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4 20
$108 55
Paid for care of lot
$4 00
Interest on deposit Jan. 1, 1912
4 55
Amount of fund
100 00
$108 55
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ROBBINS TOMB FUND
Amount of fund Interest on deposit Jan. 1, 1912
$100 00
18 28
$118 28
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Interest in Savings Bank
$18 28
Amount of fund
100 00
$118 28
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE DAVIS DAMON CEMETERY FUND
Amount of fund
$100 00
Interest on deposit Jan 1, 1911
5 56
Interest on Bank Book
4 24
$109 80
Paid for care of lot
$4 00
Interest on deposit .Jan. 1, 1912
5 80
Amount of fund
100 00
$109 80
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE SUSAN C. DAMON CEMETERY FUND
Amount of fund
$100 00
Interest on deposit Jan 1, 1911
2 32
Interest on Bank Book
4 12
$106 44
Paid for care of lot
$4 00
Interest on deposit Jan. 1, 1912
2 44
Amount of fund
100 00
$106 44
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FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE GEORGE H. BATIS CEMETERY FUND
Amount of fund
$100 00
Interest on deposit Jan 1, 1911
2 28
Interest on Bank Book
4 12
$106 40
Paid for care of lot
$4 00
Interest on deposit Jan. 1, 1912
2 40
Amount of fund
100 00
$106 40
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE GAD LEAVITT CEMETERY FUND
Amount of fund
$100 00
Interest on deposit Jan. 1, 1912
9 32
$109 32
Interest on Bank Book
$9 32
Amount of fund
100 00
$109 32
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ADELINE PAINE CEMETERY FUND
Amount of fund
$200 00
Interest on Bank Book
10 16
$210 16
80
Interest on deposit Jan. 1, 1912
$10 16
Amount of fund
200 00
$210 16
EZRA E. STETSON, WILLIAM D. TURNER, FRANK W. JONES. Trustees
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures
Number of platform scales over 5,000 1 bs. sealed 1
Number platform scales under 5,000 lbs. sealed 15
Number platform scales under 5,000 lbs. adjusted
7
Number computing scales sealed
2
All other scales sealed
37
All other scales adjusted
3
All other scales condemned
2
Number of weights sealed
170
Number of weights adjusted
46
Number of weights condemned
1
Number of dry measures sealed
57
Number of liquid measures sealed
65
Number of liquid measures condemned
6
Number of lineal measures sealed
4
Number of lineal measures condemned
7
Test weighing in stores
6
Inspection of scales and measures of pedlers
2
Amount paid for supplies
$13 95
Amount paid sealer
32 32
$46 27
Amount of fees received and paid to treasurer
19 25
$27 02
ALVAN G. SPENCER, Sealer of Weights and Measur es.
