1854-1855 School Committee Report

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REPORT, Yours Superintending School Committee, fellow -citizens, now submit for your consideration, their Annual Report ; giving such further information pertaining to the condition and wants of your schools, as their labors the past year have enabled thein to obtain. We cannot but express our gratification in the degree of success with which most of our schools have been conducted during the past year. The South-east Grammar Department, under the care of a gentleman of ability, gave the Committee fair satisfaction. In the Primary, although in the charge of a lady of acknowledged talents, we have not found that happy state of things we could wish. From some cause or other, there were wanting that harmony and sympathy between teacher and pupils, so essential to a good degree of success. We believe the teacher to have been faithful according to the best of her judgment, and your Committee found the school, at its close, in quite as good condition as, under all circumstances, they had anticipated. Of the Winter School in the North-east District, taught by a gentleman, one of the Committee, it does not become us, perhaps, here to speak. His great experience and success, as well as your long -reposed confidence in him, render further remark wholly unnecessary. The Summer School, also, appeared to have sus- tained itself. The order was good, and the final examination satisfactory. The School in the North District, taught in summer by a lady always acceptable as a teacher, whose moral influence also, on the school, was most happy ; and in winter by a gentleman of promise, while there was much in it to commend, did not, at all times, exhibit that degree of order, stillness, and attention to studies,