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Weymouth. Ireland.
00
Elizabeth (Huntington) Burrell, . .
59
2
18
13
Patrick T. Cullen,
4
13 Lung Fever,
18
Mary R. (Bates) Newton, Warren Colson, . William Cavnaugh,
27
2
16
Consumption,
Braintree. Ireland.
31
Caroline B. (Bates) Dver,
31
10
26
Typhoid Fever.
Weymouth.
Feb.
Catherine (Darson) Lon- dergan,
76
Old age,
Ireland.
9 11 11
Lester L. Phillips,
1
5
28
Lung Fever,
12
Norton Q. Manual,
42
4
S
Consumption,
13 14 17 20 25
Sophronia (Shaw) White, Albert T. Davis, Andrew H. Francis,
57
8
20
Apoplexy,
66
8
Pneumonia,
Typhoid Fever,
Boston.
26
Catherine (Donnally) Ma- loney, . . Joshua Randall,
75 71
2 9
10
Paralysis, .
3
28
March 1 6
Andre H. Clapp,
26
1
Patrick Lynch,
Patrick Dunn,
Charles H. Ash,
3
Lung Fever,
Paralysis,
22
Emma (Gardner) Tirrell, Isaac Remick, Tracy,
63 74
3
25
April. * 2 6 8
Susan J. F. P. Stetson, Albert S. Pratt, .
1
9
17 Disease of Head, Stillborn, .
Asa Burrell,
70 91
3
72
3
2
Brain & Lung Fever. Typhoid Fever,
. Weymouth.
27 4 4
19
Hanover.
Catherine Carroll,
Bowel Complaint, ·
Weymouth.
Inflam. of Bowels, .
Ireland.
26 73
15 28
Heart Disease Paralysis, .
Weymouth.
17 19 23 27
Margaret B. O'Connor, Asa Holbrook, . Eliza (Major) Nightingale, Mercy (Hunt) Williams, . Thos. Powers, Wm. Henry Blanchard, . Mary Ellen Monks, . Solomon Raymond, . Daniel Coffee, . . Stillman Thayer, Mary F. (Hutchinson) Shores, .
70 83 1 30 16 78
1 114479 1 4 4
16 23
Dropsy on Brain,. Consumption, 6 Heart Disease,
66
29
15
73
Lung Fever,
Middleboro. Ireland.
30 5
43
6
Consumption,
Weymouth.
1
Abscess,
Dorchester. Weymouth.
12 13 22 22 24 30
Cottington, Nash, Lois (Bates) Vining. . Mary (Cavnaugh) En. wright. . . Bridget Hefferman, Annie (Donevan ) Hart, Ruth Stollard, . . Londergan,
34
8
10
Childbirth, Consumption,
66
20 39
2
97
3
16
Enlargement of Liver, Old age, Stillborn,
Weymouth.
3
Lawrence Kelley,
47
71
5
19 Pneumonia
Weymouth.
James O. Connell,
78
Old age, . .
Ireland.
Weymouth. 66
5
Dropsy on Brain,
Old age, .
Ireland.
28 26 28
Ezra Vining, Sarah H. (White) Brooks, Henry Alline. .
50
2 2
13 Heart Disease,
8
Water on Brain, Pneumonia, .
Lowell, Me.
48 8
Consumption, Kidney Disease,
4 Typhoid Pneumonia, Stillborn,
Weymouth. 6
Betsey Bates, Francis Peirce,
74 65 30
11
Influenza,
2
12
Consumption,
Boston. Weymouth. 66 Hingham. Abington.
9 9 10 11 12
O'Connor,
Typhoid Fever
Reuben Shaw,
Lydia (Richards) Shaw, Ellen M. Lindsay) How- ard, . .
15 15 16 16
Paralysis,
Weymouth. Danvers.
34 63 45
3 2
4 Scrofula,
Ireland. 6
June 12
* Date of Death not returned.
N. Hampshire. Weymouth.
19
52
7
26
23
7
1
Albion Tyrell,
Alice G. Huff,
34
5
29
5 Consumption,
Easton.
72
Abington. Hanover. Boston.
12 18 19 19
Margaret E. Dee,
Weymouth.
Ireland. 66
26
Weymouth. Hingham. N. Hampshire.
Old age,
20 17 Dropsy,
16
May
Daniel White,
48
AGE. .
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
1871. June 13
Averick P. (Standish) White. . .
Heart Disease,
14
Arthur B. Sprague, .
