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74 Cerebral Hemorrhage, Apoplexy
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90 Other Diseases of Heart
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102 Pleurisy
101B Pneumonia not Defined .
107 Other Diseases of Respiratory System .
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113 Diarrhoea (under two years)
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159 Congenital Malformation
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Class XI Early Infancy: 161A Premature Birth . 162 Diseases peculiar to Infancy Malnutri- tion .
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164 Old Age (Senility)
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
January 19, 1924.
To the School Committee of the Town of Arlington:
In this first report, I shall attempt to summarize the chief objects and results of my effort since taking charge of your school system in the summer of 1922.
A general study of the school situation in Arlington im- pressed me with several needs which are outlined in the follow- ing report, together with the measures employed to supply them.
I. UNIFORMITY OF PLAN AND PRACTICE IN SCHOOL WORK.
Because of varying conditions of overcrowding and the various solutions of the problems which had been worked out in the several schools, an undesirable lack of uniformity had grown up in the plans and methods of practice in the elementary schools. This is being overcome by the following methods:
Semi-Annual Examinations;
Plans for Uniform Outline Courses of Study ;
Equalization of the Services of Special Teachers to the several schools;
Introduction of Uniform Time Allotment.
II. ELIMINATION OF EXPERIMENTAL POLICIES.
Although educational experimentation is necessary to progress in methods of education, it is my conviction that the public school is not the proper field for it. The Arling- ton schools appeared to suffer from the introduction into the elementary grades of subjects, activities and methods of organi- zation belonging primarily in the Junior High School. These are being gradually withdrawn as follows:
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Elimination of Manual Training and Sewing from fourth and fifth grades;
Elimination of Special Dramatic Work from elemen- tary grades; Elimination of Departmental Organization from fourth and fifth grades.
III. REVISION OF METHODS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
The business methods have been revised to a great extent, in order to accomplish the following:
To take advantage of many more discounts on bills for payment in ten days;
To quickly determine the status of any appropriation as all orders are charged against each appropriation on issuance;
To check expenditure for each school under each ap- propriation, so that no school exceeds its share of any appropriation.
IV. REORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENTS FOR ECONOMY.
The fact that the average number of pupils per teacher in the Arlington schools was comparatively low led to a study of the causes. Some of these were:
Very small classes in several departments of the upper schools;
Too much spare time in some teaching schedules;
A super-organization of many special teachers in addition to full time supervisors.
Much of this was changed last year in the following manner : Organization of Mechanic Arts Department with one less employee;
Organization of Household Arts Department with one less employee;
Organization of Dramatic Arts Department with two less employees ;
Organization of Physical Training Department with three less employees;
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Organization of Supervising Principals with one less employee;
Organization of Sub-primary Department with four less employees ;
Combination of small classes with four less employees.
These changes resulted in a large saving of expense to the Town. The increased cost to the Town of the School Depart- ment for 1923 and 1924 is only one third of the increased cost of 1921 and 1922, two periods very similar in growth of school population and new school accommodations, and increase in teachers' salaries.
This effort of Reorganization for Economy has been under- taken willingly by the school administration. We see on one side a general reaction against rapidly mounting school costs, and hear on the other side a national protest among educators against curtailment of school privileges. It seemed to us wise to plan our own economies along lines of sound pedagogy rather than to wait to suffer the grave losses sustained by sister school departments in arbitrary slashing of the School Budget. In Arlington, the desired result of economical administration has been accomplished by safe and sane treatment so that no major operation with its consequent dangers is needed.
V. ADDITIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO SCHOOL WORK.
The policy of the present administration has not been one of retrenchment and conservation alone, because many addi- tions and extensions to the work have been effected.
The Physical Training work has been extended through the Junior and Senior High Schools, so that each student is actively engaged in some form of physical training exercise or outdoor game activity. This department covers the work of nearly fifteen hundred more boys and girls than formerly. The organi- zation has thus supplanted the "athletic aristocracy" of a few highly trained athletes with the universal, democratic partici- pation in exercises and games.
The work of the Junior High Schools has been given a great impetus in two ways; first, in the appointment of two principals, one for each school, so that a closer contact with
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the individual needs of the pupils and a closer professional sup- ervision of the teachers' work is possible; second, in the appoint- ment of several splendid, well-equipped teachers who, together with the strong remaining members of the former faculties, make an organization more on a par with the High School faculty than has heretofore obtained.
