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170.9
96.2
Davis
186.7
174.6
93.5
191
183.3
95.6
194.7
183.8
94.6
191.5
176
92.1
189.4
169.9
89.9
184.9
168.6
91.2
Franklin
182.8
168.5
92.4
178.6
164
92.1
169.7
155.4
91.5
158.1
140.5
88.9
160.6
144.3
89.8
153.4
140.3
91 2
Adams
182.7
170.3
93.8
229.6
190.9
95.6
202.8
193
95,5
198.3
182
92.3
188.2
169.6
90.8
182.4
169.3
92.8
Claflin
203.3
184.1
90.7
215.3
198.9
92.6
205.6
187.4
91.4
205.6
187.4
91.4
206.4
194.6
94.5
206.4
187.6
91.1
Jackson
250.5
226.5
90.2
265.7
241.7
90.9
274.9
247.2
89.8
270.3
237.4
87.9
265.8
227.9
82.6
258
224 2
86 7
Bigelow
281.7
270.1
95.6
293.9
280.1
95.5
291.5
274.8
94.6
287.9
268.8
93.1
286.8
267
93.3
279.7
260.1
93
Underwood
1.51.2
138.2
91.1
163.5
154.3
94.2
173.8
160.9
92.6
178
159
89.3
176.7
152.9
86.8
176.2
153.3
87.3
Lincoln
34.3
30.4
88.8
32.3
30.1
93.5
32
30.5
95.5
31.6
29.4
93
33
29.6
$9.6
32.7
30.2
92.3
Total
3177.6
2965.4
93.3
3307.1 3115.1
94.1
3286.2
3048.4
92.7
3221.2
2920.3
90.7
3176.8
2857.6
8
3125
2854.3
91.3
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
SCHOOLS.
Whole Number.
Average
Attendance.
Percentage of
Whole Number.
Average
Attendance.
Percentage of
Attendance.
Whole Number.
Attendance.
Percentage of
Whole Number.
Attendance.
Percentage of
Attendance.
Whole Number.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
Average
Average
Attendance.
Average
Attendance.
Attendance.
DECEMBER.
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Table showing the Monthly Attendance, by Schools, for the Year ending June 29, 1883. (Concluded. )
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
ENROLLED.
YEAR.
Average
Average
Attendance.
Percentage of
Whole Number.
Average
Average
Average
Attendance.
Percentage of
Whole Number.
Average
Attendance.
Percentage of
Whole Number
Pupils Enrolled.
Number under
five years of age.
Number over fif-
Whole Number.
Attendance.
Percentage of Attendance.
High
266.3
245.1
92.1
254.6
232.9
91.5
247.5
223.4
90.3
241.4
212.4
88
311
0
265
270
249.8
92.5
Mason
376.2
323.3
86.3
381.8
351.2
90.1
385.5
341.8
89.4
370,3
335.4
91.1
474
1
18
394.8
354.1
89.7
Oak Hill
25.6
21.6
84.5
25.8
23.3
90.1
26.5
24.8
93.7
26.5
24.3
91.6
37
1
1
29.4
26.2
89.1
Thompsonville
25
21.4
85.6
24.5
21.6
88.1
27.5
23.9
86.9
28
25.1
89.6
41
4
0
26
22.8
87.7
Hyde
171.8
154.5
89.7
189.2
169
93.7
183.2
171.4
93.6
181.6
170
93
202
0
5
178.1
165.6
93
Prospect
225.4
204.6
90.6
229.2
215.2
93.8
227.9
213.9
94
228.3
218.6
95.5
285
7
7
228.4
215.6
94.4
Hamilton
110.1
103
94.1
112.4
105.5
94
109.2
103.7
95.4
102.4
97.4
96
139
1
9
111.7
105.3
94.3
Williams.
238.2
191.3
88.7
255.3
231
90.9
250.4
230.1
92.4
222.3
202.7
91.9
314
1
-1
251.5
226.3
90
Pierce
172.8
161.2
93.4
164.8
156.9
95.3
165.7
157.5
95.1
160
150.1
93.9
192
0
15
173.7
165.5
95.3
Davis .
