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HIGH SCHOOL.
GRADUATES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, 1883.
FOUR-YEARS' COURSE.
CLASSICAL.
ABBY B. BATES.
WILLIAM GOODYEAR.
EDGAR BUCKINGHAM.
FRANK C. HOWE.
MORTON E. COBB.
GEORGE P. KNAPP.
JULIA N. COLE.
LIZZIE SHINN.
HERMAN T. COOLIDGE.
JAMES SULLIVAN, JR.
BANCROFT L. GOODWIN. ALONZO R. WEED.
ARTHUR H. WILDE.
GENERAL.
CHARLES L. BARTLETT.
ALICE M. NEWELL.
GEORGE A. BERRY.
MARION E. NICKERSON.
ROBERT W. BUSH.
MINNIE H. POWELL.
FANNY B. CARPENTER.
MINER ROBINSON.
JEANNETTE W. COBB.
FRANCES E. SAWYER.
WINTHROP COLE.
ADDIE A. SCOTT.
JOHN A. DANIELS.
D. WALDO STEARNS.
LILLIAN EDDY.
SARAH J. STORMS.
MARY A. FOWLE.
MARY P. SYLVESTER.
GEORGE W. GILBERT.
NELLIE A. VOSE.
LILIAN G. HAYDEN.
ALBERTA H. WARD.
ANNIE A. JACKSON.
GEORGE H. WARE.
OLIVE E. KNOWLES.
GRACE A. WARREN.
FRANK E. LECOMPTE.
HELEN WHEELER.
THREE-YEARS' COURSE.
LIZZIE C. ALLEN.
ELLA M. A. PARKER.
MARY G. HARKINS.
FLORENCE A. PHELPS.
WELLES E. HOLMES.
JAMES H. MEEKINS.
ELLEN L. SAMPSON. ALICE L. STOWELL.
ANGIE B. TOWNE.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT.
The unwelcome and untoward event of the year in this department was the withdrawal of Mr. Kent to the charge of the High School in the capital of a neighboring State. The record which Mr. Kent has been making year after year in our High School work has rendered his continuance in a subordinate position more and more improbable. Therefore it was with no surprise, though with great reluctance and regret, that we were called upon to surrender him to stronger attractions.
Fortunately, in the sudden emergency the services of S. Warren Davis were secured, whose previous connection with the High School enabled him to take up the work of this department with the least possible disturbance of the ordinary course of instruction. Geometry and review Mathematics were assigned to the new teacher, and his success in these and other branches of instruction were so satisfactory that he has received the permanent appointment of Assistant Master.
The organization by Mr. Cutler of a class in Geog- raphy for those members of the fourth class who did not wish to take Algebra is regarded as a wise inno- vation. For it is very questionable, at least, whether in the limited range of the common-school course any place should be allowed for purely disciplinary studies, such as Algebra must be to many in every fourth class. While, on the other hand, Geography is becoming an increasingly important and practical branch of even the commonest education. Not only
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is geographical insight indispensable to an adequate appreciation of historical events, but without it there cannot be a practical mastery even of the daily news- paper. Therefore, with all due loyalty to the legiti- mate province of mathematics, we believe that this concession has been, and others, perhaps, might be wisely made to geographical studies.
This reduction of labor in Algebra also relieved a very inconvenient pressure upon Geometry, which had been long deplored as unavoidable, so that the work of both departments since the change has been made, in respect alike to quantity and quality, has been unusually gratifying.
The disadvantages of large divisions and of united extremes in scholarship occasioned by throwing open Commercial Arithmetic and Bookkeeping to all pu- pils irrespective of class standing is thought to be pref- erable to any arrangement which should exclude any pupils from these important studies.
W. S. SMITH.
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REPORT OF. SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
GRADUATES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
[A full list of the graduates of the High School was published in the Annual Reports for the years 1873 and 1878. This list is here repeated, with the names added of those who have graduated in the five years since the latter date.]
