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j <br /> REPORT OF COMMITTEE <br /> ON PROPOSED <br /> NEW HIGI3 SCHOOL BUILDING. <br /> To the Citizens of Lexington <br /> During the past four or five years, the School Committee has <br /> repeatedly called attention to the need of better accommodations <br /> for our High School. In 1899, the Town appropriated $i,000 for <br /> the purpose of making improvements in the present building; but <br /> the special committee appointed to expend the money unanimously <br /> reported that such an expenditure could not wisely be applied. <br /> PRESS OF H. A. DAVIS, JR. & co. a - The report was received with approval, and no changes or improve- <br /> BOSTON. ments were made, the insufficiency _of accommodations being <br /> suffered to continue in the common understanding that a new <br /> building must soon be erected. Thereupon a committee was <br /> chosen to investigate and consider all matters with reference to the <br /> construction of a new High School house, of sufficient size to <br /> accommodate the High School alone, or the High School together <br /> with some of the upper grades from the Grammar Schools. <br /> In its report, submitted in January of the present year, <br /> that committee, after showing clearly the necessity for more <br /> space in order to accommodate the classes not only in the High <br /> School but in the Hancock School as well, expressed the following <br /> conclusions: <br /> "Considering the present conditions and demands, there seems to your <br /> committee three courses for the Town to choose between;—First, to erect a <br /> new building to be occupied exclusively by the High School, and reopen some of <br /> the old district schools to relieve the Hancock School; Second, to erect a new <br /> building exclusively for the High School, and either enlarge the Hancock School <br /> or build an entirely separate building to relieve it; or, Third, to build a new <br /> building sufficiently large to accomodate the High School and some of the grades <br /> from the Hancock School, and later when necessary,from the Adams School. <br /> "After carefully considering these various plans,your committee disapprove <br /> of the first, because it believes that the reopening of the district schools would be <br /> 3 <br />