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19. Beverly News Co., magazines 27 95
19. L. Barrett, transportation 4 40
Sept. 17. Grace C. Stone, Librarian 25 00
17. Edward L. Perley, binding books 18 40
17. Cong'1 S. S. & Pub. Society, books II 09
17. A. N. Webb & Co., library cards 5 75
17. Harry W. Smith, transportation
I 60
17. Harris' Express, expressage 1 00
Dec. II. Jesse G. Nichols, sundries 3 46
14. Henry M. Meek Pub. Co., directory
3 00
14. Almy, Bigelow & Washburn, books IO 63
14. Cong'1 S. S. & Pub. Society, 63 66
14. Grace C. Stone, Librarian 25 00
1902
March I. Grace C. Stone, Librarian 25 00
I. A. C. Cummings, transportation 14 50
I. Beverly Citizen Co., cards and printing I 15
I. Almy, Bigelow & Washburn, books 4 16
Balance in hands of Treasurer 227 14
$ 596 39
E. & O. E.
AUGUSTUS P. GARDNER, Treasurer of Trustees.
Hamilton, Mass., March 1, 1902.
JESSE G. NICHOLS, Trustees GEORGE v. L. MEYER, of the
AUGUSTUS P. GARDNER, 1 Public Library.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF HAMILTON
1901 - 1902
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BEVERLY, MASS. : THE CITIZEN PRINTING COMPANY 1902
School Committee's Report
Annual report of the School Committee of the Town of Hamilton, 1901-1902 :
ORGANIZATION
George K. Knowlton, chairman,
Term expires 1904
Rev. Jesse G. Nichols, secretary,
1903
Dr. Albert L. Whipple, purchasing agent, Truant Officer-Alden J. Chandler.
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REPORT
FINANCIAL STATEMENT (Closed Feb. 20, 1902)
Amount appropriated by the town for schools $4,800 00
Tuition High School pupils 960 00
Transportation of scholars
600 00
Repairing East school room
300 00
Painting North school house
50 00
Town appropriation Dog licenses Mass. school fund
$6,710 00 220 61 588 08
$7,518 69
Paid for teachers
$3,204 34
fuel
333 86
care of houses
415 00
text books and supplies
416 23
miscellaneous
255 42
$4,624 85
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ACCOUNT MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FUND Amount received $588 08 200 00
Paid teachers
Amount unexpended and carried over to 1902-3 $388 08
PAID TEACHERS
Miss Lizzie E. Hadley $178 00
Adelaide A. Keith
456 00
Mary E. Batchelder 460 00
66 Effie M. Cheney
422 00
Klara J. Olsson
377 00
66 Nellie G. Cutting
380 00
Carrie E. Robie
380 00
" Eva C. Sanborn
230 00
Mrs. Grace C. Stone
380 00
M. Eva Robinson
141 34
$3,404 34
PAID FOR FUEL
The Pickett Coal Co.,
$253 23
J. C. Underhill
13 75
M. K. Patch
J8 38
Isaac F. Knowlton
16 50
Jonathan Lamson
15 00
Charles S. Gwinn
17 00
$333 86
PAID FOR CARE OF SCHOOL HOUSES
Fred C. Shaller, South school
$332 50
Sylvester Day,
East 66
18 00
Albert T. Hart West 23 75
J. F. McGregor, North 6.
19 75
C. E. Gwinn, Centre
21 00
$415 00
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PAID FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES
J. L. Hammett Co. $255 40
Ginn & Co. 50 05
American Book Co. 23 33
Edward E. Babb & Co.