67
19
Ellen (Garey) Hyland, Margaretta W. (Munson) Cleverly, .
72
3
25
Congestion of Brain,
20 21 21
Patriek J. MeEnroe, --- Lynch. .
7
8
2
Heart disease, .
23
Jesse H. Sprague, . Nellie Cushing, .
57
9
20
Pulm'y Abseess,
Convulsions, . Consumpt'n of Blood,
19 10
John Beals Richards,
21 2
14
Inflam. of Bowels, ·
13
36
20
2
2
25
21
38
7
3 Consumption, . ·
66
23
1h.
23
5
22
Consumption,
28 28
Annie M. Bresnean, Leonard P. Arnold, 2d, Rebecea A. (Trufant) .Oreutt, .
20
10
31
Aug.
1 2
William Maloney,
Charles Maloney,
1
13 14
7 8
Lneinda S. (Hollis) Rieh- ards,
73
1 11 11 1
23 16 23
11 13 19 20
Eleanor G. (Cushing) Pratt, . Philander Lindsey
65 53
6 11
15
Ann Smith, . .
8
21
27
Mary J. Cushing, -- Snell.
10
5
12
Sept.
Timothy Coffee.
65 28
2
21 28
15
Emily (Stoddard) Bates, Carrie B. Pratt, . Philena A. (Harriman) Jenness,
45 62
6
21 Caneer,
Liver Complaint, Stillborn, .
25 26 27 28 29
Lydia Lewis,
1
5
12
29
Oct.
2 2
Ida W. (Cushing) Pratt, Chas. J. Bates,
23 45
4
6
Lucy J. Lovell,
40
10
6
7
9
81 4
12
16 29
Sarah A. (Thayer) Gay, Nina E. Good. . Francis Callahan, Rosie E. Barker,
27
11 16
20
8
31
Charles E. Rogers,
34 0
1
5
6
Welsh,
6
Delaney.
7
Richard G. Colles,
68 9
Dropsy,
England.
9
Abigail (Ayers)Gordon,
9
Nettie Eliza Bailey,
Susanna B. Porter,
29
1
6 Bright's Dis. Kidneys, Typhoid Fever, . Liver Complaint, Cancer. Hypert.of heart, dpsy, Cholera Infantum,
Ireland. Weymouth. 66
16 18 20 22
Julia (Cullen) McEnroe, Hallenbeck, . . Helen F. (Banker) Smith, Mary (Shehan) Campbell, Thos. French,
20 53 81
3
Consumption, Caneer, . . Infiam. of Bowels,
1
78 11 26 Dysentery,
Cholera Infantum. Marasmus,
Weymouth, 66
Caroline A. (Cropsey) Holbrook,
63 1
5 5
25 Caneer,
New York. Weymouth.
4
Whooping Cough, Consumption,
7 10 12
Martha D. Pratt,
83
Typhoid Fever, . Old age, . 66
66 Hingham. Weymouth. Randolph. N. Brunswick. Weymouth.
Nov.
Gibert W. Bryant,
12 20
Consumption, . . Congestion of Lungs, Convulsions, Bowel Complaint, Inflam. of Kidneys. Congestion of Liver, Stillborn,
Weymouth. Ireland.
Wellfleet. Weymouth. 66
Quiney. Abington. Weymouth. 6.
July
29 1 Henry C. Holbrook,
25 62
6
9
Asthma, Acute Infl. of Brain,
25
61
4 9
5
Apoplexy,
4 14 Consumption,
66
Weymouth. 66
66 Braintree.
Caneer,
Wm. Henry Bradford,
76 4
Cholera Infantum, Infl. and Congestion,
Weymouth. Maine. Weymouth, 66 Hanover. Weymouth. 66
16
10
29 4 12
1
Bartlett, N. H. Ireland. Weymouth. New Bedford. Ireland.
Weymouth. 66
Mary C. Howard,
Carrie H. Spear,
67 4 1
Canker, 66
Julia A. (Orcutt) Loud, . James P. Burrell, . . Nathaniel F. Martin, . Nathaniel F. Stoddard, Wm. H. Spear, . Alesime Guertin, Lydia B. (Bosworth) Chessman,
9
21
Anæmia, Stoppage, .
17
Margaret R. Kenney,
2
Braintree. Weymouth.
Maine. Weymouth. Abington.
Consumption. . 'Typhoid Fever, Convulsions,
3
6
Nellie Connors,
Lucy Lineoin, .
