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UNGRADED SCHOOLS.
The wishes of the people are to be respected, and to meet the wants of such it may be advisable to devote a few rooms in different portions of the city to those whose time is too limited to take the regular course of study, and who are earnest to get that which will do them the most good. These would be somewhat similar to ungraded district schools.
A small room in the Pierce School was opened last winter to meet the wants of such, which was immediately filled by those whose absence had put them behind their classes, and by others who desired especial instruction in
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book-keeping, arithmetic &c. It was a very successful experiment. Several became quite proficient in book- keeping, went rapidly through the arithmetic and did just that work in grammar, reading and spelling which they needed. Others were hurried forward, so that they were able to enter classes which they had fallen behind through absence, without losing an entire year. All manifested the deepest interest, worked patiently and faithfully, and advanced rapidly.
There are, in all our schools, those who are too old to be classed where they are, too backward to be promoted. They feel mortified, and yet in a graded school, this cannot be avoided. There are others, who, from some peculiarity, need special attention, which they cannot receive without trespassing upon the time of the class ; others, still, can advance more rapidly than their class, but are unprepared for the one above. The graded system has not that elas- ticity which is desirable, and a few rooms might I think be opened with profit for work adapted to individuals. By this means existing classes might be brought together so as not to necessitate the employment of additional teachers.
DRAWING.
The majority of the people of Newton I think, as well as of other cities in Massachusetts, believe that drawing and music are worthy of a prominent place in our school cur- riculum. The following sensible remarks upon this subject are quoted from the report of the Commissioner of Educa- tion, for 1873, and though somewhat long are too valuable to admit of condensation.
"In consequence of the difficulties in the way of parents securing for their children training in remunerative labor, it is felt that the public schools must give instruction that will fit the children for work; that something more and other than the present training is now necessary. Special
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schools of training for special professions and industries will doubtless be provided as the need arises, but the great bulk of the population is to be trained for usefulness in the public schools of the country ; and the obvious duty of those in whose charge these schools are placed is to devise a plan by which, during the few years of average attendance, the pupils may be so trained as to be best pre- pared for the duties of life. It is found that merely to read, to write, and to cipher does not do this. Indispen- sable as this preliminary is to the acquisition of other knowledge, something more is requisite, if, as a manufac- turing and commercial people, we are to hold our own among the nations. In addition to the increased competition arising from steam-carriage, new and cheaper methods of manufacture, and increased productiveness, another element of value has rapidly pervaded all manufactures, an element in which the United States has been and is wofully defi- cient : the art-element. The element of beauty is found to have pecuniary as well as æsthetic value. The training of the hand and eye which is given by drawing is found to be of the greatest advantage to the worker in nearly every branch of industry. Whatever trade may be chosen, knowledge of drawing is an advantage and in many occu- pations is rapidly becoming indispensable.
" While the United States lack many things that give to the nations of Europe great advantage in art-culture, they possess, on the other hand, in their system of free public schools, admirable facilities for the speedy, general, and efficient introduction of any desirable system of training.
" Drawing easily taught in public schools. - As to the dif- ficulty of acquiring a knowledge of drawing, 'whoever,' says a competent authority, 'can learn to write, can learn to draw; ' and it has been shown that the teachers of the public schools are very readily qualified to teach the first lessons in drawing .. This training is of value to all the children, and offers to girls, as well as to boys, opportunity for useful and remunerative occupation ; for drawing in the
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public schools is not to be taught as a mere accomplish- ment : the end sought is not to enable the scholar to draw a pretty picture, but to so train the hand and eye that he may be better fitted to become a bread-winner.
" As to the importance of the study, the French Imperial Commission, in its summary of the inquiry on professional education, says: 'Among all the branches of instruction which, in different degrees from the highest to the lowest grade, can contribute to the technical education of either sex, drawing, in all its forms and applications, has been almost unanimously regarded as the one which it is most im portant to make common.' "
He then speaks of the great contrast between the lead- ing nations of Europe in their efforts to train their citizens in all kinds of knowledge, which will make them skilful artisans and add to the value of their productions.
