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313.282
Thomas, C. S. Teaching of English in the secondary school. .
111.80
Thomas, L. J. With Lawrence in Arabia.
635.67
Thompson, & others. The yacht "America."
317.125
Tietjens. Japan, Korea and Formosa. j
235.152
Tomlinson. Sea and the jungle.
230.203
Tide marks.
235.150
Wallis & Gates. Parties for occasions
723.371
Weber & Fields. Isman. Weber & Fields.
B.W385i
Wellman. Gentlemen of the jury.
311.215
Wendell. Barrett Wendell and his letters. B.W483
Wharton. Lovett. Edith Wharton.
B.W557L
Wheeler. Social life among the insects.
733.177
Wilbur. Egypt and the' Suez canal. j 234.84
Wilkinson. Way of the makers.
825.130
Wilson. America's greatest garden, the Arnold Arboretum. 726.370
Young. Werner. Brigham Young.
B.Y85w
Also 2 replacements & 12 duplicates.
Francis Flint Forsyth Fund
Abbott. . Laughling last.
j A1321.2 and Penny. Polly, put the kettle on. j
A1321.20
Polly, put the kettle on. j A1321.20 j 716.179
Barbour, H. B. Old English tales retold.
Smith. North America.
823.104
Stevenson, B. E., ed. Home book of modern verse. Poems of American history. 824.94 B.S848c B.S8612
Sullivan. How to work your way through college.
156
Barbour, R. H. Barry Locke, half-back.
j B2314.51
Hold 'em Wyndham.
j B2314.52
Bill.
Clutch of the Corsican.
j B494.1
Brown. At the butterfly house. Four Gordons. Spanish chest.
j B8152.12
j B8152.13
Carter. Patriot lad of old Salem.
j C245.2
Cobb. Clematis.
j C633.2
Curtis. Bok. Boy who followed Ben Franklin.
j B.C9423b2 j 317.190
Green. Fought for Annapolis.
j .G824.1
Greene. Greylight.
j G8325.1
Hawthorne. Makeshift Farm.
j H316.3
Humphrey. Stories of the world's holidays.
j 135.126
Lefevre. The cock, the mouse and the little red hen.
j L525.1
Marshall. Redcoat and minuteman.
j M3552.1
Nordhoff. Pearl lagoon.
j N754.3
Ollivant. Boxer and Beauty.
. 0482.5
Parrish. Dream coach.
j P247.2
Pulsford. Old brig's cargo.
j P964.1
Rolt-Wheeler. Hunters of ocean depths.
j: R6554.28
Silvers. Hillsdale high champions.
j S586.3
Snedeker. Theras and his town.
j S671.2
Stockwell. Mysterious little girl.
j S8661.1
Stringer. Lonely O'Malley.
j S9181.3
Thompson, ed. Silver pennies. [Poems]
j · 825.125
Tomlinson. Scouting on Lake Champlain.
j T595.59
APPENDIX C-PERIODICALS
Academy of political science. Proceedings.
¿Alpha aids.
+Christian leader.
American boy.
Christian register ..
American city.
+Christian science journal.
American cookery.
*Christian science monitor.
American girl. American historical review.
+Christian science sentinel. +Church militant.
Collier's weekly.
+Common ground.
#Congregationalist.
Country gentleman. Country life.
American machinist.
Cumulative book index.
American magazine.
Current events.
Current history magazine.
Delineator.
Education.
Educational review. Electrical world. Elementary school journal.
Engineering news-record.
Etude. Everybody's magazine. +Everygirl's. Forest and stream. Forum.
Bulletin of bibliography. Catholic world.
Century. Child life.
¡American issue.
American journal of nursing. American library association. Booklist. Bulletin.
American poultry advocate. Annals of the American acad- emy of political and social science.
Asia.
Atlantic monthly. Bird lore. Book review digest. Bookman. Boston evening transcript.
j B8152.14
Field. Field fourth reader.
157
1 1
Garden & home builder. Golden book
Good housekeeping. Harper's bazar. Harper's magazine. +Horticulture. House and garden. House beautiful.
*Our dumb animals. Outlook.
Photo-era. Pictorial review.
Playground.
Poetry.
Political science quarterly.
Popular mechanics.
Popular science monthly.
