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absolutely essential to a government such as ours, which will not maintain a large standing army.
I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. G. CARTER, 1st Lieut. U.S.A. (retired), Military Instructor N.H.S.
GRADUATES OF HIGH SCHOOL, 1878.
BACON, CHARLES F. BARNEY, HERBERT R.3* BRACKETT, ALBERT C. BRACKETT, ELLIOTT G. BRAY, WILLIAM C. BUCKINGHAM, ELINOR M. BURRAGE, GEORGE D.
CLARK, CHARLES P., JUN. CLARK, FRANK E.3 COFFIN, EMMA C.3 COLE, HOWARD. CONVERSE, EDMUND W., JUN. COOKE, HARRIET L. DAKIN, FRANK A. ELLIS, EPHRAIM. EMERSON, FREDERICK W. FARLOW, LEWIS H. FRENCH, FRANK W.8
FULLER, FRANCIS E. GAGE, MINNIE A. HARDON, HENRY W. HOVEY, GEORGE R. LAWRENCE, GEORGE O. C. LELAND, MINERVA E. LENTELL, AUGUSTA A.3
MORTON, CHARLES G. MURPHY, MICHAEL S.3 NORTON, LILIAN F. PARK, CARL H.3 PICKARD, JULIA M. PLIMPTON, FLORENCE W. POND, ADELINE V. UNDERWOOD, ANNA.3
WALES, WILLIAM H.
WEST, ROBERT F.3 WOOD, ELIJAH A.
* Graduate of three years.
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ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES.
The following statement in regard to this Association will be of interest to all graduates and friends of the High School at home and abroad, and as an evidence of the hold the school retains upon its pupils, it prop- erly finds a place in the Annual Report of the School Committee.
The Newton High-School Association was formed in 1861. Its object is "to continue the friendships and acquaintances of school life, encouraged by an annual re-union." The last re-union took place Thursday evening, Feb. 21, at the City Hall. The oration was delivered by David W. Farquhar; poem, by Miss Bessie Stone ; singing, by Misses Alfreda Emerson, Lillie Brough- ton, and Jessie Brown. The remainder of the evening was devoted to music and social festivities. At the last business- meeting the following officers were chosen for the year 1878 :-
President. JOHN F. KENT.
Vice-Presidents.
D. W. FARQUHAR. 1 C. H. FOWLE.
I. T. BURR, JUN.
Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. E. L. STRONG.
Recording Secretary.
J. E. HILLS.
Executive Committee.
WARD 1 -MISS EMMA L. STEVENS, MR. EDWARD S. SMILIE. WARD 2- MISS FLORENCE G. EASTMAN, MR. L. O. TOWNE. WARD 3-MISS NELLIE KENDALL, MR. WARREN P. LOMBARD. WARD 4 - MISS HATTIE M. BOIT, MR. FRED J. RANLETT. WARD 5-MISS VIRGINIA E. BARNEY, MR. GEORGE CRAFTS. WARD 6-MISS MAUD LINCOLN, MR. GEORGE G. GAMMANS. WARD 7-MR. JAMES W. FRENCH, MRS. JAMES W. FRENCH.
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GRADUATES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
[A full list of the graduates of the High School was published in the Annual Report for the year 1873. This list is here repeated, with the names added of those who have graduated in the five years since that date. By com- paring the earlier classes of the school with those of later years, it appears that the ratio of graduates to the entering class is decidedly greater now than in the early history of the school: a much larger proportion of those who enter are carried through the course.]
The figure (3) marks a graduate of the three-years' course. The others are graduates of four years.
Class of 1861.
Ethie M. Bigelow. Kate M. Cobb. Hattie M. Cooley. Lizzie Spear. - 4.
Class of 1862.
J. Cooledge Coffin. - Hattie Cousens.
S. Lillie Graves. Fannie Horton. Annie R. Train. Anna L. Woodward. - 6.
Class of 1863. Hattie E. Allen. George Linder. Herbert M. Small. - 3.
Class of 1864.
Willard G. Brackett. W. Russell Brackett. Nancy J. Evans. Edwin A. Gay. Gustavus Goward. William G. Sinclair. Ellen A. Stearns. - 7.