One of the most valuable additions to the work has been the organization of an "Industrial Class" at the Junior High School Centre, to which older pupils of the several special classes can be promoted. The object is to combine with aca- demic work, suited to the abilities of the individual pupils, a maximum of industrial work, and to form actual contacts with outside industrial organizations which will later lead naturally to employment along the line for which each pupil shows an aptitude.
Another important addition is the appointment of a Pen- manship Supervisor on part time. The penmanship habits of pupils, especially in the primary grades, were such that the future ability of the pupils in hand writing was being seriously handicapped. This is being gradually overcome by the work of the teachers under the direction of the new Penmanship Supervisor.
Other additions of importance to the work are:
Improved plans for work of Attendance Officer;
Appointment of High School Matron;
Extended use of School Halls and Gymnasiums;
Complete lighting installation in two schools lacking such equipment.
Mention should be made of the very satisfactory results of the High School work in the matter of college entrance. Every student of the 1923 graduating class who applied for entrance to college last fall was successful. Entrances into college institutions of the highest standing were accomplished, many through College Board Examinations, with letters of congratulation from some of the Boards of Admission, on the splendid work done in our High School.
I cannot forego the opportunity to mention some of our needs for the immediate future, as follows:
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More school buildings to relieve the crowding at Cutter, Crosby and Junior High Centre schools;
A partial revision of salary schedule to stop the constant turnover in employment in the Junior High Schools and upper elementary grades;
An incentive to better effort for Junior High and Senior High School students by offering scholarship rewards for high standard work. The income from twenty-five or thirty thous- and dollars expended in this way would double the effectiveness of the work of these schools. This money should be provided not by appropriations but by funds or donations.
Provision is needed for shower baths, a swimming pool, and an enclosed athletic field at the High School, to place our physical training on a sounder, more healthful basis, and to relieve the constantly growing congestion of Spring and Fall afternoon game activities at Spy Pond Athletic Field.
This report would be entirely incomplete without an ex- pression of appreciation of the work of the teachers, their energy, their faithfulness, their enthusiasm and zeal. During a period of reorganization, a time always trying to teachers, principals, and supervisors alike, the employees of the Arlington School Department have shown a spirit of loyalty and co- operation equalled only by their professional attitude displayed in a willingness to lay aside personal opinions and preferences for the good of the department as a whole.
I desire to express to the School Committee my genuine appreciation of and deep gratitude for the uniform courtesy and the splendid co-operation and support extended to me during my term of service.
Respectfully submitted,
CHESTER A. MOODY, Superintendent of Schools.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of the Town of Arlington:
Your School Committee organized for the year on March 7. During the year 1923 it has held 10 regular meetings and 7 special meetings of the full Committee, besides a large number of meetings of sub-committees; special meetings, and the neces-
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sary meetings of sub-committees, have greatly increased during the past year because of the growth of school affairs.
During the year the Committee has suffered the loss of two of its most valued members, Mrs. Arthur A. Lawson, who retired after fifteen years of service, and Mr. Herbert A. Snow, who acted during the greater part of his four years of tenure as Secretary to the Committee. The Committee records with gratitude its appreciation of the exceptional qualifications and the helpful service of these two members and its deep regret that they could not be induced to continue to serve. The new members elected to fill their places are Mrs. Charles A. Hardy and Mr. Foster P. Doane. On February 16 the school system lost a faithful and efficient servant in the death of Donald Higgins, who had served as a school janitor for eight years at the Junior High School Center.
A significant feature of the school year was the unveiling at the Crosby School on June 19 of a memorial to Mary A. Scanlan, who for 49 years as teacher and principal of the Crosby School so well served her pupils and her Town. The memorial is in the form of a flag pole, with a base by the sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin beautifully symbolizing the work of the teacher - a fitting tribute to a remarkable career.
At the last Town Meeting the Town was invited to con- sider the pressing need for added school accommodations. As a step in a building program, which must necessarily be con- tinuous on account of the rapid growth of the Town, the voters at the March Town Meeting appointed a special committee on additional school accommodations. This committee reported on April 16, and at a special meeting held July 11 the Town voted for the construction of a new school at the Heights and appointed a building committee for that purpose. The new school, which will relieve the pressure on the Locke School, will, we believe, be ready for the opening of the school year next September; it is to be named the Pierce School. The Town will be asked at the next Town Meeting to provide an addition to the Cutter School and also to make some provision for the over-crowding at the Crosby School. East Arlington is entitled not only to a considerable enlargement of its present. facilities for the grammar grades: it should have at a very
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carly date a Junior High School building as well. These neces- sitics, foreseen several years ago and postponed because of unfavorable conditions in the building trade, can no longer be deferred. Since the opening of the Junior High School West, - the last addition to our housing facilities, - the average school attendance has increased from 3,258 to 3,798 : clearly an increase of 16% here means a growth so large as to tax the capacity of not one, but all, of our present school buildings.
