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The number of grades in the centre district is six. In each grade the course of study comprises two years and the classes are two, except in the high school where the course of study comprises four years and the classes are four.
TEACHERS.
Eighty-three teachers, six males and seventy-seven fe- males are now employed in the above schools. In this enumeration the two music teachers are not included. Six- ty-two of these are principals and twenty are assistants. All but one of the assistants are females. Forty-six schools have only one teacher each ;- fourteen have two each ;- one has three, and one six. The classification of the schools will be seen in the following schedule, which will
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also show the number of schools and the number of teach- ers in each grade.
One Classical and English high school which employs six teachers.
Four Grammar schools, upper grade,
five
Seven
lower
nine
Twelve secondary schools
" thirteen
Nine primary
fifteen 66
Fifteen sub-primary "
" nineteen
One truant school
employs one
One evening “ for both sexes,
one
Twelve suburban schools
" employ fourteen
The supply of teachers is largely above the demand, but, in this as in other crowded professions, there is still plenty of room " higher up," for the skill, genius, and accomplish- ments, which can reach the exalted position. The appli- cants have been more numerous than ever the last year. The large number already employed, increased by those annually graduating from our ( wn high school and the state normal schools, has been augmented by the return of many whom the rebellion has expelled from the south, and of others from the west, where the war has closed some of the schools and diminished the salaries of the teachers in others, so that the tide of teachers, which has for twenty-five years set strongly from New England south- ward and westward, now flows back to us. The number of young men seeking situations as teachers has not been so large as usual. To the loyal and patriotic youth, who have from infancy breathed the pure air of free New England, the army of the Union presents more attractions and stronger inducements than the school room with all its sa- cred and fascinating associations.
The numerous applicants and the elevated character of the competitors relieve the committee of the necessity of clothing imbecility with the authority, or ignorance with
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the dignity, of the teacher; or, of subjecting our children to the hazard of mental distortion by the instructions of prejudice, and of moral obliquity by the discipline of pas- sion. Water never rises higher than the fountain. Stand- ing water soon becomes stagnant. A stationary school is dead. The character of a school can rise only as it follows the ascending standard of the teacher. Only a progressive teacher can have a progressive school. All the life cur- rents of the body originate in the heart, every pulsation of which is felt at the remotest extremity of the limbs. The vital forces of the school,-its vigor, energy, promptitude, and enterprise, have their sources in the teacher, and should be discovered and felt in every child in the school. To attain this desirable result the committee have attempt- ed to secure for every vacancy the best attainable skill.
That Worcester may educate her own teachers and en- courage the daughters of her own citizens to prepare themselves to excel in this profession, the committee have prescribed a normal course of instruction in the high school, and in the selection of teachers, they uniformly prefer one educated in our own schools and living in the city to any equal competitor from abroad. The committee, charged with the grave responsibility of the schools, would hardly be willing, either for local or any other reasons, to prefer an inferior to a superior applicant, since such a pol- icy would degrade and ruin the schools by discriminating in favor of ignorance and offering a reward for incompe- tency. Wisdom and caution in the appointment of teach- ers often save much subsequent vexation and trouble, since it is much easier to close the door against an unworthy applicant than to remove from the school an incompetent incumbent. It has been the good fortune of the committee to justify their extreme caution in the selection of candi- dates and care in the examination of them by the general excellence of their recent appointments.
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SCHOOL HOUSES.
The number of buildings occupied by the public schools of the city is twenty-five,-twelve suburban and thirteen in the centre, all of which are owned by the city except the one in Temple street, which is leased at an annual rent of $300. The twenty-five houses are furnished with 4365 seats, distributed as follows: In the twelve suburban houses 657,-in the twelve houses owned by the city in the centre district 3519, -- in the leased house, Temple street, 189.
The need of additional school rooms both in the eastern and in the western parts of the centre district was shown in the last annual report ; and, in his inaugural address, the Mayor recommended the erection of a school house in Pleasantville, and the committee on school houses the erec- tion of another in East Worcester. But the increased de- mands of the war put an end to both projects.
