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Street lights,
600.00
Care and repair of cemeteries,
50.00
School purposes,
4,500.00
School repairs,
400.00
High School tuition,
800.00
Music, public schools,
180.00
Graveling West street,
500.00
Public library,
175.00
Memorial Day,
75.00
Care of clock,
25.00
Tree warden,
100.00
Graveling road in Glendale,
200.00
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- $12,105.00
State tax,
$1,120.00
County tax,
1,163.69
Road tax,
240.80
$2,524.49
Total raised and appropriated by town, 1096,
$14,629.49
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TABLE OF AGGREGATES.
Number of polls at $2.00, 430.
Number of polls at .50, 2.
Total tax on polls,
$861.00
Value assessed personal estate,
$296,199.00
Value of assessed real estate,
722,623.00
Total property assessed,
$1,018,822.00
Tax on assessed personal estate,
$ 4,146.78
Tax on assessed real estate,
10,116.72
Total raised,
$15,124.50
Excise tax,
259.75
Rate per cent total tax $14.00 per $1,000.
Number of horses,
261
Cows,
578
Neat cattle,
384
Swine,
56
Fowls,
1,030
Dwelling houses,
301
Acres of land,
127622
J. S. MORGAN, Assessors of W. H. McGUIRE JR., Wilbraham.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have carefully examined the accounts of the Selectmen of the Town of Wilbraham for the year ending February 22, 1907, and find them correct with orders drawn on the Town Treasurer amount- ing to $14,482.22 with vouchers for all items of their expenditures.
I have examined the accounts of the Town Treasurer and find them correct with books neatly kept. I find all the receipts and payments are reported and with a balance of cash deposited in the Springfield Safe Deposit Co. of $2.57 to the credit of the Town of Wilbraham. CHAS. W. MOWRY, Auditor.
Wilbraham, Mass., Feb. 1907.
Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library.
Number of volumes in library, last report, 2183
Number of volumes added, 52
Number of volumes in library Feb. 1907, 2235
Number of books loaned from library during past year, 3815
RESOURCES.
Appropriation by the town, $175.00
Income from Chloe Bliss Stebbins fund, 3.53
Fines and cards,
8.79
Balance on hand Feb. 23, 1906, 7.98
$195.30
EXPENDITURES.
Emroy McGregory, labor,
$ 6.87
F. F. Marcy, lumber,
7.91
The Cutler Co., lumber and labor,
2.04
F. A. Fuller, paint, etc.,
1.18
Mrs. Kellogg, stove,
4.00
Eunice M. Bates, curtains,
1.50
Library Bureau, cards, pockets, etc ..
8.50
Eunice M. Bates, supplies, etc.,
.56
A. H. Bartlett, labels,
1.20
J. W. Baldwin, coal,
3.35
F. A. Fuller, supplies,
.24
Henry R. Johnson, books and supplies,
35.12
Springfield Library, books,
1.10
Funk & Wagnalls, books, 3.50
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Robert Brooks, rebinding books, $18.64
J. W. Baldwin, rent and care of library, 25.00
Eunice M. Bates, rent and care of library, 60.54
H. W. Cutler, freight and express, 3.78
F. W. Green, transportation of books, 10.00
$195.03
Balance on hand Feb. 23, 1907,
.27
$195.30
The legacy from the estate of Henry Cutler is deposited as follows :
$500 in Springfield Five Cent Savings Bank, book No. 55,481. $500 in Springfield Institution for Savings, book No. 145,815.
VERNON H. DEMING, Trustees H. W. CUTLER, Free Public FRANK A. GURNEY, Library.
Report of School Committee.
The School Committee respectfully submit their annual report. The revenues of the current year have been as follows : Appropriations for school purposes, $4,400.00
Drawing in public schools, 100.00
School repairs, 400.00
High school tuition,
800.00
Music in public schools, 180.00
207.00
Dog fund, 1905,
Interest on town loan,
78.50
From income state school fund, 1906,
1,077.50
State, account superintendent of schools, 492.42
State, account state wards, 174.50
Hazel Bolles, books, 1.52
H. G. Webber, stationery sold, .28
Rose C. Smith, car tickets sold,
6.00
Due from state, account Supt. of schools,
360.75
Town of Monson, tuition. 270.00
Unexpended balance of state school fund, 1905, 300.00
$8,848.47
EXPENDITURES.
