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Language - First year's work continued.
Arithmetic - Numbers through 25, Roman numerals, original . concrete problems by the pupils, fractional parts.
Writing - Writing books, copy exercises from the board, writ- ing selections from reading books and from dictation. Drawing - From objects, clay modeling.
Geography - Familiar objects, houses, school-room, streets, buildings, neighborhood, a village, a city, cardinal points of compass, horizon, earth, land, air, etc.
Music - As directed by special teacher.
Nature Work - Following Boyden's Outlines.
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THIRD YEAR.
Reading - Last half of Second Readers, phonetic analysis.
Spelling - Oral and written, exercises dictated from reading lessons, twenty words each week.
Language - Part I, Mary Hyde's Language Lessons, dictation exercises, poems memorized.
Arithmetic - Numbers to 100, use of common measures, Roman numerals, written arithmetic, four operations with no multi- plier or divisor exceeding two figures, writing numbers through thousands, fractional parts, common measures.
Writing - With pen and ink.
Drawing - Prang No. 1 Drawing Book. Supplementary work. Physiology - Taught orally, the external parts of the body, hygiene.
Geography - Our Town, our State, position, boundaries, plans and maps, land and water in Town and the State, parts of animals, vegetables, etc.
History -Stories, holidays.
Music - As directed by special teacher.
Nature Work - Following Boyden's Outlines.
FOURTH YEAR.
Reading - First half of Third Reader, King's Geographical Reader, The Beginner's American History, Fables and Folk- stories, phonetic analysis.
Spelling - Not more than twenty words each week from reading lessons and Geography.
Language - Part I, Mary Hyde's Lessons.
Arithmetic - Mental arithmetic, written arithmetic, four opera- tions, addition and subtraction of decimal and common frac- tions, United States money, denominate numbers, elementary work with simple examples.
Geography - Studied. from Globe in hands of pupil, the world as a whole, form, size, motions, hemispheres, zones, seasons, animals, plants, people, races, civilization, continent, oceans, position, form, size, etc., North America, United States, our State.
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Drawing - Prang No. 2 Drawing Book. Supplementary work. Writing - From copy book.
Physiology - Read Child's Health Primer, Talks on Hygiene. History - Stories.
Music - As directed by special teacher.
Nature Work - Following Boyden's Outlines.
FIFTH YEAR.
Reading - Second half of Third Reader, Gods and Heroes,
King's Geographical Reader, The Beginner's American His- tory and King of Golden River, phonetic analysis.
Spelling - Same as previous year.
Language - Sheldon's Language Lessons, selections from the poets.
Arithmetic - Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of United States money, elementary fractions, tables of weights and measures, simple examples in percentage, factor- ing and multiples, simple examples only are to be used. .
Geography - The Continents, form, size, extent, North America, United States, with special Geography of New England and and our own State, map drawing.
Drawing - Prang No. 3. Drawing Book. Supplementary work. Writing - From copy book.
Physiology - Child's Health Primer.
History - Stories, Historical Reader.
Music - As directed by special teacher.
Nature Work - Following Boyden's Outlines.
SIXTH YEAR.
Reading - Hiawatha, King's Geographical Reader, with other supplementary reading, phonetic analysis.
Spelling - Same as previous grades.
Language - Mary Hyde's Lessons, Part III, letter writing, com- position writing, declamations, selections from the poets.
Arithmetic - Fractions, reductions, weights and measures, sim- ple examples in percentage and interest.
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Geography - Finish the United States, South America, map drawing.
History - The discoveries and settlements, abstracts on famous men.
Physiology - Skeleton and process of digestion, hygiene effects of alcohol and narcotics.
Writing - From copy book.
Drawing - Prang No. 4 Drawing Book. Supplementary work. Music - As directed by special teacher.
Nature Work - Following Boyden's Outlines.
SEVENTH YEAR.
Reading -Tanglewood Tales, Sharp Eyes, with other supple- mentary reading.
Spelling - As in previous grades.
Language - Mary Hyde's Lessons, Part IV. Composition writ- ing, bills, advertisements and telegrams, declamations, selections from the poets.
Arithmetic - Measurements, percentage, interest.
Geography - Europe and Asia, map drawing.
History - French and Indian War, Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Abstracts on famous men.