Plea antville is at an inconvenient distance from the nearest school house even in pleasant weather, and at an impossible distance for little ones in winter; and more- over, if the difficulties of the journey were overcome, they would find the rooms too crowded to accommodate them.
The house in East Worcester, which has only two school rooms and which may have been sufficiently large to ac- commodate all the scholars in that vicinity at the time of its erection, now, when the population is probably five times as large as at that time, can only accommodate the sub-primary scholars, all the rest being sent out of the neighborhood, wherever room can be found for them.
A new house of the size and style of the one in Salem street, located a little east and north of the hospital, would, with what room they now have, provide for their immediate wants and relieve to some extent the schools in Summer und Thomas streets.
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A house half as large, with two school rooms, in Pleas- antville would supply that neglected neighborhood with a convenient place for the education of the smaller children while the larger ones could find room in the Pleasant street house.
The small and ill-ventilated rooms in the Sycamore street house have caused much complaint and no little sickness. The subject has received the careful thought of successive committees and, in 1860, a recommendation to enlarge and improve them was made by the committee on school houses and approved by the board, but the work was postponed because the erection of the Salem street house was thought to be enough to be done that year. This year the subject came up again, and the urgency of the case induced the board to ask an oppropriation to effect the improvements. Under the direction of Mr. Samuel Har- ding, chairman of the committee on school houses, six of the eight rooms have been enlarged, an improved system of ventilation been adopted, stoves been substituted for furnaces, dormer windows been placed in the attic, and a convenient hall adapted to the uses of the schools in the practice of physical exercises, been secured at a cost con siderably less than the appropriation. With the exception of the Salem street house, the Sycamore street house is now the best in the city.
An appropriation of $250 was also made for the repair of the house in the North Pond district ; but the unwilling- ness of the district to have that house repaired in its pres- ent locality induced the committee on school houses not to attempt any improvement there.
PUPILS.
The whole number of children between the ages of five
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and fifteen years in the city on the first day of May, 1862, was according to the report of the assessors, 4601
The whole number May 1st, 1861 4308
A gain of 192
The whole number who have received instruction in the public schools during a part or the whole of the year 1862 is 5772
of whom the males were 2838
females “
2934
The number between the ages of five and fifteen years
was
5062
Over fifteen
356
Under five
354
An aggregate annual increase of
268
The average whole number belonging to the schools during the year, that is, so connected with them that seats are constantly appropria- ted to them, when there are seats enough for each pupil to have one, was 4198
In the centre district 3735
suburban districts
463
A gain in one year of
175
The average number belonging to the schools determines the average number of seats required to accommodate them. The twenty-four houses owned by the city are fur- nished with 4176 seats :-
Centre district
3519
Suburban districts
657
By which it appears that the suburban schools have an average of 494 unoccupied seats, while the centre has 216 scholars unprovided for, except by the leasing of the Tem- ple street house which has given only partial and tempo- rary relief. The erection of new houses will alone make the accommodations complete and permanent.
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The average daily attendance, which is always less than the number belonging to the schools, since all the members of a large school are seldom present at one time, was 3668 Centre district 3274
Suburban district
394
A gain in one year of
200
The ratio of the average daily attendance to the aver- age number belonging to the schools was eighty-seven and a third per cent.
Of the whole number in the city,
89 per cent. have belonged to the schools in the centre district,
suburban districts. 11
In the centre district they have been distributed in the several grades as follows :
5 3-10 per cent. in the high school,
7 3-10
grammar schools, upper grade,
11 6-10
lower “
18 7-10
.6 secondary
22 9-10
primary
32 6-10
sub-primary "
1 6-10
apprentices' "
We present in the annexed schedule a summary of the statistics of the several classes of schools for the year 1862.
No. of schools ..
No. of seats.
No. of teachers .....
registered ....
Number of scholars
Average whole No.
Average atten-
Per cent. of atten-
Males ..
Females ..
yrs. and mos.