Forest Wardens And Fire Extinguishers
FOREST WARDEN John Whalen
Deputy Forest Wardens
Francis E. Henderson Henry D. Smith Timothy Sheehan
Frank W. Jones
Tom Roscoe Edwin A. Turner
Arnold V. Beach
Amos H. Tilden
Melvin Little Edward W. Gardner
Benjamin Loring Carlton O. Litchfield
John H. Sparrell Frank Thomas
Jesse Reed Edward A. Jacobs
LOCATION OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
Main Street
Frank Thomas H. S. Turner (store) Curtis & Bates (store) A. J. Litchfield & Son, (store) Town Hall
W. D. Turner (Mill) Joseph F. Merritt Town Farm
Henry J. Corthell F. W. Jones
Joseph Briggs
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Washington Street
Joseph H. Curtis Edward W. Gardner
School House No. 1 Charles W. Thomas
High Street
Alpheus W. Thomas George W. Ridley
Asa W. Robinson Charles W. Groce
Timothy Sheehan
Prospect Street
Benjamin Loring Clifford A. Brett
South Street
Walter S. Briggs
Pleasant Street
Edward A. Jacobs Joseph C. Otis
Tiffany Road
Francis E. Henderson
Ezra E. Stetson
Elm Street
Charles H. Dyer Harding R. Sprowl William C. Tolman
River Street
Melvin Little (store)
Joseph Tolman
Henry D. Smith Franklin Dyer
George E. Torrey
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Central Street
Ernest H. Sparrell John E. Leslie John Whalen
George H. Turner Jesse Reed Joseph H. Hatch Lincoln S. Whiting
Winter Street Amos H. Tilden
Lincoln Street
Atwood L. Ford
Tom Roscoe
Grove Street Arthur J. Parr
Mount Blue Street
Richardson Brothers
Carlton O. Litchfield
E. G. Bates J. Martin Reed
Summer Street James L. Litchfield
Jacobs Avenue Andrew F. Jacobs
Appropriations Recommended 1912
Support of Poor
$1,200 00
Almshouse
800 00
Support of Schools
6,500 00
Highway Repairs
2,000 00
Removing Snow
300 00
Memorial Day
150 0.0
State Aid
2,000 00
Soldiers' Relief
200 00
Town Officers
1,500 00
Washington Street cemetery
75 00
Tree Warden
50 00
Board of Health
300 00
School Physician
25 00
Squares and triangles
75 00
Town Hall
50 00
Electric Lights
225 00
James Library
100 00
Fire Department
300 00
Abatement of Taxes
100 00
Discount of Taxes
200 00
Anticipation Note
1,500 00
Gypsy Moth
457 37
Superintendent of Schools
500 00
Interest
3,100 00
State and County taxes
75 00
Gaffield Park
750 00
Incidentals
250 00
Spraying Elm trees
250 00
Transcript of Articles in the Warrant
FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING, MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH 1912, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE FORENOON.
Article 1. To choose a moderator.
Art. 2. To bring their votes for a Town Clerk for one year one Selectman, one Assessor, and one Overseer of the Poor, for three years, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, a Surveyor of Highways, five Constables, and a Tree Warden for one year, one member of the School Committee, one mem- ber of the Board of Health for three years, and to vote yes or no in answer to the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town,' all on one ballot. Polls open from 7 A MI., to 11 A. M.
Art. 3. To hear the reports of the several boards of offi- cers and committees of the town and act thereon.
Art. 4. To make the necessary appropriations to defray the expenses of the town, and for other purposes and to raise such sums of money as the town shall deem expedient.
Art. 5. To see if the town will authorize its treasurer un- der the direction of the selectmen, to borrow money in antic- ipation of taxes, and for disbursement under the provisions of the law relating to State Aid and Military Aid, and to de- fray the expenses of the town.
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Art. 6. What compensation will the town make for remov- ing snow and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 7. In what manner and time shall the taxes be col- lected for the ensuing year.
Art. 8. To make allowance to town creditors.
Art. 9. What sum of money will the town appropriate for the use of Post 112, G. A. R., on Memorial Day.
Art. 10. Will the town cause a statement of its financial affairs to be printed in February next.
Art. 11. Will the town appropriate a sum of money to be expended in the cemetery on Washington street.
Art. 12. What price will the town pay for labor on the highways for the ensuing year.
Art. 13. What action will the town take in regard to keeping the seidewalks in repair.
Art. 14. Will the town give any instructions to town of- ficers.
Art. 15. What price will the town pay for work at fires for the ensuing year.
Art. 16. Will the town take any action in regard to the care of parks, squares and triangles and make any appropri- ation for the same.
Art. 17. Will the town make an appropriation for the James Library in return for the free privilege of taking books which the townspeople now have.
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Art. 18. Will the town act in conjunction with the town of Hanover to have an electric light at the terminus of River street, Norwell, and Broadway, Hanover, at the third Herring brook.
Art. 19. Will the town appropriate the sum of $457.37 for the suppression of Gipsy and Browntail motlis.
