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Probably those who have been interested in the work have seen that in the past few years, the idea of the way drawing should be taught has changed. Instead of keeping drawing a distinct and separate course, we try to connect and relate it to the different subjects taught. The effect should be, as Mr. Bailey says, "more tasteful work in the other branches taught every hour of the day and every day of the week."
SADIE R. McBARE.
Music.
Mr. C. E. Stevens, Superintendent of Schools:
Dear Sir :- I have the honor to submit my annual report as Supervisor of Music.
One who has interested himself to watch the development of our work, will find a steady improvement shown from week to week and month to month. Not a spasmodic out-
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burst of energy, but a growth which is laying a foundation for the future superstructure.
Our teachers each year extend their knowledge of music, gain more confidence in their own ability to present the vari- ous difficulties-from the scale in its many positions on the staff to the most intricate problem of chromatics.
Music, as a branch of study worthy a place in our public schools, must be taught with other aims than that of cultivat- ing the musical talent of those who have it, and making mu- sicians of such as desire to become artists or teachers of music.
Music must be used as a means to an end, and that end the same for which all study is given.
Music, properly taught, strengthens the intellect, by culti- vating such mental habits as assist the mind to grasp other branches of knowledge; strengthens the will, giving it added . power over body and mind; develops and enriches the emo- tional nature; and in many ways makes the individual better prepared for the duties and pleasures of life.
As there is such a field of work to cover, it is impossible to visit each room once a week. This I am able to do in the higher grades, and the others once in two or three weeks."
We are in need of new music-especially in the high school -supplementary work for the grammar grades, also one new chart.
Since my last report two pianos have been purchased by the children. They have worked well and should receive the hearty support of the people.
In closing, I acknowledge the faithful work of the teachers and thank you and the Committee for your cordial support.
Respectfully submitted,
HELEN M. PAGE.
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High School.
Mr. C. E. Stevens, Superintendent of Schools :
Dear Sir :- I have the honor to submit to you my sixth annual report of the Saugus High School.
The membership and attendance during the past year has been the largest in the history of the school. This is espe- cially true of the last term.
Enrollment 123
Average membership II7
Average attendance II3
By comparing these figures with those of the correspond- ing term six years ago, we find that the average attendance for the past term has been almost exactly twice as large as it was then. The growth of the school has been constant and there seems to be every reason for believing that it will continue.
Six years ago there were three teachers with an average attendance of fifty-seven pupils. We now have five teachers with an average attendance of one hundred and thirteen pupils.
If this increase continues for the next two years, our pres- ent accommodations will be inadequate. We now have to seat pupils in two of our three large rooms, Should the en- tering class next September equal that of last year, the three rooms will be fully occupied.
There has been no change of teachers in the High School during the past year, but owing to the number of large classes that had to be divided, Miss Cossar, a graduate of Vassar, was added to the teaching force.
We have a large number of students who are preparing to take preliminary examinations for College. Some are pre-
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paring for Harvard; others for Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Boston University or Institute of Technology. .
A few slight changes in our course of study have been made in order to give more time to certain subjects and a greater opportunity for choice of subjects by the pupils. A new system of Book-keeping has been introduced in order that the pupil may become familiar with the various forms of business documents that he would naturally meet in business life.
We have arranged for a class in Constitutional History of the United States for students who do not wish to study Geometry and are not going to College. The opportunity to study German has met with general approval by students and parents, and our classes in that language are among the larg- est in school.
Apparatus for a Physical Laboratory has been supplied, and now, for the first time, we are fairly well equipped for a limited number of pupils. The benefit derived from this ap- paratus cannot be over-estimated. The student now has a chance to verify for himself the statements found in the text- book or made by the teacher. I know of nothing that will arouse greater interest in a subject than to have a chance to prove the truth of the statements that are made.
In conclusion, I wish to thank all who have any connection with the High School for their assistance and encouragement during the past year.
Financial Report.
