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9. Alida Phillips Sherman.
9. John Francis Flannery.
11. Alice Watestill Totman.
14. Ruth Gifford Shaw.
14. Basal Thomas Cullen.
15. Emma Jane Tracy.
15. John Patrick Badger.
16. Harry White Richmond.
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Date of Birth. June.
16. Henry Lawrence Sylves- ter.
17. Mary Emma Eddy.
19. Dora Frances Burrell.
19. William Francis Kennedy.
20. Ellen Elizabeth Noonan.
22. Oliver Goldsmith Tink- ham.
22. Wm. Patr'k Kennedy. -
22. John Francis Kennedy.
Twins.
25. George Walter Walch.
27. John Miriam Goodwin.
29. Lena May Bosworth. July.
1. Thomas Shillean.
1. George Francis Manison.
3. Joseph Oscar Guillardet.
7. Harold Leighton Tibbets.
8. Elizabeth Whelan.
8. Annie Estelle Powers.
8. Michael Joseph Moran.
11. Lizzie Louise Allen.
11 Edward William Barnes.
13. Female child of Daniel and Charlotte H. Brown.
15. Male child of William H. and Helen Tucker.
19. Daniel Nolan.
24. John Edward McCarthy.
24 Male child of John and Adelia A. Barnes.
26. Fannie May Raymond.
27 Lawrence Noonan.
28. Catherine Jeannette
Hawes.
29. Charles Conathan.
30. Lydia May Chessman. August.
2. John Patrick Halloran.
Date of Birth. August.
3. Joseph Herbert Cullen.
4. Catherine Collins.
5. Charles Frederick Crock- ett.
6. Jennie Wilson Loring.
7. Maggie Mabel Perry.
9. Margaret Uphmey Mc- Isaac.
9. George Henry McGrath.
10. Mary Emma Kelley.
13. Jennie Clayton Nickerson.
14. Jennie May Burrell.
15. Ella Mabel Tower.
15. Wilber G. Quincy.
16. Mabel Arvilla Harden. .
17. William Francis Bentley.
17. Michael Joseph Yourell.
21. James Barrett.
23. Thomas Joseph Lyons.
25. Elizabeth Jane Gorman.
25. Harry Lincoln Hilton.
25. Mary Elizabeth Rielley.
26. Walter Standish Loud.
26. Patrick Jos. Lynch.
26. Mathew Edw. Lynch.
27. Charles Francis Lamer.
28. Ethel Alice Binney.
30. Ellen Lorretta Reid.
31. Jeremiah Flynn. September.
7. Female child of John and Susan Hall.
7. Andrew Cushing.
7. Alice Gertrude Randall.
8. Michael J. Kelly.
11. Irving Lawrence Shaw.
11. Hattie Louise Tilden.
12. John Sheehan.
13. James Francis Yourell.
Twins.
73
Date of Birth. September.
17. Grace Aylmer Blanchard.
18. Leonard Howell Torrey.
- Frank Herbert Appleton.
19 Edward Murphy.
21. William Francis Lynch.
22. Simeon White Pool.
23 Hannah Donahoe.
24. Annie Alida Garey.
24. George Herbert Gurney.
26. Male child of Michael and Bridget Shields.
28 Ada Lizzie Townsend.
29. Harvey Emerson Raymond
29. Irving Wallace Shaw.
30. Ethel Louise Tirrell. October.
1. Emily Frances Sweeney.
1. Harold Binney Nash.
8. Amelia Francis Jennett.
10. Paul Francis Purcell.
12. Mabel Frances Bailey.
12 Ellen O'Conner.
13 Ralph Waldo Randall.
13. Catherine Hannifan.
13. Marg't Elizabeth Yourell.
18. Mary Elizabeth Cullen.
19. Walter Winthrop Cushing.
20. William Mullen.
21. Annie Elizabeth Sullivan. 17. Alice Ellen Rowell.
22 Norman Aug't's Chandler.
22. John James McMarrow.
25. Chester Wild Hayden.
29. Helen Augusta Loud. November.
1. Owen Mitchell.
2. Lester Phillips Our.
3. Hattie Belle Perry.
4. Male child of Alfred and Mary A. Peterson.
Date of Birth. November.