5
1
49
AGE.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
1871
Nov.
13
Fletcher N. Loud, .
1
5
Congestion of Brain, Infl. of Knee Joint, .
Weymouth. 66
13
Bartlett Loud,
80
4
23
24
Carrie E. (Dunbar) Blan- chard, .
16
8
10
Nervous Exhaustion,
66
26
Phebe (Binney) Nash,
76
2
26
Congestion of Liver, Consumption, .
.
Dec.
3
Chas. Wm. Shackford, O'Connor, .
36
3
15 7h.
Convulsions, Pneumonia,
Ireland. Weymouth. 6
8
Susanna Connell,
4
2
2
Membranous
Croup,
10
Bridget Mitchell,
2
3
Burned,
14
Lizzie Higgins, .
15
4
Typhoid Fever,
Hingham.
19
Charles C. Rockwood, Quinn, .
1
6
12
Paralysis, .
Weymouth. 6.
26
76
5
12
Dropsy, . .
60
29
Mary (Pratt) Burrell, Lydia Stetson,
66
11
7
Disease of Brain, .
Abington.
All errors and omissions in the record of Births and Deaths for the year 1870, reported to the Town Clerk, have been corrected.
FRANCIS AMBLER, Town Clerk.
BIRTHS IN 1871.
Whole number of births registered in Weymouth,
253
Number of births where both parents were natives of the United States, . 133
Number of Births where fathers were natives of the United States, and mothers foreign,
7
Number of Births where mothers were natives of the United States, and fathers foreign, 14
Number of births where both parents were foreign, . 98
Number of births where parent's nativity was unknown, 1 Number of births where both parents wero natives of Wey- mouth,
19
Excess of births over deaths,
127
26
66
1
3
Catherine (Nolan)Connor, Samuel Bates, .
5
10
Henrietta Orr.
25
FRANCIS AMBLER, Town Clerk.
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ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT.
Valuation of real estate in 1st Ward,
. $107,974 00 66 66 66
. 656,802 00
655,296 00 · 66
66 60 66
4th 66
.
341,155 00
66
66
66
66 5th
. 624,579 00
Valuation of real estate, non-residents,
· 277,347 00
Total valuation of real estate,
Valuation of personal estate in 1st Ward,
66 66
66
2d 66
3 318,145 00
66
66 66
66 3d
66
116,475 00
66
66
66
5th
66
328,206 00
66 66 66 1st National Bank of South
Weymouth,
138,966 00
66
" personal estate of non-residents, 69,025 00
Total valuation of personal estate,
$1,902,847 00
66
" the town,
. 4,866,000 00
Rate per cent of total tax, $1.60 on $100.
Whole number of polls, .
2,510 00
Tax on polls at $2.00 each,
5,002
Total tax for State, county and town purposes,
$82,876 00
Number of acres of land taxed,
9,125
" dwelling houses "
66
720
66 " COWS 66
569
Number of Children between the ages of five and fifteen.
Ward 1,
216
2,
539
66
3,
486
66
4,
309
66
5,
341
Total,
1,888
ELIAS RICHARDS,
Assessors WM. W. RAYMOND, ORAN WHITE,
of Weymouth.
66
2d 3d
66
66 66 66 66
66 66
66 4th
.
.
66
Shares in Union National Bank,
$2,963,153 00
. $202,174 00
59,404 00
270,816 00
1,551
66 " horses
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
FOR THE YEAR
1871-2.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
GENERAL REMARKS.
THE School Committee of Weymouth submit to the town the following reports, as required by the statute of the Commonwealth.
At the annual meeting, on the sixth day of March last, the town voted to raise twenty thousand dollars for the support of schools the ensuing year.
It also voted to raise the sum of three thousand dollars for the repairs of school-houses, but subsequently instructed the Committee to finish the school-room in the upper part of the new school-house at East Weymouth, on Commercial street, and that one thousand dollars, or as much as was needed for that purpose, be appropriated from the amount raised for the repairs of school-houses.
The whole subject-matter of the schools, together with the care of all the school property, was left in charge of the Committee, the town having refused to adopt the recommendation of the Committee in their last report to employ a superintendent of schools.
The Committee accepted the trust thus forced upon them somewhat reluctantly, knowing as they did by actual experience, the impossi- bility of their exercising such a systematic and careful supervision of the schools as might be exercised by such a superintendent as the Committee had recommended the town to employ.