Report of money received and expended for the Saugus High School in 1901 :
Receipts :
Cash balance Jan. 1, 190I $78 69
Received from Bond Prize Exhi-
bition 43 70
$122 39
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Expenditures :
For printing
$13 50
For selling tickets 2 50
For classifying minerals, etc. 5 00
For books and supplies
6 40
For sundry expenses
4 12
Cash balance Jan. 1, 1902
90 87
$122 39
Respectfully submitted,
N. E. ADAMS.
Reading and Literature.
Within a few years, courses of study in nearly all the lead- ing branches of school work have been printed. While in nc way preventing the teachers from asserting their individ- uality, these courses have been helpful in bringing about har- mony of effort and purpose. They show the teacher what she is expected to do in her own school, but leave her free to do that work in her own way. The courses of study also reveal to the teacher the work which the children are ex- pected to have done before coming to her and what they will be asked to do after leaving her. All this is necessary if we are to have systematic progress and well-directed energy.
For some time the teachers have been working upon a course of study in reading. All the grades, each separately, have endeavored to prepare an outline which should include not only a list of books for class reading, but also suggested material for story-telling and for reading by the teacher and selections suitable for memorizing. In addition to this, a short list of good books for home reading has been added. In this study the teachers have had numerous meetings and conferences. Finally a report was made up and handed to the Superintendent. He has taken the papers from the sev-
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eral groups of teachers and arranged and combined the same into the outline course which is printed as an appendix to this report. It is to be hoped that the outline may be of as- sistance to teachers, parents and pupils.
Citizens of the Future.
It is well for us now and then to look seriously at the work in which we are engaged. A hundred pupils begin their school life each year in Saugus and a hundred leave school to enter upon active or inactive life out of school. What of the school product? When we see many pupils advancing successfully in school work, maintaining good health and vigor of body and gaining in strength and firmness of moral nature, we are pleased and hopeful of the future. But too often we see children whose training and education looks like a failure. This is shown if children are dishonest and un- truthful, if their powers of body and mind are seriously im- paired by cigarette smoking, if they are lazy, greatly lacking in the power of application and having no strong purpose to behave properly. Such children are troublesome at home and at school and a mistake has been made in their educa- tion.
Education is too large to be confined to the school-room. The work done there is great, but the contribution of the school is never greater than that of the home and other agen- cies. So that whether the result is a success or a failure, the home, the school and numerous social powers must share the responsibility.
Parents sometimes err in failing to act in harmony with the spirit and motives of the school. The result is harmful to the child. The teacher may fail to understand the home and parental desires. This condition is not helpful and should be avoided. We can never hope for marked improvement in our
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educational product unless the home and school work to- gether in loyal co-operation. We cannot expect fewer disas- ters in child training unless the controlling educational agen- cies work together for the good of these little ones.
But when the two grand and necessary institutions of a democracy, the good home and the good school, are united and harmonious in their noble endeavors, there need be no fear for the perpetuity of good citizenship.
And now a final word in closing this report. When our pupils pass from us into the world of adult activity, we may feel a large degree of satisfaction if they have good health, strong bodies, and are willing to work at any useful and hon- orable employment; if they have high ideals, sturdy morality, and are honest, earnest and truthful; if they are absolutely free from all degrading or vicious habits; if they have a taste for study, good reading, and can think with power; and if they have a willing spirit, ready to obey promptly, ask no questions and give no advice unasked.
I am greatly indebted to you, gentlemen, for your helpful advice and hearty support. The Town is fortunate in having a School Committee who take such a just and impartial atti- tude toward ail school problems.
I am under great obligation to teachers for their unfalter- ing devotion to the noblest ideals and for their many kind words and helpful co-operation. Saugus needs to be congrat- ulated because of the high character of the teachers in charge of its public schools.
Respectfully submitted,
C. E. STEVENS.
January 20, 1902,
ENROLMENT, SEPTEMBER, 1901.
AGE.
Totals.
