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Eastham.
Eastham.
Eastham.
Orleans.
Eastham.
Providence, R. I. Eastham.
Eastham.
Eastham.
Eastham.
Provincetown.
Nov. 8 Eleanor Harriet Chase,
Name of Parents
Albion F. and Ruth E.
Frank and Florine
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DEATHS RECORDED 1912
Date of Death Name
Cause of Death Age
Jan. 25 Otis C. Jordan,
Heart disease, 54y 4m 19d
Feb. 8 Sarah S. Mayo,
Organic heart disease, 75y 1m 8d
29 Osgood W. Horton, Diabetes mel-
litus,
54y 4m 28d
May 26 Clayton R. Knowles, Pneumonia
bronchial, 10m 22d
June 15 Hinckley Lincoln, Organic heart disease, 83y 7m 23d
July 12 Helen E. Paine,
Myocarditis, 70y 6m 21d
Sept. 21 Wm. Horton Nick- Indigestion, erson,
acute, 44y 11m 29d
Oct. 14 Jane B. Dill,
Carcinoma of
uterus,
57y 11m
Nov. 26 Sparrow Snow,
Cerebral hem- orrhage, 77y 2m 1d
Dec. 23
Warren K. Snow, Valvular heart
disease,
78y
2m 10d
DOG LICENSES
Number of dogs licensed, 39
Male, Female,
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Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE T. DILL,
Town Clerk.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Trustees of the Public Library respectfully submit their annual report, including the Treasurer's and Librarian's Report.
The Librarian includes in her report a list of magazines for the ensuing year, 19 publications for the library and 14 for the sub-stations ; also, a list of books purchased during the year.
The last consignment of books, purchased by the Trustees early in December, has not been received, owing to a mistake in shipment.
The Trustees have been pleased with the success of the sub-stations at North and South Eastham during the past year, and hope that a greater number will take advantage of these stations during 1913.
We are greatly indebted to the State for Nelson's Ency- clopaedia in 12 volumes ; also, for a generous supply of juve- nile books.
We would thank the donors for the following books re- ceived : Price of the Prairie, by Mrs. Charles Knowles, To- peka, Kansas; Heart of Us, by Mrs. Francis Blake, of Weston, Mass .; Science and Health, by Mrs. Gertrude Thompson, of Brockton, Mass.
We wish to thank Miss Helen Clark for the Woman's Home Companion received from her.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
RECEIPTS
Cash in treasury January, 1912, $32 06
Dividends from New England Trust Co., Feb., 280 00
Dividends from New England Trust Co.,
280 00
Refunded dog tax, 1911,
79 30
Town appropriation,
25 00
$696 36
EXPENDITURES
Salary of Janitor and Librarian,
$156 00
Fuel and incidentals,
77 28
Repairs for engine,
13 75
Insurance,
6 50
Repairs on flagstaff,
4 75
Disbursements,
5 27
Librarian's expenses for attending Cape Cod Library Club meeting, 3 80
Expense of Dr. Field's lecture,
4 10
Expenses of Library Stations and transporting books,
30 00
Books,
100 45
Magazines,
46 60
Cash to balance,
247 86
$696 36
ALMOND NICKERSON, Chairman.
MAY KNOWLES, Secretary. FRED F. DILL.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
IN TRUST
Robert C. Billings Fund, $14,000 00
Income to be used for the support of the public library.
RECEIPTS
Jan.
1
Cash in treasury,
$32 06
Feb. 10 Received New England Trust Co. div- idend, 280 00
Received refunded dog tax,
79 30
July 29 Received New England Trust Co. div- idend, 280 00
Received town appropriation,
25 00
$696 36
EXPENDITURES
Paid orders of Trustees, $448 50
Cash in treasury, 247 86
$696 36
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE T. DILL,
Treasurer.
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
Number of books in Library,
3,173
Added during year by purchase,
75
By gifts,
41
116
Circulation :
Adult fiction,
2,755
non-fiction,
207
unbound magazines,
912
Juvenile fiction,
1,624
non-fiction,
703
unbound magazines,
289
Total,
6,490
Largest number at one time,
104
Reading room attendance,
788
Cash Jan. 1, 1912,
$5 04
Received from fines,
9 36
$14 40
Paid for mending material, etc.,
$2 26
Express and freight,
1 05
Record sheets,
1 00
Lamp burners, wicks, etc.,
3 30
Waste paper basket,
1 00
Pencils, pens, ink, paper, postals, etc., 1 50
10 11
Cash Jan. 1, 1913,
$4 29
MRS. SARAH B. CLARK,
Librarian.