Class of 1865. Hannah A. Edes. William H. Gould. Charlotte W. Hyde. Edward H. Mason. Frederick Schoff. Cora Small. - 6.
Class of 1866.
Carrie E. Fitch.
Abbie M. Small. Louise W. Stearns.
Harriet W. Strong.
Julia E. Sweet. Mary R. Ware. Martha S. Ware. Mary O. Whitmore. Emily J. Young. - 9.
Class of 1867.
Samuel Carr, jun. Sara E. Cushman. Isabella C. Patten. Annie A. Pulsifer. Robert E. Williams. - 5.
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Class of 1868.
Clara R. Boit.
George R. Collins.
Charlotte E. Frogley. Sarah E. King.
Thomas Linder.
Abbie R. Stevens.
Susie W. Tarbox.
Emma S. Warren.
Mary E. Woodward. - 9.
Class of 1869.
Kate Ashton.
Persis D. Bray.
John W. Chisholm.
Mary C. Mccutcheon.
James W. French.
Julia A. Robinson.
Edward S. Smilie.
Isabel Stetson. Minnie J. Thrall.
William F. Whittemore.
Sarah J. Wood.
Sarah G. Woodworth .- 12.
Class of 1870.
Genevieve H. Alexander.
Edward W. Cate.
George H. Coffin.
Edith C. Danforth.
Carrie P. Ellis.
Alfred Ely. Annie M. Hinckley.
Emilie D. Huntley.
Helen J. Merritt. Emily S. Moore.
Alfred Schoff. H. Adelaide Stearns.
Ida M. Stone. Ella G. Sweetser. Louise M. Sweet. - 15.
Class of 1871.
William S. Barnum.
Fannie M. Chaffin.
Maggie Connell.
William B. Ely.
J. Walter Fewkes. Jeannette A. Grant. William H. Holman. Alotta E. Stearns. - 8.
Class of 1872.
Franklin C. Bacon.
Hattie M. Boit.
A. Lawrence Bond. Nellie J. Butler.
Freda B. Emerson.
Gordon G. Gammons.
John F. Kent. Allan H. Lincoln.
Nelson C. Parker.
Alice Ranlett.
Louis C. Stanton.
Alotta C. Wilmarth. - 12.
Class of 1873.
Lydia A. Brierley.
Heman M. Burr.
Bertha Carroll.
A. S. M. Chisholm. S. Warren Davis. Albert S. Glover. John A. Gould.
Lilla F. Hall.8
George W. Hills.
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Samuel Leland. Walter B. Mosman. Otis T. Pettee. Frances M. Rice.
Carrie E. Richardson. May O. Russell.3 Harry O. Slocum.
Ethie A. Smilie.
Elizabeth O. Stone. M. Louise Stone. Harvey C. Wood. - 20.
Class of 1874.
S. Emma Bacon. George K. Boutelle. Hattie Child. Nellie M. Converse.3
Lizzie W. Everett.
Warren P. Lombard. William H. Mansfield.3
Henry W. Mason. George A. Mead.3
Alice M. Ray. Susie F. Richards.
Gardner G. Sanborn.8 Eunice C. Speare.
Martha S. Stacy.
William O. Stearns ..
Emma L. Stevens.
Julia H. Strong. M. Josephine Thacher. Linwood O. Towne.8 Charles H. Ware.
Ernest U. Waters.
Arthur H. Wellman.
Minnie F. Wood. - 23.
Class of 1875.
Mortimer B. Allen. 8
Joseph F. Batchelder.8 Carrie L. Bourne. Lillie M. Broughton.8
Isaac T. Burr, jun. Olen L. Carter.
Nellie N. Cole. Edward W. Cook.3
George M. Cranitch.8
Ellen F. Dalrymple.
Mary G. Day. Oliver M. Fisher. Bertha Forbes.3
Annie F. Gage.
Henry E. Gordon.
Lucia D. Guild.
Mary E. Jenison.3
Charles S. Johnson.3
William W. Johnson.
Lyman W. King.
Arthur W. Kelley.
James L. Lester. J. Maud Lincoln. Sarah E. Lyon.