Grades.
18
17
16
I 5
14
13
12
II
IO
9
8
7
6
5
High School.
13
2
7
I
....
. ...
...
--
12
5
IO
I
I
....
....
...
....
. .
...
....
....
37
II
....
5
12
7
...
.
IO
....
I
9
18
I 5
4
I
9
...
. . ..
3
7
25
16
7
. . ..
4
...
...
....
3
IO
23
34
7
I
4
12
27
28
22
IO
...
I
....
. ..
I
7
31
33
20
28
4
..
...
I2I
5
...
...
4
I2
28
45
19
38
47
3
·
. .
I 29
4
3
....
.
....
.. ..
...
I
7
15
30
56
5
. .
114
2
....
.
..
....
....
....
. .
...
3
IO
48
53
3
I
..
.
....
....
...
....
... .
.. . .
I
9
48
62
120
Ungraded
I
. .
. ..
. .
3
9
12
6
13
IO
II
7
I 5
6
93
Totals ..
8
23
40
54
93
IOI
II5
109
II4
95
103
123
121
71
1170
....
IO
...
....
....
..
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·
. .
. .
...
.
...
. .
IO4
99
6
6
I
. . .
6
I5
18
92
8
58
28
48
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TABLE I. Giving Grades of Schools, Name of Present Teachers, Year of Election, and Present Membership.
Ward.
Grade.
Teachers.
Year of Elect.
Present Membership
High School ..
N. E. Adams, Principal .
1896
I12
Helen L. Bacheller.
1895
Martha F. Sawyer
1899
Edith A. Kelley
1899
Harriet B. Cossar
1901
North Saugus.
Olive N. Richardson
1900
32
2
Center.
viii, ix
Arlena Russell
1901
41
vi, vii .
Nellie R. Carroll.
1901
50
v, vi
Eva May Brewer.
1901
42
iv, v
Pauline R. Peckham
1897
48
iii
G. A. Walton
1873
29
ii.
Isabelle Hay
1897
29
i.
M. L. Walton
1881
30
Cliftondale.
Central St.
ix
Alice E. Chase, Principal
1895
29
viii .
Mabel E. Nowell
1900
48
vi, vii
D. A. Dunn
1892
39
iv, v
Grace P. Bartlett
1898
44
ii, iii
Olive E. Bryer
1899
47
i .
Florence M. Henderson
1900
27
Lincoln Ave.
v, vi
Edith A. Lucas
1900
44
Brick School.
vi, vii
Maria E. Smith, Principal.
1892
45
iv, v
Laura C. Austin
1896
48
ii. iii
Laura C. Brooks
1901
41
i, ii
Clara Trowbridge
1892
35
Essex St.
iii, iv
Harriet C. Sanborn
1895
34
i, ii.
Laura F. Armitage, Principal
ISS 5
22
I
Mixed
3
1
TABLE I .- Continued.
Ward.
Grade.
Teachers.
Year of Elect.
Present Membership
4
East Saugus.
vii, viii, ix. .
Ellen Young, Principal
.
1898
44
v, vi
Ella F. Robinson. .
1901
37
iii, iv
Anna P. Danforth
1898
42
i, ii ..
Lilla G. Parker.
1898
39
Lynnhurst.
Mixed
Ethel A. Tufts
1900
36
5
Oaklandvale.
Mixed
Henrietta Hawkes
1897
20
Music .
Helen M. Page .
1895
Drawing
Sadie R. Melzard
1898
TABULAR STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1901.
TEACHERS.
Enrolment.
Boys.
Girls.
Less than 5.
Over 15.
and 14. Between 7
Average
Membership
Attendance .
Per cent
Attendance.
Tardiness.
Dismissals.
Visitors.
Norris E. Adams.
105
45
60
O
8 1
9
97-5
93.2
95-7
70
78
139
Annie L. Ricker
47
22
25
O
7
23
38.5
37.3
94.7
36
14
106
Esther A. Parker.