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ACCESSIONS TO LIBRARY.
Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry,
Anne Remphurn, Truthseeker,
J Archilles S
J Aladdin and other stories S Lang Aerial Age S Wellman Oppenheim
Betrayal,
Basset, A Village Chronicle,
Hall
Brentons,
Ray
Buried Alive,
Bennett
Broad Highway,
Farnol
J Brave Deeds Of Our Naval Heroes S
Brooks
J Benjamin Franklin S More
Goss
Cardigan, J Carpentry, Work and Play Library,
Counsel for the Defense,
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker,
Case of Richard Meynell,
Corner of Harley Street,
Christopher,
Harding Pryce Clark
Carleton Case,
Church Sociables S
Dickens Stevenson
J Child's Garden of Verses S
J Dame Curtsey's book of guessing contests S
Glover
J Dave Porter at Cave Island,
Stratemeyer
Encyclopeadia, 12 volumes S Nelson J Electricity, Work and Play Library, Woodhull Dillimont
Encyclopedia of Needlework S J Famous Scouts,
Johnston
Farm Ballads,
Carleton
First American King,
Hastings
Following the Star,
Four In Family,
Four Million,
Henry Bailey
Garden Making S
Barclay Sumerwell
J, Juvenile; S, State Library Commission; * Gift.
Rinehart Bryant Becker
J Boy's Life of Grant,
Chambers Foster Scott Bryant Ward
J Charles Dickens,
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J Gardening, Work and Play Library,
Shaw
J Guide and Index, Work and Play Library,
Boone
J Grandpa's Little Girls and Miss Abitha,
Curtis
J Grandpa's Little Girls House-boat Party, X
Curtis
Girl of the Golden West,
Belasco
Havoc,
J Harper's Camping and Scouting,
Oppenheim Gunnell Sullivan
*Heart of Us, J Home Decoration, Work and Play Library, Warner
J Housekeeping, Work and Play Library,
History of United States S Initials Only,
Gilman Higginson Rohlfs Chesterton
Innocence of Father Brown,
Iron Woman,
Deland
J Jack Alden S
Goss
Lorraine,
Chambers
Lorimer of the Northwest,
Blindloss Johnston
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Stowe Corelli
Maud Baxter,
Hotchkiss Chambers
Maid-At-Arms,
Kipling
Man With the Black Feather,
Leroux
Measure of a Man,
Duncan
Money Moon,
Farnol
J Making the Freshman Team,
Hare
J Mechanics, Work and Play Library,
Hodgson
J Midshipman Paulding S Nada the Lily,
Hazzard
Nature Study Idea S
J New England History In Ballads S
Bailey Hale Archer
J Needlecraft, Work and Play Library,
J Outdoor Sports, Work and Play Library,
C. Miller
J Outdoor Work, Work and Play Library,
Mary Miller Carleton
One Way Out,
Padre Ignacio,
Wister
Peter Ruff and the Double Four,
Oppenheim McCarter
*Price of the Prairie,
Seawell
Long Roll,
Life Everlasting,
Mahatma and the Hare,
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Postmaster, Red Men and White, Reason Why,
Ring and the Man, Robinetta,
J Roger Paulding,
J Rolf in the Woods,
Rural Denmark,
J Saturday Mornings, S
J Seen In Germany, S
J Settlers In Canada, S
Hazzard Benton Baker Marryat Eddy Meriwether
*Science and Health,
Seeing Europe By Automobile,
Secret Garden,
Burnet ·Ade
Slim Princess, J Story of David Livingstone, S
Golding Imlach Lang
J Songs Every Child Should Know, S
Bacon
J Swiss Family Robinson,
Wyss
J Team-mates,
Barbour Brooks
J Treasure of Mushroom Rock, S
Hamp Richards
Tenderfoot With Peary,
Borup
Weavers of Dreams,
Reed
Wide Courses, Connolley
J Working In Metals, Work and Play Library, Sleffel
J When Mother Let Us Keep Pets, S
C. Johnson
J What To Do At Recess, S G. Johnson
Magazines for Eastham Public Library :
Ladies' Home Journal,
St. Nicholas,
Review of Reviews,
American, Scribners,
World's Work,
Modern Priscilla,
Lincoln Wister Glyn Brady Wiggin Beach Thompson-Seton
J Story of Columbus, S
J Stories from Shakespeare, S
J True Story of Benj. Franklin, S
J Two Noble Lives,
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McClure's,
Outing, Harper's Bazar,
American Boy,
Little Folks' Magazine,
Field and Stream,
Youth's Companion,
Munsey,
School Arts Book,
Everybody's, Cosmopolitan,
Delineator.
