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That the home and school should go hand in hand should be read in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The home is
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above the school as an educational factor, and the aim of the school should be to assist and improve the influence of the home. Let the people entertain the thought that the school is tainted with political grafting and they will speedily cherish a contempt for it; let them see it is theirs and for their benefit and they will as speedily rally to its support.
The school should be the intellectual centre of the com- munity, and not its haughty teacher. The schoolroom should be opened every night in the week as a reading room, a lec- ture room, a debating room for the discussion of public ques- tions, and a social resort. It should compete with the saloon and grocery store for a share of patronage, and who would say its influence would not be beneficial ? It seems to us that we could inculcate a respect for the flag by such acts of intelligent patriotism, which would produce a deeper effect than the super- . ficial matter of taxing the people for flags and poles and en- forcing patriotism by law.
Some of our schools have raised funds with which they have purchased organs for their schoolrooms, and we sincerely think the tones of these instruments are more harmonious than they would be had they been presented by the state.
CONSOLIDATION.
The policy of consolidating schools may be necessary in some instances, but it should not be encouraged. We should hold out all the inducements in our power to encourage the building up of rural communities and no inducement is more attractive than a schoolhouse. From the standpoint of taxation it is suicidal to encourage the depopulation of any of the com- munities which make up our town.
Your chairman does not subscribe to the theory that col- lecting a large school stimulates the learning capacity of the pupils. On the contrary, the moral and sanitary conditions are better in the small school, and the progress of a pupil intellectu- ally cannot be better guaranteed than in a small school, where
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by individual training he may advance as fast as his aptitude and ambition will permit.
ABSENTEEISM.
This seems to be a chronic disease of our schools. Making due allowance for bad weather and sickness there are still many marks on the registers which should not be there. To say that a pupil who is absent one-fourth of the time loses one-fourth of the advantages of the school is not exact, for the absence of the pupil indicates a lack of interest when he is there. To compel a pupil to attend by enforcing the truancy act, falls short of the desired end, in that where a pupil goes against the wishes of himself and parents, he goes with no spirit, so the law should be inforced only in the most stubborn cases. The best method of carrying a point in this matter is to convince the parents of the necessity and enlist the interest of the pupil.
And while we are criticising the register in this departure, a more impressive thought is derived in imagining the black marks in a register kept by the parents in which would be en- tered the marks showing the absence of the teacher from the home. Does not this failure on the teachers' part give the im- pression in certain classes least benefited and most desirable of reaching, that the school is above them ; when a false modesty makes the parent shrink from the association of the school? And so we would impress upon the teacher the benefits which might be derived from a closer association with the homes, which act would dispel the impression that there is such a thing as caste in the school.
FINANCE.
We realize we are treading on dangerous ground when we touch this department, and we are at a loss what to suggest in the way of retrenchment. To give the citizens of the town an
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idea of where our increased expenditures come in we make the following comparisons with like expenditures of 1895 :
Raised by taxation in 1895,
$2,000 00
Raised by taxation in 1903.
4,900 00
Total school funds, 1895,
$2,835 55
Total school funds, 1903.
6,628 45
Paid teachers, 1895, $2,131 25
Paid teachers, 1903.
3,655 00
Paid janitors. 1895.
$68 25
Paid janitors, 1903
266 55
Paid for fuel, 1895. $128 69
Paid for fuel, 1903,
384 46
Text books and incidentals, 1895,
$148 64
Text books. and incidentals, 1903, 813 74
Paid for fuel, High school building, $258 75
Paid for fuel, other buildings,
125 71
Paid janitor, High school building, $160 00 -
Paid janitors, other buildings,
112 55
Paid teachers, 1895,
$2131 25
Paid superintendent and supplies, 1895, 398 34
Paid teachers, 1903.
$3,655 00
Paid superintendent and supplies, 1903. 1.978 05
Cost per pupil, 1895, $17 20
Cost per pupil. 1903. 30 18
In the fuel account the figures are slightly misleading, as some of the common schools had a supply left over from 1902, and the supplies for the High school will last more than a year. We are of the opinion that the text book and incidental account is unnecessarily overdrawn, but when we touch this subject we touch a system which is saddled upon the public and
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which a single town can throw off with difficulty, for the demands of a system in the public mind are as relentless as the edict of a statute.