In the international industrial exhibition, they measure their progress and note their deficiencies. In the great exhibition in London in 1851, England was completely out- distanced in all that related to the application of art, of beauty to manufactures, by all nations with one exception, the United States. This resulted in the establishment of schools of art, in every large town, and at the Paris exposition of 1867, England stood among the foremost - and in some branches of manufactures distanced the most artistic nations, while the United States held its place at the foot of the column. It was the schools of art and the great collection of works of industrial art at the South Kensington Museum, which had accomplished this result. " While in the countries of Europe, whatever relates to tlie people, in education, as in other matters, is under the control and general direction of the central government, so that what the central power decides to do is readily and immediately set in motion throughout the entire country, in the United States there is really no such central control.
" This power adheres to the States, and the local commu-
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nities within the States. This very circumstance, though somewhat, it may be, delaying the adoption of useful measures, yet renders the wise adaptation of training to the peculiar interests and needs of various parts of the country far more probable. Now drawing is the very alphabet of art (for art is but a language) the one essen- tial required, preliminary to any artistic or technical training, and if it is desirable that the children of the public schools should become skilled workmen in any branch of industry, it is necessary that they should be taught to draw correctly. To those to whom art means higher things as they suppose, than its application to every day utensils and mere manufactures, who look for grand galleries of pictures and statues, and to all the higher refinements of cultured art, it may be a suggestive reflec- tion, that among a people ignorant of drawing, and whose daily surroundings, as is true of the American people, afford few suggestions of art in any of its forms, high art must remain an exotic, and native artists be rarer than the fabled phonix. Great collections, museums, and galleries, much as they may contribute to the self satisfaction of cliques and cities, will be of the slightest possible value and barren of results, either upon the industries of the people, or their art culture, so long as drawing is not generally understood.
" Whoever succeeds in having all the school children of the country properly trained in elementary drawing, will have done more to advance the manufactures of the country, and more to make possible the art culture of the people, than could be accomplished by the establishment of a hundred art museums, without this training. Just as libraries are worthless to those who cannot read, so are art galleries to those who cannot comprehend them. Just as all literature is opened to him who has learned to read, so is all art to him who has learned to draw. Let drawing be generally taught, and our art galleries and museums poor as they are, will at once grow more and more valuable for they will then begin to be of use.'
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It is useless to decry drawing as now taught in our schools, as unworthy of a place there, and as a waste of time and money. It is a narrow contracted view which can look only at the past, and reason from that, that the introduction of new subjects of study is unwise. It is like that " class bias " of which Herbert Spencer speaks in an article on Sociology, which makes the military man believe that English national safety depends on the maintenance of an army organization, like that in which he had been brought up and attained his rank. Akin to this is that prejudice or class bias which would shut out from the schools of to day that which was not found in them twenty years ago.
The time now assigned to drawing in the primary classes is three quarters of an hour per week; in the lower two classes of the grammar school one hour and twenty minutes per week; and in the upper four classes one hour a week. This time certainly does not seem too much to devote to a subject so important, and if never exceeded, there would doubtless have been no complaint. The
trouble however seems to come more from an ambitious desire to accomplish too much, by which the time belong- ing to other matters has been trespassed upon, and chil- dren, eager to work out elaborate designs, are encouraged to do too much of such work at home. Let every teacher firmly resolve never to exceed the prescribed time, and in accordance with the wishes of the drawing teacher not to encourage the working of too elaborate original designs, and probably no objection would be raised by fair minded persons to this study. The special report on drawing is given elsewhere. It is a matter for congratulation that our schools enjoy the services of so earnest, so enthusiastic and so competent a teacher.
MUSIC.
The work in Music is fully reported by the Commit- tee on Music, and by our able teacher in this depart-
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ment. I hope with improved accommodation in the High School, as good results in chorus singing can be attained there, as are attained in the grammar and primary schools in their work.