Sub. Station No. 1, Mrs. Nickerson:
Ladies' Home Journal,
World's Work,
Cosmopolitan,
Good Housekeeping,
Sub. Station No. 2, Capt. Smith: Everybody's,
Harper's Bazar,
Review of Reviews.
Popular Mechanics Sub. Station No. 3, Mr. Harding:
Everybody's,
Cosmopolitan,
Ladies' Home Journal,
World's Work,
Saturday Evening Post,
Popular Mechanics
RULES
Books may be kept two weeks. newed or transferred to anyone in same family.
New books cannot be re-
- Books that are to be renewed or transferred must be re- turned to Library for re-stamping.
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Examine your books before returning as Librarian is not responsible for anything left in them.
Books must be returned in the time specified by the Trustees, or the person taking them will be required to pay a fine of six cents for every week they are kept beyond the time specified, and the person taking them will not be allowed another book 'till the fine is paid.
Books lost or greatly injured must be replaced by person to whom they are charged.
Writing in books in any manner is strictly forbidden.
Magazines can be kept one week only.
Persons sending for books must send a list of titles and authors as it is impossible for Librarian to select them.
MRS. SARAH B. CLARK,
Librarian.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF EASTHAM
FOR THE YEAR
1912.
OF EA.
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TOWN
INCO
NAUSET 1620
651
HYANNIS, MASS. : F. B. & F. P. GOSS, PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS. The "Patriot" Press 1913
SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
RUSSELL D. WILEY, Chairman,
Term expires 1914
WM. F. KNOWLES, Secretary,
1913
MAY KNOWLES, 66 1915
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT
LORING G. WILLIAMS.
CORPS OF TEACHERS
December, 1912.
ROSE M. BUNNELL,
Grammar School
JENNIE B. SMITH,
Intermediate School
FLORENCE W. KEITH, Primary School
LOTTA M. MURRAY, Supervisor of Music and Drawing
JANITOR
FRANK ELLISON.
TRUANT OFFICER FRANK ELLISON.
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS
R. J. MARVEL, M. D., A. D. HATCH, M. D.
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Pupils Attending Orleans High School
Lawrence Walker,
Bernard Collins,
Selma Moore,
Clara Rich,
Arthur Wadsworth,
Leona Sparrow,
Rebecca Knowles,
Marion Rich,
Amie Horton,
Adeline Rogers,
Ralph Steele,
Grafton Handy.
High School Graduates June, 1912
Lawrence Horton, Ruth Dill, Erma Nickerson
Graduates of Ninth Grade June, 1912
Clara Rich,
Eleanor Gill,
Leora Sparrow,
Rebecca Knowles,
Marion Rich, Amie Horton, Adeline Rogers, Ralph Steele,
Carroll Tyler
School Calendar 1912-13
FALL TERM :
September 3 to December 13, 1912, 15 weeks
Vacation, two weeks
WINTER TERM :
December 30, 1912, to March
14, 1913,
11 weeks
Vacation, two weeks
SPRING TERM :
March 31 to June 5, 1913,
10 weeks
36 weeks
FALL TERM, 1913 :
September 2
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1912
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
RECEIPTS AVAILABLE
Balance of State School Fund Dec. 31, 1911, $44 86
Received in 1912 from Massachusetts School
Fund, 1,509 47
Received in 1912 Town's appropriation for schools, 1,800 00
Received from City of Boston for tuition,
190 80
Received rebate on teachers' and Superintend- ent's salaries, 133 93
Received rebate on High School tuition,
278 40
Balance of refunds Dec. 31, 1911,
66 07
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
61 36
$4,084 89
EXPENDITURES
Paid for Superintendent's salary, $187 92
Janitor's salary, 229 00
Teachers' salary,
1,387 50
Transportation of pupils,
1,335 50
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Paid School supplies,
$286 78
Labor and repairs,
67 56
Incidentals,
63 10
Tuition to Town of Orleans,
278 40
Fuel,
120 81
Music and Drawing,
103 32
Medical examinations,
25 00
$4,084 89
RUSSELL D. WILEY,
Chairman.
