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And he thus concludes his report, in which the Managers cheerfully concur : -
" If the times should materially improve I think the in- crease of pupils would be in the direction of day scholars, and these, added to the few who would be willing to come in private families in the town, would, with our usual numbers in the boarding-house, give us the desired number of one hundred paying pupils, and establish the Academy on a reasonably sound basis.
All which is respectfully submitted.
CHAS. F. ADAMS, L. W. ANDERSON,
J. P. QUINCY,
J. E. TIRRELL,
EDWARD NORTON, C. H. PORTER.
APPENDIX.
REGISTRY OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS,
IN 1877.
NOTE. - All corrections of errors, inaccuracies, or omission will be gratefully received by the Town Clerk.
BIRTHS.
Jan. I. Michael Connor.
6. Theodora Laura Hayward.
7. Lillian M. Glidden.
IO. Mabel Florence Burr.
12. Ella L. Walker.
12. Mary Ellen Cahill.
12. Wm. James Ackerly.
13. Edith Chester Bates.
14. Margaret Corcoran.
16. George W. Ewell.
16. Thomas Wm. Horan.
21. Edmund Pope Hall.
21. Mary Lyons.
23. Grace Caroline North.
24. Mary Adams Souther.
24. Kate L. Leland Lincoln.
26. Eliza Jane Leavitt.
26. Herbert F. Caldwell.
31. Mary Corcoran. Anastatia Fennessy.
Feb. I. Catherine Burns.
4. Mary Sophia Wilson.
8. - Hayden. 9. Albert Capacioli.
10. Mary Ellen Flynn.
10. Mary Emeline Faxon.
Feb. II. Mary Celia Donlan.
19. Louisa Doherty.
24. John Shaw Mitchell.
24. Clarence Henry Trask.
28. Robert Andrew Pickens.
Mar. 2. Catherine Capen Pope.
3. Mary Josephine Burke.
3. Sadie Jane McDonald.
4. Maud E. Stanley.
5. Katie Kelly.
II. Eva Lewis Maxim.
II. Thomas Crane Brown.
12. Mary E. Moynihan.
13. Henry Alexander Wason.
13. Angie Florence Harris.
14. Millie Lee Jenkins.
15. James A. McKay.
17. Lucy Lyons.
20. Susie Freel.
20. Sarah Ann Spear.
22. Annie M. Tate.
25. Zayma King.
26. George Crane Dell.
30. Thomas Francis Callahan.
Apr. 2. Thomas Sullivan.
3. Edith Elizabeth Eaton.
(97)
II
98
Apr. 3. Freddie Flowers.
9. John Michael Connolly. 9. Arthur Foster Martin. 10. Ellen Delia Granahan.
10. Francis Bernard Granahan.
II. Bertha Estelle Prouty.
12. Margaret Finn.
14. Herbert Edward French.
15. William B. Wiley.
15. Israel Damon.
20. Margaret Ellen Jones.
26. John Charles Shevlin.
27. John Robert Emery.
29. Geo. Francis Edwin Kemp. 29. Wallace Edwin Costaine.
May I. Herbert W. Barker.
2. Annie Amelia Farmer.
2. Amber Merton Cleverly.
4. James Crowley.
5. Charles Edw'd Richardson.
7. Thomas Davidson Milne.
II. Mary Theresa Gallagher.
12. Peter Provost.
12. - Claflin.
14. Walter Long Stancombe.
14. Catherine Emma Healy.
16. John Morrison McRea.
17. Mary Lucy.
18. John Alex. Munroe Riley.
20. Charlotte Thomas.
20. Arthur Adams.
25. Herbert Griffin.
26. Hiram Allen Hayden.
26. Eloise P. Flood.
28. Sallie T. Gavin.
31. Richard D. Sullivan.
June 3. George Maynard Taylor.