On the day following the annual meeting of the town, the Committee held a meeting at the hall of the Union National Bank of Weymouth, and all the members being present, proceeded at once to organize the board by the choice of chairman and clerk, and then to the considera- tion of the necessities of the different parts of the town in regard to schools. After duly considering the subject, and ascertaining the number of schools that ought and could be sustained at the prices it would be necessary to pay, we decided to establish two High schools, to be located one at North Weymouth and the other at South Weymouth.
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Five Grammar schools to be taught by males, to be located one in cach ward of the town. Four Grammar schools, to be taught by females, to be located, - in the first ward, one ; second, one; third, one ; and in the fourth, one.
Eleven Intermediate schools, to be located,-in the first ward, one ; second, four; third, three ; fourth, one; and the fifth, two. Three Intermediate and Primary mixed schools, to be located in the fifth ward. Twelve Primary schools, to be located,-in the first ward, one ; second, four ; third, three ; fourth, three ; and in the fifth, one. An assistant teacher was granted to the North Weymouth High school, and an assistant teacher one half of each day in the Adams Grammar school.
In the third ward, last year, one of the Intermediate schools was abandoned, and the most advanced scholars in the schools of that ward were sent to the Grammar schools in Broad street, and the Intermediate teacher, without change of wages, was employed to assist in both of said schools. This was tried as an experiment, and was found to work well, and so the same arrangement has been con- tinued the present year and still works admirably.
It was thought by some of the board that the Main-street Gram- mar school was peculiarly a hard one, and that the teacher should be paid more than the other female teachers of Grammar schools, and it was voted to pay the teacher of that school two dollars a week extra.
The Committee decided to allow the male teachers of Grammar schools last year who are retained the present year an increase of salary of fifty dollars each per year. They subsequently voted to allow Mr. Baxter, of East Weymouth, the same increase of salary in order to retain his services in that school, which were deemed so important that the inhabitants of that part of the town obtained by subscription about two hundred and twenty-five dollars to be added to the amount still paid by the town, it being the smallest sum for which he would continue in his school.
Hon. Abner Holbrook made the same proposition to the Committee as last year, that he would pay from the Pratt fund, of which he is trustee, three hundred dollars towards sustaining a male teacher in the Pratt Grammar school, which was accepted by the Committee.
The above is the present arrangement of the schools. It has not been precisely this during the whole year, as an extra school has been established in Ward two; and the grade of one or more schools has been changed during the year.
As the schools are now established, the whole expense of teaching a year of forty weeks to the town would be as follows : -
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Two principals of High schools, each $1,200 per year, $2,400 00
Assistant to North High school, . 500 00
Three male teachers of Grammar schools, each
$900, $2,700
Two male teachers of Grammar schools, each 850, 1,700
4,400
Less the amount paid from the Pratt fund, 300
4,100 00
One female teacher of Grammar school,
480 00
Three female teachers of Grammar schools, each $400, 1,200 00
Assistant in the Adams school, .
120 00
Assistant in the two Broad-street Grammar schools,
340 00
Eleven female teachers of the Intermediate schools, each $340, 3,740 00
Three female teachers of mixed Intermediate and Pri-
mary schools, each $340, 1,020 00
Twelve female teachers of Primary schools, each $300, 3,600 00
Forty teachers in all are paid
$17,500 00
The Committee having heretofore been very much annoyed by applications to suspend the schools for various purposes .- some of which were very proper, and others not apparently so much so, some general in their application, and others purely local,- and, inasmuch as each school day costs the town more than a hundred dollars, and most of the teachers are so situated that they can about as well as not make up for such lost time, the Committee adopted the following rule : That the school year shall consist of forty weeks of five days in a week of actual school-keeping, making two hundred whole days constitute a school year, and that the legal holidays are the only days on which the schools are to be suspended by the teachers, provided however that for good and sufficient cause the local committee may grant permission to suspend on other days, by requiring such lost time to be made up which however shall not be made up on Saturdays. This rule has seemed to be quite satisfactory to most of the teachers, and has been found to answer well the purposes for which it was made.
The Committee continued the rule of requiring monthly reports to be made by the teachers, and although many of them are imperfect ; for want of a little care on the part of the teachers in making them, yet they are found to be of great value, inasmuch as they furnish important facts, monthly, to the Committee, which could not be easily
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learned in any other way, especially where the Committee, divided into sub-committees, have the supervision of the schools instead of a superintendent.
