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DRAWING.
At the opening of the present school year, for the purpose of re- ceiving special instruction in drawing and in pursuance of the vote of the committee relating to its introduction, the teachers of the town were arranged into two classes, one for the north part, and the other for the south ; those of the south class, eighteen in number, meeting at the High School room, in South Weymouth, and those of the north, twenty-nine in number, meeting in the room of the Commercial Street Upper Grammar School, in East Weymouth. One lesson a week of two hours' length, extending from half after three to half after five, has been given to each class, to the south class on Monday, and to the north on Tuesday. When the time of the engagement with the present master, Mr. Walter F. Brackett, of Winchester, has expired, twenty-five lessons will have been given to each class.
The attendance at the lessons has been full, hardly a lesson having been lost by any teacher; the interest felt in the subject has been general, and instances of opposition have been few, and in these few the opposition has arisen, not so much from unworthy views of the nature of the subject itself, as from conscious inability to make any desirable attainments in it; and from the nature of the subject, the knowledge acquired, and the interest developed by the lessons thus far given, it is believed that the action of the committee in employing a special instructor in drawing to superintend the instruction of this new branch into our schools was wise, and that it could not have been successfully introduced in any other way.
When the twenty-five lessons are completed, teachers will have finished the study of elementary forms and their combinations, and have taken up and advanced a considerable distance in that of natural forms and design. The full grade will have been established in the Primary Schools and the lowest class of the Intermediate, while in the higher grades it will still be provisional, since all were obliged to com- mence at the beginning. Whether, however, sufficient instruction will have been given to the teachers, and the system sufficiently established in their schools, to be left in their hands at the expiration of the pres- ent engagement, my own as yet limited knowledge of the subject forbids me to render an intelligent judgment. The prejudice naturally attending the first introduction of so new and novel a subject has, to a great extent, been removed from the minds of both teachers and patrons of schools, and general and increasing favor established in its stead. It is also true that, while still further instruction and super- intendence would be desirable, if feasible, a large proportion of the teachers of the town will feel ready to dispense with further aid, and
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rely on themselves to successfully carry forward the system which will have been so successfully introduced.
All the advantages promised by the introduction of drawing into the schools have been fully realized. Good progress has been made by the scholars, and all like the study. The stimulating power of this branch has been so great that the scholars have made as much prog- ress in the solid branches, with the necessary time devoted to this additional study, as they would have made without it; and it is believed that, if systematic instruction continues to be given in this study, the community will, in a short time, receive as rich returns from instruction in drawing as from instruction in any other of the branches now taught in school.
MUSIC.
If regular instruction in music were introduced, advantages as manifest, though in some respects different, would result from it as have resulted from regular instruction in drawing. Education, com- prehensively viewed, is moral as well as intellectual. Music is a humanizing power in school. Itopens an avenue to the innermost disposition of the pupil. It appeals directly to the sentiments of love of freedom, of nature, of country, and of home ; to generous feelings towards others, as kindness, pity, and freedom from care. All these are of the greatest possible value in the moral aspect of education in the school. Socrates, in Jewett's translation of Plato's " Republic," says :-
"Is not this the reason, Glaucon, why musical training is so pow- erful, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, bearing grace in their movements, and making the soul graceful of him who is rightly educated, or ungraceful if ill-educated ; and also because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art or nature, and with true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the rea- son of the thing ; and when Reason comes, he will recognize and salute her as a friend with whom his education has made him familiar?"
Impressions made on the unconscious phases of life reappear in the conscious life. The lines of the photograph, at first invisible, after- wards come out when the conditions are given them. If any person, charged with the general supervision of schools, fails to recommend the immediate introduction of music, it must be, not that he does not feel it to be necessary, but because of the want of funds at the dis- posal of the Board.
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TABLE I. - CLASSIFICATION.
Departments.
Schools.
Grades.
Primary . .
.
Athens
Low.
Mid.
Upp.
Low.
Mid.
Upp.
Low.
Mid.
Upp.
=
Broad St .. upp .