5. William Francis Farrell.
8. Clara Margaret Pendergast.
9. Catherine Tobin.
10. Ellen Griffin.
II. - Reinhalter.
12. Michael Scanlan.
12. - Fenno.
June 13. William Hartney.
14. Michael McGowan.
15. James Berry.
16. Jennie Bartlett Field.
18. Isabel Julia Bill.
19. Harry Austin Wadmore.
23. Mary Lizzie Leahy. 24. Nellie Dowd.
26. Michael Paul Shea.
26. Maud Hudson Cudworth.
29. Patrick Ford.
30. Carrie Christina Hersey.
30. Walter C. Chambers Jones.
July 3. William J. Williams.
6. Edgar Moulton Tirrell. 7. Fannie Alice Phillips.
8. John Edward Connery.
8. George Edward Adams.
9. Jane Ann Moore.
12. Ellen Miller. 15. - Chamberlin.
15. George Maligan.
16. Mary Margaret Joss.
16. Wm. Francis Crathorne.
16. John McCarty.
16. Herbert H. Albee.
17. William Thomas Walsh.
18. Fred. Veazie Hardwick.
18. Mary Catherine Riordan. 19. Honora Hayes.
21. James Edward Parrott.
21. Harriet Malvina Phillips.
23. Katie Louisa Savage.
26. Freddie Garbarino.
27. Ida May Dunn.
28. Helen Gertrude Waldron.
30. Lewis Alfred Johnson.
31. Jennie Evans. Aug. 2. Mary E. Cahill.
3. Cora Wellington.
3. - White.
4. Arthur D. Mahoney.
8. Florence Olive Brock.
9. Percy Ainsworth Hull.
1
99
Aug. 10. John Joseph Walters. 10. - Rogers.
11. John Laselle.
12. Mortimer F.V. Brucenahan.
13. Samuel Edmund Oxford.
13. Charles Allen Howland.
13. Bertha Easton.
14. Sadie Elizabeth Thomas.
14. Mary Powers.
15. Robert John Williams.
29. Margt. Frances Haggerty.
29. Arthur L. Hayden.
29. Bernard F. McAvoy.
30. - Bates.
Sept. I. Emma Prout.
2. Sarah Joyce.
5. Charles Driscoll.
6. Helen Alberti Turner.
7. Grace Alley,
7. John James Sullivan.
9. - Packard.
Io. Annie White.
15. Walter Glover.
16. Cornelius F. Sullivan.
17. Willie Lyons.
22. - Nelson,
28. Julia Theresa Moynihan. Oct. I. Annie Walsh.
2. James Dinegan.
5. Daniel B. Rierdon.
6. Annie Sweeney.
7. Katie Cain.
14. Daniel Doran.
15. Frankie Hayes.
17. Harold Morrison Crane. 17. - Randall.
17. Ellen A. Peterson.
17. Marianne M. Greenough.
17. Martha Elizabeth Frye. 18. - Nudd.
20. Fannie May Taylor.
22. Channing Thomas Furnald.
23. Annie Kelley.
23. Mary Ann White.
Oct. 55. Mary Josephine Leary.
28. Francis Arthur Ryan.
28. Mary Cashman.
29. William Henry Rhines. 29. Matilda McCuen. Nov. 3. Lizzie Sullivan.
3. William Harrison Logan. 7. Alfred K. Noble.
7. Grace Ella Miller.
IO. Mary Ellen Keenan.
II. Rachel Mabel Young.
12. Ann Nettie Trafton.
12. Albert M. King.
13. Melvin Parker.
13. Mary E. Costello.
15. - Jordan.
17. Thomas Henry Greaney.
20. Cora Lillian Hobert.
21. Edith Maria Little.
22. Florence Raymond Emery.
22. William Jones.
24. Margaret Keegan.
24. Geo. Thomas Mitchell.
24. Everett Vinton Hardwick.
25. Rachel Mead Hall.
26. Mich. Robertson McDonald Dec. 2. Ellen McIsaac.
3. Thomas Doyle.
5. Cornelius O'Neil.
6. -- Tarbox.
