendance in cach school, 35
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MIXED SCHOOL.
Number of schools,
1
Number of teachers,
1
Number of pupils,
23
Decrease from last year,
4
Average attendance,
17
GENERAL TABLE.
Names of Schools.
Names of Teachers.
Whole Number, 1st Term.
Average Attend- ance, 1st Term.
Whole Number, 2d Term.
Average Attend- ance, 2d Term.
Per cent. 1st Term.
Per cent. 2d Term.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. H. A. Keith, Principal ...... Miss Annette E. Long, Assistant.
56
532
57
52
95₺
93
ADAMS SCHOOLS.
Mr. S. Dewing, Jr., Principal ... Miss C. L. P. Torrey,
93
722
147
121
78
82
Grammar
Miss Annie L. Thayer,
56
45
58
44
80
75
Intermediate.
Miss A. L. Thayer .
39
27
37
26
69
70
Primary No. 1
Miss Mary E. Dinegan
63
42
52
39
66
75
Primary No. 2
Miss Eliza C. Sheahan
51
37
44
30
72
68
Primary No. 3
Mrs. Francis E. Whicher .
75
41
55
27
54
49
CODDINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar.
( Mr. H. B. Brown, Principal. .... Miss Annie L. Arnold, Assistant. Miss Mary A. Holbrook ..
87
74
90
78
80
87
Intermediate
Miss Ida Edwards ..
72
58
78
63
80
80
Primary No. 2
Miss Julia E. Underwood.
47
32
28
23
68
82
Primary No. 3 .
Miss Rebecca P. Basley . .
58
36
38
26
62
68
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar ..
1
63
52
59
45
82
76
96
Mr. B. T. Hillman, Principal .... Miss Dora A. French, Assistant. Miss H. A. French ..
93
64
96
76
68
80
Intermediate
.
49
39
51
44
80
86
Primary No. 1 .
Primary No. 4
Mrs. E. A. Hardwick ..
Asst's.
Primary No. 1 Primary No. 2 .
WILLARD SCHOOLS.
Miss S. Addie Souther Miss C. A. Thomas.
38
31
31
22
81
71
65
48
66
35
74
53
Grammar.
$ Mr. G. S. Webster, Principal ...
115
80
113
85
70
75
Intermediate
Miss C. L. Rideoute . .
53
46
71
60
86
84
Primary No. 1 .
Miss E. A. Newcomb. .
54
45
52
43
81
82
Primary No. 2
Miss E. F. Nightingale
48
42
56
50
87
87
Primary No. 3
Miss M. A. Spear .
76
53
55
46
70
83
Primary No. 4
Miss E. S. Cole
42
30
42
32
71
76
QUINCY SCHOOLS.
Grammar ..
Mr. Lewis F. Hobbs.
62
42
65
43
68
66
Primary.
Miss E. A. Flint .
59
31
68
39
52
57
CRANE SCHOOL.
Mixed ..
. Miss L. E. Walker .
23
17
18
17
74
94
97
Miss S. V. Wilde, Assistant . ....
.
98
TEXT BOOKS.
TEXT-BOOKS FOR COMMON SCHOOLS.
Parker & Watson's Series National Readers.
Sargent's Pronouncing Speller.
Payson & Dunton's Writing-Books.
Arithmetic. - Greenleaf's Common School Series, and Colburn's First Lessons.
Geography. - Warren's Common School Series.
Grammar. - Green's Introduction.
History. - Seavy's Goodrich's History United States. Book-keeping. - Mayhew's.
Singing. - Merry Chimes, and Silver Bell.
Physiology.
Reference Books. - Webster's and Worcester's Diction- aries.
TEXT-BOOKS FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL.
Cleaveland's English Literature.
Greenleaf's Elementary Geometry.
Algebra.
Shurtleff's Constitution of the United States.
Gray's Botany, "How Plants Grow." Adams' Speller.