WRITING.
I will merely allude to writing, as the report on this subject makes it unnecessary for me to enter into any details. The earnest work of Mr. Bowler, could not fail of producing a marked effect upon the schools. This has been especially apparent in the primary schools, where children, at an age when a few years ago they would hardly have been considered capable of learning to print, now show their neat looking writing books, whose pages are covered with a plain, symmetrical hand writing.
Our schools experienced a heavy loss in his death, as teachers and scholars were alike indebted to him, for intel- ligent instruction, and useful suggestions.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
The work in our primary schools during the past year has been in the main very satisfactory. The experience which most of the teachers have had, their earnestness, tact, and hearty spirit of co-operation, have accomplished some most excellent results. I have only to regret that it has not been possible for me to spend more time in them, but I am fully satisfied that great improvement has been made during the year in the style of teaching. The work in reading is especially commendable. Some of the little children read with a style and expression which we rarely find in the higher classes. The introduction of the Nursery into all the schools as a regular text book, auxiliary to the reading book has been a great help in securing intelligent reading.
The work in number has been changed during the year.
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It seemed to be of too mechanical a character, too purely abstract, appealing to the memory almost exclusively. To. avoid this, a method has been adopted in which the child deals first with concrete numbers only, until he can easily and intelligently pass to the abstract.
Though counting fingers is always forbidden, the uni- versal tendency of children to do so, shows that there is a principle in the child's nature, which, if recognized and properly utilized, will help him. Pencils, books, marbles, buttons, marks, all help him rise to the regions of the abstract, where he can throw them aside and deal with number alone.
ORAL INSTRUCTION.
The importance of oral instruction in the primary schools, can hardly be overestimated. It has been how- ever neglected, partly from the fact that no definite work had been laid out, and partly from a very natural timidity on the part of the teachers, in attempting work for which they have had no especial preparation. During the Fall vacation I visited the schools of New York, where the oral instruction is probably more systematized, and more prac- tical than in any other schools of the country. From per- sonal interviews with the superintendents, especially with Sup't Calkins who has charge of this work, and has made it an especial study, from conversations with some of the best teachers in the primary grades, and from a careful personal examination of this work in those schools where it is carried on most successfully, I was convinced that with the co-operation of our own primary teachers, equally good work could in time be done in our own schools, without neglecting other subjects. Calkins' Manual of Oral In- struction was at once put into the hands of the teachers, and with their assistance certain definite work was laid out which they are now doing with success. These schools have been furnished during the past year with color chart
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and colors, which, with the set of forms, the scale and weights, the measures and prism furnished last year, con- stitute a very respectable little apparatus. As this work progresses it will be desirable to make slight additions from time to time.
EVENING SCHOOL.
The evening school at North Village opened Oct. 20, 1873, and closed Feb. 27, 1874. There were three sessions per week of two hours each.
The whole number enrolled including only those who attended two weeks was 110. The average attendance was only 48. Aside from the irregularity incident to such a school, several circumstances beyond the control of any one combined to make the attendance poor. A course of lectures, and a series of religious meetings drew away many. A reorganization of the school, to enable fewer teachers to do more and better work, also resulted in the withdrawal of several, as there was a foolish prejudice against the classification adopted.
Several were expelled, and took with them their con- frères in mischief. For these reasons the school was not so large as we had hoped.
The instruction was mainly in arithmetic, writing, read- ing and spelling, with some grammar book-keeping, and a little algebra. Those whose attendance was regular made good progress. The principal Mr. E. B. Haskell worked well, and was well seconded by his assistants.
During the present winter, there has been no evening school, partly from want of a suitable room, partly from the belief that the opportunities which such a school . affords would be better appreciated if withdrawn for a time. If any of our regular teachers can take this work in hand in future, from their acquaintance with the work to be done, and from their knowledge of the management of young persons, I think the school would be more successful.
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THE SCHOOL STATISTICS.