7. Cathrine Agnes Kelliher.
9. Francis McConnerty.
II. George Dexter Follett. 12. - King.
15. - Moore.
17. · Ida Frances Butler.
20. Geo. Alexander Anderson.
20. Mary Lucy O'Connor.
24. Thomas McGowan.
25. - Rogers. 26. Russell G. Pierce.
27. -- Clark. 29. - Hatch,
30. John Joseph Deacy.
100
SUMMARY.
Males.
Females.
Total.
January, .
6
14
20
February,
5
6
II
March,
5
14
19
April,
12
5
17
May,
14
7
21
June,
I2
9
21
July,.
14
II
25
August,
12
8
20
September,
6
7
I3
October,
9
13
22
November,
IO
II
21
December,
II
7
18
Whole number,.
116
II2
228
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MARRIAGES.
Jan. 6. Michael Sweeney and Mary E. Ford, both of Quincy.
. 7. George B. Nash of Quincy and Eldora Abbott of Braintree.
17. Charles F. Wrisley of Quincy and Sarah S. J. Turnbull of Wakefield.
17. Samuel M. King of Boston and Ella S. Marks of Quincy.
20. John Logan, Jr., and Mary L. Harrington, both of Quincy.
30. William H. Rhines and Mary J. McCoy, both of Quincy.
Feb. 4. Maurice G. Willey of Quincy and Annie J. McNair of Braintree.
7. Erastus A. Newton and Ellen F. Lund, both of Braintree.
9. James Kelley and Ellen Welsh, both of Braintree.
I2. Bernard A. Gilbride of Rockland and Mary I. Boyd of Quincy.
13. John A. Costello and Mary J. Driscoll, both of Quincy.
Mar. 17. Charles F. Gray, of San Francisco, Cal., and Carrie A. Bragden of Quincy.
Apr. 4. Geo. F. Eddy of Randolph and Mary E. Glover of Quincy.
4. Ira E. Glover of Quincy and Sarah J. Eddy of Randolph.
9. Richard W. Cassidy and Emma E. Hunnewell, both of Quincy.
17. Wm. A. Wilson and Catherine F. Gulliver, both of Quincy.
18. Wm. E. Cary and Abigail Hobart, both of Quincy.
19. Walter A. Metcalf of Boston and Laura E. Green of Quincy.
20. Charles A. Falvey and Martha Duke, both of Quincy.
25. Wallace H. Cook and Maggie Thompson, both of Quincy.
25. Geo. W. Rodman of Quincy and Annie Elliott of Boston.
27. John A. Galvin and Ella Duke, both of Quincy.
May 9. Walter B. Randlett of Milton and Clara A. Williams of Quincy.
16. Lawrence 'Ballou of Quincy and Catherine Fitzgerald of Boston.
I7. Lester A. Porter and Eva M. Churchill, both of So. Abington.
June 4. Paul P. Baxter and Mary C. Averill both of Quincy.
9. Azro T. Crossley and Ruth E. Bates, both of Weymouth.
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June 14. Daniel D. McDonald and Maggie M. Martin, both of Quincy.
17. Edgar A. King and Kate Pfaffman, both of Quincy.
20. Henry P. Quincy of Dedham and Mary Adams of Quincy.
21. Ransom D. Wentworth and Hattie P. Meacom, both of Quincy.
28. John Hartney of Quincy and Catherine McGowan of Boston.
28. Geo. McFarlane and Annie J. McMillan, both of Quincy.
30. Michael Gavin and Mary Connor, both of Quincy.
July 10. John M. Coffee of Quincy and Julia Coffee of Springfield.
14. Walter W. Brush of Fairfax, Vt , and Charlotte F. Brownell of Vienna, Me.
25. Henry W. Hayden and Lizzie L. Loring, both of Quincy.
Aug. 2. Peter A. Barry and Ellen Glennon, both of Quincy.