TEACHERS' WAGES.
Mary E. M. Mack,
$ 336.00
Mabel V. Smith,
144.00
Edna Winans,
324.00
Effie L. Morgan,
324.00
Lillian Harris,
360.00
Bertha L. Carpenter,
104.40
Florence Crosier,
180.00
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Lizzie E. Fletcher,
$319.47
Clare Jones,
72.00
Maud Hubbard,
22.00
Flora M. Greenough,
147.23
Evelyn M. Proctor,
108.00
Clara Videto,
144.00
Emma Smith,
64.00
Ilda D. Mann,
324.00
Louie Tripp,
132.00
Grace Titcomb,
240.00
Rose C. Smith,
540.00
Florence Carleton,
360.00
Ina Ballou,
120.00
Queenie Tomlin,
240.00
$4,605.10
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
L. L. Farr,
$ 30.00
John W. Baldwin,
622.19
Henry M. Bliss,
60.50
Ethelbert Bliss,
30.25
H. M. Green,
5.50
C. F. Tupper,
51.00
Wight Thayer Co.,
7.75
C. A. Brewer,
24.50
J. A. Bennett,
25.00
A. A. Phelps,
15.50
L. E. Knott Co.,
7.42
Allyn & Bacon,
2.79
American Book Co.,
8.79
Henry Holt & Co.,
12.79
Springfield News Co.,
38.53
Ginn & Co.,
153.49
E. E. Babb & Co.,
22.25
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
9.81
Lathrop, Lee & Shepard,
.55
Bobbs Merrill Co.,
1.45
J. L. Hammett Co.,
106.18
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D. C. Heath & Co.,
$14.52
W. R. Jenkins,
1.96
The Century Co.,
5.59
H. G. Webber,
82.53
Milton Bradley Co.,
43.99
L. E. Hawley,
.81
F. W. Green,
21.04
W. T. Eaton,
3.25
Up-to-Date Manufacturing Co.,
101.60
T. M. Walker Co.,
3.60
Prang Educational Co.,
2.36
Masury, Young & Co.,
26.00
Silver, Burdett & Co.,
7.60
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.,
32.40
George H. Kent,
1.32
Oxford University Press,
2.09
W. J. Eldred,
1.80
A. C. McClurg,
3.37
Wesleyan Academy,
8.84
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
3.61
Levingworth & Co.,
108.00
Harriet A. Ellis,
1.98
G. C. Merriam Co.,
9.79
F. A. Gurney,
4.70
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$1,728.99
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CARE OF SCHOOLS.
Arthur Vinton,
$ 9.15
Hazel Vinton,
1.50
A. L. Farr,
20.00
L. E. Taft,
169.00
Lillian Harris,
14.40
M. E. M. Mack,
8.00
Mabel Smith,
6.40
Cecil Broddeur,
43.00
W. A. Mowry,
3.00
E. C. Blanchard,
221.00
E. L. Morgan,
8.75
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Roscoe K. Bennett,
$15.00
Hattie E. Day,
5.00
H. M. Green,
1.50
W. M. Green,
2.00
Mrs. James Farr,
5.00
Edna Winans,
4.00
A. J. Bryant,
4.00
Ilda D. Mann,
12.00
$552.70
SCHOOL REPAIRS.
Hawes & Gray,
$ 13.60
A. A. Phelps,
41.70
J. S. Morgan,
14.48
F. A. Fuller,
3.00
Cecil Broddeur,
2.00
E. S. Keyes,
249.43
$324.21
Mary L. Poland, salary and expenses Super- intendent of Schools,
759.43
Mary L. Poland, car tickets,
10.00
Mary E. Howard, supervisor of music,
180.00
Harriet A. Ellis, supervisor of drawing,
144.00
HIGH SCHOOL TUITION.
Wesleyan Academy,
$ 915.66
TRANSPORTATION.
Anson Soule, balance due 1904,
$7.50
William Fitzgerald,
2.00
$ 9.50
Total expenditures,
$9,229.59
Value of books and supplies on hand March 1, 1907, $ 200.00
Value of books and supplies in schools, estimated, 1,500.00
We recommend the coming year an appropriation of $4,500 for school purposes, $400 for repairs, $900 for high school tuition, $180 for music and $200 for drawing.