WILLIAM F. KNOWLES,
Secretary.
MAY KNOWLES.
STATISTICS OF ATTENDANCE FOR SCHOOL YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1912
TEACHER
WHERE EDUCATED
NAME OF SCHOOL
Enrolment
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Percentage of
Attendance
One-half Day
Absences
Tardinesses
Dismissals
Visits by School
Visits by Supervisor of
Music and Drawing
Visits by Others
Rose M. Bunnell
Pennsylvania Normal Lynn Classical High School Harwich High Bridgewater Normal
Grammar
23
28.20
26.10
92.70
729
73
25
18
16
130
Clara B. Davis
(1 Term) Sarah L. Doane
Intermediate
30
35.10
33.40
95.10
571
41
27
26
17
128
Florence W. Keith
Primary
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31 20
28.30
90.43
976
35
9
24
16
j171
Total for year,
96
94.50
87.80
92.74
2,276
149
61
68
49
429
Officials
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ROLL OF HONOR
Pupils Who Have Been Neither Absent Nor Tardy
ONE TERM
Grammar School-Geo. H. Runnels, Rebecca A. Knowles, Frank J. Crane, Eleanor B. Gill, Louise Pitts, Vera Pitts, Albert McPherson.
Intermediate-William B. Steele, Mabel Broaders, Eva Pitts, Ina May Nickerson, Doris A. Penniman, Raymond W. Mayo, Albert Watson.
Primary-Arthur Wright, Malcolm Steele, Dana Connolly, Sadie F. Chase, Ernest M. Moore, Madeline Stevens, Ab- bott S. Knowles, Oliver F. Knowles, Charles Pitts, Muriel Penniman, Mary Fulcher.
TWO TERMS
Grammar School-Amiee G. Horton, Lucille Mayo.
Intermediate-Helen Souza, Chas. M. Knowles, Abbie F. Nickerson, Horace C. Moore, Anna H. Habash, Barbara Keehlwetter, John W. Williams, Alonzo Gill, Livingston McPherson.
Primary-Lewis W. Collins, Letha M. Sparrow, Erland H. Runnels.
THREE TERMS
Grammar School -Grace E. Rich, Marion E. Rich.
Intermediate-William H. Runnels, Esther Elizabeth Sparrow, Pauline C. Sparraw.
Primary-Ruth Doris Habash.
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TOTAL NUMBER PUPILS CLASSIFIED BY GRADES, FALL 1912
School
Grade
Boys
Girls
Totals
Grammar,
IX
3
2
5
VIII
6
3
9
VII
3
4
7
VI
8
4
12
Intermediate,
V
4
9
13
IV
6
6
12
III
6
7
13
Primary
II
13
5
18
I
4
9
13
Totals of all grades,
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102
Attending Orleans High : 5 boys, 7 girls ; total 12.
47 GRADUATING EXERCISES OF EASTHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1912
PROGRAM
Overture, Gloriana, Orchestra Invocation, Rev. A. Wadsworth
Class Song, Commencement Day,
Salutatory and Essay, Ume San's Birthday,
Amiee G. Horton
Marion Rich
Recitation, Pierre Ravenal, O. W. Holmes
Vocal Solo, Selected,
Olive Eldridge
Original Story,
Rebecca Knowles Orchestra
Class History,
Eleanor Gill
Recitation, The Lost Steamship,
Ralph Steele
Vocal Solo, Selected,
Olive Eldridge
Class Poem, Onward Speed,
Adeline Rogers
Class Prophecy,
Leonora Sparrow Orchestra
March, Ironclad,
Essay, Educational Army, and Valedictory,
Clara. Rich
Presentation of Diplomas,
Supt. L. G. Williams
Reverie, Wayside Chapel, Orchestra
Benediction
-
Concert Waltz 'Loveland,'
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GRADUATING CLASS
NINTH GRADE
Marion E. Rich, Rebecca A. Knowles, Leonora L. Sparrow, Clara M. Rich, Amiee G. Horton, Eleanor B. Gill, Adeline F. Rogers, Ralph G. Steele.
Class Motto-Onward Speed.
Class Colors-Green, White, and Gold.
Class honors not according to rank.