178.9
158.5
88.5
194.4
180.3
93
199.7
185.5
93.2
196.7
182.1
93
241
C
C
190.8
176.3
92.4
Franklin
153.6
134.9
87.9
166.1
150.1
90.5
158.2
145.3
91.9
156.3
146.2
92.3
186
0
C
163.7
149
91
Adams.
181.5
162.7
90.1
182.7
168.8
92.4
176 162.6
92.4
150.9
133.1
89.1
240
C
16
187.5
170.2
90.8
Claflin
203.4
181.2
89.4
215.6
198.9
92.5
205.7
188.1
91.7
180.3
160.4
88.7
261
2
4
204.8
186.9
91.3
Jackson
261
228.6
87.5
302.6
263.8
87.1
284.6
246.3
86.6
274.5
242.2
88.3
478
6
9
270.8
238.6
SS 1
Bigelow
272.5
249.1
91.5
275.2
253
92
269.3
250.5
93.1
255.9
240.2
94
332
0
43
250
.261.4
93.4
Underwood
179.2
162.4
90.6
191.3
170.9
90
186.7
170.2
91.9
181.8
166.7
91.8
229
0
=
175.8
158.9
90.4
Lincoln
31.8
29.7
93.6
37.4
33.4
89.2
39.3
36.5
93
39.1
35.8
91.7
40
C
0
34.4
31.6
91.9
Total
3073.3
2733.1
88.9
3202.9
2925.8
91.3
3142.9
2875.5
91.4
2996.3
2742.7
91.5
4002
23
409
3170.3
2903.8
91.6
95
SCHOOLS.
Whole Number.
Attendance.
Average
Attendance.
Percentage of
Attendance.
Whole Number.
Average
of
Attendance.
Average
Average
teen years of age.
Attendance.
STATISTICS.
.
ROLL OF TEACHERS.
HIGH SCHOOL.
HEAD MASTER.
EDWARD H. CUTLER,
S. WARREN DAVIS,
Miss CAROLINE SPEAR, Miss S. ALICE WORCESTER, Miss M. ABBY SMITH, Miss MAYBELL P. DAVIS, Miss EVELYN RICH,
ISAAC H. HOUGHTON,
Miss JENNIE E. IRESON,
Miss ADELINE V. POND,
TIMOTHY L. ROBERTS,
Washington Street, Newton. MASTER. EZRA W. SAMPSON,
Washington Street, Newtonville. ASSISTANT MASTER.
River Street, West Newton. ASSISTANTS.
Walnut Park, Newton. Highland Avenue, Newtonville. Court Street, Newtonville. Highland Avenue, Newtonville. Trowbridge Avenue, Newtonville.
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Military Drill. Walnut Street, Newtonville. Calisthenics and Elocution.
No. 185 West Canton Street, Boston. Drawing and Writing.
Lexington Street, Auburndale. Music. Brooks Avenue, Newtonville.
DISTRICTS.
NEWTON CENTRE.
N. B. - Roman numerals indicate Grades. I-III, Primary; IV-IX, Grammar.
MASON SCHOOL.
MASTER. ALBERT L. HARWOOD, IX,
Crescent Avenue, Newton Centre.
97
ROLL OF TEACHERS.
FIRST ASSISTANT.
Warren Street, Newton Centre. Miss SARAH H. MUNGER, VIII,
ASSISTANTS.
Miss DELLA E. DODGE, VII,
Miss MARIA F. WOOD, VI,
Miss MARY TENNEY, V,
Miss SUSAN C. WOOD, IV, V,
Miss LIZZIE S. FRIEND, IV,
Miss MYRA A. WILSON, III,
Miss MARGARET MARTIN, II,
Miss ELLEN M. COOK, I,
Sumner Street, Newton Centre. Homer Street, Newton Centre. No. 378 Tremont Street, Boston. Homer Street, Newton Centre. Station Street, Newton Centre. Sumner Street, Newton Centre. Centre Street, Newton Centre. Station Street, Newton Centre.