BE 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, Jr.
Sara E. Cushman.
Isabella C. Patten.
Annie A. Pulsifer.
Robert E. Williams. - 5.
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.
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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.3
George W. Hills.
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.
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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.3
Eunice C. Speare.
Martha S. Stacy.
William O. Stearns.
Emma L. Stevens.
Julia H. Strong.
M. Josephine Thacher.
Linwood O. Towne.3
Charles H. Ware.
Ernest U. Waters.
Arthur H. Wellman.
Minnie F. Wood. - 23.
Class of 1875,
Mortimer B. Allen.3
Joseph F. Batchelder. 3
Carrie L. Bourne.
Lillie M. Broughton.3
Isaac T. Burr, Jr.
Olen L. Carter. Nellie N. Cole.
Edward W. Cook.3
George M. Cranitch.3
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.3
Herbert F. Sylvester.3
William H. Sylvester.
Edward B. Towne. 3
Mary E. Tufts.
Sarah E. Tufts.
Bradford S. Turpin.
Ella Warren.3
Jesse Warren.3
Marion E. Williams.
Alice M. Woodward.3 - 47.
Class of 1876.
Katherine L. Bates.
Alice W. Bond.
Harry E. Bothfeld.3
Abhie G. Chamberlain.
Mary R. Colby.3
Charlotte Converse.
Maria S. Daniels.
Lilla O. Davidson.
Winchester W. Eager.3
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Florence G. Eastman. Mary W. Fuller.3 Lilla M. Garey. Emma E. Hicks. Joel E. Hills. Edward F. Jenison.3
Charles S. Johnson.
John O. Johonnot.3
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.
Francis M. Parker. William A. Pew, Jr.
Benjamin C. Pond.
William D. Porter.
Margarette H. Price.3 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.3 E. Virginia Barney. N. Gertrude Bean. H. L. Beveridge.
1 Charles L. Bird.3 Charles A. Brown.3 Denis Buckley.3 Hattie W. Chaffin.3
Lizzie Coldwell.3 William H. Coolidge. Eveline F. Crosby. Herbert N. Curtis.
Sarah L. Dix. Laura E. Dyer.
Minnie C. Ellenwood.
Lewis P. Everett.3
Frederick B. Gordon.3
Charles F. Hall.3 Jennie G. Hill.
Marion F. Holbrook.3
J. Norton Johnson. Frederick A. Kendall.3
Carrie M. Kidder.
William A. Lamson.
William C. Lane.
Mary A. Leonard.3
Clinton H. Lord.
Eugenia MacArdle.3
Maggie Martin. Nettie F. Mosher.
Abbie M. Nickerson.
Frederick J. Parsons.
Charles H. Reed.3
Juliette V. Richards.
Carrie L. Ring.
Grace L. Robertson.3
Ella M. Speare.
John K. Taylor.3
Caroline E. Tolman.3
Helen S. Tolman.
Grace Tompson.
Lizzie S. Tourjée.
Addie P. Tuttle. Charles M. Van Buren.
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Harold Van Duzee. George A. Ward.3 M. Alice Warren. Margaret C. Worcester. William L. Worcester. - 50.
Class of 1878.
Charles F. Bacon.
Herbert R. Barney.3
Albert C. Brackett.
Elliott G. Brackett.
William C. Bray. Elinor M. Buckingham.
George D. Burrage.
Charles P. Clark, Jr.
Frank E. Clark.3
Emma C. Coffin.3
Howard Cole.
Edmund W. Converse, Jr.
Harriet L. Cooke.
Frank A. Dakin.
Ephraim Ellis. Frederick W. Emerson.
Lewis H. Farlow.
Frank W. French.3
Francis E. Fuller.
Minnie A. Gage.
Henry W. Hardon.
George R. Hovey.
George O. C. Lawrence.
Minerva E. Leland.
Augusta A. Lentell.3
Charles G. Morton.