Respectfully submitted,
H. G. WEBBER, E. O. BEEBE,
School Committee.
C. P. BOLLES,
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Names of students attending Wesleyan Academy at the expense of the Town of Wilbraham.
Ruth Bates,
William V. Baldwin,
Ruth M. Bell,
Edgar L. Bigelow,
Ethel S. Bodurtha,
Chester Bryant,
Hazel M. Bolles,
Edward A. Calkins,
Rachel Cutler,
Clarence Edson,
Eva Gebo, Era Gebo,
Henry Goodnough,
Ruth Green,
Charles B. Hitchcock,
Marjorie Green,
George L. Miller,
Gladis Kallman,
Dora LaBroad,
Fales Newhall, Dennis O'Connor,
Nina J. Newhall,
Allen J. Robb,
Lois Newhall,
George Stephens,
Elizabeth Pease,
William Thompson,
Lillie Rice,
Harold M. Wade,
Laura Rice,
Rea M. Webber,
Sarah Segeal,
Thomas Whalen,
Constance Stephens,
John P. Whalen.
Alice Thompson,
Helen R. Wade.
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Raymond F. Gurney,
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HIGH SCHOOL INTRUCTION.
WILBRAHAM, APRIL 26, 1905.
It being the duty of the town, under the law of the state, to pay the tuition for high school instruction of such children as are duly qualified, the following regulations have been adopted :
I. High school instruction, at the expense of the town, will be given to such children as pass satisfactory examinations.
2. Examinations for high school instruction, at the expense of the town, shall be given to such children only as shall be recom- mended by the Superintendent of Schools.
3. No children shall be recommended by the Superintendent for examination unless they have satisfactorily completed, in course or by examination, the studies of the "Course of Study," for the public schools for Wilbraham.
4. Examinations shall be given in Arithmetic, English Gram- mar and Composition, Geography, United States History, and Physi- ology (after 1905).
5. All who shall pass these examinations shall receive from the Superintendent of Schools a certificate which shall entitle the person named therein to tuition, at the expense of the Town of Wil- braham, in Wesleyan Academy or such high school as may be duly approved by the School Committee.
H. G. WEBBER, C. P. BOLLES, School
E. O. BEEBE, Committee.
WILBRAHAM, MAY 2, 1905.
The requirements of the public schools having been increased to meet the higher standard of admission to Wesleyan Academy and high schools, the prescribed amount of work to be done in grades eight and nine is here indicated.
Arithmetic. Metric System and Cube Root omitted.
Algebra. The four fundamental rules, factoring, fractions and simple equations.
English. Technical grammar and composition.
Physiology.
Geography. As covered in ordinary text-books.
American History. Montgomery's Leading Facts and side readings.
Spelling. Quincy Word List.
M. L. POLAND, Supt.
Report of the Superintendent of Schools.
To the School Committee of Wilbraham.
MADAM AND GENTLEMEN :
The following list gives the names of teachers now engaged in the schools of the town :
School No. 1
TEACHERS. Mrs. Mabel V. Smith, 2 Ad. Miss Effie L. Morgan,
Edna A. Winans,
3 Lillian F. Harris,
4 Ad.
4 P.
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5 6
66
Ilda D. Mann,
66
1 - Grace Titcomb,
Rose G. Smith,
66
8 Int.
Florence Carleton
66 Queenie Tomlin,
Music,
66
Mary E. Howard,
Drawing,
66 Harriet Ellis,
EDUCATED.
New Brunswick Normal Wesleyan Academy Springfield High ) Bridgewater Normal § Gloucester High 66 Bus. Col. Posse Gymnasium, Boston Wesleyan Academy , Froebel Normal Semina- ry, New York Scituate High Bridgewater Norm al
§ Plymouth, N. H., High 66 Normal Wheaton Seminary § Northampton High Framingham Normal Boston University - Springfield High Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.
For the first time in the history of the town schools public graduating exercises were held in June for each of the two ninth grades, and six pupils from Wilbraham Street and the same number from North Wilbraham were given certificates of graduation.