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT.
Station Street, Newton Centre. Miss ALICE S. FRIEND,
OAK HILL SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL. C. HOWARD WILSON, IV, V, IX, Crescent Avenue, Newton Centre. ASSISTANT.
Miss ANNIE E. BANCROFT, I, II, III, Dedham Street, Newton Centre.
THOMPSONVILLE SCHOOL.
Miss HELEN A. DAVIS, I, II, III, Crescent Avenue, Newton Centre.
UPPER FALLS.
HYDE SCHOOL.
MASTER.
GEORGE A. MOORE, VIII, IX, No. 3 Bowdoin Street, Newton Highlands.
FIRST ASSISTANT. Miss CHARLOTTE E. CAMERON, VI, VII,
Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands.
ASSISTANTS.
Miss GERTRUDE BLACKMAR, IV, V, No. 70 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Miss MABEL R. WETHERBEE, II, III,
No. 4 Bowdoin Street, Newton Highlands.
Miss PHEBE E. CHURCHILL, I, Centre Street, Newton Highlands.
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT.
Miss ADDIE A. SCOTT,
High Street, Newton Upper Falls.
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1
98
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
PROSPECT SCHOOL.
MASTER.
WALTER C. FROST, VIII, IX, Cottage Hill, Newton Upper Falls. FIRST ASSISTANT.
Miss MARTHA L. PERKINS, VI, VII,
Rockland Place, Newton Upper Falls. ASSISTANTS.
Miss ELLA F. CROOKER, IV, V, No. 876 Fourth Street, South Boston.
Miss LUCY A. HAYWARD, III, IV, High Street, Newton Upper Falls.
Miss LIZZIE W. EVERETT, II, High Street, Newton Upper Falls.
Mrs. MARY P. FANNING, I,
Spring and Summer Streets, Newton Upper Falls.
LOWER FALLS.
HAMILTON SCHOOL.
MASTER.
LUTHER E. LELAND, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, Mrs. ELLEN M. LELAND, Washington and Beacon Streets, Newton Lower Falls. FIRST ASSISTANT.
Miss ANNIE G. SWAIN, III, IV, Walnut Street, Wellesley.
ASSISTANT.
Miss SARAH H. JUMPER, I, II, Walnut Street, Wellesley.
WILLIAMS SCHOOL.
MASTER.
GEORGE L. CHANDLER, VII, VIII, IX, Auburn Street, West Newton. FIRST ASSISTANT.
Miss ELIZABETH A. PINNOCK, VII, VIII, IX,
Highland Street, West Newton.
ASSISTANTS.
Miss LOUISE N. BURBANK, V, VI, Auburndale. Miss LAURA SALTONSTALL, IV, Centre Street, Newton.
Miss DORA A. ALLEN, III, Washington Street, West Newton.
Miss HATTIE A. INGRAHAM, II, Natick. Natick.
Miss ANN B. SMITH, I,
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT.
Miss ANNIE A. JACKSON, Washington Street, Newton Lower Falls.
.
99
ROLL OF TEACHERS.
WEST NEWTON.
PIERCE SCHOOL.
MASTER. Otis Street, West Newton.
LEVI F. WARREN, VIII, IX,
FIRST ASSISTANT. Mrs. SARAH A. WARREN, VIII, IX, Otis Street, West Newton.
ASSISTANTS.
Miss M. ALICE WARREN, VI, VII, VIII, Otis Street, West Newton.
Miss ELIZA E. SIMMONS, VI, Henshaw Street, West Newton. Miss HELEN S. TOLMAN, V, Washington Street, West Newton.
DAVIS SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL.
Miss ELLA G. BATES, IV,
Otis Street, West Newton.
ASSISTANTS.