Average age in
-
Yrs. Mos.
High school.
1
212
6
230
197
191
96
86
144
16
104
Upper Grammar ..
4
266
5
356
263
253
96
142
214
14
7
Lower Grammar ..
7
474
9
593
435 700 858
401 623
92
292
301
12
6
Secondary ..
12
687
13
862
Primary.
9
877
15
1086
Sub-Primary.
15
1136
19
1710
1221
753 1001
82
848
862
6
3
Apprentices
2
56
2
206
61
52
85
187
19
14
10
Suburban.
12
657
14
729
463
394
85
364
365
10
4
10
8
88
526
560
8
10
88
393
469
of scholars ..
dance ..
dance.
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THE ROLL OF HONOR.
The scholars whose names are found in the following list are worthy of honorable mention for their constancy and regularity in daily attendance. The first column in- cludes those who have not been absent, tardy, or dismissed, during the entire year ; the second and third include those whose attendance, though not perfect for the year, has been perfect at least six consecutive months. Of the for- mer there are ninety-two; of the latter, three hundred and fifty-five.
HIGH SCHOOL-H. R. GREENE, Principal.
Perfect through the year.
Perfect six consecutive months
Susie E. Alden.
Anna E. Aldrich,
Mary E. Adams,
Eldora M. Aldrich,
Eliza Barnard,
Susie C. Berry,
Linnie M. Allen,
M. Fannie Bigelow,
Henrietta S. Clark,
Ellen M. Boyden,
Agnes L. Carter,
Ella L. Drury,
Minna S. Fitch,
Helen F. Clark,
Lizzie N. Eager,
Ava S. Flagg, Emily A. Curtis,
Adela A. Fitch,
Susie G. Gale,
Vashti E. Hapgood,
Mary E. Gibbs,
Carrie E. Gilbert,
Mary A. Hardy,
Sarah E. Goddard,
Jennie A. Greene,
Hattie C. Hayes,
Sarah G. Gould,
Julia A. Rice,
Annie L. Kendall,
Emma L. Griggs, Mary E. Hacker,
Lois P. Grosvenor,
Mary A. Messinger, Anna L. Nichols, Corinne Nichols,
S. Abbie Heywood, Sarah R. Lathe, Emma F. Marsh,
Nora E. Perry,
Jennie E. Prentice,
F. Minnie Palmer, Mary E. Partridge,
Lillian L. Sanderson. Martha H. Rice,
Maria L. Stowe,
Julia A. Rockwood,
S. Emma Pierce, Isabelle Pond, Lucy F. Sawyer,
Ellen C. Thomas,
Emily A. Spaulding,
Mary G. B. Wheeler, Agnes L. Walker,
Hannah A. Smith,
Mariam B. Whiton,
Nellic L. Washburn, Martha E. Smith,
Emily A. Wilson, Carrie P. Townsend, Maria A. Spaltar,
Mary A. Harrington,
Mary E. D. King,
Abbie F. Knowles,
Louisa V. Palmer,
Agnes E. Samson,
Lizzie S. Rice,
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Perfect through the year.
Perfect six consecutive months.
Emma J. Wood, Mary S. Tolman,
Kate E. Spalter,
Louisa S. Wood. Martha B. Ward. Carrie Willi,
Abbie A. Swallow,
Patrick W. Colleary,
Edward H. Doherty,
Charles E. Brown,
William T. Brown,
Freeman Brown, William D. Comins,
George Fisher,'
Lucius P. Merriam.
Charles Hall,
Daniel F. Cronin,
Edward B. Hamilton, Charles H. Daniels, Fred. O. Harrington, Edward H. Greenleaf,
Charles M. Loring,
James T. Sheehan, George H. Stone,
William C. Stearns,
L. Delevan Thayer,
Wm. A. Harrington, Roger F. Upham.
Albert H. Inman,
GRAMMAR SCHOOL-UPPER GRADE.
THOMAS ST. SCHOOL-J. H. NEWTON, Principal.