This building program, however, has brought an inevitable increase in Town expenditures, and the Committee has taken very seriously its responsibility to the Town to reduce its budget to the lowest possible figures. In this task it has had invaluable assistance from the Superintendent of Schools, who has made a thorough examination of the system at every point and sug- gested economies which the School Committee has already put into operation. President Pritchett of the Carnegie Founda- tion, in his annual report published last February, called atten- tion to the alarming rate of increase in the expenditures for public schools. This increase, he pointed out, was due in part to natural growth, to improvement and enlargement of equip- ment, and to increase in teachers' salaries, but due in large part, in his opinion, to a mistaken view on the part of the public as to the true function of the public school. "The conception," says he, "that the public school is an agency in which any child may be taught any subject is fundamentally unsound and leads to expense beyond any man's estimate." Your Committee, sharing this opinion, is putting into effect a series of changes in the organization of our schools which, we believe, will result not only in economy but also in increased efficiency. These changes, to put the matter very briefly, are towards a reduction of departmental teaching in the grades, - with a consequent saving both of time and money, -- a greater insistence upon the effective teaching of the fundamentals, and an emphasis, old-fashioned but sound, upon the conviction that, after all, the thing most important for the student in our public schools is his study of his books.
Respectfully submitted,
A. H. RICE, Chairman.
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ATTENDANCE STATISTICS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1922-1923
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS
GRADES
Enrolled
for Year
Average
Membership
Average
Daily
Attendance
Per cent of Attendance
HIGH SCHOOL
X-XI-XII .
578
537.1
503.5
93.7
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, CENTRE. .
VII-VIII-IX ..
488
491.6
465.
94.5
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, WEST.
VII-VIII-IX ...
368
362.9
340.9
93.9
CROSBY SCHOOL:
Bertha M. Wright
VI
35
35.1
32.9
93.7
Carrie L. Minott.
VI
34
29.
26.9
92.8
Alice W. King .
4
37
36.3
34.3
94.5
Helen M. Fogg
33
31.1
29.
93.2
Elizabeth Forrest.
V.
24
20.2
19.2
95.
Ethel G. Higgins.
IV.
33
34.5
32.3
93.6
Jenne B. Tanner.
IV
30
31.3
29.2
93.3
Mildred A. Evans.
IV
31
31.1
28.5
91.6
Bertha L. Crowley
III
33
31.5
30.3
96.2
Annie B. Kimball
III
32
32.5
31.
95.4
Leona D. Cox.
III
32
30.6
28.2
92.1
Sara M. Henderson . .
II .
41
40.4
37.6
93.1
Elizabeth L. Holton.
II
42
37.2
34.5
92.7
Eleanor Hutchins . .
II
I
37
36.5
32.
87.7
Gertrude L. Toomey'.
I
37
37.5
33.9
90.4
Helen M. Warren ....
36
34.1
30.4
89.1
Annie W. Cobb (two groups)
Sub-primary . ..
63
54.6
47.8
87.5
Ellen E. Sweeney (two groups)
Sub-primary
59
53.5
45.9
85.8
Josephine M. Gold- smith.
Special.
16
14.9
13.5
90.6
685
671.1
614.4
91.6
CUTTER SCHOOL:
Edith P. Willey .
VI
37
35.9
34.2
95.2
Mary E. Warde.
VI
30
27.3
25.3
92.6
Mae F. Merrill .
V.
31
32.1
30.
93.4
Francese S. Curtis .
28
30.6
28.8
94.1
Dorothy B. MacPeck.
31
29.6
27.7
93.6
Helen Garland.
IV
24
24.9
22.9
91.6
Ruth J. Loring
III
34
32.4
30.4
93.8
Louise M. Barber
III
34
32.7
31.1
95.1
Hazel E. Ripley
II .
27
27.4
25.3
92.3
L. Francis F. Knowles
II
29
27.5
25.6
93.1
Arline Avery ..
I.
33
34.7
32.3
93.1
Elizabeth M. Clark .
I ..
33
32.4
28.8
89.2
Ida C. Hunt.
Sub-primary .
26
26.6
25.9
97.3
Annie B. E. Knowles. Sub-primary . . .
28
28.1
26.
92.5
425
422.2
394.3
93.4
V.
17.
88.5
Marion B. Johnson.
19.2
I
V.