Physiology - Muscles, respiration, circulation, effect of alcohol and narcotics, hygiene.
Drawing - Prang No. 5 Drawing Book. Supplementary work. Writing - From copy book.
Music - As directed by special teacher.
Nature Work - Following Boyden's Outlines.
EIGHTH YEAR.
Reading - Masterpieces in English Literature and other supple- mentary reading. Spelling - As in previous grades.
Language - Grammar, written work, composition writing, dec- lamations, selections from the poets.
Arithmetic - Banking, stocks and bonds, proportion, simple ex- amples in square root and mensuration, reviews.
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Geography - Completed and reviewed topically.
History - Completed and reviewed topically.
Physiology - Nervous system, special senses, hygiene reviewed topically.
Drawing - Prang No. 6 Drawing Book. Supplementary work. Writing - Copy book.
Music- As directed by special teacher.
Nature Work -Following Boyden's Outlines.
Course of Study-High School.
CLASSICAL COURSE.
FIRST YEAR.
English, 4 Periods per week ; Latin, 4; Algebra, 4; Bookkeeping, 2; Physical Geography, 2; Drawing, 2.
SECOND YEAR.
English, 4; Latin, 4; Greek, 4; Geometry, 4; Civil Govern- ment, 2.
THIRD YEAR.
Latin, 4; Greek, 3; French, 4; Mathematics (Algebra 2, Geome- try 2), 4; History, 3. .
FOURTH YEAR. -
English, 4; Latin, 4; Greek, 4; History, 3; French, 3.
LATIN-SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
FIRST YEAR.
Same as classical.
SECOND YEAR.
English, 2; Latin, 4; French, 4; Geometry, 4; Civil Govern- ment, 2; Botany, 2.
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THIRD YEAR.
Latin, 4; French, 3; Mathematics (Algebra 2, Geometry 2). 4; Physics, 5; History, 3.
FOURTH YEAR.
English, 4; Latin, 4; German, 4; History, 3; Chemistry, 4; French, 3.
ENGLISH COURSE.
FIRST YEAR.
English, 4; French, 4; Algebra, 4; Bookkeeping, 2; Physical Geography, 2; Drawing, 2.
SECOND YEAR.
English, 5; French, 3; Geometry, 4; Civil Government, 2; Botany, 2; Drawing, 1.
THIRD YEAR.
English, 2; French, 3; History, 3; Physics, 5; Astronomy, 3; Drawing, 1.
FOURTH YEAR.
English, 4; German, 4; History, 3; Chemistry, 4; Geology, 3; Drawing, 1.
Music, 2 periods a week for all pupils, also Declamation and Composition, 1 period home reading of the following books or an equivalent :
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List of Books.
ALHAMBRA
Irving
BEN HUR
Wallace
CHRISTMAS TALES
Dickens
CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY
Roche
DAVID COPPERFIELD Dickens
DRED
Stone
FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS COURT
Muhlbach
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Swift
HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
Hawthorne Hawthorne
JANE EYRE
Bronte
JOHN HALIFAX .
Mulock
KENILWORTH Scott
LORNA DOONE
Blackmore
LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
Lytton
LITTLE MEN
Alcott
LITTLE WOMEN
Alcott
IVANHOE
Scott
QUENTIN DURWARD
Scott
TALISMAN
Scott
RAMONA
Jackson
RIENZI
Lytton
RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
Howells
SCOTTISH CHIEFS
Porter
SHIRLEY
Bronte
TALE OF TWO CITIES
Dickens
TOM BROWN AT RUGBY
Hughes
TOM BROWN AT OXFORD
Hughes
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Stowe
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
Verne
TWO GREAT RETREATS
Grote and Legur
THE EGYPTIAN PRINCESS
Ebers
VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
Goldsmith
SILAS MARNER
Eliot
THE NEWCOMES 4
Thackeray
ELSIE VENNER
Holmes
IDYLLS OF THE KING
Tennyson Watson
OLD CREOLE DAYS
Cable
IN OLE VIRGINIA . Page
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Hale
BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIAR BUSII
TWICE TOLD TALES
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THE STORY OF JESUS
Ward
UNCLE REMUS
Harris
ROMOLA .
