1874-1875 School Committee Report

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1 F 18 19 the Intermediate grade, is one of our best. The first class they reach the last year in the Grammar Course, and we are from the Primary room was moved to the old Intermediate willing that the children of either school should attend the room, thus giving to each school two classes, in place of three. Grammar Schools as soon as they are qualified for admission Mrs. Lane was promoted to the new room, Miss Hutchin- to the lowest class, provided all the parents of those quali- son to the Intermediate, and, as before stated, Miss Harring- lied agree. The plan is not feasible unless adopted by all. The High School has continued to do its important work, ton to the Primary. By this arrangement each teacher will and its popularity and high character have done mach toward have about forty scholars, with only two classes or grades; and Mrs. Lane is able to relieve the principal of the Gram- elevating the tone of the tower schools. _ mar School by partly taking charge of the third class in that As before stated, no class°having been admitted in 1871, good results from the there will be no class to graduate at the close of the present school. These schools already show change, and we have bright hopes for the coming year. school year. Two of our Mixed Schools have been large and two of At the close of the school year, in June last, a class of them very small, and there have been some drawbacks to the nine, who had been an honor to the school, graduated, having success of each of them; but we are sure they were neverparts, with one exception original, as follows :— better classified, and never in a better working condition _ cLnss of 1874. than now. Complaint has been made by some of the patents that ! Florence M. Damon. Essay.—Books and External Nature, children could not be fitted in the Mixed Schools for ad- with Valedictory Address. mission to the High School; but, on examination of the Abby C. Underwood. Essay. —"Poetry of Common school registers, we venture to suggest that these parents Things," with Salutatory Address. would know more about the matter had they been inside the Grace H. .Plumer. Essay. —Ferns. school-rooms. Maria A. Butterfield. Essay. —Spectacles. The fact is, we have long felt that it was a difficult matter g Everett M. Mulliken. Oration.--Civil Rihts Bills. to teach our Mixed Schools, and we have taken special Caroline A. Bacon. Essay.— Geology and Psychology. pains to procure teachers of experience and culture for them. John M. Donovan. Dissertation. —Fashion vs. Reason. We are sure that the teachers are as competent, the instruc_ Sarah E. Holmes. Composition. —Action and Enjoy- tion given in these schools of as high a character as in the other meat.'- schools of like grades, and some of our best scholars in the George B. Rogers. Declamation. —Judicial Tribunals. At the examination for admission to the High S(—J )ol in High School have been prepared in them. It must be September, twenty-four applicants presented themselves. remembered, however, that each of these schools embraces y' The examination continued through two days, an was all trades from the Primary up to the High, and the work in a ' d quite q consequence is very varied, and, in amount, almost appalling. as comprehensive as in previous years. We therefore urge parents, as suggested in our regulations, Many of the papers showed that the work in the lower to send children to one of the Grammar Schools as soon as schools is not yet up to the desired standard, especially in ' orthography and grammatical construction. All the appli- i