Miss CALISTA S. WOOD, III,
Miss SUSAN E. COPELAND, II,
Miss SARAH E. FOSTER, I,
Miss JENNIE M. DANIELS, I,
Highland Street, West Newton. Highland Street, West Newton. Waltham Street, West Newton. Washington Street, West Newton.
FRANKLIN SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL. Miss ELIZABETH F. PADDOCK, V, VI, River Street, West Newton. ASSISTANTS.
Miss M. ISABEL JENKINS, III, IV, Washington Street, Newton Lower Falls.
Miss EMMA J. THOMPSON, II, River Street, West Newton. Miss MARGARET A. MAGUE, I, River Street, West Newton.
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT. Miss GERTRUDE A. ELDER,
Davis Street, West Newton.
100
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
NEWTONVILLE.
ADAMS SCHOOL.
MASTER.
WILLIAM A. SPINNEY, IX, Webster Street, West Newton. FIRST ASSISTANT.
Miss V. E. HAPGOOD, VII, VIII,
Crafts Street, Newtonville.
ASSISTANTS.
Miss ABBIE I. FISKE, V, VI, Court Street, Newtonville.
MISS ESTELLA M. HAYNES, III, IV, No. 381 Columbus Avenue, Boston.
Miss ANGELIA A. SMITH, I, II, Prescott Street, Newtonville. VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT.
Miss LILIAN G. HAYDEN, Washington Park, Newtonville.
CLAFLIN SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL.
HERBERT F. SYLVESTER, VI, VII, VIII, Bowers Street, Newtonville. ASSISTANTS.
Miss LILLA T. WILDER, VI, VII, VIII, Prescott Street, Newtonville. Miss MARY R. WARE, IV, V, Near Seavern Street, Auburndale. Mrs. LIZZIE JONES, II, III, Lake Street, Waltham. Walnut Street, Wellesley Hills.
Miss LYDIA A. BRIERLEY, I,
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT.
Riverside Place, Watertown. Miss ANNIE F. MERRILL,
JACKSON SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL.
GEORGE G. EDWARDS, VII, Cabot Street, Newtonville.
ASSISTANTS.
Miss H. AUGUSTA MILLARD, VI, Miss GERTRUDE G. TEWKSBURY, V,
Mrs. LOUISE W. CLELLAND, IV, Mrs. ABBY J. CLARK, III,
Miss ELIZA J. LOVELY, II, Miss GERTRUDE H. SMEAD, I, Miss LOTTIE E. STEARNS, I,
Lowell Street, Newtonville. Walnut Street, Newtonville. Watertown Street, Watertown. Washington Park, Newtonville. Gardner Street, Newton. Court Street, Newtonville. Watertown Street, Newton.
101
ROLL OF TEACHERS.
NEWTON.
BIGELOW SCHOOL.
Maple Place, Newton. H. CHAPIN SAWIN, IX,
FIRST ASSISTANT.
Mrs. M. M. BAKEMAN, VIII, ASSISTANTS.
No. 28 Upton Street, Boston.
Miss ANNIE E. GEORGE, VII, Jefferson Street, Newton.
Miss S. LOUISE SHELTON, VI,
Bennington Street, Newton.
Miss AUGUSTA A. LENTELL, V, VI, Jefferson Street, Newton.
Miss EMILY J. DYER, IV, V, Newtonville Avenue, Newton.
Miss ELIZABETH AYLES, IV, Church Street and Waverley Avenue, Newton.
UNDERWOOD SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL.
Miss EMMA M. CLEARY, III, No. 564 Broadway, South Boston.
ASSISTANTS.
Mrs. LIZZIE C. CLARK, II, No. 122 F Street, South Boston. Wellesley.
Miss ANNIE L. WOOD, II,
Miss JOSEPHINE W. LITTLEFIELD, I, Richardson Street, Newton. Summer Street, Watertown.
Miss CLARA A. FARWELL, I,
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANTS.
Miss ADA L. DONKIN, Miss ELLA M. DONKIN,
Brook Street, Newton. Brook Street, Newton.
LINCOLN SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL.