The increase in the amount paid for teaching can easily be accounted for in the establishment of the High school and the division of the Centre school, and the increase in some other departments is beyond our control.
We must employ a superintendent in conjunction with other towns and his salary is fixed by law.
We must maintain a High school or pay tuition to other high schools. If we maintain a High school with only one pupil we must employ two teachers, or we do not comply with the law.
If we vote to build a new schoolhouse our authority ceases at that point. It would seem to us that the ventilating arrange- ments of a room in the country for the accommodation of a few scholars might be properly devised differently from such arrangements in a room in the city, under the conditions that implies ; but we have no power of making laws to suit our case. If we would expect the allowance from the state we must maintain the average appropriations of the three preceding years. If we lower this average, we lose the $700 received from the state last year, which amount would then have to be added to the tax levy. It would thus appear that the door which leads to lower expenditures has been closed.
Persons in town between 5 and 15, Sept 1 1903. 168
Persons in town between 7 and 14, Sept. 1, 1903, I40
Pupils of all ages in town in schools, term 1902-3, 198
Pupils under 5 in town in schools, term 1902-3. 4
Pupils over 15 in town in schools, term 1902-3, 15
Pupils between 7 and 14 in town in schools, term 1902-3, 140
Average membership of all the schools, term 1902-3, 168.24
Average attendance of all the schools, term 1902-03, 149.46
Per cent. of attendance of all the schools term 1902-3. .89
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Statistics gathered from the school registers for the natural school year, 1902-3 :
NORTH CARVER GRAMMAR. A. L. Veazie, Teacher.
Total membership, 25 ; average membership, 24.14 ; average attendance, 20.5 ; visitors, 27 ; length of school, 8 m. 15 d. ; pu- pils enrolled whole year absent less than a week, Lamont Clark I, Arlie Pink 3 1-2.
NORTH CARVER PRIMARY. Miss Lillian G. Murdock, Teacher.
Total membership. 30: average membership, 25.5; average attendance, 23.6: visitors, 72 : length of actual school 8 m., 13 d. : pupils enrolled entire year absent less than a week, Ernest Gardner, 4; Myrtle Gardner, 2: Preston Mckay, I; Forest Perkins, 3; Olive Perkins, I.
POPE'S POINT. Jennie L. F. Cowen, Teacher.
Total membership, 15: average membership, II.2; average attendance, 8.7 : actual length of school, 8 m., II d. ; visitors, 39.
CENTRE GRAMMAR. F.llis G. Cornish, Teacher.
Total membership, 15; average membership, 11.6; average attendance, 10.06 ; visitors, 24 ; actual school length, 8 m., 12 d .; pupils enrolled whole year absent less than a week, Robert Di- mond, 2; Kenneth Shaw, 4 1-2; Irene Cornish, 4.
CENTRE PRIMARY. Miss Elva B. Tilson, Teacher.
Total membership, 15; average membership, 12.2; average attendance, 10.8; visitors, 48; actual length of school, 8 m., 14 d. : pupils enrolled entire year and absent less than a week, Cora Shaw, 4; Lucille Shaw, 3.
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SOUTH CARVER GRAMMAR. Miss Anna R. Gifford, Teacher.
Total membership, 24: average membership, 19.9; average attendance, 17.9; visitors, 93; actual length of school, 8 m., 14 d .; pupils enrolled entire year absent less than a week, El- lis Atwood, I 1-2; Ellis Bumpus, o; Bernard Shaw, o; Gerard Shaw, 4 ; H. S. Griffith, 2: Reba Griffith, 2 1-2.
SOUTH CARVER PRIMARY.
Mrs Mary C. Rogers, Teacher.
Total membership, 27; average membership, 20.6; average attendance, 18.5: visitors. 94: actual length of school, 8 m., 14 d .: pupils enrolled entire year absent less than a week, Eddie Griffith, o; Andrew Griffith, 2; Rodney Griffith, 3 1-2; James Laird, 2 ; John F. Shaw, 1-2.
WENHAM. Miss Lillian F. Wood, Teacher.
Total membership, 21 : average membership, 13; average attendance, 11.6: visitors, 66; actual length of school 8 m., 16 d. ; pupils enrolled entire year absent less than a week, Grace Pratt, 2.