Primary education.
Inland printer. International studio.
Journal of education.
Journal of the national educa- tion association.
Ladies' home journal.
Libraries.
Library journal.
Literary digest.
Reference shelf.
Little folks.
Review of reviews, (American)
Living Age
+Rotarian.
St. Nicholas.
McCall's magazine.
Marine engineering and Ship- ping age.
+Massachusetts health journal. Mechanical engineering.
Mentor.
Missionary review of the world.
Modern Priscilla.
Munsey's magazine.
¿Museum of fine arts bulletin, Boston, Mass.
Musician. Nation.
National geographic magazine.
+National humane review.
+National republican.
Nature magazine.
+New Near East.
World's work.
Youth's companion.
EAST WEYMOUTH BRANCH
American boy. American junior Red cross news.
American magazine.
Atlantic monthly. +Child life.
Country gentleman:
Delineator. Etude. Garden & home builder. Good housekeeping.
National geographic magazine.
Nature magazine. Pictorial review.
Popular mechanics.
+Red cross courier.
Review of reviews.
St. Nicholas
Saturday evening post.
Sc 'ific American. Scribner's magazine. ¡Silver cross.
Illustrated London news. Independent. Industrial education.
Industrial management.
¡Protectionist.
Publisher's weekly. Radio broadcast.
Radio news.
+Raja Yoga messenger.
Reader's guide to periodical literature.
+Lubrication.
Saturday evening post.
¡School.
School and society.
School arts magazine.
Scientific American.
Scientific monthly.
Scribner's magazine.
Sunset.
Survey.
¿Theosophical path. Travel.
U. S. air services.
+Weymouth Baptist. Weymouth gazette and tran- script.
*Weymouth item.
Woman's home companion.
New republic.
Nineteenth century and after.
North American review. Open road.
¡Red cross courier.
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Literary digest. Mentor. Munsey's magazine.
Travel. Youth's companion.
NORTH WEYMOUTH BRANCH
American boy.
Harper's magazine.
¡American junior Red cross news.
Munsey's magazine.
American magazine.
National geographic magazine.
Atlantic monthly.
Popular mechanics.
Century.
Radio news.
+Christian leader.
¡Red cross courier.
+Christian science monitor.
+Rotarian.
Country gentleman.
St. Nicholas.
Delineator.
Saturday evening post.
Everybody's magazine.
Woman's home companion.
Garden & home builder.
Youth's companion. ¡Gift.
THE FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1925.
Salaries and wages:
Librarian and assistants
$3,083.34 800.00
$3,893.34
Books, Periodicals, etc .:
De Wolfe & Fiske Co.
2,526.94
Herman Goldberger Miscellaneous
289.91
3,104.24
Binding books:
700.86
Fuel
601.36
Light
242.61
Maintenance of Building:
N. E. Painting and Roofing Co.
760.30
Rhines Lumber Co.
120.77
G. W. Stone & Co.
120.63
Weymouth Electric Shop
83.27
J. E. Remick
77.01
Harry C. Glover
51.35
Miscellaneous
120.68
1,334.01
Other expenses:
L. C. Smith Bros.
112.00
Pray & Kelley
97.75
Gazette & Transcript Pub. Co.
76.85
Gaylord Bros.
47.41
Library Bureau
39.34
Telephone
28.01
H. B. McArdle
20.10
Sundries, supplies, etc.
130.05
551.51
Janitor
287.39
Good housekeeping.
Literary digest.
159
Transportation and delivery of books: Insurance
358.00 19.09
North Weymouth Branch:
Librarian
512.00
Janitor
40.08
Rent
477.48
Periodicals, etc.
194.67
Maintenance
95.38
Light
24.90
Sundries
65.29
1,409.80
East Weymouth Branch:
Librarian
500.00
Rent
780.00
Periodicals, etc.
160.61
Maintenance
42.70
Equipment
64.03
Light
52.36
Sundries
95.00
1,694.70
Fogg Library Reading Room:
Paid Trustees for portion of salary, rent, light, heat, etc.