Mrs. NELLIE B. RAND, I, II, III, Oak Avenue, West Newton. ASSISTANT. Miss ROSE A. HARKINS, I, II, III, Washington Street, Newtonville.
MASTER.
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1883.
General appropriation for schools
$85,500 00
Received from the dog tax . 1,075 26
$86,575 26
Amount paid to the superintendent $2,700 00
paid to the teachers
73,181 64
66 paid to the janitors 4,238 00
66 paid to the secretary 300 00
66 paid for fuel .
4,436 76
Total amount expended
84,856 40
Balance unexpended
$1,718 86
Appropriation for evening school
$650 00
Amount expended
523 39
Balance unexpended 126 61
Appropriation for industrial drawing .
$300 00
Amount expended
167 75 .
Balance unexpended
132 25
Appropriation for conveyance of pupils to the High School .
$650 00
Amount expended
600 00
Balance unexpended
.
50 00
Appropriation for school incidentals . $10,000 00
Amount expended
9,794 73
Balance unexpended
205 27
Total balance unexpended
$2,232 99
103
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
RECAPITULATION.
APPROPRIATIONS.
General appropriation, including dog tax
$86,575 26
Evening school appropriation
650 00
Industrial drawing
300 00
Conveyance of pupils 66
650 00
School incidentals 66
10,000 00
Total appropriations
$98,175 26
EXPENDITURES.
General appropriation
$84,856 40
Evening school .
523 39
Industrial drawing
167 75
Conveyance of pupils .
600 00
School incidentals
9,794 73
Total amount expended
95.942 27
Balance unexpended
$2,232 99
ISAAC HAGAR,
Secretary.
TEXT-BOOKS AUTHORIZED IN THE NEWTON SCHOOLS.
THE rules of the city School Board very wisely provide that " The Committee on Text-Books shall carefully consider every proposition to change any text-book or text-books, or to make any addition to the text-books prescribed for the schools; and report thereon to the Board, in writing, stating the vote in Committee. No new text-book shall be introduced into any school without the knowledge of the Committee, or unless it has been recom- mended by said Committee, and approved by the Board, in ac- cordance with the law of the State." The following list of text- books, authorized in accordance with this provision in the several schools of the city at the close of the year 1883, has been care- fully revised from the records of the Board since the previous pub- lication in 1880.
FOR GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Analytical Speller. Bowler and Thompson's Copy-Books. Bible Manual. Perry.
Child's Book of Nature. Hooker.
Franklin, Second, Third, Fourth, and Intermediate Readers .*
Franklin, Elementary and Written Arithmetic.
Guyot's New Intermediate Geography.
History of the United States. Higginson.
Hotze's Physics. Hour of Singing. Jarvis's Physiology. Monroe's First, Fifth, and Sixth Readers. t Monroe's Practical Speller.
* Second and Third Advanced.
t Revised in grades where the old series are now used.
105
TEXT-BOOKS.
Meservey's Single Entry Book-keeping. Grammar Classes. Music Readers. First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Intermediate. Our World. Part I.
Swinton's Language Lessons.
Swinton's Introductory Geography .*
Scribner's Geographical Reader and Primer.
Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary.
FOR TEACHERS' TABLES.
American Text-Book of Art Education. Smith.
Appleton's Readers. t
Cooley's Natural Philosophy. Colburn's Common School Arithmetic.
Elementary Instruction. Sheldon.
Greenleaf's New Elementary Arithmetic.
Greenleaf's New Elementary Algebra.
Eighth and Ninth Classes.
History of our Country. Richardson.
History of the United States. Barnes. Harrington's Graded Spelling-Book.
Harper's Geography. Lesson on Objects. Calkins and Sheldon.
Meservey's Book-keeping. Eighth and Ninth Classes. Manual of Commerce.
Manual of Parsing. Eighth and Ninth Classes. McGuffey's Readers. t Swinton's School Composition.
Swinton's Language Primer. Walton and Hagar's Written Arithmetics. All classes.