Margaret A. Mague.
Carrie J. Newell.
Charles R. Noyes.3
Emma A. Page.3 Hattie M. Peirce.
Cora G. Plimpton.3 Fredrick J. Ranlett. Helen O. Roberts.
Abbie A. Ryder.
Nellie S. Sherman. Alice E. Sinclaire.3 Willard E. Smith. Nellie M. Sullivan.8 Herbert F. Sylvester.3 William H. Sylvester. Edward B. Towne.8 Mary E. Tufts.
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Sarah E. Tufts. Bradford S. Turpin. Ella Warren.8 Jesse Warren.8 Marion E. Williams. Alice M. Woodward.3-47.
Class of 1876.
Katherine L. Bates. Alice W. Bond.
Harry E. Bothfeld.8 Abbie G. Chamberlain.
Mary R. Colby.8 Charlotte Converse.
Maria S. Daniels.
Lilla O. Davidson.
Winchester W. Eager.8
Florence G. Eastman.
Mary W. Fuller.3
Lilla M. Garey.
Emma E. Hicks.
Joel E. Hills. Edward F. Jenison.8
Charles S. Johnson.
John O. Johonnot.8 Sarah A. Jordan.
Nellie S. Kendall.
Frederick C. Leslie.
Charles E. Lord.3 Annie March. Louisa P. Merritt.
Caroline L. Mills. Lizzie J. Moore. Emily Norcross. Frances M. Parker. William A. Pew, jun. Benjamin C. Pond. William D. Porter.
Margarette H. Price.8
Joseph L. Rhees.3 Margaret H. Sargent. Mary E. Scales.3 Denison R. Slade. H. Alonzo Sherman. Frederick W. Stone. Fannie C. Sweet.
Samuel Weston. Edgar M. Wheeler. Eva G. Wiswall.
Milly N. Woodford. - 42.
Class of 1877.
Herbert D. Allen.
Edward Bagley.8
E. Virginia Barney.
N. Gertrude Bean.
H. L. Beveridge. Charles L. Bird.3
Charles A. Brown.3
Denis Buckley.8
Hattie W. Chaffin.3
Lizzie Coldwell.8
William H. Coolidge.
Eveline F. Crosby.
Herbert N. Curtis.
Sarah L. Dix. Laura E. Dyer.
Minnie C. Ellenwood.
Lewis P. Everett.8
Frederick B. Gordon.8
Charles F. Hall.8 Jennie G. Hill.
Marion F. Holbrook.3 J. Norton Johnson. Frederick A. Kendall.8
Carrie M. Kidder.
William A. Lamson. 1 William C. Lane.
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Mary A. Leonard.3 Clinton H. Lord.
Eugenia MacArdle.3
Maggie Martin.
Nettie F. Mosher.
Abbie M. Nickerson.
Emma C. Coffin.3 Howard Cole.
Charles H. Reed.3
Edmund W. Converse, jun.
Juliette V. Richards.
Harriet L. Cooke.
Carrie L. Ring.
Frank A. Dakin.
Grace L. Robertson.3
Ephraim Ellis.
Ella M. Speare.
Frederick W. Emerson.
John K. Taylor.3
Lewis H. Farlow.
Caroline E. Tolman. 3
Frank W. French.3
Helen S. Tolman.
Francis E. Fuller.
Grace Tompson. Lizzie S. Tourjée.
Henry W. Hardon.
Addie P. Tuttle.
George R. Hovey.
Charles M. Van Buren.
George O. C. Lawrence.
Harold Van Duzee.
Minerva E. Leland.
George A. Ward.3
Augusta A. Lentell.8
M. Alice Warren.
Charles G. Morton.
Margaret C. Worcester.
Michael S. Murphy.8
William L. Worcester.
Lilian F. Norton.
Carl H. Park.3
Julia M. Pickard.
Florence W. Plimpton.
Adeline V. Pond.
Anna Underwood.3
Herbert R. Barney. 8
William H. Wales.
Albert C. Brackett.
Robert F. West.3
Elliott G. Brackett.
Elijah A. Wood. - 36.