STATISTICS
1 Population of Town census 1910, 518
2 1900, 502
3 Gain in population in ten years, 16
4 Loss in population Barnstable County ten years, 285
5 Number of persons between ages 5 and 15 years : boys 51, girls 49, 100
6 Number between 7 and 14 years : boys 41, girls 38, 79
7 Illiterate minors over 14 years of age, 0
8 Total number enrolled December, 1912, 102
9 in Orleans High School, 12
114
10 Total number Eastham pupils attending school,
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11 Increase over a year ago,
12 Total enrollment for year ending June, 1912, 96
13 Average membership, 94.50
14 Average attendance, 87.80
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15 Percentage of attendance,
92.74
16 Half-day absences, 2,276
17 Tardinesses, 149
18 Dismissals, 61
REPORT OF SIGHT AND HEARING TESTS
Total number enrolled, 102
Number defective in sight,
9
hearing, 5
parents notified, 11
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the School Committee of Eastham :
Miss Knowles and Gentlemen-I herewith submit for your consideration my fifth annual report of the condition and needs of the schools of Eastham.
One year ago I went over very carefully the needs of the schools and the things we were striving for in the development of the children under our direction.
I discussed to some length the increase of our school population. The almost immediate necessity of provid- ing another room and teacher to accommodate the chil- dren-the teaching force-duties of teachers-duties of parents-salaries-the aims in instruction-manual and vocational training, etc.
In this report I wish to place emphasis upon all that was said in the former report and to again push to the foreground only a few matters which need the immediate attention of the citizens of Eastham.
Because of the reports of the Supervisor of Music and Drawing and also because of the report of Mr. David Elder, Harwich High School Department Instructor of Agriculture for the whole section of the lower Cape, my words must be few.
We have at the present time 102 pupils in the elemen- tary schools. Every seat in the Grammar school is taken. In this room four grades are under the instruction of one
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teacher. The ninth grade is doing advanced work-book- keeping, algebra, business arithmetic, elementary physics, with topical reviews. If we consider that in addition to this work we are trying to do the regular work of four grades plus something in manual arts and agriculture, we can begin to see how crowded the conditions are. This is just as true in the Intermediate school-38 children-3 grades-38 seats.
It will be very difficult indeed to make our present quarters accommodate the pupils of another fall.
Our present buildings are wholly inadequate in these days of greater demand and the wider interpretation of education as being put into operation by town, state, and nation.
To meet these demands and to keep the pace in schools as we try to do in other lines of town affairs, we must have more ample accommodations-a larger teaching force and one or two specialists, on part time, perhaps, to instruct in manual arts.
The donor of a modern school building would confer upon Eastham an everlasting obligation and a monument to a great cause.
Steps should be taken at the next »town meeting to provide temporarily at least for the greater good of your children.
Our teaching force remains the same with one excep- tion-Miss Sarah Doane resigned in June and has been suc- ceeded by Miss Jennie B. Smith, Hyannis Normal school, with one year's experience. Miss Smith is, I believe, proving worthy of the position to which she has been ap- pointed.
A trial is being made of what may be called for a bet- ter name-a one session plan-beginning at 9 a.m. with
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twenty minutes recess for lunch at noon and closing at two- thirty p.m. The great majority of children-as high as 75 or 80 per cent. of the whole number carried lunches. With the long noon hour the play of the children could not be directed, therefore some dissatisfaction resulted. The new plan, with teachers present from morning 'till night, seems a great improvement. Children coming .in barges arrive home an hour earlier at night-a decided advantage to smaller children.
Laws pertaining to sight and hearing tests, medical inspection, vaccination have been complied with.
Miss Lotta M. Murray, graduate of Thomas Normal Training School, Detroit, Michigan, was secured to super- vise music and drawing of the district. She comes to us very highly recommended and is worthy of your confidence. I refer you to her reports.
A somewhat lengthy report is herein submitted by David Elder, Instructor of Agriculture at Harwich. Mr. Elder was raised on a farm in New York state and a grad- uate of the Agricultural College of Cornell University. He is here for our good. He has an abundance of native ability-especially trained for the work-full of enthusi- asm and is bound to give scientific agriculture and agricul- tural investigation and research, a tremendous uplift on the lower Cape.
Read his report through-if convinced-lend your sup- port to this great movement which is covering the country from side to side. With state aid and the prospects of as- sistance from the Federal Government there is almost no limit to agricultural development on Cape Cod.
