1863-1864 School Committee Report

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13 School,12 •r the geography previously used, we haveintro- duced •• '• 111book,better adapted to young beginners, as well as considerably cheaper. In some of the schools, Eaton's Primary Arithmetic has been introduced in the place of Greenleaf's. We shall continue to make such changes as will be, in our judgment, a benefit to the REPORT OF BOOK—AGENCY. APPROPRIATIONS. • The rise of price in fuel, as well as other articles of less importance, during the year, exhausted the appropriation, with the additions usually made from the State, and the Book -Agency to Town of Lexington, Dr. balance of the preceding '. 11 yet, at the close• ' 1 1 balance on hand 1 • • •u the year, there was less fuel on hand than has been usual. „ amount 1 books 0 • These / other considerations,obvious . • familiar to all, "• 4.43 rendered a larger appropriation needful for the ensuing 4.0 year. In accordance with the recommendation of the Cr. Committee, • • ♦ what webelieve•be a -wise • By books furnished indigent children for 1863-4 i. about11.31 lity, the town voted the sum of forty-two hundred dollars. teachers' desks 6.39 It is 1 dollars foreach pupil1 our •• 11hand 45.20 suming that the number shall remain the next year as it „ cash ,, ,, 1.53 has been the last. This is not an extravagant sum to pay for the education of children. The Committee pledge Respectfully submitted 1 themselves, as far as those now reporting shall be in H. HOLMES, Agent. charge, to use their best exertions to secure a fruitful MARCH 31, 1864. expenditure of it , and to maintain the schools, as far as possible, in what they believe to be at present their orderly and effective condition. LIVERMORE, CHARLES 11 , Committee.