Walton's Common School Arithmetic.
Wilson's Readers.t Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary.
* As reading-books in grammar grades. t And other Supplementary Reading, with Globes, Maps, Charts, etc.
106
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
FOR EACH SCHOOL BUILDING (ONE COPY).
Agassiz's Seaside Studies.
Alcohol and Hygiene. Colman.
First and Second Books of Botany. Youmans.
Geike's Geological Primer.
Goodrich's Child's History.
How to Teach.
Lippincott's Gazetteer.
Morse's First Book of Geology.
Supplementary Reading for Primary Schools. Parts I. and II. Parker and Marvel.
HIGH SCHOOL.
TEXT-BOOKS.
LATIN.
Grammar. - Harkness, or Allen and Greenough. Reader. - Harkness. Cæsar. - Harkness. Vergil. - Hanson and Rolfe. Cicero. - Chase and Stuart. Ocid. - Allen and Greenough, or Lincoln. Composition. - Harkness, Allen and Greenough, or Jones. Latin Method. - Allen and Greenough.
GREEK.
Lessons. - White. Grammar. - Goodwin. Reader. - Good- win. Anabasis. - Goodwin, Owen, or Boise. Iliad. - Owen, or Boise. Composition. - Jones.
FRENCH.
Grammar. - Magill, or Keetels. Readers .- Magill. Prose and Poetry. - Magill. Life of Charles XII. - Voltaire. The Adven- tures of Telemachus .- Fénelon. Clos Pommier. Théâtre Classique. Dictionary. - Spiers and Surrenne.
107
TEXT-BOOKS.
GERMAN.
Grammar. - Otto, or Sheldon. Readers. - Ahns. German Translation of Campbell's History of the United States. - Fischer. Marie Stuart. - Schiller. Minna von Barnhelm. - Lessing. Ger- man Classics. - Bucheins. Dictionary. - Adler, or Elwell.
MATHEMATICS.
Algebra. - Eaton, Wentworth, or Greenleaf. Geometry. - Wentworth. Trigonometry. - Bradbury. Surveying. Logarithms. - Pierce. Analytic Geometry. Arithmetic. - Walton, or Crit- tenden.
ENGLISH. Language.
Exercises in Composition. - Parker. Sketch- Book. - Irving. English Classics. - Clark and Maynard, and Rolfe. Modern Clas- sics. - Houghton & Co., Publishers. Literary Studies. - Morgan. Shakespeare. - Hudson, or Rolfe. Prose and Poetry. - Hudson. Poems of Goldsmith. - Rolfe. Rhetoric. - Hart. How to Write Clearly. - Abbott.
Science.
Natural Philosophy. - Quackenbos. Physics. - Rolfe and Gil- lett, Arnold and Avery. School and Field-Book of Botany. - Gray. Chemistry. - Eliot and Storer, or Hooker. Astronomy. - Lockyer. Zoology. - Hooker. Mineralogy. - Hooker. Geology. - Hooker. Political Economy. - Nordhoff. Physical Geography. - Guyot. Mental Philosophy. - Wayland. Moral Philosophy. - Peabody. Commercial Geography. - Harper. Questions on Geography. - Tufts. Book-keeping. Comer, or Meservey, the lattter single and double entry.
History.
Constitution of the United States. - Andrews. Outlines of His- tory. - Swinton, or Freeman. Smaller Histories of Greece and Rome. - Smith. History of Rome. - Leighton.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
PENMANSHIP.
Eclectic System. - Thompson and Bowler.
MUSIC.
High-School Choir. - Emerson and Tilden.
DRAWING.
American Text-Book of Art Education. - Smith.
DECLAMATION.