Mayhew's Book-keeping. Warren's Physical Geography.
Grammar School Geography.
Astronomy. - Rolfe & Gillett's Hand Book of the Stars. Green's Analysis. Chemistry. - Steele's, 14 weeks. Cutter's Physiology.
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Quackenbos's Rhetoric.
66 Philosophy. English Composition.
Worcester's History.
Latin. - Virgil, Cæsar, and Cicero, Hanson's Latin Prose, Andrews & Stoddard's in classes where now used, Harkness Introductory Text-books for the 3d, and entering classes.
Greek. - Crosby & Felton's Grammar and Reader.
EXTRACTS FROM THE "RULES AND REGULA- TIONS " OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
CHAPTER VII.
GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE SCHOOLS. - DUTIES OF TEACHERS.
SECTION 1. All Teachers in the Public schools are required to make themselves familiar with these Regulations; and the least violation of any one of them shall be considered a fair ground of complaint against any Teacher.
SECT. 2. The morning exercises of all the schools shall commence with reading the Bible, and it is recommended that the reading be followed by prayer.
SECT. 3. The Teachers shall devote themselves earnestly and exclusively to the duties of the school-room during the school term and school hours established by the Committee, and no absence shall be allowable, except for sickness, with- out previous notice to the Sub-Committee, and permission obtained.
SECT. 4. When a Teacher is absent on account of sickness for more than a week, the bill shall not be allowed for the time of absence, except by a special vote of the Board; and no Substitute shall be employed for more than one day at a time without the approbation of the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 5. Teachers shall have the privilege of taking two days in each term to visit any school or schools.
SECT. 6. It shall be the duty of the Teachers to see that the fires are made in time to warm their respective school- rooms before the hour appointed for opening their schools ; and also that the school-rooms, entries, and out-houses are kept in a neat condition.
SECT. 7. Teachers shall aim at such discipline in their
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schools as would be exercised by a kind and judicious parent in his family ; and shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good order can be preserved by milder meas- ures. And it shall be the duty of the several Teachers to keep a record of all instances of inflicting corporal punish- ment, which they shall exhibit to their respective Sub-Com- mittees at each monthly visitation, when said record shall be erased.
SECT. 8. It shall be the duty of all the Teachers to give vigilant attention to the ventilation and temperature of their respective school-rooms. A regular system of ventilation shall be practised, in winter as well as in summer; and the temperature of the rooms shall be kept as nearly as possible at 66° Fahrenheit.
SECT. 9. The Teachers shall carefully observe and follow that requirement of the State Laws which enjoins it upon " all instructors of youth to exert their best endeavors to im- press on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety and justice, and a sacred regard to truth; love of their country, humanity, and universal benevolence ; sobriety, industry, and frugality ; chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other vir- tues which are the ornament of human society and the basis upon which a republican . constitution is founded ; and it shall be the duty of such instructors to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the tendency of the above-mentioned vir- tues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness ; and also to point out to them the evil ten- dency of the opposite vices."
SECT. 10. It shall be the duty of the several Teachers to exercise, so far as practicable, a general inspection over their pupils while going to school and returning home; and the Principals of the several Grammar Schools shall, in addition to their present powers, have jurisdiction over all the scholars
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belonging to their several buildings, so far as the preserva- tion of order and good conduct about the school-house prem- ises, outside of the school-rooms, is concerned.
SECT. 11. Any Teacher may exclude from school for the time being any pupil who shall exhibit habitual disobedience to the rules of the school, or who shall be known to be guilty of habitual immoralities, or habitual rudeness, or im- propriety of manners; and the Teacher shall immediately inform the parent or guardian of the child of such exclusion, and shall apply to the Sub-Committee for advice and direc- tion. The Sub-Committee may prescribe any temporary ex- clusion which may be desirable, and such scholar shall be admitted to no other school without the vote of the Board, and the Sub-Committee shall report all such cases at the meeting of the Board next following the expulsion ; and no permanent expulsion shall be made except by the Board.