Art. 20 What sum of money will the town appropriate to pay the Superintendent of Schools.
Art. 21. Will the town raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars for the purpose of fighting fires and for the purchase of additional fire apparatus.
Art. 22. What sum of money will the town appropriate for the spraying of the elm trees along the highways.
Citizens desiring additional articles in the warrant must present them to the selectmen on or before 5 o'clock P. M. February 17, 1912.
EZRA E. STETSON, WILLIAM D. TURNER, FRANK W. JONES, Selectmen of Norwell. 1
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF NORWELL
FOR THE YEAR 1911
School Report.
To the Citizens of Norwell:
We hereby respectfully submit for your consideration our annual report.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Benjamin Loring, Chairman,
George C. Turner, Mary E. Curtis, Secretary.
SUPERINTENDENT.
James S. Hayes.
TEACHERS.
John C. Page, Principal High School. Gertrude M. Short, Assistant in High School. Alcina B. Houghton, Assistant in High School. Edith C. Turner, Grammar School, District No. 1. Lucy S. Williams, Primary School, District No. 1. Margaret Towle, Primary School, District No. 2. Grace Field, Grammar School, District No. 5. Marion G. Merritt, Primary School, District No. 5. Mabel E. Adams, Primay School, District No. 6. Maria W. Tolman, Primary School, District No. 7. Bertha M. Tilden, Drawing Teacher.
Six new teachers were hired this year, four of whom are Normal graduates, and two were graduates also of our own High School. We are now having music taught
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in all the grades and by the regular teachers. Both teachers and pupils have taken up this new work with much enthusiasm.
The opening of a primary school in District No. 2 was a departure from our policy of these latter years when schools have been closed and consolidated with others, not opened. The crowded condition of the Grammar and Primary schools in District No. 1, was, in a great mea- sure, responsible for this new school. The parents in the district were also much in favor of it as the younger children would thus be saved a long barge ride. We, therefore, took the fifth grade pupils from No. 1 Gram- mar school and divided them between District No. 1 and District No. 2 Primary schools. This now leaves both Grammar schools with only three grades and generally speaking with about the same number of pupils, while Nos. 1, 2, 6, and 7, have each five grades, and No. 5 which is always a large school) with four grades. We have great difficulty in finding young women who will undertake the task of teaching our Grammar schools. To (a casual observer, it seems an easy matter to teach a school of forty scholars. But divide these pupils into three grades, teach each grade every day, reading, spell- ing, arithmetic, language, history and geography, with drawing, writing, music, etc., to fill in any empty spaces there may be, and with all this, to be able to control the pupils, giving them lessons in manners and morals, do you wonder on second thought, that teachers are hard to find and harder to keep when we are fortunate enough to find one? And would you undertake to do it at twice the salaries our teachers get? Please understand us when we say that these requirements are no exaggerations, but only just what a great majority of people think a teacher should be able to do.
The attendance the past year has been very good. We
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have had no serious epidemics, although measles in one district, and a case of scarlet fever in another, prevented our annual Decoration Day exercises. We are hoping ev- erything will be favorable for those exercises this year.
Beginning with the Primary children, each one should be taught that as long as school is in session, that is where he is to be found. If the habit is formed at that early age, it makes the succeeding years much easier.
A person who fails in any undertaking very seldom blames himself, but usually thinks some one else at fault, and it is exactly so with our schools. Ifa pupil fails to pass from one grade to the next higher, or does not get as much out of the school work as the parent thinks he should, is it not the usual thing to blame everyone con- nected with the schools, Committee, Superintendent and teachers, rather than the pupil himself ? Do you, parents. see to it that your children attend school regularly ? That is, every day, unless detained at home by real not fancied illness ? If so, that is one great essential toward success in school and another is, to impress on the child's mind that if he will do his part in the work of the school, he may be very sure that the teacher will do likewise. A pupil who is a disturber of the peace of a school-room, not only injures himself but hurts the chances of others more studiously inclined and should be severely dealt with. A pupil who goes to school every day, and goes for business not mischief, will not fail.