Fannie S. Barnes,
Mary A. E. Adams,
Sarah E. Nason,
Emma J. Blood,
Sarah Colman,
Marion L. Smith,
Abbie A. Fisher, Emily G. Cutler,
Jennie Woodworth,
Emma A. Goddard,
Ellen Flagg,
Clara Walker,
Nellie C. Knowlton, Jennie G. Munyan, Jennie C. Prentiss, Martha Z. Swallow, Lucy H. Williams, Geo. L. Estey, M. Albert Whiting.
Sarah G. Gould, Emma Howe,
Geo. W. Harrington,
William D. Brown,
Ellie C. Knowlton,
Willie T. Comins,
Anna E. Loring,
Stedman Clark,
Emma Putnam,
Edward Drury,
Annie B. Souther,
Edward H. Greenleaf,
Maria M. Taft,
William A. Hartwell,
Ida C. Upton, Ellen E. Derby,
Roger F. Upham, David W. Pond,
Mary T. Gale,
Deleran Thayer,
Abby T. Moore,
Oscar E. Chaffin.
Nellie O. Barber,
Geo. H. Harrington,
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Ivers S. Paine,
Emma J. Claflin,
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SYCAMORE ST. SCHOOL-A. A. HUNT, Principal,
Perfect through the year.
Perfect six consecutive months.
Mary Stone, Georgieanna Barton,
Sarah A. Flagg, Elmira A. Gould,
Emma E. Upham, Maria Shepard,
Eliza S. Holden, Ella M. Sibley,
Henry Chase.
Marthaette Dadmun.
Emily F. Minot,
Lizzie Grout,
Sarah J. Harris,
Mary E. Rockwood,
Emma G. Barry,
Hattie L. Howe,
Ella L. Drury,
Eunice M. Walker,
Emma S. Dayton, Lizzie Gleason,
Wm. J. Woodworth,
Charles H. Daniels,
Etta R. Bradford,
John W. Watkins,
Ella J. Pratt,
Wm. M. Watkins,
Annie A. Holden,
Wm. P. Aldrich,
Amelia G. Brigham,
Albert L. Fisher,
Isabella A. Estabrook, Charles Mecorny, Ella M. Fitch, Charles E. Burke,
Nellie L. V. Daniels, Albert H. Hubbard, Louise Bonney, Charles F. Everett,
Hannah A. Smith,
George C. Walker,
Katherine E. Spalter, Waldo Lincoln,
Isabel M. Pond,
M. S. J. Burke.
Maria A. Spalter,
SYCAMORE ST. SCHOOL-MISS E. MANLY Principal.
Lizzie G. Allen, Josie Allen,
Charles Bartlett.
Hattie E. Rice,
Anna Holden, Martha Dadmun, Sarepta Tourtellott,
Ella Burnham,
Carrie E. Dawson, Ella J. Walker,
John Watkins, Chas. B. Meacham,
Martha E. Smith.
Louise A. Dawson,
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SALEM ST. SCHOOL-MISS M. A. WILLARD, Principal.
Perfect through the year.
Perfeet six consecutive months.
Helen S. Maynard, Ellen M. Gould.
Mary L. Brown,
Mary H. Eaton,
Fannie S. Barnes,
Mary W. Chapin,
Triphena Brady,
Jennie A. Ellis,
Lizzie M. Long,
Lizzie McKenna,
Maggie McLanes.
George L. Estey, Geo. G. Harrington,
Elisha A. Merrill, A. M. Ballard, Geo. W. Burke,
GRAMMAR SCHOOL,-LOWER GRADE.
THOMAS ST. SCHOOL-MISS E. M. HAWES, Principal.
John M. 'Burke. Herbert H. Lathe, Eddie A, Putnam. Willie S. Souther,
THOMAS ST. SCHOOL-MISS O. A. GEORGE, Principal.
S. Adelle Estabrook, Alice G. Swett, Flora J. Osgood, Mary Pendleton, Emma M. Hovey,
Lizzie Pendleton.
John D. Curtis, Edward H. Hacker.