Central St. .
Commercial St.
Grant St.
66
High St.
Main St.
Middle St. .
Perkins, low.
mid.
Pleasant St.
Athens
Broad St .. low.
.
.
Central St., upp.
High St., low. . Main St. .
Middle St. .
Mt. Pleasant, upp.
.
.
Pleasant St. . .
School St., upp.
Tremont St., mid. Adams .
.
·
.
.
Central St., low.
.
.
Pond St. .
Pratt . .
Randolph St.
River St. .
60
. .
.
Union St.
Washington St.
66
Grammar .
Athens
Central St., low .
Com'rcial St., low.
upp.
¥
Main St. . .
Mt. Pleasant, low. mid. upp.
Torrey St., upp. .
Adams .
· .
·
.6
Pratt . .
High
North High South
Class 4 . .
Class 3
Class 2 .
Class 1.
.
.
.
·
.
.
66
.
Intermediate.
.
.
.
Mixed.
. .
Mixed.
.
66
.
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TABLE II. - ENROLMENT.
PRIMARY.
INTERMEDIATE.
GRAMMAR.
HIGH.
SCHOOLS.
Low. |Mid.
Upp
Low.
Mid.
Upp.
Low Mid. Upp.
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
[Boys.
Girls.
|Boys.
Girls.
|Boys.
Girls.
|Boys.
| Girls.
|Boys.
| Girls.
| Boys.
| Girls.
| Girls.
III. | Boys. |Class | Girls.
| Boys. |Class
| Girls.
| Boys.
| Girls.
PRIMARY.
Athens
10
16
5
7
12
8 24
Central St . .
7
10
14
11
Commercial St.
22
11
5
2
Grant St. . .
9
7
9
2
10
5
High St.
9
8
9
8
8
9
Main St.
5
3
8
6
3
8
Middle St. .
11
17
8
11
8
9
Perkins, low.
31
26
Perkins, mid.
.
23
23
Pleasant St. .
18
17
7
8
8
7
INTERMEDIATE.
Athens
. .
4
14
13
Broad St., low.
Central St. upp.
19
10
High St., low. .
Main St. .
5
Middle St. .
Mt. Pleas't upp.
Pleasant St. . .
School St., upp.
Tremont St.mid Adams
8
4
3
5
· 8
. 9
7 17
4 13 1 1
4
1
Rand'Iph St
4
5
4
2
2
1
3
1
·
2
Union St. .
6
3
3
3
·2
·
1
5 10
5
6 2
GRAMMAR.
Athens
4 11
4
7
6
6
Central St., low.
19 22
Commercial St.,
low . .
·
21
22
Commercial St., upp.
21 |29 5
7
Mt. Pleas't, low.
Mt. Pleas't, mid.
Mt. Pleas't, upp.
Torrey St., upp.
Adams
. .
Mix.
HIGH.
North High .
20
7 13 16
11 7 11
6
6
4
South High
10
.
1
-
-
·
20
24
14
11
6 12
3 9
11 12 28
26
·
·
·
· 15
8
9
.
·
.
15 26
18 23
12
8
. Central St., low. . . .
Pond St. ..
6
6
3
3
4
4
2
5
.
Pratt . .
Mixed.
10
3
6
3
8
7
River St. .
6
10
2
3
5
·
7
Wash'n St.
9
8
5
5
5
6
6
9
8 26
5 19
18
4
7
9
5
8
6 23 19
7
4
4
7
·
.
. .
.
26
19
8
5
·
8
4
8 2 6.10
3 5
1
8
.
.
·
·
00 . 8
11 13
. ·
.
·
00 *
. .
.
15 21
17 21
Pratt . .
.
.
.
-
IV.
II.
Class
I.
Broad St., upp.
.
. ·
.
.
Main St. .
·
4
1
2
·
4 4
·
.
·
.
26
|Boys. | Class
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TABLE III. - ADMISSIONS.
Boys.
Gills.
Total.
Primary .
.