Union Speaker. - Philbrick.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
History of Greece. - Grote. History of England. - Hume. History of England. - Froude. History of England. - Macaulay. History of England. - Collier. Middle Ages. - Hallam. Consti- tutional History of England. - Hallam. History of Civilization in England. - Buckle. History of the Romans. - Merivale. History of Rome. - Arnold. Plutarch's Lives. - Clough. Ancient His- tory. - Rawlinson. Smith's History of Greece. - Felton. History of the United States. - Bancroft. History of Peru. - Prescott. History of Mexico. - Prescott. History of Philip II. - Prescott. Robertson's Charles V. - Prescott. History of the United Nether- lands. - Motley. American Conflict. - Greeley. Universal His- tory. - Tytler. Rise of Dutch Republic. - Motley. Science of Language. - Müller. Shakespeare's Works. - White. Scott's Poems. History of the English Language. - Marsh. Grammar of English Grammars. - Goold Brown. Dick's Works. Informa- tion for the l'eople. - Chambers. Handbook of English Litera- ture. - Underwood. History of English Poetry. - Warton. Eng- lish Literature. - Taine. Concordance of Shakespeare. - Clarke. History of Philosophy. - Lewes. Natural Philosophy. - Cooley. Manual of Mythology. - Murray. Manual of English Literature. - Shaw. Familiar Quotations. - Bartlett. Shakespearean Grammar. -Abbott. Dictionary of Americanisms. - Bartlett. Essay on the Human Understanding. - Locke. Juventus Mundi. - Gladstone.
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English Synonymes. - Whately. English Synonymes. - Graham. English Synonymes. - Crabb. English Synonymes. - Smith. French Grammar. - Girault-Duvivier. Getting to Paris. - Wil- liams. Age of Fable. - Bulfinch. Age of Chivalry. - Bulfinch. Chemistry. - Muspratt. Physics. - Ganot. Principles of Geol- ogy. - Lyell. Manual of Geology. - Lyell. Manual of Geology. - Dana. Manual of Botany. - Gray. Structural and Systematic Botany. - Gray. Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. - Emerson. The Earth. - Reclus. The Ocean. - Reclus. Latin Grammar - Madvig and Zumpt. Greek Grammar. - Sophocles and Had- ley. Greek Moods and Tenses. - Goodwin. Classical Dictionary. - Anthon. Greek and Roman Biography. - Smith. Greek and Roman Geography .- Smith. Charicles and Gallus. - Becker. Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities. - Rich. English- Latin Dictionary. - Smith. Dictionary of Authors. - Allibone. English Dictionary. - Richardson. French Dictionary. - Bescher- elle. Biographical Dictionary. - Lippincott. Gazatteer. - Lippin- cott. English Dictionary. - Webster. English Dictionary. - Worcester. American Cyclopædia (two sets). Greek Lexicon. - Liddell and Scott. Latin Lexicon. - Andrews and Bullions, and Harper's. General Statutes of Massachusetts. Supplement to Gen- eral Statutes. American Text-Book of Art Education. - Smith.
Besides the above a set of the best editions of classical English authors, for reference in the study of English literature.
Globes, Maps, Charts, and Philosophical Apparatus.
A laboratory, with city water and gas, and all needed apparatus and appliances for elementary chemistry, in qualitative and quanti- tative analysis.
CITY OF NEWTON.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF
THE TRUSTEES
OF THE
NEWTON FREE LIBRARY
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1883.
IBERTY AND UNION
FOUNDED 163
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BOSTON : FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, & CO. 1884.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1883.
AT LARGE.
BRADFORD K. PEIRCE TERM EXPIRES 1884 JOHN S. FARLOW TERM EXPIRES 1885
WILLIAM CLAFLIN TERM EXPIRES 1886
A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS TERM EXPIRES 1887
JULIUS L. CLARKE. TERM EXPIRES 1888
FROM THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
DAVID T. BUNKER. TERM EXPIRES 1883
FROM THE BOARD OF COMMON COUNCIL. WILLIAM PEIRCE TERM EXPIRES 1883
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1884. -
AT LARGE.