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PLEASANT ST. SCHOOL-MISS H. M. WALKER, Principal.
Perfect through the year. Perfect six consecutive months.
Margaret Barton, Ella Woodward, William Brigham,
Mary Heald, John Lincoln, Louie Brigham.
Eddie Spurr.
Charles Bartlett,
SYCAMORE ST. SCHOOL-MISS C. A. GEORGE, Principal.
Julia A. Knapping, Emma C. Stevens,
Mary A. Bancroft,
S. Lizzie Coes, Josie G. Warren,
Emma S. Wood,
Annie Hopcraft, Josie F. Allen,
Jennie M. Palmer,
James Fitz,
John G. Coes,
Floretta I. Pope, Charles F. Maynard,
Nettie E. Allen,
Franklin Richardson,
ASH ST. SCHOOL-MISS A. E. AYRES, Principal,
Ellen Fay.
NEW WORCESTER SCHOOL-MISS E. E. CRANE, Principal.
Carrie Gates.
Mary E. Nichols.
SALEM ST. SCHOOL -- MISS H. WHITNEY, Principal.
[A new school organized in May. ]
Lucy Hadley, Edgar Clark.
Jennie Stone,
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
THOMAS ST. SCHOOL-MRS. COE'S SCHOOL.
Ella Carter,
Mary Staples, Annie Flynn,
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Perfect through the year.
Perfect six consecutive months.
Stella Paul,
Hattie Hanlin,
Ines Adams, Stella Paul,
Flora E. Goodnow,
Josie Harper,
Mary Hoyt,
Hattie Faley,
James Connor, Thomas Hanlin.
Eliza Burke,
Eliza Barker, Morris Davereux,
Anna Howard, John Otis,
Ellen Murphy, Michael Morgan,
Susan Danforth,
William Joice,
Mary Welch,
Peter Neaham,
Ellen Rumery,
Daniel Sullivan,
Lucy Strong,
George Moore,
Mary Buxton,
John Cosey,
Michael Quinlan,
SUMMER ST. SCHOOL-MISS T. S. NICHOLS, Principal.
Emma Hovey, Flora S. Osgood.
Alice Prince,
SUMMER ST. SCHOOL-MISS S. B. LAMB, Principal.
Flora King, Everett Bardwell.
Frank Holland,
MAIN ST. SCHOOL-MISS K. A. MEADE, Principal.
Georgie May, Frank Moulton,
Mary E. Boyden, Marion Moulton,
Minnie Meade, Isabel Taft,
Clara Marcy,
Ella Magoun.
PLEASANT ST. SCHOOL-MISS H. A. GREENE, Principal.
Louie H. Brigham, Charles H. Holden, Lilla H. Whittemore,
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PLEASANT ST. SCHOOL-MISS C. HEWETT, Principal.
Perfect through the year. Perfect six consecutive months.
Ada J. Earle,
SYCAMORE ST. SCHOOL-MISS H. E. LAMB, Principal.
Samuel Shepard, Willie Wells. Munroe Minott,
SYCAMORE ST. SCHOOL-MISS C. R. CLEMENTS, Principal.
Theresa Carroll, Abbie Davis,
Fannie Bradford,
Helen Fuller, Elnora Fuller,
Charlie Coes. Annie Hopcraft,
Lizzie Coes, John Coes,
Hattie Davis,
Joseph Ellis.
SALEM ST. SCHOOL-MISS R. BARNARD, Principal.
Jennie Stone. Bridget Phelan, Mary Quinn, Annie Harrington,
Mary Stone, Henry Knight.
ASH ST. SCHOOL-MISS C. N. FOLLETT, Principal.
Mary E. Spaulding, Alice E. Jackson, Frederick M. Pierce,
Mary E. Russell William H. Pierce.
PROVIDENCE ST. SCHOOL-MISS M. S. MAYNARD, Principal.
Emma A. Gordon,
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NEW WORCESTER SCHOOL-MISS M. M. LAWTON, Principal.