The subject-matter of supplying all our school-houses with light- ning rods, has been brought to the notice of the Committee, but inas- much as we feel somewhat doubtful as to the best and safest course to be pursued, and with the knowledge that very many persons do not regard them, in their best condition, as much protection, and then the fact that rods on school-houses are constantly getting out of order by being climbed by the scholars, and when so, are vastly worse than none, and as the cost would amount to a large sum, we have felt that it would be assuming a great responsibility for us to decide. We have therefore preferred to refer the matter to the town for decision, and accordingly have caused an article to be inserted in the warrant for this purpose.
There have been a great many complaints made to the Committee in regard to the course of studies adopted for our High schools. There are many parents who would make sacrifice to keep their children longer at school if they could attend the High schools without being required to study the languages. Indeed, there has been a difference of opinion for years among the Committee on this very point, and it still continues. Last spring a sub-committee of the board, together with the teachers of our High schools, took this subject into consid- eration and after much deliberation, adopted the two courses hereafter inserted, called " Classical Course" and "English Course," with a provision, that one day in each week should be devoted by the whole school to the study of Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, Reading and Spelling, with Rhetorical exercises. Although this change is a great improvement, yet it is found on trial not to meet the wants of parents and others. The difficulty lies too deep to be reached in this way, as we shall show.
In the first place, the town instructs the Committee to establish two High schools, and it is expected and understood that one is to be located in the north part of the town, embracing about two-thirds of the scholars in town, and the other in the south part of the town, embracing about one-third.
This instruction compels the Committee to fix the point of qualifi- cation for admittance to the High schools low enough to secure a requisite number of scholars for a school in each of these locations, and the Committee feel constrained to fix the same point for each of the schools, otherwise one of them would be degraded at its com- mencement.
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The result last spring was, that we had a school of sixty scholars in the north part of the town, and one of forty-two scholars in the south part. The number at the north being so large as to render an assistant teacher indispensable.
The attainments required for admittance to the High schools are so low that the scholars are admitted before they are sufficiently ad- vanced in the lower branches, to leave them, and take up the branches that are now taught in the High schools, as will clearly ap- pear from the following questions, which were used in the examina- tion of applicants in March last, together with the per cent of correct answers which were given by the successful candidates.
ARITHMETIC.
4
1. Multiply 35 by 313. '
7
2. If 5g + 3-2 17% is the minuend, and as the remainder, what is the subtrahend ?
6
3. In 1 mile, 46 chains, 2 rods, how many rods ?
7
4. If a rectangular field measures 24 rods, 2 feet in length, and 17 rods 4 yards in breadth, how many square yards does it contain ? 8
5. Divide 600 by .006, multiply the quotient by .05 and by that product divide .005.
6
6. At $1.33} a pair, how many cases of shoes, of 63 pairs each, can be bought for $196 ?
8
7. An attorney received $1.26 for collecting a bill, which is } per cent of the bill; what was the amount of the bill ?
7
8. Interest of $896 for 2 years, 6} months at 63 per cent.
8
9. What time will be required for $280 to amount to $301, at 5 per cent ?
11
10. What is the square root of 763876 ?
16
11. What is the cube root of 667627624 ?
14
12. I have a note of $583, dated Feb. 11, 1871, payable five
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months after date, which I this day, March 14, take to a bank for discount, and agree to allow the bank at the rate of 72 per cent. per annum, how much money ought I to receive ?
GEOGRAPHY.
4
1. What lines are usually found on maps, and for what purpose are they employed ?
5
2. What Tropic and Circle forms respectively the {northern and southern boundary line of the South Temperate Zone?
6
3. Bound Illinois, and give its capital.
7
4. What large Island S. E. of Australia ?
8
5. What is the most northwestern country of N. America? - to what nation does it belong? - what are its chief productions, and by whom is it inhabited ?
9
6. What is the most easterly Cape of Africa ?
10
7. What Mountains in Brazil ?
11
8. Where is the Bay of Samana?
12
9. Name the principal Rivers of Europe which flow in a northerly direction ? - which flow in a southerly direction ?
15
10. Name the countries of Asia, and give their capitals.
6
11. What is the Latitude and Longitude of Boston ?
7
12. Where are the Shetland Islands ?
GRAMMAR.
10
1. Name and define the different classes of nouns, including all commonly reckoned under the head of common.
8
2. Write the plural of the following nouns, and give rule for formation of plural with each word.
HERO. VALLEY. THIEF.