SECT. 12. The Teachers of all the schools shall be required to fill up with accuracy the blanks prepared for school returns, and to hand the same to their respective Sub-Committees, duly signed, at the close of each term; and accompany them with such suggestions in writing as may seem to deserve the attention of the Committee, and to be for the welfare of their schools.
SECT. 13. No Principal shall on any account leave his school in charge of his Assistant, without special permission of the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 14. The doors of the several school-houses and school-rooms shall be opened, and the Teachers shall be pres- ent for the reception of the scholars, at least ten minutes before the time fixed for the schools to begin. The Teachers shall require the scholars to be in their seats, and shall com- mence and close the exercises of the schools punctually at the prescribed hours.
SECT. 15. No Teacher shall make any purchase at the ex- pense of the Town, without first obtaining the consent of the Sub-Committee.
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DUTIES OF PUPILS.
SECT. 16. No pupil or other person shall cut, deface, defile, or otherwise injure the school-buildings, or furniture thereof, or the fences, trees, shrubbery, or any other property thereto belonging ; and any pupil or other person suspected of being guilty of such an offence shall be reported forthwith by the Teacher to the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 17. No child who comes to school without proper attention having been given to the cleanliness of his person and of his dress, or whose clothes have not been properly repaired, shall be permitted to remain in school, but shall be sent home to be prepared for school in a proper manner.
SECT. 18. Tardiness shall be subject to such penalty as in each case the Teacher may think proper. Pupils absent from school must, on returning, bring an excuse for such absence ; and any pupil absent for more than two half days in any month for other causes than sickness or family bereavement, shall be reported to the Sub-Committee at the next monthly visitation, and no pupils so reported shall be allowed to re- main in the school unless by the consent of the Sub-Commit- tec. Every pupil, wishing on any day to be dismissed before the close of the session, must assign satisfactory reasons therefor, and obtain the consent of the Teacher. Teachers having charge of pupils who are habitually truant, shall, with the approval of their respective Sub-Committees, report their names, residences, and the names of their parents or guardi- ans, to the Truant Officers of the town.
SECT. 19. Children not less than five years of age may be admitted into the Primary Department without an examina- tion.
SECT. 20. No pupil shall be admitted into any school with- out first exhibiting to the Teacher satisfactory evidence of vaccination ; but such evidence shall not be required of pupils who go from one Public School in the Town to another.
SECT. 21. Every scholar in the Primary Schools shall be 14 Q
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provided with a slate, and shall employ the time not other- wise occupied, in drawing, printing, or writing.
SECT. 22. The School year shall begin on the first Mon- day in February, and end on the day next preceding the first Monday in February following. It shall consist of two terms ; the First Term to begin on the first Monday in February, and the Second Term to begin on the first Monday after the close of the summer vacation.
SECT. 23. The several schools shall commence at 9 o'clock A. M. and 2 P. M. from Apri to September ; and at 9 o'clock A. M. and 1} P. M. from September to April ; provided, how- ever, that other hours may be substituted by the respective Sub-Committees when the convenience of pupils and parents may render it expedient, subject to the approval of the Board. These hours shall not be altered without permission of the Sub-Committees.
SECT. 24. There shall be a recess of fifteen minutes in length during each half day ; and every pupil shall be allowed his full recess ; although he may, for punishment, not be permitted to take it at the regular time with the school, and in addition to the usual recesses, there shall be, in the Pri- mary Schools of the lowest grade, two intermissions of study, of five minutes each, in each half day ; the first intermission to take place midway between the opening of school and the recess ; and the second intermission midway between the recess and the close of the session.
VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS.
