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<br /> In our last report we spoke of instruction in penmanship and, examination on the whole of it. The class in the Adams Inter-
<br /> drawing. We early gave attention to these studies and for the h mediate School expecting to be admitted to the Grammar School
<br /> benefit of our teachers we secured for them some instruction in not having completed the studies required, were not promoted,
<br /> penmanship and a course of twelve lessons in drawing. In and remain in the Intermediate School until the close of the
<br /> penmanship, the difficulty in most of the schools-had,been that present school year. The studies of the Grammar and High
<br /> there were as many classes as there were scholars, but under Schools have also been carefully revised, and the whole system
<br /> our present system there have been only two or three classes in is presented in detail in what we have called our Course of In-
<br /> each school and in some schools but one. By this system far struction, which is appended to this report. This Course of
<br /> more has been accomplished and we have been especially pleased Instruction has been prepared with great care and after many
<br /> with the appearance of the books throughout the town. months of critical study of the necessities of our schools, and
<br /> In drawing, also, we have accomplished much more than we comparison of the work of corresponding classes in the different
<br /> dared.expect. It may seem a little thing to be able to draw a schools. We ask you not to pass judgment upon it without a
<br /> straight line and one of a given length,but when this is accom- close study of all its bearings. '4Ve do not claim that it con-
<br /> plished, we have the key to success. A careful examination of tains anything new, but that it marks out the work we expect
<br /> the work at the end of the year has convinced us of the wisdom from year to year with such detail that it cannot fail to be of
<br /> of'our requiring this study to be taught to every pupil in town,
<br /> and we shall insist on its careful continuance Burin great assistance to the teacher. By this course, no more is
<br /> g the coming required of pupils than has been required in theory for many
<br /> year. . years ; but the work has been so divided and the steps from
<br /> The success of the musical instruction is too well known in most of the families in the town to re topic to topic are so gradual that we claim the work will be `
<br /> require an extended notice.
<br /> q better done "and without any undue crowding. We have in-
<br /> We can hardly appreciate enough the services of our musical _ sisted on more instruction and less pretended study, and, to
<br /> instructor, who has overcome many obstacles, and allowed some extent, have pointed out the way..
<br /> nothing to prevent the regularity of his weekly lessons.. We At the beginning of the present school year,after a somewhat
<br /> think the town especially fortunate in this particular. careful examination, there were admittedto the High School
<br /> We have done much, during the year, to improve the condi twenty-five applicants. We will not assert that they were the
<br /> tion of our schools by a better classification. This was a difficult best scholars ever admitted to the High School,but we are con-
<br /> matter to accomplish in the mixed schools,but by reducing the fident that, as a class,their attainments average quite as well as
<br /> classes,in some cases to half the usual number,we have improved those of any other, and that they will quite as successfully pass
<br /> the work done many per cent. In the graded schools the ten- through the course of study. The examination' for admission
<br /> dency has always been to hasten from one grade to another; , was chiefly in writing,the questions given to each scholar being
<br /> and thus to knock for admission at the doors of the High School, as follows:—
<br /> with the work of the preceding grades for the most part care-
<br /> lessly done. To remedy the difficulty,we have begun with the ARITHMETIC.
<br /> primary grade, and insist that a certain amount of work shall be 1. Divide 9 by 450, multiply the quotient by .8, divide .003 by
<br /> thoroughly done there before the scholar is admitted to theinter-
<br /> that product, and add three thousand two, and three thousand three
<br /> millionths to that quotient.
<br /> mediate grade. The work for each year, of the intermediate grade,has also been carefully marked out, and no scholar can be 2. Give the rule for dividing a fraction.by a fraction, and explain
<br /> the process.
<br /> admitted to the grammar grade until he is able to pass a thorough 3. What is the amount of $300 for two years, six months,and
<br /> twelve slays, at 5 per cent. compound interest?
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