Michael S. Murphy.3
Lilian F. Norton.
Carl H. Park.3
Julia M. Pickard.
Florence W. Plimpton.
Adeline V. Pond. Anna Underwood.3
William H. Wales. Robert F. West.3 Elijah A. Wood. - 36.
Class of 1879.
Maud L. Atkinson.
Edward L. Bacon.
Charles E. Beck.
Charles C. Bothfeld.
Frances E. Bowen.
Florence E. Briggs.
Joseph W. Briggs.3
Frona M. Brooks.
Mary H. Buckingham. Fannie A. Buss.3
Mary E. Chapin.
Waldo W. Cole.3
Cornelia Collins.
Ida Collins.3
Margaret Converse.
Louis A. Coolidge.
Aaron R. Crane.
Jennie M. Daniels.
John W. Dickinson, Jr.
Lizzie B. Frost.
Sydney Harwood. Lizzie H. Henry.3
Walter H. Holbrook.
Edward D. Holmes.3
Lizzie C. Lawrence.
Eliza J. Lovely. Alfred G. Loyd.3
James H. McGovern.3
George J. Martin.3
Frank A. Mason. Emma A. Moore.
Norma I. Morse.
Oscar H. Perry.
Annie P. Porter.
Fred M. Rice.
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HIGH SCHOOL.
Marion E. Sheldon. Lendo G. Smith.3 Arthur K. Stone. Lizzie G. Tompson. Susan C. Wood.
Charles P. Worcester. - 41.
Class of 1880.
Clara M. Adams.
George T. Allen.3
Harry W. Bean.3 Helen L. Blackwell.3
Marian S. Bosworth. 3
Winthrop M. Burr. John W. Byers.3
Harry P. Cole, Jr.3
Edward L. Collins.
Charles H. Converse.
Cornelius S. Corkery.
Henry J. Cox. Charles T. Davis.
Marion B. Curtis. Sanford L. Cutler, C.
George W. Eddy.3
Maggie A. Fitz.
Evelyn P. Garey.3 Amy E. Gates.3
Fred A. Gay.3
Frank J. Hale.3
Robert W. Hardon.3
Daniel S. Harkness.3
Josie M. Hopkins.3
Helen A. Hovey, C.
Walter M. Jackson.
Henry D. Kendall. Kate F. Mellish. 3
Walter B. Lancaster.
Amos E. Lawrence, Jr.3
Henry F. Mandell.
John W. Paul.3
Frederick W. Miller. 3 Mary C. Mosman. Dean W. Park.3
Anna M. Pond.
Nellie E. Putnam.
A. Stuart Pratt.
Emma A. Robinson.
Lilla A. Richardson.
Harry L. Rollins, C.
Laura Saltonstall.
Gertrude H. Smead. Lucy F. Soule. Gertrude G. Tewksbury. Mary Tourtellot. Marion F. Towne. William O. Underwood.
Edward R. Utley. Dean A. Walker. - 39.
Class of 1881. Joseph C. Ayer, Jr.3 William F. Bacon, C .* David Baker.3 Samuel K. Billings.3 Julia Bissell, C. Winthrop S. Brackett.
Mary W. Calkins, C.
Edward H. Chandler, C.
Leonard B. Clark, C.
Ada L. Donkin. Ella M. Donkin.
James W. Dorney. Justin Edwards, C. Milo F. Hargedon.3 Rose A. Harkins.
David S. Herrick, C. Mary A. Hills.3
Ellen S. Tewksbury, C.
* From this point C. designates graduates in the Classical Course.
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Carrie Turner, C. Frederic W. Turner.3
Emma E. Upham. George C. Warren.3
Edward C. Washburn.3 Arthur G. Webster, C.
Wallace W. Willard, C. Edwin B. Woodin, C. - 37.
Class of 1882. Harriet Avery.
George E. Baird.3
Milton H. Bancroft.3
Sidney R. Bartlett.3
Belle Blodgett. Susan H. Boit.