SECT. 25. There shall be the following holidays and vaca- tions : -
Every Saturday ; Washington's Birthday ; Fast day ; May day ; the week immediately preceding the first Monday in June ; the 4th of July ; the six weeks immediately preceding the first Monday in September; Thanksgiving week ; Christ- mas day ; New Year's day ; and the week immediately preced- ing the first Monday in February ; - and the Chairman of
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the Board is authorized to suspend the schools on such public occasions as he may think proper, not exceeding three days in the year. No other holidays shall be allowed, except by special vote of the Board ; and no school shall be suspended on any other occasion, except for special and important zea -- sons relating to a particular school, and then only by express permission of the Sub-Committee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECT. 26. No subscription or contribution, for any pur- pose whatever, shall be introduced into any Public School. No person shall read to the pupils in any school, or post upon the walls of any school building, or fences of the same, any advertisement. Nor shall any agent or other person be per- mitted to enter any school for the purpose of exhibiting either to Teacher or pupil any new book or article of apparatus.
SECT. 27. The school-houses shall not be opened or used for any other purpose than the regular instruction of the public schools, except under the direction of the Sub-Com- mittces respectively.
SECT. 28. The text-books used and the studies pursued in all the Public Schools shall be such and such only as may be authorized by the Board. The several Teachers shall be at liberty to avail themselves of such books as they may deem useful for the purpose of illustration and example ; but the pupils shall not be required to furnish themselves with any but the prescribed text-books. It shall be the duty of the several Teachers to keep a list of all the books supplied to the pupils by the Town, and take charge of all such books when such pupils shall leave the school, and to furnish the books again upon the order of the Committee to any other pupils needing them.
SECT. 29. Written Compositions shall be required of all the pupils in the High and Grammar Schools.
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SECT. 30. Declamations shall be required of all the boys in the High and Grammar Schools.
SECT. 31. Singing and Gymastics shall be taught and practised daily in all the schools.
CHAPTER VIII.
HIGH SCHOOL.
SECTION 1. The examination of candidates for admission · to the High School, to be conducted by the Board, shall take place in the first week of the summer vacation, and at such other time as the Board may order.
SECT. 2. The Principal of each Grammar School or Mixed School shall notify those members of his own first class to whom he can give a certificate of good moral charac- ter and presumed literary qualifications, to appear at the High School room on the day appointed, when they shall pre- sent their certificates to the Chairman of the Board. No books, manuals, private explanations, or communication by one pupil to another will be allowed.
SECT. 3. Candidates shall be examined in all the studies pursued in the Grammar Schools of the Town, and a thorough knowledge of such studies shall be indispensable to admis- sion.
SECT. 4. Special applicants may be admitted if they are found qualified in the studies required for admission, and also in the studies of the classes they propose to join.
SECT. 5. There shall be one daily session of this School, commencing at 9 o'clock and ending at 2 o'clock, from Sep- tember to April, and beginning at 8 o'clock and ending at 1 o'clock from April to September.
SECT. 6. The time allowed each day for recess shall be
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thirty minutes, the recess to be given in such portions as in the judgment of the Principal shall be best for the pupils.
SECT. 7. Any pupils who through neglect or idleness shall render, in the course of three months, less than seventy- five per cent. of perfect lessons upon the whole number of lessons required, shall be reported to the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 8. Every pupil who shall have completed a three- years' course of study in this school shall receive a Diploma.
SECT. 9. All the Regulations of Chapter VII. - except- ing Sections 19, 21, 23, 24 - shall apply to the High School.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMIT
OF THE
TOWN OF QUINCY
FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1869-0.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1869-70,
NOAH CUMMINGS,
E. GRANVILLE PR
HENRY BARKER,
WILLIAM B. DUG(
WILLIAM S. PATTEE,
ASA WELLINGTON
BOSTON : ROCKWELL & CHURCHILL, PRIN. 122 WASHINGTON STREET. 1870.
REPORT.
WE, the School Committee of the Tc n of Quincy, herein sub- mit our Annual Report of the progress and condition of our Public Schools for the year 1869-70.