BATES' POND. Miss Grace Gammons, Teacher.
Total membership, 15: average membership, 10.2; average attendance, 9.2: visitors, 61; actual length of school 9 m .; pupils enrolled entire vear absent less than a week, Emma Hud- son, o; Geo. Fred Washburn, I-2.
HIGH SCHOOL.
4. L .. Burnham, Principal: Miss W. L. Waite, Assistant.
Total membership. 28: average membership, 19.9; average attendance, 18.6; visitors. 34; actual length of school, 9m., 15 d. ; pupils enrolled entire vear absent less than a week,
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Grace Shaw. I : Henry Pink, 4; Alfred Freeman, 3; Paul Cor- nish, o: Herbert Gammons, o: Irving Dunham, o.
The following appropriations are recommended for the en- suing year-
Support of schools,
$3,100 00
Repairs of school houses,
150 00
Text books and incidentals,
800 00
Superintendent's salary,
300 00
HENRY S. GRIFFITH,
JAMES A. VAUGHAN, SETH C. C. FINNEY, School Committe of Carver.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT.
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To the School Committee of Carver :
Gentlemen-I report the number of pupils in the several schools as follows: South Grammar, 23; South Primary, 23; Centre Grammar, 16: Centre Primary 12 : North Grammar, 21 ; North Primary, 29; Wenham, 10: Pope's Point, 12; Bates' Pond. 14; High School, 16; making a total of 176.
The report of attendance is already given in your report to the town.
Since the law gives the superintendent, or a teacher acting under instructions from a superintendent, the right to excuse only cases of necessary absence, and without a written excuse from the parents, a teacher has no means of knowing whether a pupil is absent necessarily or is playing truant, I would recommend that the committee request the parents to co-oper- ate with the teachers in securing good attendance by providing them with such excuses.
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There has been improvement in some of the work in all the schools in the town. Perhaps it is the most marked in the primary schools ; and it is the most needed, not because it was poor before, but because it is the most important work done in any grade from the first to the end of the high school course. All the child's future school work depends upon it.
The aim in this work has been to secure facility, expression and comprehension of what is read. The ability to read easily makes the pupil more willing to read ; it does not seem so much of a task. The study of expression helps them to better under- stand the author's thought and feeling, tends to refinement in both teacher and pupils, and later will help them to punctuate their own writing.
On their power to understand clearly what they read de- pends their ability to do good work in all their future studies.
The reading of complete selections from several authors has been done this year with good results. Pupils are getting a better appreciation of good literature. The Riverside Series, and other publications of the same class, make it possible to get the best reading at a small cost. This is done in addition to the reading in the regular reading books.
The teachers can do nothing better for their pupils than to stimulate and foster a taste for reading good live books. One of the best lists of books for young people that I know of is the Brookline "List of Books for Boys and Girls," published by the Brookline Public Library. It is to be had of the librarian at Brookline, Mass. It is a valuable aid to teachers in select- ing reading for the pupils.
The use of the new arithmetics that have been introduced have given very satifactory results. The pupils are learning to think and reason. The system is so different from that of the books formerly used that it causes a little difficulty in the higher grades, as certain things, which in these books are taken up in a simple way during the first two or three years, in the others were not touched upon until much later. These things then have to be taught for the first time, and the prog-
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ress is necessarily slower; but those pupils who begin the series in the primary schools will not experience this difficulty. The work is so arranged as to give a constant review. The amount of business arithmetic given in the series is all that is needed by the ordinary boy or girl.
, I wish to speak here of the value of a business course in schools. Pupils who take such a course in a high school, ex- pecting that it will fit them for a business after completing it, and that they can at once obtain good, or even fair positions, are almost sure to be disappointed. They must get the most of their business training in a business house.
Within the past year I have sought opportunity to talk with many business men in regard to what they want young men and women to know, who come to them for work. Their an- swer is practically this: We want them to be sure of the four fundamental operations in arithmetic, to be able to spell, to write good English, and to have the best possible general education. If they have the general education, we will teach them how to do business.