Eliot
ADVENTURERS OF ULYSSES
Lamb
MILL ON THE FLOSS
Eliot
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Jane Austin
DONOVAN
ABBOTT
Lyall Scott
SARACINESCA
. Crawford
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK E. INGALLS, -
ELDRIDGE F. SMALL, EDWIN M. BAILEY,
School Committee.
SWAMPSCOTT, February 28, 1898.
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Rules and Regulations of Swampscott Schools.
SCHOOL SESSION.
SECTION 1. The session of the High School shall begin at 8.45 and close at 1.30.
The morning session of the Grammar grades shall begin at . 8.45 and close at 11.30. Afternoon session shall begin at 1.30 and close at 3.30.
The morning session of the Primary Schools shall begin at 8.45 and close at 11.45. Afternoon session shall begin at 1.30 and close at 3.30.
TEACHERS.
SECT. 2 All the school rooms shall be opened, and the Principal and Teachers shall be present therein, both morning and afternoon, at least fifteen minutes before the time fixed for the session to begin. The pupils shall be in their seats, and the exercises of the school shall commence and close punctually at the prescribed hours. Every pupil entering the school room af- ter the hour of opening, whether bringing an excuse or not, shall be considered tardy, and so marked in the register.
SECT. 3. The morning session shall commence with read- ing from the Bible by the teachers, and any other devotional ex- ercise as they may deem proper.
SECT. 4. The teachers are required to obey faithfully the following statute of the Commonwealth : " It shall be the duty of all instructors of youth to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety and justice, and a sacred re- gard to truth, love of their country, humanity, and universal be- nevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation,
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and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican consti- tution 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 virtues, to preserve and perfect a republican constitu- tion, and secure the blessings of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices." (Pub. Stat. chap. 44, sect. 15).
SECT. 5. Teachers shall practice such discipline in their schools as would be exercised by a judicious parent in a family, and shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good or- der can be preserved by milder means ; but, when corporal pun- ishment shall be deemed necessary, it may be resorted to, and a record thereof, with the cause, nature, and amount of punish- ment, shall be made and kept for examination.
SECT. 6. For violent opposition or open rebellion, the teacher may dismiss the pupil from school, and shall then imme- diately inform the parent or guardian of such pupil, and on the same day shall apply to the Committee for advice and direction.
SECT. 7. Teachers may have one day in each term for the purpose of visiting schools, and teachers desiring to attend the meetings of the State and County Teachers' Association may dismiss for that purpose.
SECT. 8. When, by reason of sickness or other cause, a teacher is unable to be at school, the Committee must at once be notified, that a substitute may be provided.
SECT. 9. The teacher shall see that the school rooms are clean, and that entries, yards and out-buildings are kept in good condition ; they may command the services of the janitors in ex- ecuting this requirement. They shall also see that the windows in their respective school rooms and entries are closed, and the doors locked at the close of the exercises for each day. Teachers shall make such rules as are necessary and reasonable for good order and neatness on the school premises.
SECT. 10. No person shall be permitted to enter a school for the purpose of promoting the sale of any article whatever; nor
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shall teachers allow notices to be given, advertisements, circulars, or other printed matter to be distributed, or any like inteference with the ordinary and regular course of instruction in the school.
PUPILS.
SECT. 11. No child shall be admitted into any of the public schools without a permit ; and no child shall be entitled to receive such permit until satisfactory evidence be given that the State law as to vaccination has been observed.
SECT. 12. Children shall be admitted to the Primary Schools upon furnishing satisfactory proof that they are qualified to go on with some class in the same; and if unable to read shall be admitted not later than four weeks after the beginning of the Fall and Spring terms.
SECT. 13. Every pupil shall be required to attend school as constantly as possible, and in case of tardiness or absence to bring a written excuse from his or her parent or guardian. No scholar shall be dismissed during school hours except upon pre- sentation of a similar request.
SECT. 14. No scholar shall be allowed to leave the school during a session, or before dismissal of the school, except on ac- count of sickness or some pressing emergency, of which the teacher is to judge ; and a written or personal request from the parent or guadian 'shall be required where the necessity is not evident.
SECT. 15. Teachers shall require scholars to pay proper attention to personal cleanliness.