1,000.00
Total expended
$14,899.52
Balance to Treasury
210.28
Total
$15,109.80
Appropriations for Libraries:
Appropriated, March 2, 1925
$13,800.00
Income from other sources:
Tufts fund-books
131.25
Tufts Reading Room Fund
131.25
Joseph E. Trask Fund
589.07
Augustus J. Richards Fund
227.62
Susannah Hunt Stetson Fund
115.61
Tirrell Donation
46.25
Francis Flint Forsyth Fund
46.25
Charles Henry Pratt Trust Fund
22.50
Total
$15,109.80
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE
Town of Weymouth
1925
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Prince H. Tirrell, Chairman Mrs. Sarah Stetson Howe, Secretary
Edwin R. Sampson, 19 Lincoln Street, North Weymouth, Weymouth 0434-W. Term expires April 1, 1926.
Mrs. Sarah Stetson Howe, 9 Burton Terrace, South Weymouth, Weymouth 0788-W. Term expires April 1, 1926.
Francis W. Rea, 706 Pleasant Street, East Weymouth, Weymouth 1198-M. Term expires April 1, 1927.
Prince H. Tirrell, 167 Pleasant Street, South Weymouth, Weymouth 0662-W. Term expires April 1, 1927.
John P. Hunt, 99 Front Street, Weymouth, Weymouth 0207-M. Term expires April 1, 1928.
J. Herbert Libby, M. D., 691 Broad Street, East Weymouth, Wey- mouth 0216. Term expires April 1, 1928.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Parker T. Pearson, 380 off North Street, East Weymouth. Tel. Weymouth 0520. Office at High School, Tel. Weymouth 1460.
Helen G. Tonry, Secretary, 79 Chard Street, East Weymouth. Office Hours-At High School every day, 8:30 to 9 a. m .; 3:30 to 4:30 p. m.
SCHOOL CALENDAR
Winter Term-Open January 4. Closes February 19. Opens March 1. Closes April 16.
Spring Term-Opens April 26. Closes June 24.
Fall Term-Opens September 7. Closes December 23.
NO SCHOOL SIGNAL 2-2-2 -2-2-2
At 7.30 A. M .- No session in any school during the morning.
At 8.00 A. M .- No session in grades I-IV, inclusive, during the morning.
At 11.45 A. M .- No session in grades I-IV, inclusive, during the afternoon.
At 12.45 P. M .- No session in any grade during the afternoon.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Weymouth:
Your Committee wish to call special attention to certain par- ticular needs of the schools in the immediate future, and leave the general statement of the progress of the schools during the past year to the report of the Superintendent, which is incorporated herewith.
The Athens School has been provided with an adequate heating plant, and the interior of the building has been put in excellent condition.
During the coming year the Washington, Jefferson, Pratt and Shaw Schools should be painted, and a steam plant replacing three old furnaces should be installed in the Shaw School. The exterior trim of other buildings, particularly the Nevin and the old High School, should be painted. A liberal policy of maintenance consist- ently followed will avert serious conditions of disrepair. Your Committee doubts if it will be worth while to do much with the Franklin School. If it is to be continued as a school building, it will need considerable remodeling at an expense out of proportion to the benefit to be gained. The rooms at the Franklin, however, are now needed, and the school cannot be given up until other and better quarters are provided.
The recent growth of Weymouth is having its effect on the schools in all parts of the town, and now is the time to provide for anything that can be foreseen in the near future. It is known that the new school building at North Weymouth, which will be finished in time for occupation in September, will be filled at once. In ' East Weymouth there is again a crowded condition, and the same applies to the Nevin School at South Weymouth. The portable school building at the Pratt School will serve for a period, and probably a similar one transferred from North Weymouth to South Weymouth will take care of the coming year at the Nevin School.
The school grounds in several parts of the town are altogether too small for any future growth, and additional land should be secured at the Hunt, the James Humphrey, the Edward B. Nevin and the High School for such purpose. The Humphrey School is provided with an excellent playground. Such ground should be extended considerably in width. Any one familiar with the situa- tion in . Weymouth Landing knows the inadequacy of the school grounds there. The land at the north and west of the High School should be secured without delay in order to insure sufficient room for the future, and at the Nevin School a small addition in the rear will be greatly needed when an extension is added thereto. Within a period of five years the Nevin School will have an attendance of probably six hundred, a number altogether too large to use exclu- sively the playground in front.