5. Ellen Cullen. 13. Charles Henry Martin.
16. Ellen May O'Connell,
17. Rena Franklin Tirrell.
18. Male child of Alonzo W. and Miriam J. Blan- chard.
21. John Connell.
22. Daisy Maria Blanchard.
23. Charles Frederick Goolie.
23. Bertha Louise Sutton.
24. Mary Fransana Blanchard.
26. Arthur Nichols Marden.
27. James McCarthy.
28. Warren Barker Miles.
30. Harry Chandos Poe.
December.
1. Elizabeth V. Leduc.
1. Lizzie May Raymond.
1. John Lewis Deslauriers.
3. Patrick Coffey.
8. Male child of Gorham S. and Anna Finney.
9. Agus Francis Campbell.
11. Bridget Cook.
14. John Bernard Garrity.
14 Female child of William A. and Cora J. Ruggles.
21. Michael Whelan.
22. Male child of Frank M .; and Clara N. House.
23. Male child of William and Mary Furlong.
27. Emma Milton Pratt.
29. Male child of Edward W. and Lydia A. Sargent.
29.
Male child of Mathew and Ellen Marrow.
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DEATHS. Recorded in the Town Clerk's Office for the year 1879.
[The names enelosed in parentheses indicate the maiden names.]
Age.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos. Days.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
1879.
Jan.
1 Orinda Ballou (Cook) Nickols ·
55|11|16 Cancer
N.Hampshire
Ellen Mehitable (Brown) Reed . 4
35
4 17 Typhoid Fever, with Conges- tion of Lungs
¥
8
Mary (Landen) Fraher 31
6 11 Pneumonia
8
ydia (Pierce) Robinson
90
3 15 Old Age
Marblehead.
Luey Lane Whiting .
85 8 23 Heart Disease
E. Abington.
1:
Washington Madan
69
4 1 Consumption
Randolph.
17 Henry Bailey .
77 5 15 Apoplexy .
Hanover.
66
6 11 Marasmus
Weymouth.
16
5 14 Pur. Convulsion. 8 22 Old Age, Debility
81
86
8 5 Fracture of Femur
.
13| Atelectasis Pulmonum
"
.
66
26| Ellen (Casey) Riley
28
5
Phthisis Pulmonaris ·
Feb. 5 |Mary (MeGill) Moran .
38
4
Phthisis
66
6 Herbert Spencer Crowe
.
66
16 Honora (Casey) Cronin
6
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
16 Edwin Northey .
30 50
5 12 Caneer of Stomach and Liver 2 15 Capillary Bronchitis
66 22 | Annie Maria (Bennett) Jones
53 26 Tumor
.
66 23 Olive V. (Raymond) Raymond
.
Consumption
7 11 Typhoid Pneumonia
Weymouth. N.Hampshire. Weymouth.
Mar.
4 William Flynn
10
25 Bronchitis
3
.
Capillary Bronchitis
66
7 Jarius Sprague
72
Hemorrhage
7 Catherine Harrington
2
1 18 Congestion of Lungs Consumption
.
15 Phthisis Pulmonaris
Hanover.
=
9 Mary Ann (Neweomb) White
64
5
6 Consumption .
Braintree.
66
10 Sally H. (Hawes) Pratt
82
3 10 Congestion of Lungs 4 11 19 Inflammation of Stomach and Liver
18 10
5 Tuberculosis
= 14 Seth Cushing Lane
40
5 14 Chronic Nephritic Abscess
.
·
.
.
1 Phthisis Pulmonalis
.
68
5
19 Hannah ( Binney ) Totman
93
6
5 Old Age .
19 Irving Battle Derby
19 7|10 | Peritonitis
66 23 George MeIntosh
2
13 Searlet Fever
66 24 Jeremialı Toomey .
5 5
5 l'umor on Brain
66 25 Mary Waters leakes
5
·
66
25 Catlierine Sullivan
1 5 25
Meningitis
April 3 Ebenezer Joy . 75 77
9
Congestion of Lungs
Weymouth. 16
66 10 John Nash
28
. Tuberculosis
12 Isaac Reed
83
9
20 Purpura
66 14 Almina (Raymond ) Hawes
5
Cancer
15 John F. Callahan
6
4
Phthisis
Randolph. Middleboro'. Weymouth.
