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<br /> Though not without its faults, we think the school has been well
<br /> worthy the confidence of the most fastidious parent. THE. ADAMS GRAMMAR, SCHOOL. ,
<br /> Mr. Tower deserves our thanks for his successful exertions in leacher,—Mr.I SmAs PEABODY, (re-appointed March, 1868.)
<br /> allaying the evil of truancy.
<br /> This school has been profitable to its pupils for several reasons.
<br /> First, the instruction has been unusually perspicuous and
<br /> thorough. Secondly, the persons most deeply concerned in its
<br /> THE ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL. prosperity have done their utmost to lend the helping hand of
<br /> Teacher,—Miss MARY B. HowE, (re-appointed March, 1868.) popular favor. The classes have covered the ground laid out for
<br /> Promptness and general accuracy in the performances of the them at the beginning of the year. The pupils have not, appa-
<br /> pupils, continue to be the rule in this school, while the children rently, become listless, or tired of the school. If they have not
<br /> appear, as heretofore, lively, and happy. There have been many, J all progressed alike, it must be remembered that they are not all
<br /> cases of irregular attendance, due to the inevitable attacks of gifted with the same abilities, and that the same influences bad
<br /> children's distempers upon the pupils. Such a state of things not, before the year's work was begun, prepared all alike for its
<br /> thwarts;to some extent, a teacher's best efforts. The school completion.
<br /> ` The advanced classes in this school are.large, and it is no light
<br /> has, however, flourished, and has completed the year with great
<br /> J � cause of satisfaction to all concerned in its welfare. labor to take one of them through a recitation with the requisite
<br /> , despatch. If it is desired, in the recitation of a given amount in
<br /> The school-room occupied by this school needs better means
<br /> of ventilation. The valve-window, over one of the doors, is .w written arithmetic,that each member of the class should work
<br /> useful. It would be more so, probably, if it were farther dis- at the blackboard, it is easy to see how justice can be done to a
<br /> tant from the floor. But this window, together with the door- class of-ten much more easily than to a ,class of twenty. If
<br /> ways of,the stove and the single ventilating register in the other means of instruction are substituted for the daily work of
<br /> pupils at the blackboard, then ingenuity and great readiness on
<br /> chimney, are by no means sufficient to renew the atmosphere of s the part of the teacher are required, to make these means a
<br /> the room as rapidly, as the lungs of sixty children require it to
<br /> substitute in reality. In the same way large classes in other
<br /> be renewed. Opening one or more windows for fresh air, tends branches demand more time and labor than small ones. For
<br /> ¢; to chill the heads and shoulders of the pupils, and endangers
<br /> these and other reasons this school is more difficult to teach than
<br /> their health. Opening a door—the worst possible device for
<br /> ' the corresponding one in the Centre Village. It is not so easily,
<br /> ventilating, in cold weather, a public room warmed by a stove
<br /> chills the feet of the little sufferers, without even the excuse brought into a homogeneous condition. But we think faithful
<br /> which might be urged for dropping a window; for it furnishes pupils can make it as profitable to themselves, even thoughthe unfaithful may not, with the same facility as in the other
<br /> little or no fresh air to their faces. It endangers their health school, be compelled to enjoy its privileges.
<br /> more than opening the windows. Narrow apertures (from two
<br /> to three feet long, and from five to eight inches high,)-cut quite We take pleasure in commending the liberality of the friends
<br /> through the walls, on one or both sides, and at the back of the of this school, which more than a year ago furnished a piano for
<br /> room, near the ceiling, with closely fitted valves for cutting off the school-room, and in expressing the opinion that the musical
<br /> and regulating the supply of air, would probably enable these exercises of the pupils are very useful to them and to the school.
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<br /> children to occupy their school-room in comfort, and without
<br /> injury to their health.
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