It is very gratifying to all connected with our schools to know that in the recent tests in Spelling and Arithmetic given in thirty-five towns in South Eastern Massachusetts. the pupils of the Norwell schools stood No. 1 in both. Also, that one of our High School pupils, on moving from town, entered the Whitman High School and is an Honor pupil. Another High School pupil (class of '12) took the preliminary examinations for the M. I. T. and passed
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in all. Any one who knows how severe these examina- tions are, will understand that good results are being ob- tained in the Norwell High School by those who are will- ing to work for them.
We wish to thank our voters for their very generous contribution toward the support of our schools, our Su- perintendent, for the good work he has done and is still doing, our teachers for their faithfulness and courtesy in following so willingly our suggestions and in keeping our schools to the standard set for them.
Gen. Grant once said that it was not he alone, who sup- pressed armed rebellion in this country and stopped our Civil war, but that it was the combined effort of each in- dividual member of his great army. And so it is with our schools, it is not any one person who makes or mars but it is the work of all concerned. Let us feel that it is only by united, harmonious effort that our school system will flourish and bring forth the fruits we most desire, young men and young women to do honor to Norwell and her schools.
Respectfully submitted,
BENJAMIN LORING, GEORGE C. TURNER, MARY E. CURTIS.
Expenditures.
FOR YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1911. TEACHERS' SALARIES.
Fred W. Carrier, 24 weeks
$660 00
John C. Page, 15 weeks
375 00
Mary G. Magner, 24 weeks
300 00
Alcina B. Houghton, 15 weeks
187 50
Gertrude M. Short, 39 weeks
487 50
Abbie E. Cutting, 14 weeks
168 00
Antoinette E. Jacobs, 2 days
4 00
Sarah L. Litchfield, 8 days
16 00
Mrs. Myrtle M. Ennis, 6 weeks
72 00
Edith C. Turner, 15 weeks
180 00
Mrs. Martha C. Ford, 6 weeks
63 00
Gladys J. Mitchell, 16 weeks
169 00
Lucy S. Williams, 15 weeks
157 50
Eleanor E. Elliott, 22 weeks
264 00
Grace Field, 15 weeks 198 75
Margaret Towle, 15 weeks
150 00
Marion G. Merritt, 37 weeks
407 00
Mabel E. Adams, 37 weeks
370 00
Maria W. Tolman, 37 weeks
407 00
Bertha M. Tilden, Drawing Teacher
125 00
$4,761 25
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SUPERINTENDENT
Received from State
$250 00
Town appropriation
250 00
$500 00
Paid James F. Hayes
532 50
TRANSPORTATION
Mrs. E. L. Loring, 12 weeks
$276 00
John Whalen, 12 weeks
180 00
John Whalen, 27 weeks
499 50
L. F. Hammond, 12 weeks
240 00
L. F. Hammond, 12 weeks
204 00
L. F. Hammond, 15 weeks
225 00
John F. Osborne, 12 weeks
240 00
John F. Osborne, 9 weeks
135 00
James L. Litchfield, 12 weeks
156 00
James L. Litchfield, 27 weeks
405 00
William R. Durkee, 27 weeks
540 00
Minot F. Williamson, 27 weeks
405 00
$3.505 50
CARE OF ROOMS
L. F. Hammond, janitor town hall $200 00
H. Earle Ainslie, janitor Dist. No. 1, 1910 Fall term 24 00
H. Earle Ainslie, janitor Dist. No. 1, 1911 37 weeks
60 50
Arthur H. Osborne, janitor Dist. No. 2, 15 weeks 22 50
Mrs. M. A. Osborne, janitor Dist. No. 5, 37 weeks 60 50
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F. L. Thomas, janitor Dist. No. 6, 37 weeks 55 50 Wm. C. Tolman, janitor Dist. No. 7, 37 weeks 56 00
$479 00
FUEL AND FITTING
Wm. S. Simmons, wood, as per contract $25 90 Walter T. Osborne, wood, as per contract 37 40 Wm. D. Turner, wood and measuring wood 42 50
F. E. Henderson, wood 3 25
F. D. Lee, sawing and housing wood
8 25
Benj. Loring, wood as per contract
24 00
Geo. H. Turner, sawing wood
8 50
A. T. Stoddard, sawing wood
3 00
Benj. Loring, wood and sawing wood
7 00
H. Earle Ainslie, housing and splitting wood 4 50
F. L. Thomas, housing wood
1 75
$166 05
BOOKS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES
C. M. Ford. printing
$19 25
Samuel Ward Co.