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7
3. Define adjectives, and give rule for the formation of the com- parative and superlative degrees.
6
4. Name and define the different kinds of pronouns.
S
5. Name the different pronouns that follow in sentences given, and correct the last two sentences if incorrect.
1. He whose image thou art.
2. From what fountain flowed their light?
3. Who do you want?
4. Whom is it?
9
6. Verbs, definition of. How divided according to use and form ? Change " John struck William," into passive voice.
8
7. What is tense, and how many tenses in the different moods.
12
8. Give a synopsis of the verb hate in the indicative mode, pas- sive voice, i. e., the first person singular of each tense.
17
9. Analyse the following sentence.
In the use of language, every one clothes his words from that common stock which he has learned, and applies them in practice according to his own habits and notions.
15
10. To censure works, not men, is the sphere of criticism. Parse, To censure, not, is, sphere.
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SCHOLAR'S NUMBER.
ARITHMETIC.
GEOGRAPHY.
GRAMMAR.
1
Per cent 12
Per cent 91
Per cent 51
2
5
66
.67
66
77
66
95
12
66
78
20
66
59
66
78
66
51
21
66
78
66
79
66
55
22
60
60
66
60
66
69
23
66
63
66
68
66
92
26
66
46
60
66
57
28
66
58
66
71
66
25
29
66
73
66
84
66
70
30
66
37
66
67
54
32
40
66
78
46
33
66
55
661
63
66
45
35
66
54
66
52
66
49
36
66
61
66
65
66
75
37
66
55
54
66
62
.
66
43
48
11
73
54
66
60
19
38
38
66
81
66
54
25
.
These were the successful applicants for admission to the North High school, in March last, and those at the South were no better. Forty applied for admission at the North, so that just one-half were successful.
The above result shows how poorly educated the successful appli- cants were in arithmetic, grammar and geography, and inasmuch as applicants had never been examined on any other branches except these for this purpose, but very little attention has been given to other branches in our Grammar schools, the aim seeming to be to get ad- mitted at the earliest possible moment to the High school. Parents, scholars, teachers, and sometimes the Committee, uniting their efforts to this end.
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89
80
61
44
61
COURSE OF STUDY FOR THE WEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOLS,
To take effect the School Year commencing August 1, 1871.
CLASSICAL COURSE.
First Year, 1st Term, - Latin, Ancient History, Algebra. 66 66 2nd 66 Latin, Modern History, Algebra. Second Year, Ist Term, - Latin, Greek, Latin Prose.
2nd “ Latin, Greek, Geography, Latin Prose. Third Year, Ist Term, - Latin, Greek, Latin Prose.
66 2nd “ Latin, Greek, Mythology, Greek Prose.
Fourth Year, 1st Term, - Latin, Greek, Greek Prose.
6. 2nd “ Latin, Greek, Geometry.
ENGLISH COURSE.
First Year, 1st Term, - Algebra, Latin, Ancient History. .. 2nd “ Algebra, Latin, Modern History.
Second Year, 1st Term - Geometry or French, Latin, Natural Philosophy. 66 66 2nd “ Geometry or French, Latin, Natural Philosophy, Physiology.
Third Year, 1st Term, - Trigonometry or French, Latin, Chemistry. 66 2nd 6 Trigonometry or French, Latin, Zoology. Fourth Year, 1st Term, - Mental Philosophy, Rhetoric, Geology. 66
66 2nd 66 Mental Philosophy, English Literature, Astronomy.
Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, Reading and Spelling, with Rhetorical exercises, shall be taken up weekly, on school-day selected. by the Principals of the respective High schools. The entire day so selected shall be devoted to said studies, to the exclusion of all oth- ers.
From the above, it may been seen that in both the classical and English course of study, Latin is required during the first three years of attendance.
Greek and French, and the higher branches, make up the list of stud ies for either course, although last spring the Committee decided that one day each week should be devoted by the whole school to the study of Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, Reading and Spelling, with the Rhetorical exercises.
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Now, one grand trouble arises from the fact, that the scholars who enter our High schools do not remain in them through the whole course, about twenty-five per cent leaving each year, so that not more than one quarter of those admitted remain to graduate at the end of the course. Nearly all of those who leave in one two or three years after their connection with the school, receive but little benefit from the study of the languages, beyond that incidentally derived from all study, namely, that of disciplining the mind, which benefit could far better be secured by studying those branches which would be of practical use for them to know.
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