8 25
D. C. Heath & Co.
72 22
M. E. Robinson
I 58
Massachusetts Bible Society
5 40
$416 23
MISCELLANEOUS
The Frost & Wood Press, printing $ 10 50
Almy, Bigelow & Washburn, school room
supplies 6 55
Emery Lawrence, grading Centre school yard 3 00
Asa H. Jewett, expressage 45
A. C. Cummings, carriage, freight and express
20 51
Albert T. Hart, labor and sanitary work 4 00
B. F. Hill, boiler room supplies I 75
L. Channel, cleaning school house 6 50
J. Pitman, 5 50
E. A. Day, 3 50
Spencer Regulator Co., repairing steam regu- lator 3 90
Robert Robertson, repairs in school room I 47
George C. Ryerson, setting glass 5 00
F. C. Shaller, school room supplies I 50
B. W. Adams, setting trees and protectors 7 35
George W. Fitz, supplies and labor in boiler room 9 10
Woodward & Ober, school room supplies 5 00
A. E. Potter, stock for tree protectors 4 55
George K. Knowlton, school committee room supplies 6 00
Amount carried forward,
$106 13
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Amount [brought forward, $106 13
J. F. Porter, repairs on school houses $11 00
B. W. Adams, labor on Centre school yard 50
C. A. Peterson, stock and labor on school houses 15 91
Roy W. Whipple, labor on North school yard
75
S. C. Gould, school room supplies 4 02
J. F. Dean, stove and repairing 37 73
F. C. Norton, school room supplies 13 56
A. W. Chandler, services as truant officer 6 00
Albert L. Whipple, purchasing agent 15 00
expressage school supplies 13 07
J. G. Nichols, extra work and cash paid 2 99
George K. Knowlton, extra school work, re- pairs, cash paid out 17 76
taking school census 10 00
$255 42
HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Appropriation for tuition of scholars
$960 00
Paid City of Beverly $780 00
Town of Ipswich 80 00
A. L. Whipple, pupil in Salem High School 20 00
John McCaughn
20 00
A. C. Dane 20 00
Fannie S. Preston
20 00
A. W. Chandler
20 00
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$960 00
TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOLARS
Appropriation
$600 00
Paid B. & M. R. R. Co. $278 20
Lynn & Boston St. Ry. Co. 120 CO
Amount carried forward, $398 20
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Amount brought forward, $398 20
A. L. Whipple
18 70
John McCaughn
18 70
A. C. Dane
18 70
Fannie S. Preston
18 70
A. W. Chandler
17 IO
Charles S. Gwinn
11 00
$501 10
Balance unexpended $98 90
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION
Appropriation $350 00
Paid Chandler Desk Co., desks and black-
boards for East school room
$119 38
C. A. Peterson, stock and labor 102 92
George C. Ryerson, painting 34 35
B. & M. R. R. Co., freight
6 27
A. T. Poole, painting North school house 50 00
George K. Knowlton, time and cash paid out 8 70
$321 62
Balance unexpended $28 38
GROSS RECEIPTS FOR ALL SCHOOL PURPOSES
Appropriation for schools $4,800 00
Special appropriation 350 00
Tuition High School scholars
960 00
Transportation of scholars Dog licenses
600 00
220 61
Mass. school fund
588 08
$7,518 69
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GROSS EXPENSE FOR ALL SCHOOL PURPOSES
Paid for teachers
fuel
$3,404 34 333 86
care of houses
415 00
school supplies
416 23
miscellaneous
255 42
tuition High School scholars
960 00
transportation of scholars
501 10
special appropriation work
321 62
56,607 57
Balance unexpended
$911 12
More than one-half of the large balance on hand comes from two sources : viz., a very large amount received from the Massa- chusetts school fund. and nearly one hundred dollars saved from the transportation fund on account of a number of scholars having left school.