80
·
. Pneumonia
Ireland.
Weymouth. Ireland. Scituate. Weymouth. Fall River. Middleboro'.
67 16
69
5 5 Chorea
28 Francis W. Richards
46 2 19 Cancer
· 1
. ..
Marshfield. Weymouth.
8 John Bates .
68 61
8 Lueinda (Thompson} Dunbar
11
15 Female child of John and Mary McCue 15| Mary (McGrath) MeCue 16 Lovell Bates
31 59 38
Phthisis .
14 Typhoid Pneumonia
Ireland. Weymouth. Canada. Weymouth.
14
Diabetes
Ireland. Weymouth.
5 Harriet ( Burrell) Shaw
.
15 Phthisis .
Weymouth. 06
11 Susan Thomas
Stillborn Childbirth Shock
16 Alexander White
16 Luey (Vining) Reed
21 Convulsions
21 Willie Linwood Hewett
·
17 Rosalie Elizabeth Goulais 18 Cora Maria (Bates) Crowe 18 Susan Waldo (Cushing) French 19 Mary Whitmarsh 23 Catherine Daley
25 Thomas MeCue
25 Daniel J. Griffin 27 Stephen S. Foye
6 Robert E. Hart
11 Bessie Evelyn Hollis
55 2
Abington. Ireland.
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Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
April 16 Asa Fairbanks Trufant - 16 George Washington White
53 82 31
4
4 Cancer
16
16 Walter Bela Raymond 17 Annah Leighton (Godfrey) San-
born
55
11
66 18 Michael Ahearn
38
.
. Drowning .
Jh Infantile Debility
19 Chauncy Howe
65 35
·
.
3 25 6 5 Softening of Brain Tuberculosis Meningitis
Marblehead. Holbrook. Weymouth.
May ..
1 Elvira Bisbee (Pratt) Hunt 1 Javius Beals Lincoln
68 64
1
8
4 Cancer Cancer of the Neck of the Bladder .
Heart Disease ·
·
66
3 Michael Gilligan 4 Mary E. (Clarey) Griffin
13 Hannah Barrey . 13 Betsey (Bates) Cushing 83 7 21 Paralysis
Weymouth.
22 Consumption
Virginia.
22 Leonard Kimb ill Powers 47 3 Typhoid Fever .
29 Sarah (Thayer) Emmons 92 1
Braintree.
June 3 Thomas F. White . 6 Alida Annie Orcutt
61 11
2 Cancer
Quincy.
6 11 Consumption
1 Debility
Weymouthi. Bridgewater. Weymouth.
66 13 Cornelius Pratt . . 80 3 11 Apoplexy
16 Sally (Collier) Wise 87 8 14 Old Age .
7
9
3 Pneumonia Scrofula
Acute Phthisis Pulmonalis .
2
7 Pulmonary Tuberculosis
2
.
Convulsions .
1 16 Peritonitis
Boston.
July -
2 Clara Day Thomas 21
4 Fremont Sumner Reed 22 11 18 Consumption
7 Mary F. MeCarthy 17
·
8 Cerebro Spinal Meningitis
66
4
1 Erysipelas
. Consumption
New York.
6
2 Cholera Infantum
Weymouth.
9 13 Dysentery and Teething
6 5 Cholera Infantum
2 2
5 28 7 Daniel Hasson 70 4 11 Dropsy . 9 Samuel Cook 13 Edith Ad laide Rowland 1 3 Cholera Infantum .
Braintree. Weymouth. Ireland.
66 13 William Condrick . 52 6 . Accident
15 Edward K. Chipman 54 9|20 Apoplexy .
66 17 Emma Florence Thayer 16 6 14 Consumption
19 Jennie Wilson Loring
4 13 Cholera Morbus
12 10 9 Cerebral Meningitis
17
58 .
22 Ada May Farnsworth . 1
3 12 Consumption and
Cholera
Infantum
Weymouth. .6
23| Alfred L. Cook
23 Ellen Coleran
3
6 5
= 25 James Barr tt .