Nine pupils graduated in June from the ninth grade. Seven of these attend Orleans High school. With their extra year of preparation they ought to be leaders in High
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school, and I am glad to say that on the whole they are doing good work One or two however, need encourage- ment to concentrate to a greater degree upon school work and therefore win over the work of the year.
I wish to call attention to the reports of music and drawing and agriculture, the statistics and attendance data, also the financial statements of the committee.
Respectfully submitted,
LORING G. WILLIAMS.
Eastham, Jan. 1, 1913.
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REPORT OF MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Mr. Loring G. Williams,
District Superintendent of Schools
It gives me pleasure to present the report of Music in the public schools of Chatham, Harwich, Orleans, and Eastham, for the school year of 1912-13.
Music is taught in the public schools to inspire a love of good music, to develop a musical voice, to teach sight singing and to induce musical interpretation, thereby arousing and cultivating the child's aesthetic nature and creating in him a love for the good, the true and the beauti- ful. While the child is living in his senses, we must take advantage of his love for simple music to induce him to master those elements of notation which will enable him to extend his study into wider and wider fields and to ac- quire elements of power which will continue to develop during his whole life.
His ear must be trained not simply to hear but to dis- criminate. His mind should be trained not only to re- ceive impressions, but also to create and express, that the creations of his own brain may find a place among the thoughts of other men.
It is generally held that music is in the school not alone for what music can contribute to the school, but also for what the school can contribute to the artistic life and thoughts of our people. In the musical knowledge and power gained in school lies the germ of our artistic future, as well as an element of safety amid the distractions of social strife.
It is also generally held that intelligence is the corner-
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stone on which our government rests, and that the hope of the nation lies in its public schools; that from them shall emerge our future national life and character, and that the stability of our institutions is directly dependent upon the number of self-respecting, self-controlled, and resourceful individuals, whom the schools produce. When, therefore we reflect upon the fact that nine-tenths of all the crime committed is the result of ill-spent leisure, and that nearly all of our poverty is due to the lack of personal resource, it must be admitted that a study 'which affords innocent amusement for leisure moments and at the same time arouses and cultivates those faculties upon which creative, original, and independent action is based, cannot be safely disregarded by those who have our national welfare at heart.
It is with these thoughts in mind that our course has been planned. It aims to call into activity every power of the mind, from imitation, memory, imagination, observation and spontaneity brought into play by the rote song, to the highest faculties of judgment and discrimination which the artistic interpretation of songs in the upper grades calls forth.
The voice work includes exercises for phrasing and con- trol of the breath, while a light, sweet head quality of tone is insisted upon at all times.
Ear training and written dictation make the lesson a matter of individual interest as well as being excellent class exercises.
Sight reading and the formal study of music is led to gradually from the beginning until the third year, when it becomes an important and established part of the work, suitable each succeeding year to the growing power of the pupil.
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A wide range of song subjects and the representation of all forms of music lead to a broad musical development.
It is intended that this work shall bring pleasure to pupil and teacher, not only in the recitation, but in the consciousness of growing power, of higher appreciation and of purer enjoyment.
Respectfully,
LOTTA M. MURRAY
57 REPORT OF ART SUPERVISOR
Mr. Loring G. Williams :-
It gives me pleasure to present the report of Art in the public schools of Chatham, Harwich, Orleans and Eastham for the school year of 1912-13.
ART IN THE SCHOOLS
"Art is an expression of life. Art in its fullness ex- presses all of life-all of its activities-all of its ideals."
There are certain principles that govern in all Art, as there are principles that underlie all literature, and these principles may be thoroughly and simply taught.
Just as the language course is graded so that the pupil passes gradually from simple to complex work, so the course in drawing is planned to meet the successive needs of the growing mind.
In the primary grades the pupil is encouraged to ex- press his thoughts freely by means of brush, crayon or pen- cil while at the same time he is given standards that con- stantly stimulate his efforts to improve his own work.
As he progresses, he learns why certain colors and forms properly combined produce beauty. He is aided to deduct these truths from his own experience and he is taught to apply them in his own work. By studying examples of work accepted as standard, the pupil becomes able to criticize and correct his own work. He finds that a beau- tiful drawing or design is the result of conscious thought and effort.
The process of development is to lead the pupil first to observe, then to express his ideas by drawing, and finally
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to create. Under the head of creative work, the pupil stu- dies objects and drawings for ideas; he may study a flower, or a window, or a chair, and by observation and his power of expression he is enabled to create a drawing or a design based on the result of such study.
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