13 37
Ginn & Co.
15 52
E. E. Babb & Co.
135 02
American Book Co.
90 96
J. L. Hammett Co.
2 27
$276 39
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HIGH SCHOOL FUND
Unexpended balance from last year $38 84
Received from State 500 00
$538 84
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.
$104 16
Oliver Ditson Co. 8 79
Ginn & Co.
93 98
Allyn & Bacon
12 12
E. E. Babb & Co.
53 82
American Book Co.
69 60
D. C. Heath & Co.
5 83
$348 30
$190 54
SUPPLIES AND INCIDENTALS
M. E. Curtis, postage, telephoning etc. $12 57
E. W. French, repairng clock 1 25
H. S. Merritt, materials and labor 43 05
C. L. Rice & Son, fixtures for schools 20 11
Hall & Torrey, merchandise and labor Curtis & Bates, merchandise and cash
25 74
paid for express, freight and carting 14 70 Wm. C. Tolman, repairs at No. 7 40
Arthur N. Hammond, transportation of substitute teacher, 8 days 4 00
Harold Monk, carrying water for No. 5 schools 2 00
Harry B. Merritt, labor at several school houses 8 75
C. A. Bruce, labor at church at graduation 2 50
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Jordan, Marsh Co., ribbon for diplomas 1 94 W. T. Osborn, services at graduation 2 00
Wm. T. Sylvester, cleaning vaults 6 00
Jerome F. Wadsworth, labor on stoves 5 63
Mrs. E. C. Jones, cleaning school house No. 1 12 00
Mrs. S. L. Mott, cleaning school house No. 2 12 00
Mrs. M. A. Osborne, cleaning school house Ne. 5 12 00
Mrs. H. E. Randall, cleaning school house No. 6 6 00
Mrs. E. L. Winslow, cleaning school house No. 7 8 00
William H. Spencer, materials and la- bor on stoves 41 65
E. W. Hood, repairing clock 1 50
W. T. Osborn, express and carting 11 48
Levi N. Osborne, stock and labor at No. 2 10 00
George C. Turner, expenses in secur- ing teachers 2 30
Albert Osborne, labor at No. 5 3 00
Timothy Sheehan, cleaning vaults at No. 1, (1910 and 1911) 5 00
George A. Turner, materials and labor at Nos. 1 and 2 29 30
F. E. Henderson, cleaning vault 2 00
Benjamin Loring, expense securing teachers, telephoning, labor and supplies 11 25
J. H. Lehan, painting and glazing 35 55
F. L. Thomas, carrying water 1 00
L. F. Hammond, transportation of sick pupils 1 00
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L. F. Hammond, stove 3 00
J. S. Hayes, expenses, telephoning, postage, etc. 4 50
W. W. Wade, tuning piano 2 00
G. F. Welch, lumber and hinges 2 33
J. P. Henderson, water supply for No. 6 10 50 A. J. Litchfield & Sons, supplies to schools 6 85
$384 85
SUMMARY
Total expense $10,453 84
Less amount received
Massachusetts School Fund $1,351 21
Superintendent Schools 250 00
State on account teachers' salaries 166 66
Tuition State children 263 00
· High School fund
500 00
Dog Tax
322 43
Balance High School fund
38 84
Collected for damage to property
5 85
$2,897 99
Expense to town
7,555 85.