IV
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ATTENDANCE STATISTICS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1922-1923
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS
GRADES
Enrolled
for Year
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Per cent of
Attendance
LOCKE SCHOOL:
Helen Roberts.
VI
32
31.4
28.5
90.8
Margaret M. Gearan .
VI
27
25.5
23.7
92.9
Elizabeth Forrest .
V.
4
24.6
24.3
98.8
May W. Gaffney
V.
35
34.6
32.2
93.1
Grace M. Meserve.
V.
39
35.2
32.9
93.6
Corla M. Nelson.
IV
33
32.2
30.4
94.4
Bertha W. Richards.
IV
35
32.7
30.8
94.1
Edna MacArthur
III
28
25.7
24.2
94.
Hazel Woodsome
III
27
26.8
24.4
91.2
Miriam Braley.
III
30
28.3
25.7
91.5
Carrie L. Horr
II
30
29.1
27.1
93.1
Florence W. Cromwell II.
31
30.4
28.4
93.3
Mary J. Cannon
II
30
30.1
27.5
91.4
Amy D. Young.
I
35
32.6
29.6
90.9
Ethelyn M. Brown.
I
36
31.9
29.1
90.9
Juliette H. Howard
I.
33
32.9
30.2
91.8
Myrtle M. Davis .
Sub-primary
35
31.6
28.9
91.2
Helen P. Rhodes.
Sub-primary
37
31.5
28.5
91.8
Lillian M. Lyons.
Sub-primary
34
30.6
27.3
89.3
Anna D. Shaw
Special.
13
13.2
12.4
91.2
604
590.9
546.1
92.4
PARMENTER SCHOOL:
Helen I. Taylor.
V.
25
24.2
22.8
94.2
Mabelle H. Sargent.
IV
30
29.7
27.3
91.9
June E. Simmons
III
41
36.3
32.8
90.2
Mary F. Good.
II.
38
36.9
33.9
91.8
Grace B. Tibbetts
I.
29
28.5
25.4
89.3
Helen M. Dow
Sub-primary . .
29
29.8
21.7
81.
192
185.4
163.9
88.4
RUSSELL SCHOOL :
Lilla M. Layng
VI
36
36.
34.2
95.
Nellie A. Grimes.
VI
35
35.4
33.2
93.8
Loretta A. Brandon .
V ..
38
36.9
35.4
95.8
Ruth H. Lusk .
IV
37
37.4
35.4
94.7
Margaret B. Condon .
33
34.2
32.8
95.9
Mabel C. Pond
II.
38
37.4
35.
93.5
Sarah L. Gifford
I.
36
34.1
30.6
89.7
Mary A. Chater
Sub-primary .
27
22.4
20.3
90.6
Elizabeth A. Day.
Sub-primary ...
31
26.
21.3
81.9
Mary L. Hammond . .
Special.
10
11.
9.9
90.
321
310.8
288.1
92.7
Totals and Averages.
3661
3572.0
3320.0
92.9
Daily
III
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COMPARATIVE TABLE OF AVERAGE MEMBERSHIP (Year ending June)
Year
Russell and Parmenter
Crosby
Cutter
Locke
Junior High
High
Total
1916
511.8
584.1
302.8
583.0
391.9
639.8
3013.4
1917
542.3
603.2
310.9
597.3
436.3
644.8
3134.8
1918
517.8
686.3
337.3
608.4
418.8
596.7
3165.3
1919
532.5
674.1
345.8
611.0
449.2
595.1
3205.7
1920
532.8
674.8
341.9
598.9
495.7
611.2
3255.3
1921
520.7
653.0
331.2
618.0
474.4
660.6
3257.9
1922
521.2
612.8
395.5
632.1
553.
748.0
3462.6
1923
496.2
671.1
422.2
590.9
854.5
537.1
3572.0
1923*
512.0
768.1
459.6
645.6
856.1
556.7
3798.1
*Fall term.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ROBBINS LIBRARY
To the Town of Arlington:
The Trustees of the Robbins Library submit their annual report.
The combined circulation for 1923 from Centre Library and Branches is 62,028 volumes. For 1922 there were 501 more. From Centre Library there is a gain of 689, with a total of 43,031 as compared with 42,342 in 1922. Children's Room shows a loss of 1,094 with 18,377 as against 19,471 in 1922.
Attendance in Reading Room shows a gain on week days of 63 -- 23,675 as against 23,612 in 1922, and a loss on Sun- days of 156 - 1,600 as against 1,756 in 1922.