PROGRAMME WILBRAHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
1906.
Song. " Come with Thy Lute."
School
Prayer.
Rev. M. S. Howard
Recitation. "The Countersign was ' Mary.'"
Helen Wade
Essay. "The Red Cross."
Lois Newhall
Duet. Vacation Song.
.
Emma Bell Smith,
ELECTED. Oct., 1906 June, 1901 Oct., 1905 Mch., 1906 Nov., 1906 Jan, 1902
Jan., 1907 Aug., 1905 Aug., 1906
66 8 Gr.
66 8 Pri.
Flora Greenough, Mary E M. Mack,
66
2 P.
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Recitation. " How Tom Sawyer Whitewashed the Fence."
Ed. Calkins
Piano Solo.
Helen Wade
Essay. "The Battle of Gettysburg."
Rea Webber
Recitation. "Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech."
George Miller School
Song. "Daylight on the Sea."
Recitation. "On the Other Train."
Constance Stephens
Dr. H. G. Webber
Presentation of Diplomas. America. GRADUATING EXERCISES NO. 8 GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NORTH WILBRAHAM, MASS. JUNE, 1906.
Selection from " Courtship of Miles Standish."
Mary Louise Calkins
Selection from " Antony's Speech." John P. Whalen
Recitation. " The Drummer Boy's Burial."
Dennis O'Connor
Recitation. "The Legend of the Knot-Hole." Nancy Carney
Selection, with musical accompaniment. "The Last Hymn."
Dora C. LaBroad
Composition. "Plymouth Rock." Presentation of Diplomas.
Ruth M. Bell
Mrs. E. O. Beebe
Subsequently all of these took the examinations and were ad- mitted to Wesleyan Academy and Palmer High School.
At present we are paying tuition for twenty-five students in Wesleyan Academy.
The No. 4 school closed in June with fair promise of as large an attendance in the fall as had been registered in preceding terms, and three teachers, who were to divide the nine grades equally be- tween them, were engaged with that prospect in view. But during the summer a number of children moved from the town, and in the early fall several entered classes in the Academy, thus reducing the enrollment to numbers which did not justify the retention of three teachers.
The breaking of a system, at a time when teachers were doing superior work and children making marked progress, was a measure that was deeply regretted. Moreover, it was hard for teachers, who
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had been engaged to do a certain work, to be told that there was no longer place for them and that, with no increase of salary, more would be required of those who were retained.
I have to record the kindly spirit with which each accepted the conditions, and, before her own future was assured, with dismissal or harder tasks before her, cheerfully cooperated with us in our efforts to reduce expenditure with the least friction and smallest loss to the children.
In times when demands for less labor and larger pay are fre- quent, these facts should not go unnoticed and proper recognition of the animus, which almost invariably characterizes our teachers, is certainly due those, who after years of education and training, stand in the community examples which their pupils are too immature to appreciate.
Coming, with each successive year, into closer contact with this class of workers, I have an ever increasing respect and admiration for the courage and ardor which inspire them and I attribute it, in large measure, to the influence of the colleges and normal schools which weed out the incompetent and unworthy and emphasize the value of unselfish service.
The action of the town in its last annual meeting, authorizing the employment of a teacher of drawing, gave to its children the privileges enjoyed by ninety-seven per cent of the school children of the state. Suitable arrangements for such instruction during the spring term were found to be inexpedient, but Miss Ellis, a graduate of Pratt Institute, was engaged for the school year, beginning Sep- tember, 1906. She visits each school once in two weeks, but by dividing the schools into two parts, she comes into town every week.
At the time of this writing, each class has received nine lessons and creditable progress has been noted.
I deem this study one of the most important branches of our work. As has been repeatedly stated, the drawing of beautiful pictures is not expected, but a practiced eye, which can see objects as they appear, trained muscles, able to obey the intelligent commands of the brain, are results well worthy of large expenditure of time, effort and money.
A person who can work with both brain and hands is well equipped for life's labor, and there is now strong reaction in favor of all forms of manual training.