Appropriation
7,000 00
Exceeded
$555 85
I have examined the accounts of the School Committee and find them correct.
ELLIOTT W. CROWELL, Auditor.
ABSTRACT FROM REGISTERS
Winter Term, 1910
Spring Term, 1910
Fall Term, 1910
Number enrolled
Average membership
Average attendance
Per cent. of attendance
Number enrolled
Average membership
Average attendance
Per cent. of attendance
Number enrolled
Average membership
Average attendance
Per cent. of attendance
No. 1 Primary
39
36.76
32.05
.87
41
32.75
30.34
.92
30
26.15
25.4
.97
No. 1 Grammar
41
39.41
35.43
.87
39
36.72
34.94
.95
42
33.32
31.76
95
No. 2 Primary
18
16.8
16.29
.97
No. 5 Primary
26
24.15
21.08
86
30
24.91
22.02
.88
27
26.86
25.72
.95
No. 5 Grammar
43
41.33
37.44
.90
45
42.78
40.18
.93
48
47.58
44.27
.93
No. 6 Primary
28
25.44
19.94
.78
27
24.56
21.68
.88
19
18.53
14.7
.79
No. 7 Primary
27
24.39
20.76
.85
25
24.12
22.82
.94
36
35.63
33.21
.93
High School
56
55.15
49.96
.91
54 53.49
48.11
.90 59
57.63
55.25
.96
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Norwell Public Schools
PUPILS NOT ABSENT FOR FOUR YEARS Dorothy Litchfield
NOT ABSENT FOR TWO YEARS
Mildred Blake
Elizabeth Corthell
NOT ABSENT FOR ONE YEAR
Alfred Molla
Margaret Tolman
Alma Litchfield
NOT ABSENT FOR TWO TERMS
Elizabeth Jacobs
Arthur Hammond
Arthur Merritt
Blanche Pinson
Helena Gray
Lawrence Osborne
Ruth Tolman
Marie Olson
Otto Olson Ernest Monk
Olive Briggs
Marion Chappell
Alfred Bates Otis Corthell Mary Turner
Miriam Ford Rena Merritt
Russell Olson
Robert Leavitt, Jr.
Viola Martin
Annie Olson
Arthur James
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NOT ABSENT FOR ONE TERM
Marion Jacobs
Herbert Lincoln
Robert Moila
Mabel Whalen
Annie Vollenger
Maisie Dyer
John Vollenger
Everett Osborne
Helene Merritt
Sara Monk
Norma Wilder
Ruth Kidder
Irving Wilder
Anna Laird
Edward Cobbett
Howard Cobbett
Grace Farrar
Orren Cutler
Wilson Morrill
Mildred Mott
Floyd Osborne
Lawrence Prouty
Sara Black
Evelyn Crocker
Seth Thomas
Grace Morrill
Fred Olson
Edmund Ramsey
Evelyn Ford
Frank Smith
Chester Bell
Lillian Whitaker
Stanley Winslow
Helen Parr
Helen Heredeen
Annie Trecker
Lloyd Prouty
Lillian Tucker
Douglas Mitchell
Minnie Gardner Josie Prouty
Lester Delano
Lillian Crocker
Levi Olson
Lawrence Moulton
Ernest Hunt
Harold Turner
Irving Haywood
Louise Whiting
Emily Simmons
Elva Prouty Mabel Gray
Susie Haywood
Bertha Gardner
Bernard Monahon
Samuel Descue
Lincoln Bates
Mildred Litchfield
Lillian Ford
Ethel Tolman
Fred Joseph
Lawrence Soule
Edna Farrar
Earle Nash
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GRADUATION EXERCISES OF THE NORWELL HIGH SCHOOL, UNITARIAN CHURCH, JUNE TWENTY-TWO, 1911
Class motto : "Not Evening, But Dawn."