Total Graduates
315
Classes
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Elinor M. Buckingham. George D. Burrage. Charles P. Clark, jun. Frank E. Clark.3
Frederick J. Parsons.
William C. Bray.
Elijah A. Wood.3 -51.
Class of 1878.
Charles F. Bacon.
Minnie A. Gage.
GRAMMAR-SCHOOLS.
NEWTON-CENTRE DISTRICT.
MASON SCHOOL.
IN the last annual report on the Mason School refer- ence was made to the irregular attendance of the younger pupils from the remote portions of the district, especially in winter weather.
Soon after the opening of the fall term, it was found that the crowded condition of the lower classes would necessitate some measure of relief. Accordingly a school was established at Thompsonville for the primary classes. This afforded the needed relief at the Mason School, and at the same time saved the children of that neighborhood a long and cold walk during the winter months. The wisdom of this movement has been fully vindicated. A large school has been maintained at Thompsonville ; while the classes at the Mason School have still continued quite as large as is desirable for one teacher's charge.
With the opening of the present term, the number in the fourth and fifth classes was found to be so great as to render a division imperative. With the sanction of the School Board, another teacher has been em- ployed, and temporary arrangements made for the
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accommodation of her class in the main hall. This at best is an inconvenient arrangement, and it is hoped that soon a more suitable room may be secured. But it is an improvement on the crowded condition of the rooms before the change.
It is the desire of the Committee, and we believe of the teachers, that each succeeding year's instruction shall be better than the past, and we think we may claim that such has been the result, in the main, during the past year. The importance of laying well the foundations in the primary classes cannot easily be over- estimated. The teachers in these classes seem to real- ize this importance, and fairly meet its demands. And we think we are getting valuable aid from the sugges- tions of our superintendent to the teachers of these classes, and have reason to suppose that the teachers also appreciate his assistance.
The teacher of the second class, Miss Thompson, was detained from her room by illness for several weeks at the beginning of the year ; but Miss Howes, her sub- stitute, was quite successful, and the class suffered less than was to be feared.
Much can well be said in commendation of the work done in the grammar classes. Without discussing the merits of the individual classes, the work as a whole has been well done, and the promotions well earned.
Mr. Harwood has completed his second year, and has proved himself a competent and efficient master.
The head assistant, Miss Searle, in consequence of severe illness, was unable to return to her room until after Thanksgiving. The Committee were fortunate in supplying her place temporarily by transferring Miss Curtis from the fifth class, who acquitted herself with
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much credit. As soon as her health would allow, Miss Searle resumed her labors, and has been able to con- tinue them with her former gratifying success.
The discipline in most of the classes has been very satisfactory. The teachers have, for the most part, been able to secure good order, with but few, if any, appeals to the master for aid, and with few instances of corporal punishment. No teacher can be thoroughly efficient, who is unable to control a class without fre- quent use of the rod, or falling back too often upon higher authority, whether of master or superintendent ; and that teacher will always best govern a class who has best learned to govern self.
We desire again in this report to allude to the kind interest manifested by the teachers for each other in their work. This does much to lighten their labors, and enables them to accomplish better results. In fact, the success of the system depends upon harmony of effort on the part of all concerned. The school board, the superintendent, the masters, and the teachers, are but co-ordinate factors in producing results. That there should be a diversity of opinion on many questions is to be expected; but each in his own province must be responsible for his acts; and every one will best sub- serve the common good by laboring to give unity to the entire work. The superintendent executing the re- quirements of the Board, aided by the hearty co-opera- tion of the masters and the teachers, and the teachers themselves in full sympathy with each other, is the ideal of what should be. And any one laboring with views adverse to this is in danger of becoming a hin- drance rather than a help in the work of the schools.
JAMES S. NEWELL, For the Committee.
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OAK-HILL SCHOOL.
This school, though remote from the residence of the committee, has received a due share of attention and supervision. The superintendent, as well as the com- mittee, has aimed, by personal intercourse with the pupils, and by argument and appeal, to stimulate them to industry, and aid the earnest efforts of the teacher. Miss Mary E. Minter, now for many years stationed here, still continues at her post, and this though the Board have felt constrained during the year to reduce her salary from $900 to $750.