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An awakening interest in agricultural pursuits is a most hopeful feature of the times. For many years, farming communities have suffered from the loss of young people, who have left the places for more congenial pursuits in town or city, and the deserted farms of New England are in part due to this cause. But since skill has lightened much of the heavy work for men and women, and the telephone, the rural mail carrier and the electric cars have made communication with the outside world possible and pleasant, the farm need no longer be a place of isolation and dreary drudgery. Many now find it a place for rest, and thought, and study.
The schools should do their part toward making farming intelli- gent and pleasing. If they taught something which had visible connection with work left in the morning and resumed at night, they would prove more alluring to many, who now see no relation between their studies and home duties. Every school set in a rural community should be furnished with agricultural reading books and with the leaflets furnished by the State Board of Agriculture, and the pupils should be encouraged to cultivate school and home gardens, doing the work themselves. Nor is this at all distinct from school work as it is commonly understood. We may teach the dimensions of a cord of wood, but they mean something to a boy who is sent out to measure his father's wood pile. Another learns his table of dry measure and recites it glibly, but when he sells a peck of potatoes which he has raised himself, he feels that four pecks make a bushel, and when his teacher turns his English lesson into a letter to the purchaser he takes pains with it and remembers what she tells him.
Work of this nature has been started in one school garden when Mr. B. F. Greene laid before me the plans of "The Young Folks Grain Club," founded by Mr. Myrick, of the New England Homestead. By invitation, Mr. Greene visited several of the schools and was so successful in interesting them that a number of plots were put under cultivation and cared for by the children. In the fall term, after the harvests had been gathered, a part of one after- noon was devoted to little school festivals. Friends were invited and the products of the children's toil were exhibited.
One little girl in No. 2, primary, came bending under the weight of a squash too heavy for her strength, and in her wake, followed a boy, whom she had pressed into service, bringing a still larger prod- uct of her industry .
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At Glendale, a large and really fine exhibit was made. The children were required to write, describing their preparation of the soil, the testing, germination and sowing of the seed, the care of the plants and the harvesting. Their letters were sent to Mr. Myrick, who published those from Elsie Farr of Glendale and Earl Tupper, of No. 5. He awarded Walter Calkins a prize of one dollar and Milo Green, one of five dollars. These two boys are members of the school in East Wilbraham. With the exception of testing and germination of seeds, all this work was done at home.
In another school, a small but carefully prepared garden was started, where radishes and lettuce were raised and sale of their product was assured. A kind neighbor furnished wire fencing for the cultivated plot, but the young gardeners could not protect the entire grounds and, one vacation day, they found their garden trampled and crops gone.
Somewhat later, by urgent request, Mr. Edson, of Glendale, visited the school at No. 1 and gave a most interesting and valuable talk on the planting of vines and flowering shrubs. A little help from adults in carrying out his suggestions will convert this school yard into a spot of which the whole town may be proud.
I should say less than should be said on this subject if I failed to add that the intermission hours are the danger periods in school life and that gardening and the adornment of public grounds are more profitable than quarreling and less harmful than rough play or other self-directed diversion.
An act of Legislature, becoming operative in September, 1906, requires the testing of the sight and hearing of every child in the schools. Test cards with directions to teachers, record sheets and notifications for parents were issued by the State, and a number of parents have been notified of defective eyes or ears. Each parent receiving these should, for the benefit of his child, take im- mediate measures to secure relief.
By the same law, the committee are required to appoint a physician, who shall, upon request, examine all cases where suspicion of contagious disease exists, and shall also look after conditions, which in his opinion are injurious to the health of the school. An appropriation for such services being necessary the matter will un- doubtedly be presented at town meeting.
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The need of such examinations may not be apparent to all, but parents will recognize the necessity of detection of first symptoms, which inexperience often passes by. The expense probably would not be large and the public health would undoubtedly be much improved by such attendance.
In closing, I wish to express my appreciation of the interest always exhibited by Rev. Dr. Newhall, and my sense of the loss we shall sustain, when he leaves his present honored position. To him is due much that has been inspiring and helpful, and we shall suffer by his going and by the separation of his children from our schools.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY L. POLAND.
January 26, 1907.
ENROLLMENT FROM SEPTEMBER, 1906, TO FEBRUARY, 1907.