II. Edward Baker and Adaline Matthews, both of Quincy.
12. Charles S Gerald and Mary A. Bowditch, both of Quincy.
18. Charles H. Jones and Isabella Craig, both of Quincy.
Sept. 3. Simon Riordan and Kate Finn, both of Quincy.
6. Edwin Warrell and Honora McGrath, both of Quincy.
I2. James P. Bellew and Nellie A. Baldwin, both of Quincy.
22. James W. McFarlane and Minnie E. A. Glover, both of Quincy.
Oct. 4. Edwin N. Snow of Chicopee and Sarah A. Byrnes of Quincy.
II. Charles N. Ford and Esther C. Bill, both of Quincy.
14. John McGillivray and Susie A. White, both of Quincy.
17. Joseph F. Brennan of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Jane P. Stewart of Quincy.
21. William W. Burke and Hannah E. Keniley. both of Quincy.
Nov. 3. Peter Dackers and Mary Cowie, both of Quincy.
8. Alexander Marnock and Emma E. Joy, both of Quincy.
17. Joseph E. Lowell of Weymouth and Mary P. Denton of Quincy.
18. George H. Weston of North Attleborough and Lucy M. Fisher of Parkersburg, Iowa.
20. Wm. T. Crocker and Eliza E. Savage, both of Brockton.
28. James A. Neale and Annie L. French, both of Quincy.
28. Samuel DeForest and Lucy M. Talbot, both of Quincy.
28. Benjamin H. Warren of Boston and Elizabeth R. Mitchell of Quincy.
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Nov. 29. John DeLorey and Ellen Gerrior, both of Quincy.
29. John P. Curley of Boston and Annie E. Brady of Quincy.
Dec .. I. William J. Dana and Harriet D. Snow, both of Braintree.
5. Henry A. Goodridge and Clara E. Adams, both of Quincy.
6. Frank H. Bixby and Sophia R. Wright, both of Quincy.
15 Edward W. Spurr and Lizzie M. Adams, both of Weymouth.
23 George W. Kelley and Sarah V. Willey, both of Quincy.
25. Walton Hall and Ella C. Lincoln, both of Quincy.
January,
6
February,
5
March,
I
April, .
IO
May,
3
June,
9
July,
3
August,
4
September,
4
October,
5
November, .
IO
December, .
6
Total,
. 66
104
DEATHS.
Date.
Name.
Age.
DATS
January
10
Benjamin V. Mead.
75
IO
6
14
John Kilshaw.
49
9
George Marsh.
64
6
II
16
Frank E. Garrity.
I
S
16
Dennis Mahoney.
I
6
IS
Michael H. Donahoe,
34
23
Lydia Batchelder,
6
IO
S
30
Lillian F. Jarvis.
1
February
6
Edward R. Pope.
53
S
II
6
Annie L. Bemis.
I
3
S
Henry Brown,
77
S
- Havdea.
0
9
Nicholas Christian,
74
6
12
Edward G. Tileston,
7
IS
George Follett.
-6
4
19
Annie L. Perkins.
9
Terusha W. Tirrell.
77
II
22
Mary Ann L. A. Hunt.
77
26
Redmond Hickey,
33
March
1
Frank Ray.
76
€
Margaret Ballou,
6
Charles Deacy.
I
Charles W. Hayden,
3
I-I
17
S
Hannah Purdy.
S2
9
John Callahan. Jr ..
3
II
Shubael F. Perry,
I
I
II
12
John C Driscoll.
2
I
12
Mary E. Rierdon,
I
6
Andrew A Noble.
IO
12
IS
Grace E. Dam.
S
James Furlong.
76
30
C. Ferdinand Hodgkinson,
I
Mary Cooper.
35
Honora Moynihan,
S6
105
Date.
Name.
Age.
Years.
Mths.
Days.