5[
24
27
O
2
43
42.
39.5
93.8
22
23
14
Belle Nutting ..
49
19
30
0
O
49
40.9
38.3
93.7
35
26
118
Pauline R. Peckham
44
20
24
0
44
39.
35.7
91.
28
22
28
Georgiana Walton
36
18
18
0
33
33.I
31.3
94.
12
6
51
Isabelle Hay .
33
17
16
0
0
14
29.5
27.5
92.8
2I
6
63
M. L. Walton
48
27
2I
3
o
I
36.7
33.I
90.
69
9
83
Alice E. Chase . ..
44
20
24
O
I2
16
37.4
35.3
94.
13
20
99
Mabel E. Nowell
42
19
23
0
13
13
36.
33.3
92.3
31
IO
93
D. A. Dunn . .
59
28
3I
O
2
48
46.5
43.I
92.7
34
20
II2
Grace P. Bartlett .
53
25
28
O
0
53
48.2
43.7
90.
22
IO5
Olive E. Bryer .
48
22
26
O
O
38
42.1
39.I
92.5
94
9
7I
Florence M. Henderson . .
42
26
16
O
0
5
33.
29.7
89.8
69
15
70
Edith A. Lucas .
..
. .
·
·
..
..
38.4
37.I
96.
25
35
42
Maria E. Smith . .
57
31
26
O
O
54
48.3
44.2
91.7
5I
40
58
Laura C. Austin ..
57
22
35
O
o
56
47.I
42.4
89.
125
I 5
80
Martha J. Parsons .
52
28
24
O
0
37
42.2
38.
90.
93
7
24
Clara Trowbridge
4I
17
24
O
7
33.7
299
88.5
70
18
46
Laura F. Armitage.
39
23
16
O
I2
26.7
24.5
91.
77
5
43
Ellen Young. . .
38
I7
21
I
37
32.1
28.4
88.6
I34
9
80
Carrie M. Bassick.
39
21
18
O
39
34.9
32.3
93.3
96
16
30
Anna P. Danforth . .
47
2I
26
O
46
43.5
39.5
90.3
41
3
64
Eliza A. Mansfield ...
4I
22
19
O
o
J 5
36.8
33.5
88.1
128
3
21
Olive N. Richardson
38
16
22
O
1 I
28
33.2
30.9
93.
46
5
40
Ethel A. Tufts . .
30
13
17
3
I
19
28.4
26.5
93.
178
31
97
Henrietta Hawkes
16
9
7
0
o
12
14.6
12.5
85.
74
I
50
Hariot Sanborn. .
5I
21
30
O
51
38.8
36.2
93.
.
37
Average
of
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SUMMARY
For the Year Ending June 30, 1901.
Number of children in town, September, 1901, from five to fifteen years of age 1,065
Number of boys 512
Number of girls 553
Number between seven (7) and fourteen (14) 736
Whole number enrolled in all schools 1,247
Number of boys 593
Number of girls 654
Number under five (5)
6
Number over fifteen (15) I20
Number between seven (7) and fourteen (14) 802
Average membership 1,099
Average attendance 1,016
Per cent. of attendance 92.4
Number of pupils who have moved into town I45
Number of pupils who have moved out of town 132
Number of teachers employed, including specials 34
Increase during the year 4
Number of teachers withdrawn 2
Number of new teachers
6
Number of different schools
28
Increase during the year 4
Number of tardiness 1,854
Number of dismissals 480
Number of visits, not including those of Committee
and Superintendent 1.864
For the Fall Term, 1901.
Average membership 1,133
Average attendance 1,060
Per cent. of attendance 94.4
GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE
CLASS OF 1901, SAUGUS HIGH SCHOOL,
TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1901.
PROGRAM.
SINGING -" Away to the Fields," Wilson SEMI-CHORUS.
PRAYER
REV. RALPH H. CHEEVER.