Athens
Admitted from
Homes
4
6
10
Broad St., upp.
Perkins, mid.
21
19
40
Central St.
Homes
4
10
14
16
Grant St.
‹‹
2
3
5
High St.
Main St.
Middle St.
66
12
8
20
66
Perkins, mid.
15
12
27
Homes
12
21
33
Intermediate.
Athens
Athens, pri.
8
5
13
Broad St., upp. pri.
23
15
38
Central St., upp.
1
66
High St., pri.
9
11
20
Main St.
Main St., pri.
10
10
20
"
Middle St. . .
Middle St., pri.
3
9
12
Mt. Pleasant, upp.
Tremont St., mid.
16
21
37
Pleasant St. .
Pleasant St., pri.
1
5
6
High St., low. .
12
12
24
Tremont St., mid ..
Broad St., low.
22
19
41
Adams .
Homes
2
1
3
Central St., low.
Central St., p
7
7
14
Pond St.
Homes
1
0
1
Pratt
2
2
4
66
River St.
Union St.
Washington St.
11
3
14
Grammar . .
Athens
Athens, inter.
4
11
15
9
10
19
66
Pond St., inter.
2
0
2
Randolph St., inter
0
4
4
Union St., inter. .
3
5
8
Commercial, low.
13
23
35
V
Middle St , inter.
7
3
10
Commercial, low. .
66
School St., upp. inter. .
9
9
18
Main St.
Main St., inter.
6
1
10
Mt. Pleasant, low. .
Mt. Pleasant, upp. inter.
18
16
34
Mt. Pleasant, mid. .
15
8
23
Mt. Pleasant, upp. .
Central St., low.
19
16
35
Adams
66
Pratt, inter.
Washington St., inter.
6
5
11
Athens, gram.
·2
2
4
Adams, gram.
0
3
3
High
North High
Commercial St., upp. gr.
1
5
6
Mt. Pleasant, upp. gram.
3
10
13
Pratt, gram.
0
1
1
Main St., gram.
3
1
4
South High
Pratt, gram. . .
3
5
8
Torrey St., upp. gram.
7
10
17
7
66
2
2
4
Perkins, low.
2
1
3
Perkins, low
Central St., low.
16
4
20
Mixed.
Randolph St.
(New school)
0
2
2
14
16
30
3
2
5
Central St., upp. int.
low.
mid.
0
0
0
Torrey St., upp. .
Adams, inter. .
4
7
11
2
6
8
Pratt
Pleasant St., inter.
4
4
8
Central St., low.
Commercial, upp. .
.
Mixed.
Commercial St.
7
6
13
6
1
Pleasant St. .
Broad St., low.
High St., low.
School St., upp.
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TABLE IV. - ATTENDANCE.
CALENDAR YEAR. 1876.
SCHOOL YEAR, 1875-6.
SCHOOL YEAR, 1876-7.
Second Term.
First Term.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
Av'ge.
Per ct.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
Av'ge.
Per ct.
Primary · . .
Athens
36
38
74
49
66
27
31
58
44
76
Broad Street, upp.
26
21
47
39
83
26
24
50
43
86
Central Street .
22
28
50
36
72
21
21
42
33
80
Commercial Street
24
14
38
25
66
27
13
40
29
72
Grant Street .
30
22
52
39
75
28
14
42
34
81
High Street
33
31
64
47
73
26
25
51
31
60
23
26
49
38
77
16
17
33
24
72
27
36
63
47
75
28
36
64
51 37
67
29
27
56
41
73
23
23
46
30
65
Pleasant Street
37
38
75
58
49
84
22
31
53
44
83 85
Central Street, upp.
32
21
53
46
34
36
31
19
50
43
86 80
Middle Street Mount Pleasant, upp
31
21
52
42
81
28
26
54
43
80
Pleasant Street . .
25
46
38
83
18
29
47
42
90
School Street, upp.
27
21
48
41
86
27
26
53
47
90
Tremont Street, mid.
22
26
48
35 lish ed.