Gertrude F. Bridgham.
Edwin W. Bullock, C.
Cora F. Butler.
Alexandrine E. Chisholm.
Catherine T. Condrin.3
Charles W. Davidson.3
Bridget E. Devoy.3
Pauline L. Dolliver.
Livy H. Dorchester, C. Harry K. Dresser.3
Louisa M. Eddy.
Gertrude A. Elder.
Mary A. Ellison.
Josiah F. Fuller, Jr.
John G. Hardy.3
Sarah Hopkinson.3
Harriet L. Hovey, C.
George W. Lane.3
Albert E. Leach.
Lillie C. Mackay.
Georgie L. Norton.
William H. Noyes, C.
Arthur H. Page.3
Sarah L. Patrick.3
Grace T. Peloubet, C. George F. Pond, Jr. Grace E. Powars. Kathryn T. Raymond.3 Clara M. Richardson. Lucy C. Ross. Fanny E. Smith. Mary L. Smith. Josephine A. Stewart. Sanborn G. Tenney, C.
Frank H. Underwood, C. M. Louise Wadsworth.
Nellie P. Warren.
George M. Weed, C.
Mary J. Wellington, C.
George R. White, C .- 46.
Class of 1883.
Lizzie C. Allen.3
Charles R. Bartlett.
Abby B. Bates, C.
George A. Berry.
Edgar Buckingham, C.
Robert W. Bush. Fanny B. Carpenter.
Jeannette W. Cobb.
Morton E. Cobb, C. Julia N. Cole, C:
Winthrop Cole.
Herman T. Coolidge, C. John A. Daniels. Lillian Eddy. Mary A. Fowle.
George W. Gilbert.
Bancroft L. Goodwin, C.
William Goodyear, C. Lilian G. Hayden.
Welles E. Holmes.3
Frank C. Howe, C. Annie A. Jackson.
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George P. Knapp, C. Olive E. Knowles.
Frank E. Lecompte.
James H. Meekins.3 Alice M Newell.
Marion E Nickerson.
Ella M. A. Parker.3
Florence A. Phelps.3
Minnie H. Powell.
George H. Ware.
Miner Robinson.
Grace A. Warren.
Ellen L. Sampson.3
Alonzo R. Weed, C.
Frances E. Sawyer.
Helen Wheeler.
Addlie A. Scott.
Arthur H. Wilde, C. - 49.
Lizzie Shinn, C.
Classes
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D. Waldo Stearns. Sarah J. Storms. Alice L. Stowell.3
James Sullivan, Jr., C. Mary P. Sylvester. Angie B. Towne.3 Nellie A. Vose. Alberta H. Ward.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
NEWTON CENTRE DISTRICT.
MASON SCHOOL.
THE Mason School, during the year covered by this Report, has been well attended, well governed, and well taught. The number of pupils has remained about the same as last year -474 names appearing on its register - and all the classes have done good work and made commendable progress. They have been under the charge of Mr. Albert L. Harwood as master, and nine regular assistants, who have proved themselves anew faithful and efficient instructors, in love with their profession and anxious to do it and themselves honor. The first and fourth were both over-crowded at the beginning of the school year, which made it necessary to employ an additional teacher for the primary grades, who, however, left at the close of the year.
The School Register shows that the attendance of pupils has been exceptionally good during the year, - a most gratifying result, and one that is due to the judicious measures and aid of the city Superintend- ent of Schools. The tardinesses and absences have never been so few as during the year closing last June.
The class sent out from the school at the close of
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the year was unusually large, - twenty-nine in all, - exceeding in number, it is believed, any class ever be- fore graduated at this institution. Of these twenty- nine graduates, twenty-five received certificates of fit- ness to enter the High School and two others were admitted to that school on examination by the Super- intendent.