The probable attendance at the High School the coming year will be about nine hundred, and the shop work now done in the school building should be taken outside to some other structure of less expensive type. Your Committee are, therefore, inserting a special article in the warrant to cover this purpose, and will be prepared both before the Appropriation Committee and Town Meet- ing to state the needs of the High School in this behalf.
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The following is a summary of regular expenses for the past year and estimates for the coming year:
1925 Expenditures
1926
Estimates
Superintendent
$4,000.00
$4,500.00
Other General Salaries
1,766.75
1,850.00
Other General Expenses
1,314.18
1,500.00
Teachers' Salaries
151,791.21
170,000.00
Text Books and Supplies
11,087.37
15,000.00
Tuition
1,548.17
2,000.00
Transportation
14,277.80
16,000.00
Support of Truants
37.71
150.00
Janitors
13,069.62
15,000.00
Fuel
10,070.06
11,000.00
Light
1,254.09
1,000.00
Maintenance
30,158.88
15,000.00
Other Expense
634.79
1,000.00
Continuation School
1,852.56
2,000.00
Day Industrial School
9,760.73
16,000.00
Day Household Arts School
3,335.26
4,000.00
Evening Practical Arts School
1,013.53
1,850.00
Evening Academic School
136.60
150.00
Americanization
157.60
150.00
Total
$257,266.91
$278,150.00
Respectfully submitted,
PRINCE H. TIRRELL, Chairman
SARAH STETSON HOWE, Secretary,
EDWIN R. SAMPSON,
DR. J. HERBERT LIBBY,
JOHN P. HUNT,
FRANCIS W. REA.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Members of the School Committee:
I herewith submit my seventeenth annual report, the fortieth in the series of annual reports of the superintendents of this town.
POINTS TO BE NOTED IN THE REPORT
1. The average cost of education in the town, both high and elementary, is well below the average cost in the state.
2. The number of days that school was in session, both in the high and elementary grades, is above the average in the state.
3. The percentage of attendance, both high and elementary, is above the average in the state.
4. Provision should be made for enlarging the industrial work at the High School.
5. The increase in the school population has been over 10% in six months.
6. Provision should be made for adding to the school plant in at least three parts of the town.
COSTS
That the schools are being run economically is evidenced by the comparative table taken from the state report compiled at the close of the school year in June. These figures show that the only item in which Weymouth exceeds the average cost in the state is that of transportation. This, of course, is a cost which cannot be reduced, and which will of necessity grow larger as the future growth of the town extends to the outlying regions. The estimates for next year may seem large, but there has been a ten per cent. increase in school population. The appropriation asked for is less than ten per cent. larger.
Cost per pupil in average
State
Membership for 1924-1925 for
Weymouth Average
General Control
$2.32
$3.21
Supervisors, Principals and Teachers
47.62
60.59
Text Books and Supplies
3.16
4.24
Operation (including Janitors and Fuel)
7.70
9.92
Repairs, Replacement and Upkeep
3.65
4.92
Promotion of Health
.63
1.17
Libraries
.04
Transportation
4.06
2.11
Miscellaneous
.06
1.43
ATTENDANCE
State
Number of days of school
Weymouth Average
High School
187
184
Elementary
185.5
184
Per cent. of attendance
.9369
.9301
Special credit should be given to the following schools for high attendance records:
Ward II, East Weymouth, Average attendance for year .. . 95 plus Jefferson School, four-room primary building, Average per- centage for year. .9684
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Jefferson School, Grade IV, Highest average percentage .. . 9844 James Humphrey School, eight-room grammar building,
1 Yearly average for six rooms .. .96 plus
INDUSTRIAL WORK
A recent editorial in the Boston Globe covers so completely the school problem as we are trying to work it out in this town that I am taking the liberty of quoting some of its more striking passages.
"In the year 1647 the Commonwealth passed a law requiring every town of one hundred or more families to establish and main- tain a grammar school. Harvard College had been founded eleven years previously, and the purpose of the public schools was to keep Harvard supplied with students. ... Because it was so in the beginning, the academically-minded boy or girl who acquires the habit of learning from books does not lack the chance provided by law for the boys of 1647. Going to college is a different matter from what it was then, but preparing for it persists.