26 Elizabeth Jane Gorman
1
Peritonitis .
Ireland.
.
6 2 Cirrhosis of Liver Phthisis .
Weymouth. Sharon. Ireland.
24 Hannah Abonn (Wilkins) Mont- calm
78 36
=
27 Jarius Loren White
30 Charles F. Lane .
11
5
Diarrhea
8
5 Maria Louisa (Stockwell) Stearns 50 7/18 Heart Disease 7 George Henry Bowles . 31 . 5 12 Chronic Hepatitis Pleuritis
13 Johannah (Leddy ) Kennedy 61
Ireland. Randolph.
1 8 Marasmus
Ireland. 66 Weymouth. Boston. Dorchester.
34 4 4 Phthisis .
82 3|19 Apoplexy .
4 William Humphrey . .
17 Arthur A. Godwin 26 7
13 Mary Carroll Enwright
70
20 Annic E. Sullivan . 26 Harmony C. (Bates) Gardner 26 Rebecca (Gray) Dunbar .
57|10|16 81
.
66
27 Michael Joseph Donovan 15
29 Henry Merton Spear
30 Margaret T. Walsh 22
14 Emily Yourell 5
22 Thomas J. Kelly 25 5
Aug. 66
2 John Thomas Cunneen 5 Johannah Hennessey
5 William James Cunneen
66 5 James Hagerty
Hingham.
Weymouth.
19 Verrena Elizabeth Turner
19 John F. Viger . 19 Bridget (Whelan) Ward
. 16 Internal Rupture Chronic Bronchitis
Warcham. Weymouth. Ireland.
6 23 Cholera Infantum 5 Whooping Cough
3 Dropsy Infantile Debility 4 =
"
26 Garret Mead
53 .
1 22 Paralysis
Weymouth.
7|23 Consumption General Debility, Rheumatism 2 and Heart Disease
Steuben, Me. Ireland.
19 Female child of William and Mary Tobin
20 Patrick McCann.
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. . Old Age
Groton, N. H.
No. Scituate. Weymouth. 6 Hanover. Weymouth. =
2 18 Phthisis Abdominalis
Weymouth.
23 Elizabeth Ann Healy
Age.
76
Age.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
Aug. 26 William Francis Kennedy
2
7
Cholera Infantum
27 Ida May Farnsworth .
29 Margaret (Dillon) Burke
73
14
10
· Bright's Disease
66
11 William Charles Long
17
4 19 Endo Carditis .
66
15 Perez Loud . .. 16 Catherine Francis Sweeney
4
3
2 Dysentery
81 8 Old Age .
9 1 Convulsions .
5 1 23 Tubercular Meningitis
28 8
4 Paralysis of Heart .
30 John H. Coleran
20
9
2 Typhoid Fever
2 10
· Scarlet Fever
6 Cerebral Meningitis
66
2|Bridget (Curley) McCue 9 Lena May Bosworth
75
·
Apoplexy .
4 Congestion of Bra
10 Louisa Maria Tirrell
30 6 28
Consumption
6 1
Pertussis Hæmiplegiae
Braintree. Weymouth.
13 2 14 Meningitis
4|18 Paralysis of Brain
82 8 19 Brain Disease .
56 9 25 Cancer of the Liver
6 Inflammation of Spine
66
5 9 29 Mary Ellen Orcutt 13 Spasmodic Croup .
64 ·
. Paroplegiae
Ireland. Weymouth.
6 Pneumonia 1 8 12 Apoplexy .
35 8 Phthisis
1 19 Cholera Morbus
35 2 22 Typhoid Fever
62
8 . Chronic Cystitis.
36 7 10 Bronchial Consumption
Hanson. Ireland.
Dec. 3 Albert Ford .
72 5 21 Cardiac Dropsy
53
2|26 Heart Disease
66
5 Joseph H. Culley
4
2 Congestion of the Brain
8 Elizabeth W. Leduc
8 Inanition
·
7|Pneumonia
· Phthi-is .