PUPILS ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOL
BEVERLY
Annie McGlauflin, entered Sept. 1898, tuition
one year to July 1, 1902 $40 00
Mary A. Southwick, entered Sept. 1898, tui- tion one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Laura Dodge, entered Sept. 1899, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Judson S. Bradstreet, entered Sept. 1899, tui- tion one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Paul R. Smith, entered Sept. 1899, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Amount carried forward,
$200 00
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Amount brought forward, $200 00
Bernice J. Andrews, entered Sept. 1900, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Hazel E. Weston, entered Sept. 1900, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Helen H. Dodge, entered Sept. 1900, tuition one year to July 1, 1002 40 00
Clara E. Chandler, entered Sept. 1900, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Blanche C. Ferguson, entered Sept. 1900, tui- tion one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Lillian A. McGlauflin, entered Sept. 1900,
tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Sylvia Robinson, entered Sept. 1900, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Douglas H. Knowlton, entered Sept. 1900, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
George T. Copp, entered Sept. 1901, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Mabel L. Peterson, entered Sept. 1901, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Rua A. Chandler, entered Sept. 1901, tuition one year to July 1, 1902
40 00
Lilla C. Bradstreet, entered Sept. 1901, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Myra A. Sawyer, entered Sept. 1901, tuition . one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Charita W. Vennard, entered Sept. 1901, tui-
tion one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Clara D. Haraden, entered Sept. 1901, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
$800 00
Pupils in the graduating class, Annie McGlauflin, Mary A. Southwick.
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IPSWICH
Maud L. Smith, entered Sept. 1899, tuition
one year to July 1, 1902 $ 40 00
George H. Dodge, entered Sept. 1901, tuition one year to July 1, 1902 40 00
Ralph E. Hichens, entered Sept. 1901, tuition Dec. 20, 1901 16 00
SALEM
$ 96 00
Olive L. Whipple, Henrietta F. Andrews,
Louise S. Preston, Mattie W. Dane,
Helen M. Gwinn.
TUITION ALLOWED FOR PUPILS ATTENDING SALEM HIGH SCHOOL
Albert L. Whipple, one year to July 1, 1902 $ 40.00
John McCaughn,
40 00
Fannie S. Preston,
40 00
Arthur C. Dane, 66
40 00
Charles S. Gwinn,
40 00
$ 200 00
ESTIMATE FOR SCHOOLS
Following is an estimate of the amount of money that will be needed for all public school purposes for the year 1902-3. Amount needed for our own schools $ 4,700 00
tuition high school pupils 1,096 00
transportation of scholars 650 00
$ 6,446 00
SCHOOL REPORT
INSURANCE
Insurance has been renewed on four school houses in the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Cambridgeport, Mass, as follows :-
On Centre school house $ 900 00
" North יו
700 00
" East 60 700 00
" West
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700 00
Amount of insurance $ 3,000 00
Expires May 12, 1904.
Net cost of insurance $46.25. Paid on order of Selectmen.
Insurance on the South school house will expire February 3, 1903.
Cost of Insurance
Insured in Northwestern National Ins. Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., $4,000 00 $102 00
Insured in Mercantile Fire and Marine Ins. Co., Boston, Mass., 4,000 00 102 00
Amount of insurance and net cost, $ 8000 00 $ 204 00
REPORT OF TRUANT OFFICER
To the School Committee of Hamilton :
Gentlemen :- I have attended to my duty as truant officer, having notified several parents to send their children to school, and have looked after scholars in regard to attending school.
Respectfully yours, ALDEN J. CHANDLER.
Hamilton, Feb. 14, 1902.
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SCHOOL CENSUS
Whole number of children in town between 5 and 15 years of age, September I, 1901, Boys Girls
I31
I2I
252
Between 7 and 14 years of age
Boys
85
Girls
86
171
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1901-1902
FALL TERM
WINTER TERM
SPRING TERM 1902
Opens Sept. 3
Opens Dec. 2
Opens March 28
Closes Nov. 22
Closes March 14
Closes June 20
12 Weeks
14 Weeks
12 Weeks
1901
1901-1902
STATISTICS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDING JUNE 14, 1901 Length of the School Year 38 Weeks
SCHOOLS
TEACHERS
Annual Salaries
Pupils Enrolled
Total Membership
Average Membership
Average attendance
Percentage of attendance
Between ages of 5 and 15
Between ages of 7 and 14
Over 15 years of age
Under 5 years of age
South Grammar
Adelaide A. Keith Mary E. Batchelder
450
35
34
33
31
95
35
35
0
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66 Second Primary
Lizzie E. Hadley
450
37
37
32
28
88
37
37
2I
0
Centre, ungraded
( Eva C. Sauborn Alice R. Power
380
25
27
22
20
89
25
20
0
O
( Klara J. Olsson
East,
Nelly G. Cutting
380
22
22
21
20
92
22
19
0
West,
Carrie E. Robie
380
35
23
22
20
92
35
25
O
North,
Grace C. Stone
380
22
20
I7
14
83
21
14
I
Teacher of Music
M. Eva Robinson
144
29
29
25
23
93
2I
II
8
Intermediate
First Primary
Effie M. Cheney
380
55
55
48
42
87
55
$456
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ROLL OF HONOR For the school year ending June 14, 1901. SOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL Scholars who were perfect in attendance.
