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<br /> been eighty three different pupils connected with the school
<br /> instruction and entertainment, embracAw thousands of tri- during the year. We had in the school='room forty-eight,
<br /> angles, oblongs, squares, and other geometrical ical forms of va- seats; so that it was not unusual to have a dozen or fifteen,
<br /> rions coi,irs, cards, letters, ,tick,, blocks, worsteds, pictures, sometimes more, scholars sitting on the floor of the platform,
<br /> books, etc. These, at d,ff;,reut tinier during the day, are on settees, and in every available corner about the room.
<br /> placed in, the hands of these children who are too young to Contrary to our judgment, we let the school continue in
<br /> truly, and who Have ordinarily sat with nothing to do, so this condition until a meeting of the town was called, re-
<br /> that many an hour,otherwise tedious and injurious, is passed luctant, to ask for an appropriation, hardly knowing what
<br /> ple;s.5;rutly and not without profit. Entering either of these plan to recommend, and disliking to request a meeting of the
<br /> schools at certain hours in each session we find the children town for this special purpose.
<br /> h thhily employed i❑ assorting these cards or worsteds accord- Three plans presented themselves: first, the erection of a
<br /> ing to shape or color, in f�,rmiuo, words or short sentences small -building somewhere near the crossing, which would
<br /> with letters, laying sticks.in, piles of certain numbers aid relieve two of the lower grades in the Hancock building
<br /> according to :given lengths, making various figures with the secondly, the erection of a small building on the llancock
<br /> colored cards from designs drawn by the teacher on the School lot, where the engine house now stands.; and, lastly,
<br /> bt.rckba red, or even designing themselves. Much good that which was finally adopted,—the completion of the
<br /> j has already resulted, but the resources of this kind of vacant room in the rear of the Gramvnar school-room.
<br /> matcria-1 are very great, and more attention should be given There are some disadvantages,connected`with the use of this
<br /> to such occupation. room for a separate sclaool, there being no entrance to it ex-
<br /> The committee can do little else in the short time at their cept through the Grammar school-room, and some contusion
<br /> disposal than give hints ,end suggestions; it remains fir the being liable to result from having two schools so near
<br /> teachers to develop the matter by careful thought. I+;vcn in together; but knowing the town would hesitate to build a
<br /> the use of such material hat•rn may be done. Instruction , new house the coming year,and feeling that the small expense
<br /> a-; to firm, size, color, length, etc., should be exact; no hi g of fatting up this room might bridge us over until it became
<br /> should be used c<zrelessly, and the children should not be necessary to arrange for enlarged accommodations for the
<br /> a allowed to do anything with this material at will, until the
<br /> - y � whole school, we decided to recommend the latter plap,
<br /> have had definite instruction as to its uses.
<br /> 'lhc ,ro�Yrc;ss' of the Hancock. Primary� which has.been carried out. If the number of scholars coa-
<br /> t School leas bc.err tinues to increase as during the past year, a new building
<br /> very much retarded by its size. In our last report we called will be required at no very distant day.
<br /> atteution to its constantly increasing numbers, and sag7ested The new school-room was finished, the room below pre-
<br /> that some ,provision must be made at no distant clay for a pared for younger scholars, the schools divined, a teacher
<br /> division of the school. We did not thinly, however, that appointed, and the .schools established in the different rooms
<br /> such division would be necessary for the present. But inr- in two weeks from the time the appropriation was made.
<br /> medi rtely on the opening of spring, children seemed to The new room is pleasant and convenient, 'except as above
<br /> flock from every quarter. The rrurnt,er increased until due stated, and the School, consisting of the two upper classes of
<br /> ing the last terra it reached seventy-one; and there have 2 L
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