March
26
Margaret F. Owens,
16
9
28
Elizabeth Costaine,
88
8
5
28
Abigail Newcomb,
59
5
13
April
4
Margaret C. Woddick,
I
8
4
Elbridge G. Hayden,
66
IO
9
Harry McGrath,
5
19
9
Ebenezer Pearsons,
76
IO
Abigail Bartlett,
76
9
I3
Mary Foy,
II
I3
Katie A. Wyman,
16
9
I3
Catherine Jones,
48
II
9
I3
Mabel E. Matthews,
I
8
15
Mary N. Cronin,
49
16
John Ballou,
I
4
18
Mary Trask,
81
IO
29
19
Michael H. Brown,
16
5
II
21
Henry F. Gray,
30
IO
21
22
Patrick Dolan,
62
22
Ethel M. Hayden,
3
I 26
30
Helen Usher,
42
2
28
30
Phillip H. Sullivan,
29
2
Josiah Hayden,
52
8
3
Charles Orsi,
31
8
Julia H. Cronin,
81
4
9
John Briesler,
83
3
. 9
I2
Lydia M. Claflin,
33
7
23
12
-- Claflin,
O
14
Mabel A King,
I
3
27
16
Thomas W. O'Shea,
7
6
19
Katie E. Jones,
25
2
II
25
William Parker,
78
28
Eliza E. Costello,
24
6
June
3
Nellie H. Pinel,
6
24
9
Ellen O'Neil,
45
9
James Ellsworth,
66
12
IO
John Sanville,
25
II
Reinhalter,
O
II
Catherine Tobin,
2
13
Felix J. McCarthy,
25
15
Michael McGowan,
I
May
106
Date.
Name.
Age.
Dare
June
16
Thomas O'Shea,
30
3
16
Mary Goldsmith,
34
3
20
John Callahan,
65
20
Jane E. Moore,
1
7
20
Hinchman Sylvester,
45
3
23
Freddie Driscoll,
4
28
23
Daniel Oates,
76
7
25
Catherine Sullivan,
45
25
John W. Clark,
6
I
8
I
27
26
Sarah D. Perry,
21
IO
19
30
Elijah A. Corliss,
47
6
I
Katie Keegan,
4
11
5
Charlotte Newcomb,
83
10
6
John F. Farrell,
I
9
Margaret Corcoran,
5
26
12
Susannah B. Lunt,
63
3
12
Annie S Woddick,
S
9
14
Eliza J. Brvant.
48
7
12
14
Margaret E. Jones,
2
24
15
- Chamberlin,
O
17
Byron T. King.
2
20
Henrietta Brown,
IO
20
Frank A. Wuriberg,
3
9
23
Martha M. Best,
II
23
Maria F. Hall,
70
I
I
27
James H. Cronin,
7
7
27
James M. Pendleton,
8
20
29
Timothy O'Connell,
II
3
29
Oscar Kundert,
I
30
Mary A. Reinhalter,
10
22
31
Sadie A. Wiley,
I
7
August
I
Eunice G. Quincy,
1
I
14
2
Nathan F Weston,
53
9
7 Arthur F. Martin,
3
29
9
Mary McKendrick,
79
9 Edwin J. Colby,
24
6
9
Minnie Moser.
I
9
22
IO
Benjamin L. Mott,
62
O
31
- Johnson.
Fears
July
Ida M. Clements,
107
Date.
Name.
Age.
Years.
Mths.
Days.