JOHN S. FARLOW TERM EXPIRES 1885 WILLIAM CLAFLIN TERM EXPIRES 1886
A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS TERM EXPIRES 1887
JULIUS L. CLARKE. TERM EXPIRES 1888
BRADFORD K. PEIRCE TERM EXPIRES 1889
FROM THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
NOAH W. FARLEY TERM EXPIRES 1884
FROM THE BOARD OF COMMON COUNCIL. EBEN THOMPSON TERM EXPIRES 1884
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR 1883.
PRESIDENT. JOHN S. FARLOW.
SECRETARY. JULIUS L. CLARKE.
COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY.
PRESIDENT, ex officio. JULIUS L. CLARKE.
BRADFORD K. PEIRCE. WILLIAM CLAFLIN.
COMMITTEE ON THE BUILDING.
PRESIDENT, ex officio. WILLIAM PEIRCE.
A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS. DAVID T. BUNKER.
SUPERINTENDENT. BRADFORD K. PEIRCE.
LIBRARIAN. HANNAH P. JAMES.
ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS.
ELIZABETH P. THURSTON.
LOUISE J. SMALLWOOD.
ETTA P. CLEAVELAND. MILLIE E. MICHAELS.
JANITOR.
JAMES J. TOWER.
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR 1884.
PRESIDENT. JOHN S. FARLOW.
SECRETARY. JULIUS L. CLARKE.
COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY.
JULIUS L. CLARKE.
PRESIDENT, ex officio. BRADFORD K. PEIRCE. WILLIAM CLAFLIN.
COMMITTEE ON THE BUILDING.
PRESIDENT, ex officio.
EBEN THOMPSON.
A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS. NOAH W. FARLEY.
SUPERINTENDENT. BRADFORD K. PEIRCE.
LIBRARIAN. HANNAH P. JAMES.
ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS.
ELIZABETH P. THURSTON.
ETTA P. CLEAVELAND.
LOUISE J. SMALLWOOD. MILLIE E. MICHAELS.
JANITOR.
JAMES J. TOWER.
TRUSTEES' REPORT.
To his Honor the Mayor and the City Council of Newton.
IT is extremely gratifying to the Trustees, at this opening of a new year, to be able to present to you and to the citi- zens of Newton so favorable a report of the condition of the affairs of the Newton Free Library as is shown in the Report of the Superintendent herewith submitted.
We trust it will prove equally gratifying to you and them, showing, as it does, the marked and steady progress of the Library in the character claimed for it as a great educational aid in our city.
Tables A and B in the Appendix to that Report show the receipts from all sources during the past year to have been $8,878.39, and the expenditures $8,874.73 ; leaving a balance on hand, at the close of the year, of $3.66.
There has also been expended from the income derived from the Jewett Art Fund, in the purchase of works on art, illustrations, and photographs, the sum of $369.70, and from the Alden-Speare Fund, for works on manufacturing and its related subjects, the sum of $48.42. These are in- dependent and special funds, the incomes from which are devoted and applied to the purchase of the specialties called for by the terms of their endowment, and in the accounts of the Library are kept separate and distinct from those of the appropriations made to the Library by the City Council.
The forty thousand dollars devised to the City of Newton by the late Charles A. Read, for library and other purposes, having now been received by the city, and the amount in- vested for account of the beneficiaries under his will, we may reasonably conclude that the Library will receive during the current year the portion of the income therefrom to
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which it is entitled under the terms of the will. Such, we presume, was also the expectation of the City Council when it reduced the annual appropriation for the Library for the current year five hundred dollars below that of last year. The estimates given in Table G of the Superintendent's Report show conclusively that we shall require every dollar we can realize this year from the bequest of Mr. Read for the necessary purchase of books, in order to meet the just requirements of our readers. In this connection we would respectfully renew the suggestion made to the City Council in our Report of last year; viz., that the portion of the income derived from the bequest of Charles A. Read which the Library is entitled to receive from the City, under the provisions of his will, be made a special appropriation to the Trustees of the Library, so that they may be enabled to devote and apply it to the creation and support of a special department of the Library, commemorative of the donor, and to be denominated the Charles A. Read Fund, or such other as may be deemed most appropriate.
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