The statistical work required of the teachers has been considerably cut down during the year.
The large book, into which were copied from the state register the number of half days each pupil was a member of the school during each month, the number of days he was present, the per cent of attendance, and the yearly aggregate of the foregoing, has been given up, in the belief that in the few cases where the above data may be desired it will be less work to take them directly from the state register, than to keep so many statistics for the few in- dividual cases where they may be called for. The only statistics now required, aside from those of the state re- gister, are a record of each scholar's per cent, recorded in two books one of which is in the hands of the master.
DISTRICTS.
During the past year the boundaries of the several dis- tricts, which had been quite indefinite have been fixed. These are intended to accommodate the parents as far as possible when our schools are so widely scattered. These boundaries are to be adhered to, except in a few cases where it is manifestly inconvenient, when, by permission of the Sub-Committee and Superintendent, children may be allowed to attend school out of the district in which they reside.
NAMES OF SCHOOLS.
The schools are now named as follows : -
DISTRICT NO. 1.
Newton Centre
Mason.
Highlands .
.
.
Hyde.
Upper Falls
Prospect.
Oak Hill .
Oak Hill.
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DISTRICT NO. 2.
Lower Falls
Hamilton.
Auburndale
Williams.
DISTRICT NO. 3.
West Newton, Washington Street Pierce.
West Newton, River Street Franklin.
West Newton, Waltham Street
Davis.
Newtonville, Crafts Street Adams.
Newtonville, Walnut Street
Claflin.
DISTRICT No. 4.
Newtonville, Watertown Street . Jackson.
Newton, Park Street .
Bigelow.
Newton, Pearl Street
Lincoln.
Newton, Vernon Street
Underwood.
NAMES OF CLASSES.
As the classes in the elementary schools form a continu- ous series, with no very decided change in the character of their work as we pass from grade to grade, they have been numbered from the lowest primary to the highest grammar , class, through the nine classes as one series.
With this system of naming the lowest grammar-class is now called Class IV. - and the highest Class IX.
ONE SESSION.
To secure uniformity in the matter of one session, by your direction the fire alarm telegraph is now used, on stormy days. The strikers and gongs are conveniently placed for most of our schools.
Instead of prolonging the morning session as formerly in the grammar schools, the nine classes are all dismissed at twelve; as the hour from twelve to one, which was necessarily quite broken, was not an equivalent for the in-
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convenience which it caused scholars, parents, and teach- ers. Parents sending for their children in the primary classes, must either call for the children in the grammar classes, or be subjected to the inconvenience of sending twice in a storm: this calling for children in the higher classes occasioned great interruption in the work there. We have been very fortunate during the present winter, as the schools have been closed only twice on this account.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
Our schools have not been conducted during the year without some friction. At Oak Hill the opposition to the change which deprived the school of a master, resulted in some trouble in the management of the school. The teacher worked earnestly but from circumstances beyond her control, could not succeed so well there as in some other place. At the end of the year she accepted a call to a school out of town. The school is now doing finely, though it is very small. The teacher is rapidly bringing it up to a high standard.
At the Franklin School, there was a spirit of disorder, which seriously retarded the work to be done there. Con- siderable trouble was experienced in the discipline of some of the larger boys. By the judicious management of the master of the district, and the assistance which he rendered the teacher in charge, a better state of things was brought about. In the Fall the building was opened with the four rooms all occupied, and in charge of a principal who has managed the school well, and greatly improved it.
The Jackson School at North Village has been brought up to a much higher standard by the good management of its principal, cordially seconded by her assistants. The improvement in this school is especially marked. The attendance is better, the truancy less, and the order quite as good as in our other schools. There is in general a good spirit among the scholars, and a disposition to co- operate with the teachers.
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The Underwood School which was dedicated early in the year is a model of beauty and convenience. I know of no primary school which equals it in beauty and cheerfulness. Through the generosity of our former efficient chairman for whom the school is named, it has been liberally fur- nished with valuable plants : these literally fill its windows, through which the sun pours during the entire day.