A man who had been in successful business in a western city for 20 years said he had this year advised three boys of his acquaintance, who intended to leave high school for a business college, not to do so ; but to go to some good house and offer to work for nothing for a year on the condition that they be taken into the office and taught the business. At the end of the year they would have saved the cost of tuition and books, have learned more than they could have in a business school, have had an opportunity to find out if they were likely to succeed in the work, if it was what they wanted, and they would also stand a better chance of. securing employment. He advised them, however, to get a good high school education first, and to let that include a thorough training in the use of their own lan- guage. This last is absolutely necessary if one would become a stenographer.
If a business course is to be given in a high school it should continue for four years, be as broad as any other course, and
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include a thorough training in English and at least one foreign language.
Besides several new text books that have been added during the past year, there has been purchased for the grammar schools, globes, sets of wall maps: N. A., S. A., Europe, Asia, Africa, United States, West Indies and The World. and sets of dry, liquid, linear and cubic measures; and the primary schools have been supplied with some material for the work of their grades.
The new schoolhouse at North Carver is a very satisfactory building. Both the rooms are light, pleasant and convenient ; and are well furnished with good blackboards.
The furniture is of the adjustable type, which makes it an easy matter to secure comfortable seats for all the children. It is a little higher in price than other makes, but is well worth the extra cost. I think that in both building and furniture the money was wisely expended.
Last year some changes were made in the course of study in the high school, to better prepare the pupils to enter normal schools, and to comply with the requirements of the state board of education, as a condition on which we receive $300 from the state for the support of the school.
In the regular course, pupils desiring it, take bookkeeping and commercial arithmetic in the senior year. To accommo- date some who cannot complete the four years' course, these studies are taken the present term.
Some of the new text books adopted when the change was made in the course are as follows :
History-
Botsford's Ancient History for Beginners.
Robinson's History of Western Europe.
Coman and Kendall's History of England.
Channing's Student's History of the United States.
Science-
Carhart and Chute's High School Physics.
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Shaw's Physics by Experiment.
Newth's Elementary Inorganic Chemistry.
Blaisdell's Practical Physiology.
Bergen's Elements of Botany.
Mathematics-
Williams and Rogers' Illustrative Bookkeeping.
Besides these a number of reference books have been added, including a set of Chamber's Encyclopedia.
Three large wall maps for the study of ancient history have been purchased : Kiepert's Ancient World, Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire ; also a set of eight modern maps, such as have been put in the grammar schools.
A good laboratory for the study of chemistry and physics has been provided, and a well driven in the school room to furnish running water. At the time of fitting it up, and getting the physical apparatus, the class then studying physics had completed about one-half of the work of the text book, so that at that time sufficient apparatus for the remaining work of the year only was purchased ; this portion of it, however, was much the most expensive. Before the opening of the fall term, that ยท needed for the first half of the course, will have to be pro- vided.
This year physics was not studied in the school, as the plan of having two classes taking physics together, alternating the following year with chemistry, is followed. Apparatus of the best quality for a good course in elementary inorganic chemis- try, sufficient for individual work by each student, was pur- chased at the beginning of the fall term.
The slight acquaintance with literature that many of the pupils have on entering the high school makes it impossible to do the amount or quality of work that should be done in that study. The same is true of composition work. The only rem- edy for this in the future is to do more of it in the elementary schools, and it is now being done; but it will necessarily take several years for this to show in the high school. The school
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reading must be supplemented by much home reading to get the best results.
It is a pupil's ability to do what is required of him that de- termines his fitness to enter the high school. He cannot by any means be fitted for it in the last two or three years in the ele- mentary school. His preparation begins in the first primary grades ; and the teacher who teaches him to read understand- ingly there, is giving him the most needed help to fit him for the high school or for life.
Although a pupil's knowledge of history may be small, if he has learned how to study it, sees that it is not memorizing facts, but learning how a people grow, and how a nation is developed, and is sufficiently mature to comprehend it, he is fitted, so far as that study is concerned, for the high school. The same is true of the other studies.
If this view is correct, and I believe it is, any person, without regard to what his previous school advantages have been, should be encouraged to enter the high school, and take up any study he chooses. if it is given in the course, provided he is able to pursue it with profit.
This does not refer to those pupils just leaving the grammar schools, who should be required to take the regular course, un- less circumstances prevent their doing so ; but the school should be open and free to all who can in any way profit by it.