Perfect through the year. Pertect for six consecutive months.
Adelaide E. Kean.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
SUMMER STREET-MISS E. G. CHENERY, Principal.
Willie M'Kinley, Lizzie M'Kinley,
Charles Duckworth ,
Frank Deforce. Sophia B. Russell, Jamie Carr,
Mary Dolen,
Freddie Goulding,
Henry S. Bean,
Charles E. Newton, Fred. R. Bard well.
MAIN STREET-MISS S. J. NEWTON, Principal.
Samuel Smith, Eugene Darling.
PLEASANT STREET-MISS L. M. WILMARTH, Principal.
Ada L. Sherman, Fred. W. Hamilton, Simpson C. Heald.
Leslie P. Whittemore,
SYCAMORE STREET-MISS S. W. CLEMENTS, Principal.
Theresa Carroll, James Brown,
Madella C. Hoyle, Edgar Andrews,
Allie M. Longley, Michael Burke.
Charlie Coes,
ASH STREET-MISS M. J. MACK, Principal.
Ellen Shannon, John Skahen.
Lizzie Seibert,
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Perfect through the year. Perfect six consecutive months. Henry S. Knight, Sammie Gould.
FRONT STREET-MISS M. HOBBS, Principal.
Helen M. Perkins, Eliza J. M. Dermott.
SUB-PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
THOMAS STREET-MISS S. L. PHILLIPS, Principal.
Alice Bardwell, Freddie Richards.
SUMMER STREET-MISS M. A. SLATER, Principal.
Fannie Parks, Willie Prince,
Nellie Murry, John King, Charles Brady.
Willie Underwood,
MAIN STREET-MISS S. S. BANISTER, Principal.
Louisa Sacton, Willie Ross.
SYCAMORE STREET-MISS E. P. PALMER, Principal,
Mary Carroll, Madella C. Hoyle.
Emma Langley,
SYCAMORE STREET-MISS M. A. SMITH, Principal. John Carroll.
ASH STREET-MISS H. A. BRIGHAM, Principal.
Michael Austin, John M'Closkey, James Keeper,
James M'Cafferty, Clarence Potter,
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FRONT STREET-MISS A. PRATT, Principal.
Perfect through the year. Perfect six consecutive months.
Maggie Capukee, Henry O'Brien, John Quinn, Lewis Shaw, John O'Brien .
FRONT STREET-MISS C. M. DRAPER, Principal.
Albert S. Nickerson, Thomas Whelan.
EAST WORCESTER-MISS C. E. PUTNAM, Principal.
Mary A. Quirk, Willie M'Gown, , Peter Cunningham.
PROVIDENCE STREET-MISS E. L. POND, Principal.
Alice Midgeley.
NEW WORCESTER-MISS L. PRATT, Principal.
Nora Hean, James Sutton, Thomas Johnson.
SUBURBAN SCHOOLS.
TASTUCK-MISS S. A. HENSHAW, Principal.
Emma S. Eastman, Wm. H. Eastman,
Alice M. Maynard, Benjamin S. Newton,
Sarah F. Eastman, Nelson J. Putnam.
CHAMBERLAIN --- MISS K. G. CRANE, Principal.
Carrie W. M'Farland, Milton H. Sears. [Note. In Ash St. scnool, for Brigham read Bigelow.] 8
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No, POND ---- MISS S. M. HASTINGS, Principal.
Perfect through the year. Perfect six consecutive months.
Rufus H. Fish.
NORTHVILLE ----- MISS C. E. BARNARD Principal.
Joseph Flagg, John Flagg.
BURNCOAT PLAIN ----- MISS H. F. CHASE, Principal.
Mary M. Moore,
George R. Moore,
Ida M. Moore, Wendell P. Coe,
Willie H. Moore.
Charles F. Coe,
POND --- MISS M. A. PRATT, Principal.
Eunice M. Gates. Eliza F. Prentiss.
BLITHWOOD ----- MISS D. ROWLAND, Principal.
John Q. Adams. Eiisha W. Adams.