Various criticisms are passed from time to time upon our schools, sometimes such as are just, by those who know something of them from personal observation ; more fre- quently by those who hear a little adverse criticism, which is in accord with their own imaginings, and straightway they pour out a volume of abuse based on-nothing. They speak of the good old times, when scholars could do any example and puzzle in the arithmetics, when they could spell every word in the spelling book, when they could parse and analyze with great fluency, and could give their list of rivers towns and capes, with equal rapidity and accuracy. All this they could do and - little else. Now they say our schools are doing nothing because every scholar is not an expert in these mechanical performances, entirely ignoring the fact that his training has more thought in it, more breadth, more vitality. If they prefer to make children absolutely perfect in the mere tools of knowledge rather than to give them such a start as will be of true value in the coming years - we can only say that thought- ful men do not agree with them.
SALARIES.
The salaries of the head assistants and of the principal teachers at the Oak Hill, Hyde, Davis, Franklin, Claflin and Jackson Schools have been raised during the past year to $800 each, and the salary of the principal teacher at the Underwood to $750. The salary of the newly ap- pointed assistant at the High School, was fixed at $1200, and that of another assistant raised to $1000. This raising
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of salaries is, in my opinion, one of the best acts of this Board during the year, and to it is due the fact that we still retain in the service of Newton, teachers who have been repeatedly called to neighboring cities. Newton cannot afford to be behind her neighbors in the matter of salaries, as we are sure to lose teachers whom it would be false economy to give up for a few hundred dollars. A teacher of experience who has spent time and money to fit for the profession of teaching, is just as truly worthy of higher compensation for the increased value of her work, as the skilled laborer is worthy of higher pay than the unskilled. When this principle is fully recognized, teachers will have a greater incentive to spend years of study and labor for personal improvement, knowing that their stock in trade will realize its true value.
SCHOOL FURNISHINGS.
During the coming year I hope we shall be able to pur- chase more for the intellectual improvement of our schools. Generous provision has been made for physical comfort in the concrete walks, ample play rooms, ventilators, &c. Little need be spent in this direction, but more is needed for assistance in the brain work. Our grammar schools are greatly in need of some standard encyclopædias for the use of both teachers and scholars. The new encyclopædia now issuing, from the house of Appleton & Co. would be an invaluable acquisition. It would furnish the teachers with a whole library of useful information, upon every subject they are called upon to teach, and would give the needed information upon incidental matters which con- stantly come up in the class room, and are too often passed unnoticed for want of definite knowledge. If the children were trained to use them, it would create an intelligent spirit of research, which would call for the giving of more and more intelligent instruction, and more careful prepara- tion. I recommend most earnestly to the Board that these,
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so far as issued, be put at once into our grammar schools. In these schools, too, some apparatus for the illustration of the more simple laws of natural philosophy, such as the more obvious principles of the laws of matter, of heat, sound, light, hydraulics, electricity and magnetism, to accompany familiar conversational lectures, would open a world of interesting and profitable thought to the masses who do not now attend the High School.
Most of our schools are furnished with pianos. A few however of the large ones, where a piano would be quite as useful, are either without or are hiring at their own expense. The Oak Hill School, numbering less than forty scholars, has a piano, while the Jackson School numbering two hundred and fifty has none. The teacher at the Hyde School, has by subscription from the friends of the school had the use of a piano. I hope there will soon be an equalization in this respect, - though I do not consider these as important, as apparatus for instruction.
Several changes in teachers have occurred during the year. While it is impossible to refer to all, it may not be out of place to express the appreciation of the Board, and of the patrons of the schools, of the service so long and so faithfully rendered to Newton, by Miss S. M. Dunck- lee of the Bigelow School, and Miss Lydia C. Dodge of the High School.