18
13
31
26
72
Central, low
35
22
57
52
91
25
22
47
45
96
Pond Street
27
13
40
38
95
22
18
40
34
85
Pratt .
32
24
56
30
52
29
17
46 27
30
36
33
87
Grammar . .
22
24
46
39
85
14
24
38
35
92
Central Street, low.
29
20
49
43
88
19
22
41
39
95
Commercial Street, low.
16
27
43
37
35
82 88
15
17
32
30
94
66
Mount Pleasant, low.
11
30
25
S3
23
19
42
35
83
Mount Pleasant, mid.
21
13
23
36
32
88
17
34
24
58
54
92
Adams
27
36
63
49
78
9
19
28
21
8 i
Pratt .
31
26
57
48
84
32
30
62
55
85
High
North High
25
31
56
53
94
24
41
65
61
94
South High
22
36
58
53
74
25
40
65
62
95
42
30
72
37
48
64
34
34
68
49
70
Intermediate .
Athens .
30 25
24
49
37
75
26
19
45
38
92
..
High Street, low.
20
21
41
39
51
40
82
30
19
49
39
42
86
66
Adams
Not
€
stab
32
22
69
11
16
Union Street
19
36
28
77
19
17
22
43
40
93
Commercial Street, upp.
20
23
16
35
35
76
15
21
36
30
83 90
Mount Pleasant. upp.
Torrey Street, upp.
28
23
51
43
86
27
35
62
60
97
Main Street ..
19 19
31
81
32
30
6.2
54
81
River Street
Not
stab
lish ed.
14
16
17 39
31
70
57
87 83 92
20
, 24
44
37
84
Main Street .
25
14
33
18
26
23
49
40 22 25
87
Randolph Street
14
18
Mixed.
83 91
Washington Street Athens .
86
21
21
38
34
5
· Mixed.
Broad Street. low.
37
14
51
47
80
51
31
26
57
Perkins, mid.
Main Street .
Middle Street
Perkins, low.
21
25
46
43
73
28
NAMES OF SCHOOLS.
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TABLE V. - SALARIES.
TEACHERS.
SCHOOLS.
No.
Scholars.
Date of Election to Present Position.
Salaries.
Miss Mabel F. Harlow ..
Athens
Pri.
3 grades
58
Aug. 28, 1876 $300 00
Miss Hannah E. Ward .
Broad St.
Up. 1
.6
50
28,1876
300 00
Mrs. S. J. Rogers . .
Central St.
Low. & Mid.
42
Jan.
5, 1874
300 00
Miss Josephine A. Raymond
Commerc'l St. .
Low. & Mid.
40
May
10, 1876
300 00
Miss Ella M. Burgess
Grant St.
3
42
Aug. 28,1876 300 00
Miss Carrie L. Farren
High St.
66
3
51
April 27, 1874
300 00
Mrs. J. Ellen French
Main St.
3
33
Aug. 31, 1872
300 00
Mrs. A. F. Gardner
Middle St.
.6
3
64
66 31,1874
300 00
Miss Clara F. Perry
Perkins
Low. 1
57
March 2, 1874
300 00
Miss Mary L. Hunt
Perkins
Mid. 1
60
46
Aug. 25, 1873
300 00
Mrs. Annie H. (Vining) Garey Miss Mary L. Ells .
Athens
Inter.
3
53
28,1876
340 00
Miss Emma F. Parker
Broad St.
Low. 1
45
28, 1876
340 00
Miss S. C. Vining .
Central St.
Up. Mid. & Up. "
51
Jan. 4,1875
340 00
Miss Lizzie R. Healy
High St.
Low. 1
44
Aug. 31, 1872
340 00
Miss Maria C. Holbrook
Main St.
3
50
Jan. 4,1875
340 00
Miss Hattie J. Farren
Middle St.
66
3
49 Aug. 28, 1876
340 00
Miss Abbie L. Loud .
Mt. Pleasant
Up. 1
54
April 6, 1875
340 00
Mrs. Abbie A. (Burrell) Shaw
Pleasant St.