SINGING - " The Rhine-Raft Song," . Arr. by Marshall LADIES' TRIO.
Essay - " Are We a Prosperous People," FRED R. MACKENZIE. (Second Honor.)
CLASS HISTORY.
VERA L. CAMPBELL ..
SINGING - (a) " The Old Home Down on the Farm," Whittaker (b) " A Tragedy," Kratz MALE QUARTETTE.
ADDRESS - "The Significance of Education," PROF. HENRY CARR PEARSON. Principal Allegheny (Pa.) Preparatory School.
SINGING -" The Lost Chord," Sullivan
GIRLS - UNISON.
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GRADUATING EXERCISES.
CLASS PROPHECY.
MILDRED E. SMITH.
ESSAY -"THE CHARACTER OF NATIONS AS SHOWN IN THEIR SONGS""' ELLEN E. HAWKES. (First Honor.)
PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT.
EDITH A. CONE.
ACCEPTANCE FOR THE SCHOOL.
RUFUS F. FISKE, 1902.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
SINGING -"'Tis Morn," . Geibel SEMI-CHORUS.
GRADUATES.
-
Post Graduate. HENRY TURNER CLAUS.
Graduates. FOUR YEARS CLASSICAL COURSE. ELLEN ELIZABETH HAWKES, FREDWITH ROSS MACKENZIE.
Four Years Latin English Course. VERA LILLIAN CAMPBELL, EDITH ADELAIDE CONE.
Three Years English Course.
ARTHUR CLEVELAND CLARK, FRANK ALMOND HALL, ANNA GERTRUDE KIELY, JUSTIN THEODORE MANSFIELD, MILDRED EDNA SMITH.
Three Years Certificate. CLAUDE ELMER TOWLE.
BOND PRIZE RECITATIONS,
Tuesday Evening, June 27, 1901, 7.45 o'clock.
PROGRAM.
PIANO SOLO - Valse Chopin MRS. KATHARINE FORRISTALL.
"A Race Against Time," Tourgee MILDRED E. SMITH.
" How Peggie Held the Fort," . Mary Bradley
LAURA H. BAILEY.
" The Sunday Horse-Trade," Edward Wescott Noyes
·· Skimpsey," Alfred Stoddart
RUFUS F. FISKE.
FLORA E. BERRETT.
" The Rustic Chair," Ruth M. Stewart
EARL, LYONS.
"In Strawberry Time." AGNES SMITH.
SOLO- " Farewell, Ye Hills," Tschaikowsky VIOLETTE MARGUERITE MICHELSON.
" Mosquito Mint." THOMAS F. NORRIS.
" Dikkon's Dog." , Dorothy Lundt EARL A. RICHARDSON.
" Trick Versus Trick," James Lyman Wood JOSEPH BRYER.
" Mandy," a Story of the South, . Edwards
CARRIE M. READ.
" The Lady of Shalott," . Elizabeth Phelps Ward JENNIE HAYDEN.
SOLO -- " The Finland Love Song," . . Maud V. White MISS MICHELSON.
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BOND PRIZE RECITATIONS.
AWARD OF PRIZES.
The first prize was awarded to Rufus F. Fiske. Second prize to Carrie M. Read. Third prize to Jennie Hayden.
Bond prizes for "improvement " were awarded as follows Two upper classes, Rufus Fiske; two lower classes, Ernest Edmands.
COURSE OF STUDY IN Reading and Literature.
GRADE I.
Class Reading :- Ward's Primer; Cyr's Primer and First Reader; Child Life Primer and First Reader.
Suggestions for Story Telling or Reading :- The Night before Christmas; The Three Bears; Red Riding Hood; The Ugly Duckling; The Little Match Girl; The Pied Piper; The Three Little Pigs; Jack and the Bean Stalk; Story of Moses and of Joseph.
