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REPORT <br />OF THE <br />SCHOOL COI.IMITTEE OF LEXINGTON, <br />1851-52. <br />AGREEABLE to a law of the State, that there shall be an an- <br />nual report made of the condition of the respective Schools, the <br />General Committee have attended to their duty, and would <br />present the statistical matter in the usual form, together with <br />such suggestions of their own, as they think demanded by the <br />present state of the system of Common School Education in <br />our midst. <br />For the sake of an arrangement which shall facilitate the <br />work of speaking more in detail respecting the different schools, <br />we pass them in review in the following order of their respec- <br />tive Districts. <br />NORTH-EAST DISTRICT. <br />Here the Summer School was taught by Miss E. W. <br />Locke ; and the progress made was very fair. But it is alto- <br />gether desirable that the progress should be much more than. <br />this in any of our Schools, where there is the same long term <br />of instruction—five and a -half months. Constant attendance <br />of the scholars for such a length of time, is the opinion of the <br />Committee, ought to secure the most marked and highly satis- <br />factory improvement in all the branches studied. Unless this <br />