If our graded system of schools, by which the whole time of a teacher is given to a single class, is conceded to be the best one, then the gravest difficulty which this school has to confront is the paucity of its numbers, practically preventing the application of this system to its administration. The twenty-four pupils under Miss Minter are of seven different classes, it is true ; but where a class consists, as here, of two pupils, and some- times even of one, and the seven classes are to be heard each half day, the portion of time given to each must obviously be very small. A compensation for this is sought to be gained for the pupils by throwing them more upon their own resources, and stimulating their self-reliance. Under this stimulus, the older pupils have voluntarily added to the length of their school day, and, through extra labor with their teacher morn- ing and evening, they hope not to be left behind their fellows in more favored localities.
In consequence of prevalent rumors exaggerating the per capita expense of teaching in this school, a compe- tent committee of this board were requested to examine
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into various projects that had been suggested for reliev- ing the city from a portion of this expense, by consoli- dating this school with another, or by removing the school-building to a different neighborhood, that it might thus be made to accommodate a larger number of pupils. After careful consideration of the subject, this committee reported that no feasible plan of relief could be devised, and that the present arrangement is the only practicable one, and must abide.
THOMPSONVILLE SCHOOL.
Soon after the opening of the year covered by this report the Mason School became over-crowded with pupils, and it was found necessary to devise some mode of relief. A consideration of the various plans pro- posed resulted in the opening of an additional school in the Thompsonville neighborhood. The school was placed in charge of Miss Agnes S. Carleton, opening after the Christmas holidays with an attendance of about sixty pupils. These were from the five lower grades, - the four primary classes, and the first of the intermediate. This arrangement brought to the Mason School the needed relief ; but it was soon discovered that more than sixty pupils, and these in five classes, made too great a task for one teacher, and failed to secure the best results. The fifth class has therefore been returned to the Mason School, leaving the four primary grades, with forty-four pupils, in charge of the teacher at Thompsonville. The location of the school is a great convenience to the neighborhood, and the attendance of pupils during the year has been good ; but their progress was not satisfactory under Miss Carle-
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ton, and she failed of a re-appointment by the Board. Her place has been filled by Miss Helen A. Davis, transferred from the Hyde School to this.
This school is located in a part of the city that is steadily growing in population; and more ample accom- modations will soon be needed by the rapidly increasing number of children. At present the school is held in a hired room; but the time is not distant when an addi- tional school-building will be imperatively demanded to meet the wants of the Thompsonville and Johnsonville neighborhood.
AMOS E. LAWRENCE.
UPPER-FALLS DISTRICT.
PROSPECT SCHOOL.
THE past year has been one of usual prosperity with this school. There has been no prevailing sickness, and but one death has occurred of the pupils. The usual good order within and without the schoolrooms has been pleasantly maintained. A good degree of in- terest has been shown by the parents, and at the close of the year a very general satisfaction was manifested at the result of the year's work.
Miss Emma L. Bullard resigned her position as teach- er of the primary school early in the year. It was a misfortune to lose from our teachers one who, with her short experience, had shown such superior ability in that vocation.
Mrs. M. P. Fanning, who, as Miss Guilford, had been very successful in teaching the third and fourth classes, was appointed to fill the vacancy. Her work with this class was also very satisfactory.
Miss M. Ella Hildreth continued in charge of the second class through the year with fully her former success ; the reading in particular, for pupils of that age, having been unusually good.
Miss Emma Taylor was appointed to succeed Miss Guilford, teacher of the third, and half of the fourth
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class. She brought to the work experience, and a will for the faithful discharge of her duties, with good re- sults.
Miss Ella F. Crooker taught half of the fourth, and the fifth class as before, with her usual vigor and clear- ness, which is irresistible to her pupils, and who, at the close of the year, are always prepared for promotion.
Miss M. Marion Miller, teacher of the sixth and seventh classes, returned early in the year with im- proved health. Excellent order and system are always apparent in her room, and pupils rarely fail of promo- tion at the close of the year.
The eighth and ninth classes are taught by the mas- ter, Mr. Harwood, and his first assistant. But, as our system compels the master to divide his time with a number of schools, the teaching and government of these classes, together with the general direction of the schools, which is accorded to him, must largely fall on his assistant, Miss Martha L. Perkins ; and one can hardly say too much in her favor, and how well she per- forms all these duties.