Fall term :- Clara D. Haraden, Mabel L. Peterson, Elsie M. Peterson, Charita W. Vennard, Oliver F. Kilham, Lawrence H. Striley, Finlay D. McDonald.
Winter term :- Mabel L. Peterson, Charita W. Vennard, Law- rence H. Striley, Joseph L. Roberts.
Spring term :- Mabel L. Peterson, Elsie M. Peterson, Clara D. Haraden, Annie P. Carey.
SOUTH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
Fall term :- Mary E. Potter, Ella W. Chandler, Chester D. Gibney, William R. Chandler.
Winter term :- Mary E. Potter, May C. Wright.
Spring term :- Mary E. Potter, Ella W. Chandler, Cedric B. McGlauflin.
SOUTHI SECOND PRIMARY SCHOOL
Fall term :- Christie M. Hall, Viola L. Striley, Raymond G. Clarke, Waller A. Richardson.
Spring term :- Christie M. Hall, Bertha E. Abbott, Jerome L. Mears.
SOUTH FIRST PRIMARY SCHOOL
Fall term :- Eleanor G. Peterson, James N. Gibney, Dorothy Smith.
Winter term :- Clarence Tinkham.
Spring term :- Sadie L. Abbott.
EAST SCHOOL
Fall term : Bertha E. Hinckley, Frank P. Day.
Winter term :- Bertha E. Hinckley, Elizabeth M. Babcock, Martha W. Dodge, Frank P. Day.
Spring term :- Frank P. Day, Elizabeth M. Babcock, Sarah A. Colesworthy.
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WEST SCHOOL
Fall term :- Annie M. Hart, Katherine K. Hart, Nellie Hart. Winter term :- Nellie Hart, Annie M. Hart, Francis J. Hart. Spring term :- Annie M. Hart, Nellie Hart, Francis J. Hart.
CLOSE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR
The school year of 1900-1901 opened September 4, 1900, with the following teachers: South School-grammar, Miss Adelaide A. Keith; intermediate, Miss Mary E. Batchelder; second primary, Miss Lizzie E. Hadley ; first primary, Miss Effie M. Cheney.
Centre School-Miss Eva C. Sanborn ; East-Miss Nelly G. Cutting ; West-Miss Carrie E. Robie; North-Mrs. Grace C. Stone.
NORTH SCHOOL
Mrs. Stone was transferred from the Centre school to the North school where she had taught several previous years. The school is small and has but ten pupils over nine years of age but it is a very orderly and studious school and has done good work during the year.
WEST SCHOOL
Miss Robie has been continued in this school another year, and has given universal satisfaction in her management of it. She has obtained best results from her scholars, and developed as well as possible the various mental powers under her care. Five of her scholars have passed on to ninth grade work at the South grammar school.
EAST SCHOOL
Miss Cutting has had a successful year in this school and three of her scholars have passed on to the highest grammar grade work.
Unfortunately for this school its numbers are diminishing and the inspiration which comes of large classes is lost. This school
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seems destined to become the smallest in town for the present.
But the teacher is doing excellent work, and the progress made is very commendable.
CENTRE SCHOOL
This school has suffered from adverse circumstances which were unavoidable. At the opening of the school year in Septem- ber Miss Sanborn was placed in charge of the school. Her previous experience of four years' teaching fitted her well for the work of this school, and she entered at once upon her duties in a business manner. After a few weeks' service she was taken sick and was finally obliged to give up her school.