17 Harriet (Gouley) Leduc
77 37 15
66 27 Stephen Frederick Godwin
30 James Cullen
62 10 . Lipoma
78
3 15 Phlebitis
Weymouth. :
66
66 21 Bridget McGrath Flyun . 22 Charles Henry Gerald . 24 Neoma Seldon
Ireland. Quincy. Weymouth. 66
Treland. Weymouth.
11 Eliza Parker Custance 12 Silas Canterbury
76 6 18
13 Calvin Lincoln Packard 16 Robert Bates Raymond 19 Thais Trufant Burrell . 22 Lucy Loud
58
22 Sally B. (Thompson) Hollis 64 10 26 Alice Gray (Smith) Binney 19/11 20 Pulmonary Phthisis
Halifax. Fall River. Weymouth.
Nov. 1 Elizabeth (Healy) Welch 4 Irving Wallace Shaw 4 Henrietta Isadore (Tirrell) Derby 4 Maria Brady Keeffe 9 Simeon White Poole
21 Mary ( Welsh) Coakley 60
. Asthmatic Consumption
Weymouth. Dorchester. Weymouth.
9 Hannah (Humphrey) Waterman 14 Isaac Linfield .
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9 3 26 Empyena . 7 Congestion of Lungs .
Stoughton. Canada. Boston. Ireland.
31 William Phillips
. 1 81
3|17 3. 7 Enteritis
7 25 Entero Colitis . 3 11 Cholera Morbus
Sept. 5|Cynthia (Shaw) Reed . 6 Freddie Field Cowing . 7 Louis Smith Beck
87
. Entero Colitis
Weymouth. Ireland.
Weymouth. N.Brunswick. Weymouth.
Oct. 1 Nellie May Duval . 1 Susan Torrey Merritt
53 3
44
Ireland. Weymouth.
13 John Webster Burrell . 14 James Thomas
17 Mary Jane (Hewitt) Kennisor
4 Susan Frances (Loud) Loud
27 Willman Eustes Vining
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NUMBER OF BIRTHS FOR THE YEAR 1879.
Males .
129
Females
99
228
NUMBER OF DEATHS.
Males
75
Females
. 87
162
Excess of births over deaths .
66
Number of marriages registered where one or both
83 parties reside in Weymouth
Non-residents
11
94
Marriages of several parties, residents of this town, have not been returned to this office, which accounts for any omission in the record.
Very respectfully, JOHN A. RAYMOND, Town Clerk.
WEYMOUTH, January, 1880.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH
For the Year 1879.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
THE School Committee of Weymouth respectfully submit to the town their Annual Report as follows : -
At the beginning of the present school year your committee were compelled, by the action of the town at its last March meeting, to consider whether the educational interests of the town would suffer less injury from a shortening of the term of school sessions, than from such reduction of the salaries of teachers, - say twelve per cent or more, as would bring the expense for the usual length of the term of teaching within the limit indicated by the vote of the town.
After careful inquiry and mature consideration, the committee agreed in the opinion that a reduction of the salaries of our female teachers to the extent suggested, or to any appreciable extent, would probably lead to the resignation of some of those whom it was most desirable to retain, and that the vacancies thus caused would be filled only from the class of inexperienced or that of un- successful teachers. But deeming the salaries paid to our male teachers of grammar-schools larger, relatively to those paid by other towns, than those of our female teachers, and believing that some reduction in salaries was expected by the town, the committee decided to discount from the monthly payments of male principals an average of five per cent, remembering that the amount of their yearly receipts would be yet more largely dimin- ished by the shortening of the term for which the schools are to be taught.
The rate of salaries established for the current year will exhaust the appropriation for that object in thirty-six weeks of school ses- sion, and teachers have been engaged with notice that thirty-six weeks will be the limit of school term unless the town shall at its annual meeting vote the additional sum required for an extension of the term of teaching to thirty-eight weeks. The summer and Christmas vacation having each been lengthened one week, the term, if thus extended, will end as heretofore on the last week in June.