Suggestions for Memorizing :- September, Hunt; Golden- rod, Lovejoy; Sleep Baby Sleep; October, Jackson; The Wind, Field; The Leaves are Fading and Falling, Cary; The Brown Thrush, Larcom; The Golden Rule; Why do Bells for Christmas Ring? Psalm xxiii .; Little Snow Flakes; I love the name of Washington; Spring, Thaxter: Pussy Willow; Memorial Day selections; June is Here.
GRADE II.
Class Reading :- Ward's First Reader; Child Life, Vol. II .; Around the World, First Book; Stepping Stones, First Reader.
Suggestions for Story Telling or Reading :- Fables and Folk Stories, Scudder; In the Child's World; (selections) Story Hour, Wiggin; The Good Samaritan; Cooke's Nature Myths; Hare and Tortoise; The Fir Tree, Andersen.
Selections for Memorizing :- The Children's Hour, Long- fellow; Five Little Brothers, Wilcox; We Thank Thee, Em- erson; The Baby, MacDonald; Do All That You Can, Sang- ster; My Shadow, Stevenson; Twenty-fourth Psalm; Seven Times One, Ingelow.
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COURSE OF STUDY.
GRADE III.
Class Reading :- Ward's Second; Stepping Stones, Second Reader; Little Folks of Other Lands; Child Life, Vol. III .; Fifty Famous Stories Retold.
Suggestions for Story Telling or Reading :- Legends of the Red Children; Selections from Hiawatha; The Gentian; Little People of the Snow, Bryant; Jungle Stories, Kipling; Story of Abraham.
Selections for Memorizing :- The Village Blacksmith, Longfellow; One by One, Procter; A Child's Thought of God, Browning; The Wonderful World, Rands; We Are Seven, Wordsworth; Don't Give Up, Carey.
GRADE IV.
Class Reading :- Cyr's Third Reader ; Seven Little Sisters, Andrews; Around the World, Second Book; Colonial Chil- dren; Great Americans for Little Americans.
Suggestions for Story Telling or Reading :- The Story of Patsy, Wiggin; Beautiful Joe; Children of the Cold; Black Beauty; Friends and Helpers, Eddy; Old Stories of the East, Baldwin.
Selections for Memorizing :- The Barefoot Boy, Whittier; Little Boy Blue, Field; Nobility, Carey; The First Snow-Fall; Lowell; The Sandpiper and I, Thaxter; The Mountain and the Squirrel, Emerson.
GRADES III. and IV.
Books for Home Reading :- Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss; Hans Andersen's Stories; Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children; Child Life in Prose; Only a Year and What it
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COURSE OE STUDY.
Brought, Andrews; Editha's Burglar, Burnett; Dotty Dim- ple, Clark; Childhood Songs, Larcom; Little Folks in Feath- ers and Fur, Miller; Our Little Ones, Morley; King Arthur and His Court, Greene; King of the Golden River, Ruskin; Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard; My Saturday Bird Class, Miller.
GRADE V.
Class Reading :- Each and All; American Life and Ad- venture; Greek Stories; Stepping Stones, Fourth Reader; Short History; Around the World, Third Book.
Suggestions for Story Telling or Reading :- Timothy's Quest, Wiggin; Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe; Robinson Cru- soe; Being a Boy, Warner; Little Men, Little Women, Al- cott; Ways of Wood Folk, Long.
Selections for Memorizing :- Abou Ben Adhem, Hunt; The Blue and the Gray, Finch; Concord Hymn, Emerson; The Leak in the Dike; Landing of the Pilgrims, Hemans; The Corn Song, Whittier.
GRADE VI.
Class Reading :- Ten Boys; Wilderness Ways, Long; Grandfather's Chair, Hawthorne; Brief History; Stepping Stones, Fifth Reader.
Suggestions for Story Telling or Reading :- The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne; Tom Brown's School Days; Stories of Industry; Life of Garfield: Captain January; Prince and Pauper, Clemens.