Up. Mid. & Up. “
53
Aug.
28, 1876
340 00
Miss Louie Briggs
Adams
L. & L. & M. Pri. «
31
28,1876
300 00
Mrs. Maria A. Morrell .
47
Sept.
1,1860
340 00
Miss Maria Torrey
40
Aug.
28,1876
340 00
Miss Sarah E. Spilstead
46
Jan. 4,1875
340 00
Miss Emily V. White
Randolph St.
3 & Pri. 3 “
27
28,1876
340 00
Miss Clarabelle Pratt
River St.
Mid. & 3 Pri. «
30
36
Dec. 16, 1872
340 00
Miss Ellena S. Spilstead .
Washing'n St." L. & M. & 3 Pri. " 62
38
25,1873 5,1875
380 00
43
Aug.
31,1872
380 00
Mr. Lucius Brown, Prin.
62
28,1876
950 00
Miss M. J. Hawes, Ass't .
Miss S. L. Vining
Main St.
3
32
Nov. 20, 1871
450 00
Miss Carrie A. Blanchard .
42
Jan. 10, 1876 March 1, 1875 April 6, 1870
380 00 950 00
Mr. Louis A. Cook, Prin.
Torrey St.
66 Up., Mid. & Up. “
58 Aug. 3,1872 28,1876
340 00
Miss Eliza French .
Adams
" L.&M.& M. Int. 3 "
28
63
April 11, 1866 Aug. 25, 1873 950 00 April 6, 1874 170 00 450 00
(Half time.)
North High
4 .
65
Aug. 31, 1868 1250 00
South High
60
4
· 65
31, 1874 1250 00
Jan. 10,1876
450 00
3
47
Aug. 31, 1872 Dec. 6,1875
340 00
Mrs. Flora A. Tilden
Tremont St.
Mid. 1
·
Mixed.
Mrs. Emma J. Smith
Union St.
66 L. & M. & 3 Pri. "
Aug. 29, 1875 340 00
Athens
Gram.
3
950 00
Central St.
Low. 1
41
Jan.
28,1876
340 00
Mt. Pleasant 66
66
Mid. 1
36
Mr. J. W. Armington
-
Up. 1
38
950 00
Miss Mary F. Logue, Ass't .
Mr. Geo. C. Torrey, Prin. Miss Lizzie Dyer, Ass't .
Mix'd . .
Pratt
- 3 & Int. Up.
.
Mrs. Geo. W. Shaw, Prin. . . Miss Sarah B. Goodwin, Ass't Mr. Geo. B. Vose, Prin. . . . Miss Alice R. Rogers, Ass't. .
Pleasant St.
3
66
68
31, 1872
300 00
Miss Mariana Holbrook
School St.
Central St.
L. & Pri. Up. “
Pond St.
3, & Pri. 3 "
Pratt
L. & M. & 3 Pri. “ =
Aug. .6 28,1876
340 00
Miss Lizzie C. Whitman
Miss Ellen G. Parrott
Commerc'l St. "
Low. 1
Up., Mid. & Up. "
Low. 1
66
380 00
Miss Nettie W. Knights .
28,1876
500 00
Mr. Edward N. Dyer
340 00
49
66
90
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
Population of town, according to census of 1875
9,819
Number of children in town between five and fifteen
years of age . 1,981 .
Number of pupils of all ages in the public schools
2,005
Average daily attendance
.
1,665
Per cent of daily attendance
83
Number of scholars in Primary Schools
551
Average daily attendance
405
Per cent of daily attendance
74
Number of scholars in Intermediate Schools
844
Average daily attendance
701
Per cent of daily attendance
84
Number of scholars in Grammar Schools
480
Average daily attendance .
436
Per cent of daily attendance
91
Number of scholars in High Schools
130
Average daily attendance
123
Per cent of daily attendance
95
Respectfully submitted.
F. B. GAMWELL,
Superintendent of Schools.
SOUTH WEYMOUTH, Jan. 31, 1877,
.
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