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Your committee unanimously recommend such additional appro- priation as will permit the extension suggested. The whole num- ber of teachers now employed in our schools is fifty-two, and their present salaries amount to $2,221 per month. This number must probably be increased during the next year by two at least, and if the business interests of the town continue to be prosperous and attract new residents, a larger increase may be required ; so that not less than $23,000 will be needed for the payment of teachers' sal- aries at their present rates, if the schools shall be taught as hereto- fore, during ten months. The committee will not believe that the town desires to reduce teachers' salaries below the present rates, or the length of school session below the wellnigh uniform standard of towns of like size and resources with our own. The changes in teachers and schools during the past year have been as follows : -
In Ward 1, no change in schools has occurred except the trans- fer of the lower Primary class from the small recitation-room in the Athens house to a leased room on Bridge Street, which has been fitted for temporary occupancy. In Ward 2 the increase of pupils required an additional school of Intermediate grade, and the School-street house has been repaired and used for this purpose.
In Ward 3, the second Intermediate grade, by reason of a condi- tion of chronic insubordination, existing through several years and under many teachers, had become so over-crowded by the failure of its pupils to earn promotion, that a division of it became an imperative necessity, and the lower recitation-room in the Tremont- street house has been fitted up with new desks for the use of the second division of this grade.
In Ward 4, agreeably to a vote of the town, the anteroom in the Town House, formerly occupied by the Centre Mixed School, has been enlarged and refitted, and that school re-established in this room, which is now comfortable and convenient.
In Ward 5, no change has been made in schools or rooms.
During the year nine teachers have terminated their connection with our schools, viz. : Miss Alice R. Rogers, assistant in South High School ; Miss Fannie C. Foye, assistant in the Athens Pri- mary ; Mr. Tilson A. Mead, of the Franklin Grammar; Misses Mary B. Tirrell and Carrie F. Spear, of the Tremont-street Inter- mediate ; Misses Carrie A. Blanchard and Nellie F. Pingree, of the Mount Pleasant Second Grammar ; Miss Helen H. Blanchard, of the Perkins Lower Primary ; Miss Mary E. Reilly, of the Centre Mixed.
One transfer has been made, viz. : Miss Antoinette W. Knights
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from the Mount Pleasant Second Grammar to the Tremont-street Second Intermediate ; and ten new appointments have been made, viz. : Miss Hattie C. Torrey, assistant in South High School ; Miss Emma F. Thayer, to the Bridge-street Primary ; Mr. Edgar E. Thompson, to the Franklin Grammar; Mr. Fred E. Loud, to the School-street Second Intermediate; Miss Cora L. D'Arcy, to the second division of the Tremont-street Intermediate ; Miss Emma Hood, to the Mount Pleasant Second Grammar; Miss Nellie F. Pingree, to the Mount Pleasant Lower Grammar ; Miss Carrie F. Spear, to the Tremont-street Second Intermediate ; Miss S. Lizzie Hunt, to the Perkins Lower Primary ; Miss Mary J. Moore, to the Centre Mixed.
CONDITION OF SCHOOLS.
The committee are gratified that they are able to report that the teachers of Weymouth, as a class, are progressive, scholarly, and faithful, and that the larger portion of them are devoting their entire time and energy to the work of teaching. If some fail to secure the results desired, this failure may in some cases be due to the overtaxing of their strength, either in their schoolrooms or in their homes. Many of our schools are too large, requiring more labor than it is possible for one person to perform in a satisfactory manner. Added to this is the fact, that a considerable number of our teachers, and, especially those in the lower grades, feel compelled to eke out their meagre salaries by devoting to home duties the time which is urgently demanded for preparation for school work. By reason of the smallness of salaries in these grades, the commit- tee are compelled occasionally to employ young and inexperienced teachers in positions unsuited to them, and this necessity would frequently occur, were it not for the fact that the majority of our teachers are able to reduce the expense of board by living at their homes or with their friends.
We ought, however, in this connection, to speak of the earnest- ness of our young teachers as well as those who have been employed a longer time, and especially of two or three, who have entered upon the work during the year with gratifying success.