We do not deem it our duty nor this the time or place to deal in strictly personal criticisms as to the methods of instruction adopted by our several teachers, or their capacities to govern their respective schools. We think that duty should be discharged in a more private manner, in perfect freedom and candor, as becomes the official connection between Teachers and Committee and that it only becomes us to offer such a detailed report as shall give the voters of the town a good and fair understanding of the general condition of the schools under our charge, and the manner in which their appropriations have been expended, in order that they may thereby be enabled to act promptly and understandingly upon all questions relating to the schools of the town.
SCHOOL-HOUSES.
Upon the matter of school-houses we have little to report, as the town at a special meeting placed their custody in other hands, and we willingly relinquished the onerous duty to the Selectmen, under whose supervision they have remained during the remainder and greater part of the year. We shall only find occasion to speak of them incidentally in cases where the matter directly af- fects the progress of the schools and the cause of education gen- really.
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TEACHERS.
le following is a list of teachers employed during the year : -
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. H. A. Keith, Principal ; Miss Annette E. Long, Assistant, succeeded by Miss Louise J. Davis.
CODDINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. H. B. Brown, Principal ; Miss Annie L. Arnold, Assistant.
Intermediate. - Miss Sarah L. Barnes.
Primary No. 1. - Miss Ida Edwards.
Primary No. 2. - Miss Julia E. Underwood.
Primary No. 3. - Miss Rebecca P. Basley, succeeded by Miss Mary B. Howland.
ADAMS SCHOOLS.
Opagar. ~~ Mr. Setz Dewing, Ir. Principal ; Miss Carrie L.
Thvir, succeeded by Miss Abbie J.
Hails, succeeded by Mid Barnes, Assistants.
Intermediate. - Mrs. Emily A. Hard.OR, oucoveded by Miss Emily A. Dinegan.
Primary No. 1. - Discontinued.
Primary No. 2. - Miss Mary E. Dinegan.
Primary No. 3. - Miss Eliza C. Sheahan.
Primary No. 4. - Mrs. F. E. Whicher, succeeded by Miss M. Ella Eaton.
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. B. T. Hillman, Principal ; Miss Dora A. French, Assistant.
Intermediate. - Miss H. A. French.
Primary No. 1. - Miss S. Addie Souther, succeeded by Miss Lizzie E. Morse.
Primary No. 2 .- Miss C. A. Thomas, succeeded by Miss S. Addie Souther.
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WILLARD SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. Granville S. Webster, Principal, succeeded by Mr. David A. Caldwell ; Miss S. V. Wilde, Assistant, succeeded by Miss Carrie L. Rideoute.
Intermediate. - Miss Carrie L. Rideoute, succeeded by Miss Martha J. Veazie.
Primary No. 1 .- Miss E. A. Newcomb.
Primary No. 2 .- Miss E. F. Nightingale, succeeded by Miss H. E. Hardwick.
Primary No. 3. - Miss M. A. Spear.
Mixed Primary No. 4. - Miss E. S. Cole.
QUINCY SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. Lewis F. Hobbs.
Primary. - Miss Lizzie A. Flint.
CRANE SCHOOL.
Miss L. E. Walker, succeeded by Miss L. Jennie Butler, suc- ceeded by Miss Abbie C. Burge.
GRADING OF THE SCHOOLS.
Very slight changes have been made in the grading of the schools since the last report, though we are fully aware that mani- fest defects still exist, which we earnestly desire to reform, when- ever the same can be accomplished without incurring still greater inconveniences.
Foremost among these is the serious want of a system in the grading of the Washington Schools. As at present graded, we have two Primary Departments, - one at the Point, and one at the Neck, - pursuing nearly the same course of study, both graduating into the Intermediate School, and neither of them having a class cor- responding with the First Primary Departments in other portions of the town. As a necessary consequence, the Intermediate School occupies but little advance from the First Primaries of the town ; and the first class of this school is pushed into the Grammar De- partment with one year of study less than that of the other schools of the same nominal grade, by reason whereof the latter depart-
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