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The recognition and naming of the six spectrum colors, as shown by means of the glass prism, papers, natural objects, are first taken. Then tints, shades, and hues of these colors are afterwards taught. Later the harmonies obtained by the combination of certain colors. In design these harmonies are applied. Careful training in studying and making color harmonies develop and promote good taste.
The aim in teaching Pictorial drawing is to develop power of observation, power in imaging, and skill in representing truthfully. Here the type solids and objects based upon
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them are drawn and the principles governing their appear- ance taught.
Landscape composition is taught under this head and also the composition of pictures of famous artists.
Structural drawing combines geometry, projection and development. It is the expression of ideas of appropriate form and beauty of structure in natural and manufactured objects. The aim in teaching this is to raise the standard of industrial art,-by teaching the children to know and appreciate the best; to give them a knowledge of the principles that underlie good constructive design ; and to help the children originate beautiful forms by the study and application of these principles. Mounts for pictures, vase forms, and other common objects are designed.
The aim in decorative drawing is to cultivate good taste in the arrangement of forms and colors by studying and applying the fundamental principles of design,-order, balance, rhythm, consistency. Designs are made for plates, book-covers, tiles, etc.
We do not expect the pupils will be artists. Probably very few will be. But all will be appreciators and purchasers. By familiarizing the children with the best in structure and decoration and by teaching the fundamental principles of the same, and applying them may we not hope to raise the standard of industrial art ?
The child will, we hope, apply, his knowledge of arrange- ment and harmony to articles in the home which are perhaps ugly and ill-arranged, and even in the choosing and arrange- ment of his clothes and all things about him.
Drawing should be correlated with other studies. Ar- rangement and balance should be applied to all written work on literature, history, etc.
Each school is visited by me once in two weeks, the
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regular teachers carrying on the work meantime according to the schedules.
In the High School all the instruction is given by myself, one hour being devoted alternate weeks to the class in free- hand and the class in mechanical drawing.
During the first three months of school two teachers' meetings were held.
I wish to express my satisfaction in the general interest which the teachers have shown in carrying out the work.
If we can open the minds of the children to a feeling for beauty we shall have accomplished much. Their lives will be so much the richer, and as beauty and truth are so closely allied, it must necessarily end in higher ideals and finer characters.
"What then is Taste, but those internal powers
Active and strong and feelingly alive
To each fine impulse? a discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
From things deformed, or dis-arranged, or gross in species ?"
Respectfully submitted,
JENNY T. AIKEN.
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COURSES OF STUDY FOR HARWICH HIGH SCHOOL.
FIRST YEAR.
Scientific.
Classical.
English. English.
English.
English.
Algebra.
Algebra.
Algebra.
Greek History, 4.
Greek History }.
Greek History, ¿.
Roman History, g. Latin.
Latin.
Latin.
Botany, ¿.
Botany, ¿.
Botany, 3.
SECOND YEAR. Classical.
English.
English. French.
English.
English.
French.
Modern History.
Geometry.
Geometry.
Geometry.
Physical Geography, }.
Latin.
Physical Geography, +.
Mineralogy, }. Geology, +.
THIRD YEAR.
Classical.
English. Literature.
French.
French.
Physics.
Modern History.
Latin.
Civics, 3.
Mathematical Review, }.
Chemistry, ¿. Astronomy, }.
FOURTH YEAR. Classical.
Scientific.
Literature.
Literature.
French.
French.
Physics.
Latin.
Civics, ¿.
Civics, §.
Mathematical Review, 3. Mathematical Review. 3.
Notes : The fraction following a study denotes the part of a year it is taken.
Greek may be taken for three years in the classical course. if re- quired for entrance to college by the pupil. After the first year a pupil in either course may enter one addi- tional class, if the consent of his parents and the permission of the Principal and the Superintendent is given.
Scientific.
Literature.
Literature.
Chemistry, 3. Astronomy, z.
Elective.
Mineralogy, +. Geology, +.
Scientific.
Roman History, 3.
Roman History, ¿.
Annual Town Meeting Warrant,
1902.
BARNSTABLE, SS.
To Elisha H. Bearse, Constable of the Town of Harwich, in said County, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to warn and notify the inhabitants of the Town of Harwich, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at Exchange Hall, Harwich, in said County, on Monday, the third day of February next, 1902, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz. :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To determine the rate per cent. to be paid Tax Collectors for the ensuing year, and to act fully thereon.