We would gladly welcome any who thought they had com- pleted their school work, but who feel that they would like to get a further knowledge of literature or history, or would like to make some acquaintance with chemistry or botany. Such pupils would not interfere with work of the regular students. The school is well supplied with appliances for teaching these subjects.
I think the additions to the course of study and to the equip- ment of the school are appreciated by both teachers and pupils, and good use is being made of them.
I would say to the teachers that the greatest need of the school, and perhaps of all the schools, at present, is more train-
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ing in English, in both speaking and writing it. I realize the fact that the high school is not the place in which this training should begin. I know that in most schools in town efforts are being made along this line that will show later on. This train- ing is a slow process, but of great importance.
I feel that the teachers, committee and superintendent have worked together for the improvement of the schools, and that it has been a successful year.
CHESTER W. HUMPHREY, Supt. of Schools.
Carver, Mass., Jan. 23, 1904.
SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1903-1904.
Fall term, Sept. 28 to Dec. 18-12 weeks.
Winter vacation, Dec. 18 to Dec. 28-1 week.
Winter term, Dec. 28 to March 18-12 weeks.
Spring vacation, March 18 to March 28-I week. Spring term, March 28 to June 17-12 weeks. Summer vacation, June 17 to-
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REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES.
An increasing interest in the library is noted, owing in a large measure to the efforts of the public-spirited residents of the town. Since our last report branches have been established in North and South Carver. which have materially increased the number of patrons of the library. And the success of these efforts leads us to believe that the same methods may be pur- sued in other sections of the town with equally gratifying re- sults. Rev. (). F. Stetson superintends the North Carver branch, while the teachers of the South Carver schools have given their services and shelves have been provided in the schoolrooms, where books can be procured at any time, and especially a half hour after school, which period has been set apart for that purpose. If such arrangements could be made with teachers at Bates' Pond, Pope's Point and Wenham, the advantages of the library could be enjoyed by all sections of the town.
We simply call your attention to the lack of room in the library for the increasing collection of books, and, while we make no suggestions, it is evident this problem will come up for solution in the near future.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Appropriation,
Balance from last year,
$100 00
36 19
Paid for books,
$119 04
$136 19
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Paid for curtains,
I 80
Balance to new account,
15 35
$136 19
FINES.
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1903,
$24 59
Received from librarian, 5 37
Cash on hand, Jan. I. 1904.
$29 96
HENRY S. GRIFFITH
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SETH C. C. FINNEY.
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OSCAR F. STETSON. Trustees Carver Public Library.
CATALOGUE, 1903.
Miscellaneous.
Margaret Regis, 204I
Children with Fishes, 2042
Twenty Years After, 2043
One Thousand Notable Events in American History, 2044 The Pit, 2045
It's Never Too Late to Mend,
2046
Mayor of Casterbridge,
2047
Judge Elbridge, 2048
A Son of Hagar, 2049
Mr. Barnes of New York, 2050
Elizabeth and Her German Garden, 205 I
The Caxtons, 2052
On a Mexican Mustang. 2053
The Octopus, 2054
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Hollyhurst, The Strike at Shanes,
2055
2056
Bolton, Sarah K.
Our Devoted Friend, the Dog,
2057
Carter, Sarah Nelson.
For Pity's Sake, 2058
Eddy, Sarah J.
Friends and Helpers, 2059
Ensign, Hermon Lee.
Lady Lee, 2060
Jenks, Tudor.
Galopoff, the Talking Pony, 2061
Gypsy, the Talking Dog. 2062
Melville. White Dandy, 2063
Patterson, S. Louise.
Pussy Meow, 2064
Patterson. Virginia Sharpe.
Dickey Downey, 2065
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart.
Loveliness, 2066
Plympton, A. G.
Two Dogs and a Donkey, 2067
Smith, Abbie N.
Bobtail Dixie, 2068
Saunders, Marshall.
Beautiful Joe's Paradise, 2069
Seton, Ernest Thompson.
The Trail of the Sand Stag, 2070
Wesselhoeft, Lily F. Foxy, the Faithful, 207I
Winslow, Helen M.
Concerning Cats, 2072
Stoddard, John L.