Miss Klara J. Olsson, a graduate of the Boston Normal school, was engaged to complete the work of the year.
As several substitutes had been placed in the school its prog- ress had been retarded, and to do anything like first class work in the winter term was very difficult. But Miss Olsson soon brought the school into good condition, and at the close of the year in June she had made fairly good progress with her scholars and the committee are glad to commend her for her faithful service.
SOUTH SCHOOLS FIRST PRIMARY
Miss Cheney has succeeded well with this school, and the children have enjoyed the companionship of their new teacher.
The school is large and commands all the primary teaching powers of its instructor.
The school has had a profitable year, and the teacher is en- titled to much credit for her faithful work.
SECOND PRIMARY
Miss Hadley did faithful work in this school throughout the year. The fourth grade, however, fell below the required stand- ard at the end of the year, so that the committee could not pro- mote some of the scholars except conditionally, thereby equalizing approximately the number of scholais in the two rooms, as scholars promoted from Grade IV were to pass into the inter- mediate room. The committee feel that the failure of these
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scholars in their work is due to themselves rather than to the. teacher.
Soon after the close of the school Miss Hadley informed the committee that she had accepted a higher position elsewhere, and it was with reluctance that the committee parted with her after five years of faithful service.
INTERMEDIATE
Miss Batchelder has put in some hard work during the year in this school and has succeeded in fitting most of her scholars for promotion. The larger part of the sixth grade pass on to seventh grade work in the upper room.
The work of the year has been quite successful although with a good deal of anxiety on the part of the teacher for the advance- ment of her scholars. Her ambition has been to attain the highest possible results in the work of the school.
GRAMMAR
The completion of scholarship in our own schools falls upon the teacher of the grammar school. Fortunately we have in our present teacher, Miss Keith, one who has had a life long experi- ence in this work.
It is no easy matter to take between thirty and forty scholars in three grades and fit them for promotion, the ninth grade being fitted to pass an examination for entrance to High School. Unless pupils put in faithful and constant work they are liable to fall behind in the intellectual race.
It will be much better for this school if the time shall come when the seventh grade can be taken out of it. The work of the year has been very satisfactory.
Following is the program of the graduating exercises, class of 1901, held at Town Hall, Friday afternoon, June 14, at 2 o'clock.
PROGRAM
March, Invocation, Salute to the Flag, Chorus, "Friendship"
Mrs. M. Eva Robinson Rev. A. D. Gorham School Mozart
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Essay, "Millet and the Angelus"
Duet, "Redis Encore" Eilenberg
Clara D. Haraden ( Mabel L. Peterson May E. Shaller
Recitation, "Thoughts of Youth"
Longfellow Veazie
Chorus, "The Happy Miller"
Vocal Polka, "Merry June"
Peterson Sisters
Recitation, "Vision of Sir Launfal" Lowell Graduating Class
Chorus, "Anchored" Watson Essay, "Our National Songs and Song Writers" George T. Copp
Presentation of Diplomas, Chairman School Committee
Chorus, "Flag of the Free" Wagner Rev. J. G. Nichols
Benediction,
Musical Director, Mrs. M. Eva Robinson. Pianist, Miss Effie M. Cheney.
NAMES OF GRADUATES
George Thomas Copp
Charita Waters Vennard
Clara Derby Haraden Lilla Cheever Bradstreet
Ralph Edward Hichens Rua Adaline Chandler
Mabel Luella Peterson George Henry Dodge
Myra Ann Sawyer Annie Paige Carey
CLASS MOTTO
"Who does his best, acts nobly; angels could do no more."
MUSIC AND DRAWING
The musical department of our schools has been in charge of Mrs. M. Eva Robinson during the year.
Mrs. Robinson visits nearly all the schools once each week, spending half an hour or more in each school teaching the scholars, assisting the teacher in her work and assigning lessons for the week.
While the time at our command for music instruction is very limited, the progress made in the several schools this year has been good.
