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<br /> decided advance during the year. The closing examination upon these opening years to lay the foundations on which
<br /> was very good. good order and scholarship will naturally arise in the higher
<br /> BOWDITCH SCHOOL.—Mrs. F. B. DEWEY, who began her stages of school life.
<br /> work at the opening of the winter term last year, con- HANCOCK PRIMARY.—This school was in good condition
<br /> tinued to develop more of her excellent methods, both in at the close of the last year, and so remained, so far as the
<br /> teaching and discipline; and the school, as a whole,, was evi- Committee know, through the greater part of the year.
<br /> dently improving. At the end of the fall term, Mrs. Dewey Towards the end of the last term, for causes not at all im-
<br /> resigned her place, having received an appointment in Char- pugning the fidelity or capacity of the teacher, it was in a
<br /> lestown with a higher salary. less satisfactory state. Miss PARKER was compelled to leave,
<br /> Miss ELLEN STETSON was appointed in her place. about three weeks before the end of the term, by increasing
<br /> y Miss Stetson was compelled to be absent the second week, indisposition; and the school was put,for the rest of the time,
<br /> on account of illness; her place being, however,well supplied I in the care of Miss ELLEN COOLIDGE. It was not to be
<br /> { by Miss SusAN E. SIMONDS. It was not to be expected that i expected that the examination should be as good as usual;
<br /> the highest results should be attained under these circumstan- and,we were not, therefore, disappointed at signs of less
<br /> ces. But we are pleased to say,that Miss Stetson did enough thorough discipline and scholarship than we should have been
<br /> to inspire a strong confidence in her success and usefulness 0 pleased to find in the school.
<br /> hereafter. At the closing examination, the general appear- HANCOCK GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—We judge of this school
<br /> ante of the school was good; but we noted the same want of chiefly by the two examinations, which were both good. The
<br /> thoroughness, or of seeming mastery of the studies attended y' year has not-passed without some complaints of too harsh
<br /> to, which has been observed in this school before. treatment of some of the scholars; but we judge, that, as a
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<br /> HOWARD SCHOOL.—Miss PEIRCE has continued in charge general rule, there has been no excess of severity. We re-
<br /> of the school through the year. Nothing in the state of the gret that necessity exists, or seems to exist, for recourse to
<br /> school calls for special comment. At the examinations, the corporal punishment in this or any of our schools. But,
<br /> recitations were generally good, and the order was fair. while we deprecate in every case any thing like violent or
<br /> HANCOCK SUB-PRIMARY.—At the close of the fall term, passionate treatment of children, we are not prepared to cen-
<br /> Miss SIMONDS withdrew, at her own desire, from the care of sure every instance of corporal punishment. We can only
<br /> this department of the Centre School, which has been in her r ;h urge on parents the utmost effort, on their part, so to train
<br /> jcharge since its organization, more than three years before. their own children as to diminish or remove the occasions
<br /> It is needless to say, that the care of so young a class of for such modes of discipline in school; and on teachers an
<br /> pupils demands traits of mind and temper not very common; unwillingness to continue dependent on physical force, as a
<br /> and that Miss Simonds has the kindness of heart and sympathy frequent means of preserving order in school.
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<br /> for the young which are the most essential in this place. Of By the Register of this school, it appeared that twenty-
<br /> her successor, Miss MARY FRANCES SMITH,,after one term's three pupils, just about one half of the whole number, had
<br /> observation, we can say that she bids fair to do a very useful not been absent or tardy through the term. This is doing
<br /> and acceptable work here. We regard it as a place of no little very well in the important matter of regularity of attend-
<br /> importance, though it has to do with little people; and count ante, and is an advance on the previous good standing of
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