I have not aimed in this report to advance any new views on education, or to theorize. I have aimed to give an impartial and candid statement of my views of the workings of our schools, and to make such suggestions as seem to me necessary. These are respectfully submitted for your consideration. It will remain for me and my co- laborers in all our schools to carry out faithfully your instructions so long as we remain in charge of the schools of Newton.
H. M. WILLARD, Sup't of Schools.
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STATISTICS.
Names of Teachers.
Department.
Class.
Whole No. of
Pupils during
the year.
Average Whole
No.
Average
Attendance.
No. of Pupils
under 5.
No. of Pupils
over 15.
High School.
Francis A. Waterhouse.
Ezra W. Sampson
C. Augusta Gile.
Sarah W. Fox.
Lydia C. Dodge ..
66
M. Isabel Hanson.
Carrie Spear
66
Hulda Geist.
A. E. A. Godefrin
District No. 1. David S. Farnham
Master
Mason School.
Mary L. Searle.
Head-Assist. First 66
9,8
Octavia N. Farnsworth.
7
Maria L. Adams
Assistant
6
Julia Perrin
5
Martha S. Allen
Isabel C. Patten .. .
4
Mary A. Rockwood
3
Katherine K. Nicholson
2
Charlotte McDaniels.
1
Prospect School.
Martha L. Perkins .
First Assist.
9, 8
Martha W. Coggins }
Head 66
7,6 .
Fannie M. King.
Assistant 66
5
Mary P. Guilford
4
Rebecca O. Young !
66
3, 2
M. Ella Hildreth
66
1
Oal: Hill School.
Sarah E. King
Principal
9,8, 7 5, 4, 3, 1
Hyde School.
Mary J. Fisher.
Principal Assistant
6, 4 3, 2, 1
District No. 2.
403
209.4
279.4
6
15
Luther E. Leland
Master Head. Assist.
9,8
Lucy L. Drown
First
7, 6
Auna G. Swain
Assistant
5,4
Sarah E. Pratt.
3, 2
A. Josephine Clark.
1
Williams School.
Elizabeth A. Pinnock.
Head-Assist.
0,8
Charlotte E. Cameron }
First 60
7, 0
Mary F. White
Mary Tenney.
Assistant
5
295
204.4
192.5
0
225
Master Sub-Master Assistant
German French
815
629.8
566.6
0
31
Ellena Thompson.
Mary E. Minter
Martha H. Jackson
Assistant
Alotta E. Stearns.
Ellen MI. Gifford ..
Viola F. Littlefield
Charlotte P. Harbach
-
Mattie MI. Miller
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Names of Teachers.
Department.
Class.
Whole No. of
Pupils during
Average Whole
No.
Average
Attendance.
No. of Pupils
under 5.
No. of Pupils
over 15.
Lucy E. Davis.
Assistant
Lilla H. Shaw ...
Harriet Townsend
66
1
1
1,034
765
707
2
36
Levi F. Warren.
Master
Pierce School.
Sarah A. Warren.
Head-Assist.
9,8
Aroline B. Meek
First
6
7
Frances M. Parker.
Assistant
7, 6
Eliza E. Simmons.
6
Daris School.
Ella G. Bates.
Principal
5, 4
Catherine D). May
Assistant
3
Nellie J. Butler
66
2
Sarah E. Foster.
1
Frank'in School.
Emma J. Thompson ..
Principal Assistant
5, 4
Calista S. Wood ...
3
Susan P'. Richmond.
2
Clara H. Thompson.
1
Adams School.
M. Abby Smith ..
Head-Assist.
9,8
Nellie M. Stevens {
First
7
Estella M. Haynes
Assistant 66
2, 1
Claflin.
Adelaide Reed .
6
Louise W. stearns
5
Mary R. Ware ..
4,3
Lizzie Flint ..
2, 1
District No. 4.
923
778
698
0
28
H. Chapin Sawin ..
Master
Bigelow School.
A. F. Tinkham
Head-Assist.