PROGRAM
Prayer Rev. Mr. Houghton Mae A. Collamore
Salutatory and Class History
(a) Essay, "Some Peculiarities of the Tariff"
Elmer N. Leavitt Beethoven Quartette
Song, "Waltz Song"
Essay, "Beethoven, the Master of His World"
Class Phrophecy
Essay, "Nature's Benedictions"
Song, “ "Annie Laurie" Beethoven Quartette Ella F. Osborne
Class Characteristics
Essay, "Effect of Instrumental Music on the Listener"
Song, "Tom the Piper"
Beethoven Quartette Helen E. Litchfield
Essay, "Chemistry, as Applied to Agriculture"
Ralph G. Lambert
Song, "When the Corn is Waving"
Essay, "True Nobility"
Valedietory
Beethoven Quartette Bertha Gardner Ethel I. Stetson
Presentation of Diplomas
Mr. F. W. Carrier Song, "When the Little Ones Say Goodnight"
Beethoven Quartetto
Benediction
G. Marion Reed Laura F. Hatch Ethel I. Stetson
Alice R. Farrar
Class Will
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GRAD. ATES
Bertha Linwood Gardner
Alice Rockwood Farrar
Ella Francis Osborne
Grace Marion Reed
Ralph Gordon Lambert
Ethel Isabel Stetson
Mae Alden Collamore
Laura Francis Hatch
Helen Elizabeth Litchfield
(a) Elmer Nathaniel Leavitt
Class Colors; Blue and Gold.
(a) Prevented by illness from being present at graduation.
Superintendent's Report.
To the School Committee of Norwell:
I herewith submit my fourth annual report.
There has been a gradual improvement in the quality of work done the past year. I am convinced that during the last term of this year, the work in our schools has been gradually strengthening.
Nearly every previous report tells us that the schools are making progress, and that the work this year is bet- ter than that of last year. If this is so, why is it that our schools have not reached perfection? Here is one expla- nation: "The standards by which we measure our work are being raised each year, and in spite of our best efforts, we are maintaining nearly the same position relative to the demands put upon us by the general advance in educa- tional demands."
Changes in our teaching force retards the work. Even when good teachers are secured to fill these vacancies, it takes time for such teachers to adapt themselves to new conditions. Under the best of conditions there is a dis- tinct loss to the pupils whenever such change becomes necessary. If we could retain our present corps of teachers for two or three years, the value of their work would mean much to the town.
It is difficult to employ for the schools in our town, teach- ers who come up to the standard of excellence we try to set. Like all towns of similar size we suffer, because
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many of our teachers are taken from us by offers of higher salary elsewhere, just as we feel they are becoming valuable to us. The remuneration of teachers is by no means always placed on a satisfactory basis. "Results in school work are hard to measure. Perfect recitations and examinations may show intellectual accomplishments, but may fail utterly to discover how such a pupil has devel- oped in those qualities that make for strength of charac- ter, and honest, upright. citizenship." Credit should be given the teachers for what they are accomplishing or trying to accomplish, just as freely as criticism is offered for what they fail to do, but that is not always the case.
The present conditions under which the teachers labor are good; not ideal, for that cannot be in any town of large area and scattered population. As the teachers in- crease in efficiency, the marked change in their schools is noticeable.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
During the past year, the plan of medical inspection has been similar to previous years, the result being that the schools have been free from epidemics. The teachers are rapidly learning to recognize the early symptoms of some of the diseases which effect children, and the training is valuable.
Instructing pupils in hygiene is a comparatively simple matter, but training a child to practice what they are taught is very difficult, as the teacher cannot enforce the practice of rules of hygiene outside of school hours.
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