Vol. I, Norway, Switzerland, Athens, Venice, 2073
Vol. 2, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Egypt, ?074
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Vol. 3, Japan, two lectures, China, 2075
Vol. 4, India, two lectures, The Passion Play, 2076
Vol. 5, Paris, France, Spain, 2077 Vol. 6, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Moscow, 2078 Vol. 7, The Rhine, Belgium, Holland, Mexico, 2079
Vol. 8, Florence, Naples, Rome,
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Vol. 9, Scotland, England, London,
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Vol. 10, California, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park, 2082
Vol. II, Ireland, two lectures, Denmark, Sweden, 2083
Vol. 12, Canada, two lectures, Malta, Gibralta, 2034
Allen, James Lane.
The Reign of Law, 2085
Austin, Jane G.
Dora Darling. 2086
Barrows, Rev. William.
Twelve Nights in a Hunter's Camp, 2087
Brooks, Elbridge S.
In Blue and White, 2088
Bryant, W. C.
Odyssey of Homer, 2089
Burnham, Clara Louise.
A West Point Wooing, 2090
Burroughs, John. John James Audubon, 209I
Campbell, Floy. Camp Arcady, 2092
Carey, Rosa N.
My Lady Frivol, 2093
Carpenter, Edward.
Love's Coming of Age, 2094
Churchill, Winston.
Mr. Keegan's Elopement, 2095
Connor, Ralph.
The Man from Glengarry,
Cooke, John Esten. 2096
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My Lady Pokahontas, 2097 Crawford, F. Marion. Marietta, 2098
Davis, Richard Harding. Captain Macklin, 2099
Davis, William Stearns. Belshazzar, 2100
Eggleston, George Cary.
The Last of the Flatboats,
2101
Camp Venture,
2102
Ellis, Edward S. Jim and Joe,
Fiske, John. 2103
New France and New England, 2104
A Century of Science, 2105
The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War,
2106
Ford, Paul Leicester. Wanted, a Chaperon, 2107
Ford, Simeon.
A Few Remarks, 2108
Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft.
A Double Thread, 2109
Fuller, Caroline M.
Across the Campus,
2110
Grant, Robert.
Face to Face, 2III
Greene, Anna Katherine.
Agatha Webb, 2112
Greene, Sarah P. McLean.
Vesty of the Basins,
2113
Grinnell, George Bird. Jack, the Young Ranchman, 2114
Hale, Edward Everett.
The Man Without a Country, 2115
Harris, Joel Chandler.
Gabriel Tolliver, 2116
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Headley, Rev. P. C.
Facing the Enemy, 2117
Hegan, Alice Caldwell.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, 2118 Lovey Mary, 2119
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
Cheerful Yesterdays, 2120
Hoyt, Eleanor.
The Misdemeanors of Nancy, 212I
Hugo, Victor.
The Toilers of the Sea, 2122
Jackson, Helen.
A Century of Dishonor, 2123
Lanier, Sidney.
The Boy's King Arthur, 2124
Leigh, Garrett.
Lives that Came to Nothing,
2125
Lloyd, Henry Demarest.
Newest England, 2126
Long, William J.
Secrets of the Woods, 2127
Mabie, Hamilton Wright.
Parables of Life, 2128
Marden, Orison Swett.
Winning Out, 2129
Mathews, F. Schuyler.
Fieldbook of American Wild Flowers,
2130
Mitchell, J. A.
The Last American,
2131
Amos Judd, 2132
Molesworth, Mrs.
The Boys and I, 2133
Nesbit, E.
The Red House, 2134
Ollivant, Alfred.
Danny, 2135
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Optic, Oliver.
The Soldier Boy,
2136
The Sailor Boy, 2137
The Young Lieutenant,
2138
The Yankee Middy.
2139
Fighting Joe,
2140
Brave Old Salt,
214I
Otis, James.
Captain Tom, the Privateersman,
2142
Parker, Gilbert. The Right of Way, 2143
Pansy.
Tip Lewis, 2144
One Commonplace Day,
2145
Sidney Martin's Christmas,
2146
Those Boys,
2147
Yesterday Framed in Today,
2148
Three People,
2149
Only Ten Cents, 2150
A Modern Sacrifice, 215I
Chrissy's Endeavor,
2152
As In a Mirror,
2153
Pattee, F. L.
Mary Garvin, 2154
Peattie, Elia W.
Ickery Ann and Others, 2155
Pidgin, Charles Felton. Stephen Holton, 2156
Plye, Howard.