Art. 3. To choose on one ballot the town officers and committees as herein described, viz. : For the term of one year-one Town Clerk, one Town Treasurer, two Select- men, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor and Board of Health, three Herring Committee, two Auditors, one Tree Warden, three Constables, two Tax Collectors; to choose for the term of three years-one School Committee and one Road Commissioner, and to act fully thereon. Shall license be
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granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors? Vote Yes or No.
Art. 4. To choose all the necessary Town Officers, and to act fully thereon.
Art. 5. To hear the report of all Town Officers and Committees, and act fully thereon.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to accept the list of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote the sum of Fifty Dollars for the suppression of crime, and act fully thereon.
Art. 8. To raise such sums of money as may be neces- sary to defray town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriations for the same.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in an- ticipation of taxes, and act fully thereon.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote passed at the Annual Town Meeting, held Feb. 6 and 7, 1899, whereby it voted to elect Road Commissioners, and abolish the same.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to elect one or more Surveyors of Highways and act fully thereon.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to give twenty cents per hour for man and fifteen cents per hour for horse, for working on Town Roads.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to put a spout or proper drain under the road near the residence of Joseph Clark, Pleasant Lake, said drain being for the purpose of removing the water from the Cranberry Swamp of Mrs. Wm. H. Ellis and to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same. (By request. )
Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and
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appropriate the sum of One Hundred Dollars for the benefit of the Broad Brooks Free Library and act fully thereon.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and raise the sum of Fifty Dollars, to widen and deepen the Entrance to the Round Cove, in the easterly part of the Town of Harwich.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote that the Town Clerk's and Treasurer's office shall, in the future, be at Har- wich Centre, in or near its present location, and act fully thereon.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to paint all, or any number of its School Buildings, and to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to meet the cost of all such work as the Town may decide to perform.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars, to be expended for observance of Memorial Day in Harwich, under direction of Frank D. Hammond, Post 141, G. A. R, and act fully thereon. (By request. )
Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to macadamize 500 feet of the road in Pleasant Lake, between the house lots of John H. Atkins and the late Eben Eldredge, and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars therefor.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money to pay expenses of securing legislative aid in the improvement and protection of the mouth of the Herring River, and to take all and any other steps as may be expedient to secure that object.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will vote to extend the State Highway from Harwichport to Chatham line, and make an appropriation for the same, provided the State Highway Commission will for the same purpose allot from the state appropriation of 1902 a sum of money sufficient in
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the judgment of the Selectmen to warrant such an appro- priation by the Town.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will by a vote of two- thirds of the voters present and voting, vote to authorize its Treasurer, acting with the Selectmen, to borrow the whole or any part of the sum of Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars, the same to be used for the construction of macadam road, either town roads or state highways, in such parts of the Town as shall be deemed most proper, and to see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to use the money so raised as an inducement for the State Highway Commission to make the Town an allotment from the state road appropriation of the current year, and to take any and all other action as may be incident thereto.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to pay the in- debtedness incurred by borrowing money for the construction of macadam road as suggested in the previous article, by not more than ten annual proportionate payments and to author- ize the Treasurer acting with the Selectmen to issue the Town's notes in conformity therewith, according to the provisions of Statutes 1882, Chapter 133, Section 1, and Statutes 1884, Chapter 129.
Art. 24. To see if the Town will vote to waive all right to contract for the construction of any State Highway that may be built in Harwich under State supervision during the year 1902.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will vote to use the sum of One Thousand Dollars, appropriated by the town in the year 1901 for State Highway Construction (but un- expended) and make the same available for said purpose, if the Massachusetts State Highway Commission will allot to Harwich a sufficient sum of money to warrant the use of said appropriation, and to act fully thereon.
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And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof one at each Post Office in said town, seven days at least before the time for holding said meeting. The Polls will be opened at 9 o'clock A. M., and may close . at 2 o'clock P. M. Hereof fail not, and make due returns of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of January, in the year one thousand nine hundred and two.
JOSEPH K. ROBBINS, JOHN H. DRUM, GEORGE T. BASSETT,
Selectmen of Harwich.
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