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J <br />CAMBRIDGE: <br />METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE IINIVERSITY. <br />REPORT. <br />DURING the past year the schools in our town have not <br />been disturbed by a single instance of such gross insubordi- <br />nation on the part of a single scholar as called for any direct <br />action from the Committee. Nor have they, in any case, <br />been unsuccessful through the unfaithfulness of the teacher. <br />It is something for which to be grateful, that each term has <br />shown some advance on the part of the pupils. Even now, <br />with all the increasing attention paid to general education, so <br />much as this cannot in all cases, with truth, be said of the <br />schools in our State. If your Committee dwell somewhat upon <br />the deficiencies they have observed, it is because they know <br />that the first step towards improvement must necessarily be <br />a deep sense of these deficiencies, — because there is so strong <br />a tendency in man to overlook his defects, — and because such <br />deficiencies do really exist, though they may not be peculiar <br />to our schools. There is no danger, in any case, that we <br />shall be too much impressed with the importance of their cor- <br />rection. <br />If but little is said in praise of our schools, it is because <br />the Committee think, that, except as an encouragement to <br />make them better, no good can come from such praise, but <br />that much harm may thence result, by leading us to be satis- <br />fied with the present condition of our schools, and by inducing <br />us to suppose them to be better than they really are. So in <br />both ways we may be brought to the conclusion that we have <br />nothing to do for their improvement. The Committee are <br />glad to state, that they have good reason to believe the schools <br />