Rejected of Men, 2157
Richards, Laura E
Mrs. Tree. 2158
Riis, Jacob A.
The Battle with the Slum, 2159
Roberts, Charles G. D.
Barbara Ladd, 2160
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Sheldon, Charles M. The Reformer, 2161
Stockton, Frank.
The Young Master of Hyson Hall, 2162
Ardis Claverden, 2163
Stuart, Eleanor. Averages, 2164
Thompson, Grace Gallatin Seton.
A Woman Tenderfoot, 2165
Thompson, Ernest Seton.
Lives of the Hunted, 2166
Tilton, Dwight. Miss Petticoats, 2167
Towle, George M.
Pizarro, 2168
Verne, Jules.
A Winter in the Ice, 2169
VanDyke, Henry. Little Rivers, 2170
The Blue Flower, 2171
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey.
Lady Rose's Daughter, 2172
Watson, Henry C.
The Great Peacemaker, 2173
Wishaw, Fred.
At the Court of Catherine, the Great,
2174
Wister, Owen,
The Virginian, 2175
Wright, Mabel Osgood.
The Friendship of Nature,
Miscellaneous. 2176
Women Under the Law of Massachusetts, 2177
The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Co., 2178
The Leopard's Spots, 2179
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DUPLICATES.
Beautiful Joe, Black Beauty,
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BOOKS FOR REFERENCE.
Boundary Lines of Carver and Wareham, 1902, 89
Journal of the Senate, 1902, 90
Journal of the House of Representatives, 1902, 91
Sixty-third Annual Report of the Board of Education,
92.
Sixty-fifth Annual Report of the Board of Education,
93
Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1902,
94
Manual for the General Court, 1902,
95
Report of the State Librarian, 1901,
96
Report of the State Librarian, 1902,
97
Journal of the House, 1901,
98
Journal of the Senate (extra session), 1901,
99
Herrick's Town Officer,
100
Trial of John O'Neil for Murder,
IOI
Municipal Liability for Tort,
IO2
Carver, Halifax, Hanson and Plympton Directory, 103
Roger Wolcott Memorial,
I04
Pioneers of Massachusetts,
105
Vital Records of Walpole, Mass.,
106
Vital Records of Pelham, Mass.,
IO7
Vital Records of Montgomery, Mass.,
108
Vital Records of Princeton, Mass.,
109
Vital Records of Hinsdale, Mass.,
IIO
Vital Records of Peru, Mass ..
III
Vital Records of Alford, Mass.,
II2
Plymouth and Kingston Directory,
II3
Vital Records of Malden, Mass.,
II4
Vital Records of Sudbury, Mass.,
II5
Vital Records of Medfield, Mass.,
116
Vital Records of Becket, Mass.,
II7
Vital Records of Barre, Mass., 118
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Vital Records of Southborough, Mass.,
119
Vital Records of Leicester, Mass., I20
V'ital Records of Lee, Mass., I2I
Vital Records of Westborough, Mass., I22
Vital Records of Tyringham, Mass., I23
Daniel Webster, the Orator,
124
Dorchester Heights Monument Memorial,
125
Andersonville, I26
Burial Hill, Plymouth, Mass., I27
Manual for the General Court, 1903,
I28
Vital Records of Topsfield,
I29
Vital Records of Millbury,
130
Vital Records of Bedford,
I3I
Vital Records of Lexington,
I32
Sixty-sixth Annual Report of the State Board of Education, I33
Journal of the Senate, 1903,
I34
Journal of the House of Representatives, 1903, I35
Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, I36
DONATIONS.
Mrs. Leander Cole, 11 books.
Mr. Orin Gardner, 21 books.
Mr. Josiah Atwood, I book.
Mr. William Savery, "The Outlook," 1901, 1902, and eight months of 1903.
Publishers Middleboro Gazette, Plymouth Press, and Woman's Journal, one paper each week.
Carver Center W. C. T. U., "Our Message," one paper each month.
STATISTICS.
Number of patrons. 243
Number of books taken from the Library during the year, 2.343 Number of books added during the year, I39
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Total number of books in the Library, . 2,179
Number of books for reference, 136
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Received for fines, etc., after paying running expenses, $5.52. BERNICE E. BARROWS, Librarian.
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