Selections for Memorizing :- The Chambered Nautilus, Holmes; My Native Land, Scott; Battle Hymn of the Re- public, Howe; A Song, Riley; The Day is Done, Longfellow; Today, Carlyle; Burial of Moses, Alexander.
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COURSE OF STUDY.
GRADES V. and VI.
Books for Home Reading :- Lulu's Library, Alcott; Juan and Juanita, Belger; Dotty Dimple at Home, Clarke; Five Little Peppers, Lothrop; Four Feet, Two Feet and No Feet, Morley; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dodgson; The Birds' Christmas Carol, Wiggin; Rab and His Friends, Sarah Crewe, Burnett; Land of Pluck, Dodge; Drummer Boy, Trowbridge; Two Little Pilgrims' Progress, Burnett; Stories of Pioneer Life, Bass; Stories of American Revolution, Tom- linson; Hans Brinker, Dodge; Bodley Books, Scudder; Sto- ries of the Old Bay State, Brooks; Short Stories of Our Shy Neighbors, Kelly; A Few Familiar Flowers, Morley.
GRADE VII.
Class Reading :- Evangeline, Courtship of Miles Standish, Longfellow; Snow Bound, Whittier; The Wonder Book, Tanglewood Tales,, Hawthorne.
Suggestions for Reading to Class :- The Man Without a Country, Hale; Wild Animals that I Have Known, Thomp- son: Secrets of the Woods, Long. Many selected articles to supplement the work in History, Geography and Nature Study.
Selections for Memorizing :- Union and Liberty, Holmes : The Ship of State, Longfellow; Flower in the Crannied Wall, Tennyson; The Nest, Lowell; Gradation, Holland.
Books for Home Reading :- The Oregon Trail, Parkman ; Zigzag Journeys in British Isles, Butterworth; Dorymates, Munroe; Soldier Rigdale, Dix; Heidi, Spyri; Ye Lyttle Sa- lem Maide, Mackie; Girl of '76, Blanchard: With Wolfe in Canada, Henty; Tommy-Anne, Wright; Pilgrims and Puri- tans. Moore; Family Flight through Mexico, Hale; Boy Travelers in South America, Knox; Polly Oliver's Problem,
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Wiggin; Bird World, Stickney; A New England Girlhood, Larcom; A Story of the Indians of New England, Burton; The Story of the Thirteen Colonies, Guerber; Stories of Our Country, Johonnot; War of Independence, Fiske. .
GRADE VIII.
Class Reading :- Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, Dickens; The Sketch Book, Irving; Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers, Burroughs; The Story of the Greeks, Guerber.
Suggestions for Reading to Class :- Gods and Heroes, Francellon; The Ambitious Guest, Hawthorne; Biography of a Grizzly, Thompson; Bee People, Morley.
Selections for Memorizing :- Old Ironsides, Holmes; Kit- tiwakes, Thaxter; The Star Spangled Banner; A Short Ser- mon, Carey; The Heritage, Lowell; The American Flag, Drake.
Books for Home Reading :- Historic Boys, Brooks; Home Life in Colonial Days, Earle; Stage Coach and Tavern Days; The Men Who Made the Nation, Sparks; Jan of the Wind- mill, Ewing; Greek Heroes, Kingsley; The Story of the Great Republic, Guerber; Ramona, Jackson; In His Name. Hale; Zigzag Journeys in Europe, Butterworth; Boy Trav- elers in Southern Europe, Knox; First Crossing of Green- land, Nansen; Jinrikisha Days in Japan, Scidmore; True to the Old Flag, Henty; Boyhood of Lincoln, Butterworth; The Bird Book, Eckstorm; Outdoor Studies, Needham; With the Wild Flowers, Going.
GRADE IX.
Class Reading :- The Lady of the Lake, Scott; The Vision of Sir Launfal, Lowell; Merchant of Venice; Stories of the English.
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Suggestions for Reading to Class :- The Peasant and the Prince, Martineau; Ivanhoe; Tales from Shakespeare; nu- merous selections helpful in other studies.
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