The school reopened in September with full rooms and with the brightest outlook for the new year. The only change in the teaching corps is in the withdrawal of Miss Mary E. Jordan, and the appointment of Miss Susan C. Wood as additional teacher of the fourth grade.
The Oak Hill is still distinguished as the smallest of our city public schools, - numbering this past year, as also the year before, thirty-seven pupils in all. These have been under the care of Mr. C. Howard Wilson, a graduate of the Free College of the City of New York, and one who took the highest rank in that school. Under his efficient management the pupils of this school have done better than for many years before, and Mr. Wilson has secured by his work, and his gentlemanly deportment in and out of the school- room, the respect, confidence, and esteem of both pupils and parents. He has been reappointed by the Board and retains his position for the year to come.
The new year opened in September with brighter prospects than ever before, because with additional help. Though the school has been and must continue still very small, they have been of all grades, and it has been found impossible for a single teacher to keep the pupils abreast of those of the same grades in other schools of the city. The Board have, therefore,
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wisely placed an additional teacher in the school to divide the work with Mr. Wilson and give him more time for his grammar classes. He has five pupils of the ninth grade, two of the fifth grade, and seven of the fourth. The primary school is under the care of the new assistant, Miss Annie E. Bancroft, a recent graduate of the State Normal School at Bridgewater, who held the first rank in her class in that institution. She has entered upon her work here with hope and zeal and a generous ambition to acquire a reputa- tion, skill, and success as a teacher in the schools of Newton.
The patrons of this school never had brighter hopes for its success than now, and they are to be congrat- ulated that after so long a time they are so well served.
AMOS E. LAWRENCE.
THOMPSONVILLE SCHOOL.
At the beginning of the school year, the lower rooms in the Mason School were so crowded that a change in the line of division between the Mason and Thompsonville districts was made by the District Com- mittee.
By this means fifteen scholars were removed from the Mason to the Thompsonville School, making the whole number in the latter forty-five.
The teacher is working with her usual faithfulness and energy, but if the school continues to remain as full, she can hardly expect to accomplish as much for each class as can be done where there is but one or even two classes under a single teacher.
E. W. HYDE.
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UPPER FALLS DISTRICT.
HYDE SCHOOL.
This school has passed a quiet and prosperous year. No complaints from parents, pupils, or teachers have reached the ears of your subcommittee except upon one subject, and that is the insufficient supply of heat on cold or windy days. Many days last winter, and already three or four days this winter, the school- house, or the greater part of it, has been so cold that it was not safe to keep the children in their seats. At the time of writing this report there are some indi- cations that measures are about to be taken to remedy this long-standing difficulty.
The records of attendance and scholarship were in- spected in June, and the promotions were made on them as a basis. The record was a good one, show- ing a steady devotion to work on the part of the teachers and the scholars. There were but a few scholars who had such records as to preclude promo- tion. But more important than this, the tone and spirit of the school are excellent; not only is the work done, but it is done with interest and enthu- siasm. The influence of the teachers in this respect leaves little to be desired. They are all wholly de- voted to their work; and now, having become familiar with the school and acquainted with the parents of their pupils, they are not likely to find any hindrance in the way of an even more prosperous year than the last.
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TEACHERS. GEO. A. MOORE, Principal, grades 8 and 9. Miss CAMERON, First Assistant, grades 6 and 7. Miss CHURCHILL, Assistant, grades 1 and 2. Miss WETHERBEE, Assistant, grades 2 and 3. Miss BLACKMAR, Assistant, grades 4 and 5.
In assigning classes to the three assistants the rule followed was to give the youngest pupils (the begin- ners) to the most experienced teacher. The rule, always a good one, has worked well in this instance.
Miss Cameron's class occupies the hall. Were she not to do so the four class-rooms would be over- crowded. But the hall is not a very comfortable place for a class, and there are other reasons against placing school-rooms in the third story of a building.
The time is not far off when additional accommoda- tions will have to be made for the increasing number of school children in this district.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWIN P. SEAVER, Subcommittee on the Hyde School.