QUINSIGAMOND ----- MISS A. D. BURDON, Principal.
C. M. Harrington, Warren W. Cheeney,
Fannie A. Goss, Henry E. Sackett, Addie L. Harrington, James J. Coonan, Ellen S. Cheeney, Waldo G. Stebbins,
Clora J. Prince. James Preston.
So. WORCESTER ----- MISS E. WHITNEY, Principal. .
Emma A. Harrington,
LEESVILLE-MISS A. H. BARNES, Principal.
Milton G. Stone, Willie E. Jaques.
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RESOURCES AND EXPENDITURES
The present aggregate value of the school property of the city, real and personal, is about $160,000. The annual expense of keeping it from depreciation cannot be far from two per cent, or, $3200. The department has been cred- ited for the year 1862 with the following sums :
I. For ordinary current expenses.
Appropriation by the city council from
$36,050.00
taxes
66 state
school fund -
873.71
Tuition of scholars from other towns and
other sources - 18.00 $36,941.71
11. For extraordinary expenses.
Appropriation by city council from taxes
for enlargement of rooms in Sycamore street house and new heating appa- ratus -
$1,000.00
Apropriation for repairs on No. Pond
house
-
- 250.00
house
rent of Temple street 200.00 $1,450.00
$38,391.71
EXPENDITURES.
Ordinary current expenses . Enlarging rooms Sycamore street and new heating apparatus 888.24 - Heating apparatus for Temple street house 125.00
$34,581.77
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Rent of Temple street house
200.00
$35,795.01
Leaving an unexpended balance of
$2596.70
In 1861 there was left in the Treasury an unexpended balance of
$1184.09
In 1860, a balance of
-
363.30
Previous to 1860 the balance was usually large, and always on the wrong side.
The annexed schedule will show in detail for what the money has been expended :
Salaries of teachers
$25,995,16
Salary of Superintendent
1400.00
Fuel
2262.17
Sawing wood
160.66
Books, maps, charts ink, and stationary
267.41
Printing
117.60
Fires and sweeping
842.16
Cleaning
232.18
Repairs and improvements
2517.65
Furnishings
1372.08
Insurance
143.70
Labor &c.
-
57.52
Miscellaneous and incidental . 226.72
Rent of Temple street house 2-3 of year 200.00
$35,795.01
The cost per scholar for the year, if all the ex penses, ordinary and extraordinary, are included in the aggregate, was $9.76 If the extraordinary expenses are not included the cost per scholar was only - - $9.43
The average annual cost per scholar for the four years 1856, 7, 8, 9, was $11.36
For the years 1860, 1, 2, $9.86
If the cost per scholar in 1862 had been equal to the average annual cost from 1856 to 1859 the expenses would have been $41,668.48 The expenses were 35,795.01
A saving to the city in one year of $5873.47
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The relative annual cost per scholar in the several grades and classes of schools will appear in the annexed statement :
Schools.
Cost per scholar.
Classicaland English high school
$24.87
Grammar Schools, upper grade
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.15.74
lower grade
8.92
Secondary
8.34
Primary
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-
7 01
Sub-primary
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.
-
6.58
Apprentices'
.
-
-
.
10.91
Suburban
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-
10.19
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
It was long ago discovered that the first condition of a healthy mind is a healthy body ; but it is only quite re- cently that the subject of physical education in the public schools has claimed the special attention of physiologists and teachers. The importance of this subject to the pa- rents of children growing up in the city, where they can enjoy very few of the amusements and are called upon to perform hardly any of the out-door labors which are com- mon in the country, and which conduce largely to the vig- or of those who participate in them, cannot easily be over- estimated.
Till this year physical training formed a part of the daily exercises in but very few schools in this city. Now the schools are exceptional where it does not constitute a part of every day's duties. The principal of the Sycamore street grammar school, Mr. A. A. Hunt, whose own enthu- siasm is the inspiration of his scholars, began this, as he begins every work, by first becoming interested in it him- self and then leading his scholars into the love of it by the
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