August
II
Minnie Doherty,
4
II
John Leselle,
14
William R. Bates,
II
16
Cordelia J Soule,
26
16
John J. S. Kilshaw,
23
6
16
Walter G. Willett,
4
I
14
16
David Evans,
81
16
Francis A Redford, Jr.,
3
18
18
Mary N. Sanville,
I
6
18
Catherine Whelan,
65
1
18
Eugene F. Hodgkinson,
7
27
19
Willie B. Wiley,
4
5
19
Phebie A. Hill,
45
20
Alice R. Packard,
9
2
21
Henry Becket,
26
26
George A. Pope,
8
22
28
William Brenenstuhl,
8
2
September
I
Nancy G. White,
74
8
2
Patrick O'Sullivan,
50
7
Catherine Burns,
7
6
7
Lydia Ford,
53
8
John Ring,
54
9
Bertha E. Prouty,
4
20
John M. McRae,
4
II
Timothy McNeil,
49
14
Isaiah P. White,
77
I
15
- Packard,
7
16
Augustus I. White,
4
14
17
Julia Donovan,
I
9
23
20
William Appleton,
53
2I
Richard D Sullivan,
3
21
22
Edith I. Young,
2
9
19
23
Samuel Lemmon,
48
24
Nellie G. Kendrick,
2
5
19
24
Ella L. Wilker,
8
I2
25
Francis Wilson,
49
7
19
26
Maggie J Milne,
2
8
6
26
John R. Ness,
66
27
Thomas Doran,
I
6
27
Peter Dianart,
26
.
108
Date.
Name.
Age.
Years.
Mths.
Days.
28
Honora Hayes,
2
9
29
Charlie Loring Dexter,
8
6
6
29
Mary Gavin,
68
29
Joseph W. Thayer,
15
2
Ann McGovern,
38
3
Katherine M. Greenough
25
7
21
5
Ann Porter.
85
5
Hannah M. Coffee,
5
IO
9
Mary Coffee,
7
IO
15
II
Ellen Hooley,
42
18
Frank A. F. Johnson,
7
3
20
18
James A. McKay,
7
3
22
Clara J. Noyes,
35
2
7
23
Benjamin Bass,
75
I
17
25
Joseph W. Lombard,
9
7
19
26
William H. Wadmore,
II
9
3
26
Ellen Mahoney,
2
3
27
George A. Locke,
19
7
28
David Hurley,
59
31
Jane Evans,
3
November
2
James Blanche,
79
3
5
Levi B. Josephs,
82
3
3
7
Mary A. Mitchell,
I
2
S
Patrick McCormick,
7
IO
13
9
Henry G. Holbrook,
4
5
12
Eliza Brooks,
81
6
22
14
Edward Savard,
6
IO
15
- Jordan,
O
18
Rachel H. Bates,
86
3
14
23
David A. M. Jones,
20
5
25
Rachel M. Young,
14
30
Susie S. Brown,
6
9
27
December
13
Mary Brophy,
50
13
Clara N. Brown,
2
IO
14
Martha White,
70
IO
23
16
John Falvey,
37
17
Mary E. Flynn,
IO
17
- Moore,
2
18
Lizzie B. Linton,
7
9
23
20
Michael H Mahoney,
42
4
October
109
Date.
Name.
Age.
1
Years.
Mths.
Days.
21
Walter Glover,
3
6
25
Sophia Whitney,
89
6
25
Fred H. Hull,
27
2
25
- Rogers,
O
28
Lucy Kain,
36
29
Hattie L. Wight,
9
5 20
30
Lillie Giesler,
12
5 26
31
Mary J. Falvey,
60
31
Ellen Danehy.
54
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REGISTRATION OF DEATHS WHICH OCCURRED IN OTHER PLACES, THE BURIAL BEING IN QUINCY.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Place of Death.
Jan.
6
Foster C. Brown,
87
6
Cambridge.
IO
Nellie E. Coggswell,
5
IO
Saugus.
17
Nancy Lincoln,
74
6
Norton.
Feb.
7
Emma L. Spear,
7
Boston, Ward 24.
21
Clarissa J. Vinal,
54
7
Boston.
28
Charles Adams,
82
Boston.
March
3
Lucy G. Dawes,
79
6
Brookline.
I3
Mary A. C. Dolahan,
21
II
27
New Bedford.
16
Clara E. Freeman,
8
8
East Boston.
April
4
Louisa S. Valiquet,
34
7
Boston.