9
Anna E. Gates
First
8
Annie E. Bates
Assistant
7
Kate A. Duncan
Annie E. Abrahams
6
S. M. Duncklee !
Lucy M. Loring
5
Esther E. Barry
5
Martha C. Harriss
4
Emma G. Bigelow
Underwood School.
Helen M. Whiton
Sarahı E. Whittemore
Josephine W. Littlefield.
Principal Assistant 66
3
1
the year.
4 3,2
1
Ann B. Smith
District No. 3.
Susan E. Copeland
V. E. Hapgood
4,3
Lydia M. Brierly.
Principal Assistant 66
Eudora Sanford S
Martha M. Bakeman
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STATISTICS.
Names of Teachers.
Department.
Class.
Whole No. of
Pupils during
Average Whole
No.
Average
Attendance,
No. of Pupils
No. of Pupils
over 15.
Lincoln School.
Nettie M. Freeman Į
Assistant
5, 4
Mary H. Dwyer Alotta C. Wilmarth
66
3, 2,1
Jackson School. · Pitts
Alice Wilder
5
Lilla T. sta Millard.
4
H. Augu Hayes
Sarah E. Barker
66
2
Ella M. HOGrant ..
.
1
Jeanette A. (wler
Mrs. O. H. Bo
Drawing Music
Wm. S. Tilden
Writing
O. H. Bowler *..
2S.
Substitute
Sarah Devoll.
Mary E. Cobb.
Annabel Stetson.
Annie E. Hills.
Emeline C. Rollins.
E. B. Jones.
Harriet M. Boit.
Lillie F. Hall.
Eliza S. Dodge.
Eliza A. C. Porter.
Mary W. Lamprey.
Caroline Frost.
Lucy Atwood.
* Deceased.
SALARIES.
Superintendent
2,750
Master of High School
2,000
Sub-Master "
1,200
Three assistants at High School .
1,000
One 66 66
600
German Teacher
200
French
2,200
Grannar Masters
800
Head Assistants
700
First
Principal Teacher at Oak Hill, Hyde, Evis, Franklin, Jackson,
800
and Claflin Schools
Principal of Underwood School .
650
Assistants, maximum
550
minumum
· 2,500
Teacher of Music
Drawing
1,500
3
V. Nettie Iclikiss §
Principal Assistant 66
6
the year.
under 5.
-
.
$3,000
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS.
General appropriation for support of Schools $77,000 00
Received from the School Fund . 564 96
Received from Dog Tax . 472 77
Received from non-resident Pupils
440 46
$78,478 19
Amount paid to Superintendent and Teachers to Dec. 31, 1874
$67,812 00
Amount paid to Janitors to Dec. 31, 1874 . 3,281 50
Amount paid for Fuel . 5,318 63
$76.442 13
Balance unexpended Dec. 31, 1874
Appropriation for Industrial Drawing
$2,000 00
Amount expended Dec. 31, 1874 .
$1,362 50
Amount transferred to School Incidentals 249 29
$1,61
.1 79
Balance unexpended Dec. 31, 1874
Appropriation for Evening Schools
1,000 00
Amount expended Dec. 31, 1874 .
$252 35
Amount transferred to School Incidentals
747 65
- $1,000 00
Appropriation for School Incidentals $17,00€
19 00
Amount transferred from Industrial Drawing 2.
10 29
Amount transferred from Evening Schools
47 65
Amount expended Dec. 31, 1874
17,996 94
Appropriation for the conveyance of Pupils to the Hig! School,
$1,000 00
Amount expended Dec. 31, 1874 .
1,000 00
Appropriation for Text-books furnished Pupils
$300 00
Amount expended Dec. 31, 1874
299 83
Balance unexpended Dec. 31, 1874
.17
Net balance unexpended Dec. 31, 1874
$2,424 54
Total amount expended for Educational purpç Jes, for the year
ending Dec. 31, 1874 .
$97,353 65
Value of property used for School purposes
$413,600 00
8353 16a
$2,036 06
$388 21
$17,996 94
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