Schools
Total
Membership
Average Membership
Average
Attendance
Per Cent of
Attendance
1
23
16.8
15.8
93.7
2 Ad
11
10
8.9
88.8
2 P
21
18.9
17
91.31
3
15
14.9
13
86.9
4 Gr
20
14.97
13.7
92.2
4 P
19
14.4
13.3
92.2
5
12
11.9
10.7
89
6
23
21.3
19.4
91.6
16-
14.6
13.3
95.4
8 Gr
21
19.2
16.8
87.5
8 Int
31
29.3
2.63
89.7
8 P
33
31
2.71
89.1
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Roll of Honor.
Names of those neither absent nor tardy from September, 1906, to February, 1907.
School No. 2 (Primary). School No. 3. School No. 4 (Grammar).
School No. 4 (Primary). School No. 7.
Cormack, Margaret. Powers, Edward.
Bartlett, Raymond. Beebe, Kathryn. Ripley, Wallace. Foster, Harold. Calkins, Ruth. Eddy, Martin. Farr, Elsie.
Report of the Supervisor of Drawing.
Miss Mary L. Poland, Superintendent of Schools, Wilbraham :
The introduction of a course in drawing in the schools this year has been received with such interest by both teachers and scholars that progress has been marked. The time devoted to the subject has been one and a half hours a week in most of the schools. The Supervisor's visits have occurred on days of alternate weeks, and the teachers have carried on efficient instruction between these visits. We counted ourselves very fortunate to receive on the ninth of October, a visit from Mr. Walter Sargent, who was then State Supervisor of Drawing. Mr. Sargent visited four of the schools in the part of a day he was able to devote to us, and gave a lesson in two of the rooms and helpful suggestions in the others. He was much interested and pleased with the attitude of the pupils and saw every reason for the accomplishment of good things.
We are continuing the work as nearly as possible in accordance with his belief that " A course in drawing has a three-fold aim : Ability to draw objects from nature, or from memory and imagination ; to make diagrams and working drawings; and to appreciate and use good design and harmonious color." A specific outline with this aim in view is published monthly in the School Arts Book, to which magazine the foremost art instructors of the country are contributors. It has been the method followed to allot different phases of the year's work to different months, and with this idea in mind September and October were devoted to a study of Plant Drawing and Color. The colored pencils supplied were used in the primary and intermediate grades for this work, as they not only gave the children more interest in the subject, but were valuable in teaching them to discern different hues of color. In the higher grades the nature-work was done with lead pencil or brush and ink
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silhouette, which necessitated careful observation and accurate drawing on the part of the pupils.
By the first of November it was thought best to begin ruler- practice and the making of diagrams, and in all the grades this subject was studied with a view to helping every scholar appreciate the value of painstaking and accurate work in measuring. Also drill was given on facts concerning simple geometric figures as square, oblong, triangle, etc., and terms of position and relation, as horizontal, vertical, diameter, diagonal, etc. We advanced from the very simplest of these terms in the lower grades to the working out with accuracy of simple geometric problems in the grammar grades. The practice of free-hand lettering, which seems to be a subject always of value, was also studied. All this we tried to make effective practice for skill and completeness in achieving a finished result and the knowledge thus gained was given expression in a Christmas constructive problem which might develop the power of observation and creation as well as manual dexterity. The problems chosen were such as could be made from card-board or paper, and in the grammar grade rooms an accurate working drawing was first made of the object. This was followed by the laying out and cutting of the material by the pupils themselves. Of course this required careful planning on their part, and discouraged aimless following of directions. The construction was next considered, and here it was that effective workmanship was evident, and the results accomplished showed skill gained, and an appreciation of neat and accurate work.
In the lower grades the constructive work has been carried on in connection with the drawing in various lessons all through the year. One experienced supervisor of the Manual Arts says, "Childhood is preeminently the time when the child wishes to do things and when his interest in doing should be turned to educative account." Therefore the value of hand-work, that is at the same time brain work, is generally admitted, and in the constructive work we have tried to choose exercises related to other subjects of the course. For example, in some of the rooms we have made from paper miniature wigwams, to illustrate the stories of Indian lite which the children were studying, and at Thanksgiving time we tried to choose something relating to Pilgrim customs and the first Thanks- giving. Primary drawing or construction is always crude, but our
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