Mrs. Robinson is a thorough master of her work and knows how to develop all the latent musical power in her pupils.
SCHOOL REPORT
Teachers' meetings have been held every month during the school year in order to keep all the schools in touch in their various studies and work.
A meeting was held April 8, at which Mr. Henry T. Bailey, agent for the State Board of Education, gave the teachers some valuable and interesting instruction in drawing.
In the absence of a special teacher in drawing our teachers have been doing some very commendable initiatory work.
The work of the school year which closed June 14, 1901, is now a thing of the past. Whatever its successes and failures have been they are written indelibly on the page of passing time. The effect of that work, in some measure at least, will go on with each life, and must be inseparably connected with it as long as that life shall last. In the school life we are specially dealing with those embryo powers of the mind which are, in their higher develop- ment, able to subdue, direct and control the mighty forces of nature and make them subservient to the best interests of man ; and not this alone, but the possibilities of the crowning glory of all in the harmonious unity of the intellectual, moral and spiritual life. If we can but lay hold of these great truths, in all our school work we may use our failures to attain to a desired ideal as an incentive to higher and stronger effort, and thus the mind and heart may ever be turned toward the noblest and best in life.
PREPARATORY WORK FOR 1901-1902.
During the summer vacation the North school buildings and fence were painted. The Fast school room was thoroughly repaired. A new floor was laid, new adjustable desks and slate blackboards were put in and the room painted.
Teachers selected for the school year beginning September 3 : South school-grammar, Miss Adelaide A. Keith ; intermediate, Miss Mary E. Batchelder; second primary, Miss Effie M. Cheney ; first primary, Miss Klara J. Olsson.
East school-Miss Nelly G. Cutting. West-Miss Carrie E. Robie. Centre-Miss Eva C. Sanborn. North-Mrs. Grace C. Stone.
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Music teacher-Mrs. M. Eva Robinson.
The committee has long recognized the necessity of changing our text book in grammar. Quite a number of books issued by different publishers have during the past three years been ex- amined. Selection has been made of Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, as being a text book admirably adapted to the need of our schools. This book was introduced at the opening of the school year. It has proved to be an excellent work and is much liked by teachers and scholars.
The school year opened under the management of trained and efficient teachers, and good work is being done in all our schools at the present time.
The committee has for several years been hard at work to keep our schools up with the advancing educational work of the times. But it has not always been easy nor pleasant to change existing conditions for the new and improved. It is passing strange that some few parents seem to have no appreciation of services by committee or teachers for the best welfare of their children, but count them as enenties of the scholars. However, the work of improvement has gone steadily forward, and much has been done for the benefit of our pupils.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Following is an extract from Chapter 248, Acts of 1900. Part of section 1. The school committee of each town or city in the Commonwealth may, and after July first in the year nineteen hundred and two shall, employ at the expense of the town or city a superintendent of schools, who under the direction and control of the committee shall have the care and supervision of the public schools.
Section 2, The school committees of towns the valuation of which is less than two million five hundred thousand dollars may, and after July first in the year nineteen hundred and two shall, fornt unions under the provisions of chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety- eiglit.
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While the committee have made many improvements in our schools the work is not complete and there is yet much to be done. We hope that when the new school district shall be established, that a good and faithful superintendent, one who will not try to get the largest amount of money for the least passable service ren- dered, will be employed.
He should be above all mercenary motives, having an in- herent desire to do the best things and in the best way.
The District Committee should be careful to select a superin- tendent who has had several years' experience in that special work, and who can furnish the best, of references. It is not enough to have been graduated at some college or to have taught school. These may be essential to some extent, but with these alone a superintendent might be a complete failure.
There are many things connected with the successful direct- ing of the public schools that require something more than mere book knowledge, and though one may have a natural talent as an educational and business director, he must have practical experi- ence for its development, and without which all his service is purely experimental. Let us have the best.
The school buildings are in fairly good condition and will not need any large amount of money expended on them this year.
GEO. K. KNOWLTON, ALBERT L. WHIPPLE. JESSE G. NICHOLS,
School Committee.
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