"For schools which rest on the foundation of the popular will it is not to be expected, nor is it fair, that the objectives should be so narrow. There are types of mind which learn by doing rather than by reading. In a simpler age when most people lived on farms or in tiny rambling towns, an enormous amount of education was obtained away from school. The girls had tasks within the house; the boys did chores outside. They carried water, split wood, looked after stock, helped in the fields. If the father happened to be a blacksmith or a carpenter, his son learned a trade naturally. If it seemed desirable, a boy might be apprenticed to acquire a means of livelihood. In this piecemeal education of hand and eye what was commonly known as gumption developed. Youths grew up alert, self-reliant, able to think for themselves.
"Most of the chores have vanished. Wood costs much to burn and is delivered ready to cut; water comes out of the faucet; such cows as there are live far away. Industries have been moved out of the home into the factory. Children continue bending over books, but there is complaint that the boys and girls of today are not endowed with the "horse sense" of their ancestors. Education has a new problem, that of developing in children what used to be given them by simply being alive."
How are the Weymouth schools meeting this need ?
1. In 1916 an agricultural course was established in the High School. This has been one of the most successful in the state and also one of the most satisfactory of our smaller courses.
2. In 1924 trade courses in carpentry and cabinet-making were added for boys; and a course in home-making for girls.
3. This year commercial printing has been started, with every prospect that it will fill an important position in our school cur- riculum.
4. In order to satisfy the increasing demand for this type of education, and distribute the boys graduated from the school to a larger number of industries, provision should be made during the coming year to add sheet metal work, electric wiring and auto- motive repairing, this latter to be particularly for the benefit of the agricultural boys.
To do this, it will be necessary to build a shop outside of our main building. The present enrollment in the school is seven hun- dred and ninety-five pupils. Next fall there will be nine hundred or more. Every room in the main building will be required for
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regular academic work. It will be cheaper and more expedient to build a shop away from the school for these special activities than. to add to the main building. I would recommend making this building of such a type that the boys can build the major portion of it. This will reduce the cost, and also given them a splendid opportunity to obtain experience in the line of work which they have chosen.
Skeleton plans are being presented showing the type of build- ing which might be erected for this purpose. Figuring such a structure on a basis of seven thousand square feet of floor area and cubical contents of one hundred and fifty-six thousand feet, the cost under ordinary conditions would be about $40,000.00. Deducting from this the value of the labor that the boys would put into it, and adding sufficient for such new machinery as would be needed, the cost would approximate $35,000.00. If made an integral part of the main building, the cost would be at least fifty per cent. more. That the boys can do this is evidenced by the fact that they are now completing a seven-room house and two-car gar- age. They have done all the carpentry work on this project, all of the cement work, some of the painting and such grading as could be completed before the ground froze. Those who have kept in close touch with the operations will agree that the work has been of superior quality.
If carpentry is to be of practical value, it should be along such lines. Mere shop work and theoretical teaching do not give the same value as actual problems of job construction. The industrial courses are not "snap courses." The boys actually have a longer day than in the academic departments; seven hours as against five. That they are interested and willing to work the longer hours with a definite objective in view, is shown by the fact that during the summer they worked eight hours a day on the house, with . scarcely any absence from the joh. In order that those who read this report may have a definite idea of the kind of work that the. boys are doing, several cuts covering the various activities have been inserted. Those of the house may be of particular interest,. as this is a distinct departure from the regular type of work in the state and has occasioned much comment. The money for this work was furnished on demand notes by the Weymouth Trust Company.
The total cost of land, house, garage, grading and driveway will not be more than eight thousand dollars. Any income which may be derived from the sale of the property will be devoted to the purchase of new equipment for the department. A detailed account of expenditures to date is given herewith:
BAY INDUSTRIAL.ART
3
· ELEVATION ·
· STUDY FOR . INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL · WEYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS .
DRAWING OF PROPOSED VOCATIONAL BUILDING
115 '.0"
25:0"
- SHEET METAL BELOW -
- STORAGE BELOW -
1
OFFICE 0 14:0" 36:5-
DRAWING
PRACTICAL ARTS
9
35.6" × 25.0"
INST
.