SECT. 16. Any pupil who is guilty of marking, cutting, de- facing, or in any way injuring any of the school-houses or the out-buildings, or the trees belonging to them, shall repair the same, or be amenable to the law.
SECT. 17. All pupils are strictly forbidden to climb on any tree, fence, railing, ladder, etc., about the school-house, or to throw stones, snow-balls, or other missiles, about the neighbor- hood of the school-house, or to use any profane or indelicate language.
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SECT. 18. Any pupil misappropriating, injuring, or destroy- ing any of the text books or supplies loaned him or her by the Town, shall subject his or her parents or guardian to payment for the article so misappropriated, injured or destroyed.
SECT. 19. Reports of each pupil's work in all grades above Grade II shall be made from time to time to the parent or guard- ian ; in such reports, as well as all records kept by the teacher, ranking, when resorted to, shall not be by percentages, but as follows: A for excellent, B for good, C for passable, D for poor, and E for bad.
JANITORS.
SECT. 20. The duties of the janitors of the different school- houses shall be as follows : To sweep and carefully dust all the rooms twice every week, airing the rooms while sweeping, and keep the basement clean and in good order at all times ; to clean the house, washing the floors thoroughly three times each year, viz. : in August, December and April ; to wash all windows twice each year, in August and April; to wash and clean the water- closets as often as necessary ; to shovel the snow and keep the paths safe in winter ; to keep the doors and windows closed and locked when the school is not in session; to report forthwith to the teacher and committee any injuries done to the school-house, out-buildings, trees, or fences; to build fires when needed, and have the rooms warm - 67º to 70º F. - at the time for opening the school, and to give proper attention when required, during the day ; to take general care and superintendence of the school- house and grounds to the satisfaction of the committee. No extra payment shall be allowed for any of the above duties.
STORM SIGNAL.
SECT. 21. In case of severe storms the Lynn " No School" signal is adopted. This,signal is 22. The morning signal is rung at 7.45 A. M. and the one for afternoon at 12.45 P. M.
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Extracts from Public Statutes Relating to School Legislation.
CHAPTER 498- An Act in Relation to the Attendance of Children in Schools.
SECTION 1. Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and in every city and town where opportunity is furnished, in connection with the regular work of the public schools, for gratuitous instruction in the use of tools or in manual training, or for industrial education in any form, a child between the ages of eight and fifteen years, shall annually cause such child to attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides, and such attendance shall continue for at least thirty weeks of the school year, if the schools are kept open for that length of time, with an allowance of two weeks' time for absences not excused by the Superintendent of Schools or the School Committee. Such period of attendance shall begin within the first month of the fall term of school, and for each five days' absence of any such child thereafter, in excess of the above allowance, before the completion of the required annual attendance of thirty weeks, the person having such child under his control, shall, upon the complaint of the School Committee or any truant officer, forfeit to the use of the public schools of such city or town a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, but if such child has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the School Committee of such city or town, or if such child has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or has already acquired the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable, such penalties shall not be incurred.
SECT. 2. For the purposes of the preceding section, School Commit- tees shall approve a private school only when the teaching in all the studies required by law is in the English language, and when they are satisfied that such teaching equals in thoroughness and efficiency tlie teaching in the public schools in the same locality, and that equal pro- gress is made by the pupils therein, in the studies required by law, witlı that made during the same time in the public schools; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teach- ing therein.
SECT. 3. The truant officers and the School Committee of the sev- eral cities and towns shall vigilantly inquire into all cases of neglect of duty prescribed in section one, and ascertain the reasons, if any, there- for; and snch truant officers or any of them, shall, when so directed by
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the School Committee, prosecute in the name of the city or town any person liable to the penalty provided for in said section. Police, district and municipal courts, trial justices and judges of the probate court, shall have jurisdiction within their respective counties of the offences described in section one.
Penalty for Disturbing Schools.
"Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs a school or other assembly of people met for a lawful purpose, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding thirty days, or by fine not exceeding fifty dol- lars." Pub. Stat., sect. 23, chap. 207.
CHAPTER 203 - Malicious Injury to Buildings.