Very valuable services to all the classes were ren- dered by Mr. William S. Tilden, special instructor of music in that department.
The Misses Hildreth and Taylor left their schools at the close of the year to fulfil other engagements. These, with Misses Guilford and Bullard, make four of the teachers of this school who have married. within a year. This may be cited in opposition to the opinion often expressed, that the vocation of teaching is unfavorable to forming matrimonial alliances.
The future of our school is hopeful. We have passed through an era which required of the teachers a great
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amount of unnecessary statistics, which had a depressing effect upon them; but a partial relief from those duties the past year has not only had a favorable effect on their health, but has given them an opportunity to use their energies in the line of teaching and in the interest of their classes.
J. A. GOULD.
HYDE SCHOOL.
As foreshadowed by Mr. Walter Allen, in his report of this school for the year 1877, it became necessary to make a new arrangement of classes, and to employ an additional teacher, early in the year 1878.
The first, second, and third classes had been under the charge of Miss Alotta E. Stearns, and the fourth and fifth under Miss Cevilla B. Richardson; the sixth and higher class attending at the Mason School.
To provide immediate assistance, Miss Helen A. Davis was placed in the room with Miss Stearns. She did excellent work here, and was transferred at the be- ginning of the September term to the Thompsonville School.
A sixth class was then formed in the Hyde School, and, from a large number of applicants, Mrs. Lilla M. Means was selected as head teacher. She has proved a good principal, and has most acceptably taught the fifth and sixth classes.
Miss Richardson has the care of the third and fourth classes ; and Miss Stearns, the first and second.
The forming of the new school necessitated the com- pletion of unfinished apartments in the building. This work was chiefly done in the summer vacation ; but, from difference of opinion in the public mind as to the
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absolute safety of the building, further alterations and improvements were made which caused considerable disturbance to the schools for a period of nearly three months of term time. But this annoyance to the teach- ers, and consequent hindrance to the progress of the pupils, has a full compensation in the fact, that, under the direction of a candid and cautious architect, such thorough additional means of security have been ap- plied, that the building is now generally regarded as entirely safe.
These schools, as a whole, may be said to have done fairly well; but that there is a large margin for im- provement, which the patrons have a right to demand, and which it is the duty of the managers to endeavor to secure, cannot be denied.
CHARLES E. ABBOTT.
AUBURNDALE AND LOWER-FALLS DISTRICT.
HAMILTON SCHOOL.
IN the primary grade the number of pupils has been smaller than formerly. The resignation of the teacher who had taught in this department with such eminent success for so long a time was a serious loss to the school. Nevertheless, her successor has taken up the work where it was left, has managed her classes with marked ability, and has made her work for the year a success.
The fourth and fifth classes have made good progress, and nearly all the pupils were promoted without condi- tions.
The sixth, eighth, and ninth classes, under the charge of the master and head assistant, have made progress worthy of all commendation. The ninth class, number- ing fifteen, sent fourteen of their number to the High School. This was the largest and best class that has ever graduated from the Hamilton School. The other classes have done their work well, though the sixth class consisted of those quite young. The average age of all in the upper classes in this school is less than in grammar schools generally.
The general character of the school has been satisfac- tory. The discipline has been firm, and corporal pun- ishment not frequent.
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WILLIAMS SCHOOL.
The whole number in attendance was about two hun- dred and fifty, which number is increased the present year.
The arrangement of rooms is as follows at present, - first class in one room, second and third in another, fourth and fifth in another, sixth and seventh in another, eighth and ninth in another. The arrangement during the year was essentially the same, except in the primary.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh classes were not fully up to their work, doubtless owing to changes of teachers.
The scale of attendance has not been up to the high- est grade, which fact is owing to carelessness on the part of parents.
On the whole, the condition of the school was satisfac- tory. Discipline has been called for, it must be admit- ted, in more cases than is desirable or really legitimate ; yet the general state of conduct in the various rooms has been for the most part good.
J. E. LATIMER, Chairman. OCTOBER, 1878.
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