NEWTON, Dec. 26, 1883.
PROSPECT SCHOOL. TEACHERS.
WALTER C. FROST, Master.
Miss MARTHA L. PERKINS, First Assistant.
Miss ELLA F. CROOKER, Assistant.
Miss KATE P. RICHARDSON, Assistant.
Miss LIZZIE W. EVERETT, Assistant.
Mrs. MARY P. FANNING, Assistant.
We are gratified at the close of the year that this school has sustained its hitherto excellent standard,
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both in its intellectual attainments, and its uniformly prosperous condition, although the retention of all the teachers of the previous year, with their well-known fidelity to their trusts, was a sufficient guarantee of that result. Mrs. Fanning still retains her well- deserved popularity in teaching the primary class.
Miss Everett taught the second class pleasantly and with success. Miss Richardson was teacher of the third and half of the fourth class, together with a num- ber of older pupils who early in the year had become residents of this district, but who were not qualified to enter the higher grades where their age and size would have naturally placed them. Those who have visited this room on exhibition days will long remem- ber the large amount of work that was done in the allotted time.
The balance of the fourth and the whole of the fifth class were taught by Miss Crooker in a very thorough and painstaking manner.
The sixth and seventh classes were taught by Miss Perkins, who has become distinguished in this school as a successful teacher for a series of years.
The eighth and ninth classes were under the charge of Mr. Frost, whose generous enthusiasm in his specific duties as teacher of these classes, and in his general duties as master, has contributed essentially towards the accomplishment of the valuable work that has been done throughout the school.
The ninth class has been unusually large, all the members of which received diplomas admitting them to the High School.
The graduating exercises in the hall were well at- tended, and a good amount of satisfaction with the school was expressed by a number of speakers.
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During the summer vacation Miss Richardson ac- cepted an advantageous position in the High School at Peabody by the inducement of a larger salary, and the opportunity to teach the higher branches of education, in which it is safe to predict that she will acquire distinction as a teacher.
In parting with her it is but just to speak of the esteem in which she has been held as a teacher and associate, and of the disappointment that she could no longer be retained.
The vacancy was filled by the election of Miss Mary A. Hayward, an experienced teacher, in whom reason- able expectations are likely to be realized.
The teaching of the older pupils in the room of the third class who had previously acquired strong bodies, was very successful, and it suggests to parents who have children of infirm health that there is not a neces- sity of sending them to school as young as is now practised.
Very extensive sanitary improvements were made in both houses during the summer vacation, which could have been delayed no longer without incurring great risk to the health of pupils and teachers. The im- proved system is now working very satisfactorily and is expected to meet all requirements of that kind for a long time to come.
JOHN A. GOULD.
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GRAMMAR SCHOOLN.
LOWER FALLS DISTRICT.
HAMILTON SCHOOL.
The quiet uneventfulness of uninterrupted and prosperous work characterized this school the past year. The entire attendance was one hundred thirty- nine, an increase upon the previous season. The graduating class was the largest for many years, all fourteen of whom have entered the High School. Three keeping-rooms are occupied, with an average of thirty-five pupils each, while the fourth teacher hears her classes in a recitation-room. The no-recess plan has served so admirably here in the grammar depart- ment that it is desired for the primary classes also.
Mr. Leland's administration of this mastership, ex- tending now over a period of more than twenty years, has given him the complete mastery of his work, so that both the school building and the district are con- stantly under his hand and eye. He keeps a school, and also keeps the children of his charge in the school. He sees to it that no part of the one hundred thousand dollars annually appropriated for the cur- rent expenses of the common schools of Newton which comes to his constituency shall fail of its pur- pose in respect to a single child of school age, by enforcing, when necessary, both upon pupils and par- ents, the provisions of the laws. This is something more than the mere keeping of a school, and nothing less than the practical assurance of a common-school education to the entire community. This is a work
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