SECTION 78. Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wantonly and without cause destroys, defaces, mars or injures a school-house, church or other buildings erected or used for purposes of education or religious instruction, or for the general diffusion of knowledge, or an out-build- ing, fence. well or appurtenance of such school-house, church or other building, or furniture, apparatus or other property belonging to or con- nected with such school-house, church or other building, shall be pun- ished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year.
Authority of Teachers over Pupils.
Section 1 of chapter 44 of the Public Statutes imposes upon the teachers of the public schools the duty of instructing their pupils in good behavior.
The Constitution of the State makes it the duty of all institutions of learning to train those committed to them in the practice of every virtue. To attain these ends it is necessary that a wise government over the pupils shall be uniformly and persistently maintained. The teacher is therefore vested with the authority of the parent in the control of the children in their relations as pupils of his school.
1. In the school-room he has exclusive control of his pupils, subject only to the direction of the school committee.
2. He may rightfully exercise the same full control over his pupils at any time while they are on any part of the school premises.
3. While the pupils are on their way to and from the school, the authority of the teacher may be considered as concurrent with that of the parent or guardian. If the pupils in coming to school, or in going from it to their homes, commit an offence against the civil laws, it will be well to leave the offenders in the hands of judicial or parental
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authority. But if the children quarrel on their way, or are wilfully tardy, or use indecent and profane language, or in any way by their conduct injure the good order and discipline of the school, the teacher may take notice of such conduct by subjecting the offenders to such wise and judicious treatment as will have a tendency to prevent a repetition of the offence. In such cases the teacher should exercise great caution not to use any doubtful authority, or any questionable inodes of correction.
CHAPTER 44 - Female Assistants.
SECTION 14. In every public school having an average of fifty schol- ars, the school district or town to which such school belongs, shall em- ploy one or more female assistants, unless such district or town votes to dispense with such assistant.
Patriotic Exercises.
Chapter 111 of the Acts of 1890 provides that in all the public schools of the Commonwealth the last regular session prior to Memorial Day, or a portion thereof, shall be devoted to exercises of a patriotic nature.
CHAPTER 498 - An Act Relative to Vaccination.
SECTION 9. The school committee shall not allow a child who has not been duly vaccinated to be admitted to or connected with the public schools.
CHAPTER 515.
Section 2 of this act provides that "all children who shall present a certificate signed by a regular practising physician that they are unfit subjects for vaccination shall not be subject to the provisions of section nine of chapter forty-seven of the Public Statutes excluding unvaccina- ted children from public schools."
CHAPTER 498 - An Act Relative to Infectious Diseases.
SECTION 10. The school committees shall not allow any pupil to at- tend the public schools while any member of the household to which such pupil belongs is sick of small-pox, diptheria or scarlet fever, or dur- ing a period of two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such sick person ; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to present, to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend, a cer- tificate, from the attending physician or board of health, of the facts necessary to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regu- lation.
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Report of Truant Officer.
To the School Board : *
GENTLEMEN, - I have investigated twenty-two complaints from teachers during the past year, with the following results :
Truancy, first offence, 8 ; truancy, second offence, 1; detained at home, on account of sickness, 6; at home, through neglect of parents, 7. Total, 22.
Respectfully submitted,
SETH C. KENDRICK,
Truant Officer.
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Fourth Annual Report, Board of Park Commissioners.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
As required by law we herewith submit our report as follows :
Since our last report of one year ago we have settled the claims in full of Wm. Seger, J. Walter Kehoe and Nathaniel Blanchard for the sum of $500 each and those of Jas. A. Knowlton for the sum of $1,400 and of J. Frank Blaney with whom settlement has been arranged at the price of $600.
All of the Buildings on the Little Estate have been sold and removed as have also those on the Knowlton Estates and those between the estates of Phillips and Ingalls, and the whole area of the Reservation has been partially graded and will be further improved in the early spring.
There remains of the $30,000 appropriated to acquire the Beaches and to construct a Building on the Blaney Beach Reser- vation, the sum of $5,239.98, which with the Betterments to be col- lected, we think is ample to satisfy the judgments of the Courts in which the following claims now remain to be adjusted and are entered for trial, viz :-
John W. Chapman, Leonard Fowle, Joseph A. Ingalls, the " Stone " Estate, Willium C. Stone, Otis Cahoon, John Smith and Charles E. Phillips.
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