Our Grammar Schools have been in charge of able and efficient teachers throughout the year, and the thoroughness of their work and the enthusiasm which they have invariably manifested are worthy of much commendation. We believe our Grammar Schools will compare very favorably with those in the surrounding towns. We
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cannot speak in so high terms of all our Intermediate Schools, although many of them are models of excellence both in respect to discipline and teaching, yet as was reported last year, there is a greater difference in the attainments in this grade than in either of the others. Many of the classes are too large, making them exceedingly difficult to control and interest. The attendance is not as good, especially in the upper grade, as it should be, because many of the children are old enough to work and are detained from school whenever any employment for them can be found, thus prolonging their stay in this grade beyond the allotted time. Another very important reason is, the not infrequent change of teachers in these grades, because teachers competent to fill these important positions are soon drawn to other places where they receive more ample compensation for their services.
The good work begun in our Primaries recently has been contin- ued by the teachers with much enthusiasm and interest. All the branches taught in these grades have received careful attention, and to those unacquainted with their every-day work, the results are surprising. The expression of thought, especially, has had a prominent place in the primary work, and our little children are learning to communicate their ideas and describe objects in a man- ner which many an older person would be unable to do. While great improvement and advance has been made upon old methods, there is much before us, and we anticipate still greater progress by our live teachers. A very few of our Primary teachers lack a cer- tain originality and aptness to teach, and consequently fail of the best results.
A training school for teachers is much needed in our town, but owing to our large territory, and the villages being at quite a dis- tance from each other, this seems almost impossible. Quite a num- ber of young ladies have been devoting considerable time during the past winter in observing the methods pursued by our best teachers, and assisting in school work when desirable, thus doing what they can to fit themselves for successful teachers.
Teachers' meetings, which have at times been conducted with suc- cess in our town, seem to have been discontinued for some reason, but it is hoped that before this report shall have been submitted to the public, that they will again be established. The advantage of these meetings is too obvious to call for discussion in these pages.
At the beginning of the present school year a meeting of the committee and the Grammar School teachers was held for the
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discussion and rearrangement of our course of study for that department.
After a very earnest and careful consideration of the apportion- ment for each grade, a subcommittee, consisting of Mr. Arming- ton for the first grade, Miss S. L. Vining for the second, and Mr. J. J. Prentis : for the third, with the Chairman and Secretary of this board, were appointed to revise the course of study for the ensuing year, which revision is hereby appended.
ARITHMETIC.
FIRST GRAMMAR.
Omit Div. of Numbers and Table of Prime Numbers.
Omit Duodecimals.
Omit Sections 241 to 244.
Omit Connecticut Rule for Partial Payments.
Omit Present Worth and Discount.
Teach Commercial and Bank Discount.
Omit Average of Accounts.
Omit Foreign Exchange.
Omit Ratio and Proportion.
Omit Cube Root.
Take Mensuration to Article 455, omitting the seventh example and all after thirteenth as far as Art. 468 ; also omit Art. 455, 456, 457, 458, 461, 464, 465, and 466.
ARITHMETIC. SECOND GRAMMAR.
Omit Divisibility of Numbers.
Omit from Article 100 to 106.
Omit pages 120, 121, and 122.
Omit pages 130 and 131.
Omit Longitude and Time.
Omit Sections 244, 245, 247, 265, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280.
Omit Present Worth and Discount.
Teach Commercial Discount.
Take to page 215.
ARITHMETIC.
THIRD GRAMMAR
Omit Divisibility of Numbers and Tables of Prime and Composite Numbers, from Section 93 to Section 100.
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Omit pages 134, 135, and 136.
Omit pages 93 to 97 inclusive.
Omit pages 120, 121, 122, 130, 131, 134, and 135.
Omit pages 140 to 149 inclusive.
Omit from Section 241 to 246 ; also 247. Take to page 183, Section 265.
For Compound Numbers, use tables as found in the Franklin Arithmetic and examples to correspond.
LANGUAGE.
THIRD GRAMMAR.
Oral and written exercises in the use of language as the expres- sion of thought. A review of work in Upper Intermediate grade. Grammar begun. The parts of speech. Analysis of simple sen- tences. To Sect. III .. page 60.
SECOND GRAMMAR.
Exercises in writing continued. Business Letters. Grammar. The subdivisions of the parts of speech. The inflections of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. The rules of syntax illustrated by familiar examples.
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