MACHINES
TOOLS
33:0 x 25.0"
24 PUPILS
3000
TOILET
CLOS
SUPPLY
BOARD
INCLINE
CORRIDOR
FINISHING
1
24 6 x 15%*
-
R
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*
PRINTING
SO MOOKS
R
R.
.
R
25.0 * 36.6"
CARPENTRY
25:0" x 37:0
ASSEMBLY
20 RE PUPILS
20 PUPILS
STOCK
FACA
STOCK
STOCA
· STUDY FOR . · INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL . · WEYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS .
FLOOR PLAN·
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.
· AUTO REPAIR BELOW,-
LOCKER
LOCKER TO HOOKS
300 ×25.0"
LUMBER STORAGE 24:0 x 17:0
RACK
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24 PUPILS
BLACKBOARD
-
24.6"x18:0"
STOCK
IMPOSING
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EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSE
LAND
Worthen, Susan R. $800.00
TWO-CAR GARAGE
Globe Contracting Co.
$73.90
Hastings, A. W. & Co.
14.04
Miscellaneous Labor
37.80
Murray, J. H. Hardware Co. 7.45
Rhines Lumber Co.
394.90
528.09
-
BOYS WORKING ON THE HOUSE
DRIVEWAY AND GRADING
Dwyer, Edward T. 88.50
Miscellaneous Labor 42.21 130.71
WORKING ON A MACHINE
HOUSE NEARING COMPLETION
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CELLAR
Dwyer, Edward T.
127.50
Ferrisi, Joseph
382.00
Gallagher, John J., Inc.
35.25
Globe Contracting Co.
100.50
Miscellaneous Labor
86.21
731.46
HOUSE
Lumber and Material
Rhines Lumber Co.
2,536.20
Stearns, A. T. Lumber Co.
2.71 2,538.91
Plaster and Brick Work
Lyons, John & Son
945.00
Labor (Summer)
Boys
555.00
Heating
Atlantic Pine & Supply Co.
65.76
Maloney's Transportation
19.85
Pierce, Butler & Pierce Mfg. Co.
300.77
Walker Bros.
62.40
Miscellaneous Labor
61.00
509.78
Plumbing
Gallant, Peter
16.00
Loud, M. R. & Co.
260.21
Weymouth Water Dept.
38.28
314.49
Electric Wiring
Landrey, P. F. Electrical Co.
50.00
Paint and Hardware
Kelly, T. J.
33.45
Stone, George W. Co.
55.92
89.37 5,002.55
MISCELLANEOUS
Insurance
Barnes, A. E. & Co.
76.08
Interest
Weymouth Trust Company
134.47
Coal
Hollis, Alvin & Co.
18.00
Miscellaneous Ludden, J. E. 2.63
Weymouth Water Dept.
7.59 10.22
238.77
Total Expenditures up to January 1, 1926
$7,431.58
The plans of the house were drawn first in the mechanical draw- ing department, and then the measurements checked. During the summer the following boys were employed: William Anderson Herbert Ralph
Fred Corbo
Herbert Sullivan
James Doherty
Henry White
Alfred Longuemare
Louis Zeoli
William Loud
In addition to their pay, they received credit toward a diploma which will enable them to complete their courses in April.
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SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS
There are, as of January 1st, 3554 pupils enrolled in the schools. This is a net increase of over ten per cent. in six months, as there was at the close of school in June an enrollment of 3234. This increase is distributed as follows:
Ward I 77
Ward II
64
Ward III
44
Ward IV
36
Ward V
23
High School
76
-
320
In Ward I the new building will provide for the increase of this year and next.
In Ward II we have a different situation. If the parochial school is opened, any increase which may occur will probably be offset by those who attend that school. The old Franklin School is not a suitable structure for school purposes and should be dis- carded. Reference to past school reports will show that it was considered unfit for use and abandoned in 1908. The matter has been discussed with architects and carpenters, and there is an agreement on this point; that it would cost more than it is worth to make of it a modern school building. The lot also is not suit- able for school purposes. It is small and the children are forced to play on the streets which run on both sides, and one of these streets is a main thoroughfare. We have had sufficient experience with conditions of this kind to know that a building so situated is a source of constant annoyance to the public and a menace to the safety of the children. I would, therefore, recommend that more ground be purchased at the Humphrey, and such additional accommodations as may be needed provided in that quarter of the town.
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