IO
Sarah C. Brackett,
45
2
II
Green Cove, Fla. East Somerville.
25
Orianna Coggan,
34
5
May
7
Henry S. Barker,
2
23
Gloucester.
12
S. Jennie Crane,
25
3
18
Boston, Ward 24.
13
Joseph Lanigan,
14
4
Boston (Hospital).
June
IO
Harvey Field,
77
4
21
Brattleboro, Vt.
July
9
Michael Donovan,
20
Boston (Hospital).
Aug.
16
Henry W. Eaton,
I
2
East Milton.
I9
Eugene F. Hayden,
3
4
Malden.
28
John D. Whicher,
52
8
Boston.
31
Dora J. Hobart,
42
10
24
Fitchburg.
Sept.
2
George G. Packard,
26
2
Weymouth.
2
John Spear,
78
II
Boston, Ward 24.
2
Joseph W. Carlton,
60
6
18
Boston.
2
George D. Follett,
49
Somerville.
Oct.
3
Mary Flynn,
74
Boston.
Dec.
2
Mary J. Cain,
50
Milton,
5
Mary Spear,
76
8
Boston, Ward 24.
12
Annie C. Boyce,
30
5
7
Boston.
27
Mary D. Twiss,
67
Boston.
31
Samuel O. Stone,
59
2
4
Boston.
Years. Mths. Days.
III
GENERAL RECORD.
Total number of deaths registered, 236.
Males.
Females.
Total.
January,
8
5
13
February,
8
7
15
March,
8
IO
18
April,
8
13
21
May,
8
6
14
June,
14
8
22
July,
9
13
22
August,
18 **
IO
28
September,
19
12
31
October,
7
9
16
November,
7
5
12
December,
6
16
22
120
114
234
Number.
Under I year of age,
Between I and 10 years of age,
51
66 10 “
20
9
20
30
66
30
40
66
40
50
66
66
18
66
50
60
66
16
60
70
66
13
70
66 80
66
25
80
90
66
·
I5
66
90
95
66
0
66
95
100
66
O
.
234
52
19
16
66
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF QUINCY,
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1877-78.
School Committee.
JOHN Q. ADAMS, EDWN W. MARSH, JAMES H. SLADE,
CHARLES F. ADAMS. JR., CHARLES L. BADGER, JASON G. WITHAM.
Superintendent. FRANCIS W. PARKER.
BOSTON: COCHRANE & SAMPSON, PRINTERS, 9 BROMFIELD STREET. 1878.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, in their report submitted to the town for the three years last past, deemed it proper to explain in some detail the methods of teaching and supervision which have recently been adopted by the town. They have from time to time expressed their growing confidence in the efficacy and success of these methods. One year ago they felt justified in pro- nouncing a final and unanimous verdict in their favor. They can now only renew and reinforce that favorable judgment. The improvement of the educational system of the town has been steady throughout the year, and a really surprising prog- ress has been effected in the schools. The same scheme of constant and scientific superintendence which had heretofore produced such valuable and remarkable results, has continued to bring forth month by month its matured fruits. So that to- day we can sincerely say that we believe our schools will com- pare favorably with any in the State. Indeed, it is the opinion of some members of the Committee who have had occasion to make an extended observation of similar schools in adjoining States, that there is nowhere about us a more promising and productive method in use.