The attendance in Children's Room shows a gain on week days of 551 - 11,947 as against 11,396 in 1922, and a gain on Sundays of 82 - 1,298 as against 1,216 in 1922.
There has been a gain of 689 in books taken from the Stack Room, 43,031 as against 42,342 in 1922. The use of periodicals shows a loss of 102 - 1,991 as against 2,093 in 1922.
The Postal Reserve shows a loss of 477 - 1,545 as against 2,022 in 1922.
There was a loss of 341 in books and periodicals loaned from the Arlington Heights Branch, 4,139 as against 4,480 in 1922.
There was a loss of 20 in books and periodicals sent from the Centre to the Heights, 452 in 1923 as against 472 in 1922.
There was a gain of 590 in books and periodicals loaned from the East Branch, 7,408 as against 6,818 in 1922.
There was a loss of 76 in books and periodicals sent from the Centre to the East Branch, 168 in 1923 as against 244 in 1922.
Visitors and readers at the East Branch were 2,317 as against 3,405 in 1922, a loss in attendance of 1,088.
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The registration of new borrowers for the Centre and Branches was 1,023 as against 932 in 1922, a gain of 91.
Through the Inter-Library Loan system there were borrowed fom the Boston Public Library in 1923, 23 books. The members of the library staff are as follows:
Librarian
ELIZABETH J. NEWTON
Card Cataloguer
EMILY BUCKNAM
* Beginning October 1st. + Resigned December 11th
Associate Librarian FRANCES HUBBERT * Reference Department NETTIE E. BASTON t
Issue Department EDITH A. WHITTEMORE, in charge
MATILDA K. LEETCH RUTH SAMPSON
Branch Department RUTH SAMPSON, in charge
Children's Department EDITH C. RICE
Janitor JAMES SULLIVAN
Arlington Heights Branch M. MACIE SEABURY
East Arlington Branch EVA M. SMITH
Branch Messenger PROCTOR MICHELSON
Exhibitions from the Library Art Club have been as follows: January. No. 288. Philippine Islands.
January and February. No. 289. Pictures in the Art Institute of Chicago.
February and March. No. 290. French War Artists. Droit, Jonas and Poulbot.
April. No. 291. English Cathedrals. May. No. 292. Allies in Art. June and July. No. 293. Island of Madeira.
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July. No. 294. Old Rhymes. Illustrated by Henriette Willebeck LeMair.
August. No. 295. Scenes in Surrey, England.
August and September. No. 296. Arts and Crafts in Great Britain.
October. No. 297. Tower of London.
December. No. 298. Denmark.
Among the donors to the library during the year were Mrs. E. E. Bacon, Miss Esther Bailey, Mr. R. E. Conder, Miss Mildred Cottle, Mr. John A. Dadekian, Miss Grace E. Fettretch, Mrs. H. H. Homer, Mrs. Walter S. Leland, Robert Porter, Mrs. Carolyn Reed, St. Agnes Branch of the Holy Childhood Association, Mr. Edward B. Schwamb, Mrs. Peter Schwamb and Mrs. E. M. Steele.
We again thank Mr. Charles S. Parker for printing gratuit- ously the lists of New Books in the columns of the Arlington Advocate. Also for the complete file of that paper for 1923.
Answering the call for more reading matter for the American Merchant Marine Library Association, 161 books and 276 magazines were collected and forwarded.
Last spring we purchased an additional card-catalogue case as more room for cards was needed. Our counter has also been remodeled and much improved.
During Children's Book Week, November 11-17, the library had an exhibition of children's books in an effort to stimulate the interest of parents and children in good books for the child. There were also on view books showing the development of children's books from the beginning to the present day. The interest of the townspeople was shown by the fact that 798 persons visited the exhibit during the week. Stories were told to the children on Saturday, November 17, by two teachers who volunteered their services. Over two hundred children attended the story hours.
This year we have co-operated with the Junior High School in the classes for foreigners. Books in Swedish, Hungarian, Polish and Italian were borrowed from the Division of Public Libraries and two groups of foreigners visited the library.
On May 1st, the Board of Trustees gave a public reception to the librarian, Elizabeth J. Newton, in honor of her fifty
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years of service. The reception was held in the Reading Room of the Library and an orchestra provided music for the occasion. The Chairman, Mr. Muller, presided and the speakers were Judge J. P. Parmenter, Rev. S. C. Bushnell and Charles F. D. Belden, librarian of Boston Public Library. Mr. Belden gave a fine address indicating what a library should stand for in the community. Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin presented Miss Newton with a purse of one thousand dollars in gold, given by the people of Arlington.
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