And that we are not unduly flattering ourselves is indicated by the large and increasing interest which is shown in our schools both by neighbors and strangers. In fact, it is not too much to say that for the first time in the history of the town, the schools of Quincy are now becoming a subject of interest outside of its limits. Novel processes have not only been in- troduced to notice in them, but have been proved a success. A degree of excellence and thoroughness in more than one of the ordinary and most useful branches of education has been at-
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tained, which is not common anywhere, and which heretofore was unknown here. This was very clearly shown at the partial exhibition of school exercises which was made at the time of the Norfolk County teachers' convention in the town in May last. The result showed a high degree of excellence where excellence is most unusual, - that is, in the elementary branches of common school education. Consequently the number of visitors from adjoining towns and from a distance, who have come to examine our system and its results, has been steadily increasing. Never before was it so large as during the last year. And in this connection we are gratified to cite the opin- ion of the Board of Education, which in its last report speaks thus of our schools : " Quincy furnished a striking example of what can be accomplished, even in a short time, through the right kind of superintendence. Two years ago the schools there were about on a par with those of the average town. In less than a year after they were placed under the charge of Col. F. W. Parker, the teachers had become indoctrinated with his ideas and method, and in consequence the schools were won- derfully transformed. The Primary Schools deserve special mention. I made a careful comparison of their methods, and the results obtained, with those of the best Primary Schools I know, in town or city, and was surprised at the general superi- ority of the Quincy work." This observation and criticism, within certain limits, is wholesome, both to us and to our visitors, and we gladly accept any valuable suggestions or modifications which some of the trained educators who visit us are able to offer. But we must frankly confess that we are in great measure satisfied with. the work we are doing, and have good reason to anticipate a constantly increasing improvement as we can apply our principles more thoroughly. One unfavorable incident of the attention which our remodeled school has attracted is the frequent loss of good teachers, who are eagerly sought for by other towns to try there the methods learned or perfected here. But it is necessary for us at once to face the fact that we are in no condition to bid against many municipalities in tempting salaries. Such indeed is the pressure of the deep and persis-
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tent commercial distress which has weighed down every branch of industry for nearly five years, that we have felt compelled to strain every nerve to lighten the public burden. The people of this town every year expend a very large sum upon their schools, and they have always felt, and justly felt, that they could better bear any economy than such a parsimony as would seri- ously impair their children's education. We believe, too, that it is a good plan to leave well enough alone, and a still better to leave excellent well alone. Yet in spite of all this we cannot but feel that in these times of pinching economy we ought at least to make an honest effort to retrench and to see if we cannot get good enough schools for less money. There is obviously only one direction in which any considerable reduction can be made. And in that direction a plan of readjustment and re- trenchment was carefully matured by a sub-committee appointed for that purpose during the early part of the present school year. The report of that sub-committee is appended in full. The schedule of salaries contained in it was adopted by the committee and has been in operation partially since September last, and as a whole since the Ist of February.
Actuated by the same purpose of economising wherever econ- omy seems to us reasonably judicious, we here abstain at pres- ent from pressing two or three very necessary but somewhat expensive alterations in our school accommodations. The High School under our modified system has become rather an upper grammar school than a classical academy, and in consequence has doubled in numbers. It consequently needs all the rooms in its building. Yet two of these rooms are occupied by primary schools which ought to be placed with some others in a new house of their own in the westerly part of the town.
It will be observed that, in spite of the rigid economy which the committee have sought to practice, the estimated expenses ($31,500) for the year just entered upon are not materially less than those for the last year ($32,000). At first sight this will doubtless impress many tax-payers with the idea that no real retrenchment has been effected. This idea, however, is wholly erroneous. The committee, on the contrary, feel justified in
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claiming it as a very great triumph of economy and good management, that in a growing town like Quincy a far better education than ever before has been given to a larger number of children at no increased aggregate cost. In proof of this they desire to call the very careful attention of the town to the fol- lowing statistical tables, which show the cost of its schools to the town, as well as the school attendence, during each of the last three years, together with the average annual cost of educa- ting each scholar. In the cost are included the items of in- struction, fuel, care of buildings, transportation, ordinary repairs and incidentals. The tables are not carried back so as to in- clude years anterior to 1875-6, as the statistics for those years were prepared on a different basis.
No. I.
YEAR.
Total ordi- nary school expenses .*
of schol- ars.t
Whole number Average am't expended for each scholar.
Average number in sch'ls.#
Amount expended for each scholar
Average daily of the average attendance number in schools.
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