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City Document — No. 3.

REGULATIONS

SCHOOL COMMITTEE

CITY OF EOXBURY.

ADOPTED PEBK.TJja.H.Y, 18S6.

ROXBURY:

NORFOLK COUNTY JOURNAL PRESS.

1856.

CITY OF EOXBURY.

In School Committee, January 9, 1856.

Messrs. Shailer, Crafts, and Farley were appointed a Committee to
prepare and report to this Board, Rules and Regulations for their gov-
ernment the present year.

January 23, 1856.

Mr. Shailer, in behalf of the Committee, submitted the Report of
said Committee, which was read, amended, and laid on the table.

February 6, 1856.

Report taken up and adopted. Whereupon, it was Ordered, That
twelve hundred copies of the Rules and Regulations, accompanied by
the list of Studies and Text Books allowed in the Schools, be printed
for the use of the Schools and Committee.

A. I. CUMMINGS, Secretary.

]REaXJLA.TIO]SrS

SCHOOL COMMITTEE OE ROXBURY.

CHAPTER I.

Organization.

Section 1. The first meeting of the Board shall be
held on the Wednesday next succeeding the organization
of the City Government. A Chairman and a Secretary
shall then be chosen by ballot.

Sect. 2. There shall also be appointed at the same
meeting, a Local Committee for each school in the City, to
consist of three members for the High School for Girls,
and for each of the Grammar Schools, and one member for
each Primary and Intermediate School; a Committee on
Intermediate and Primary School Teachers, and on Books,
each consisting of five members, one of whom shall be the
Chairman of the Board ; a Committee on Rules and
Regulations, and on Finance, each consisting of three
members.

Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of the Committee on
Intermediate and Primary School Teachers to receive the
names and credentials of all applicants over eighteen
years of age ; to examine the qualifications of those present
at any regular meeting called by the Chairman ; to grant
a certificate to those who pass a satisfactory examination ;
and to appoint a teacher from those examined and ap-
proved, to fill a vacancy in any Primary or Intermediate

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School, to be confirmed ■within three months by the Board,
on recommendation of the Local Committee ; also to keep
a list of all approved applicants, for the use of Local
Committees in providing substitutes.

Sect. 4. It shall be the duty of the Committee on
Books to propose the text-books to be used in the schools.
The books proposed by this committee shall in all cases
be submitted to the Board for approval, but shall not be
finally acted upon until said books have been before the
Board at least one week, and not until every member of
the Board has been supplied with a copy of the book or
books proposed to be introduced into the schools. Nor
shall any change of books be allowed, except on condition
that the publisher of the book proposed to be introduced
into the schools, shall give a copy of said book to each
pupil for the one in use by such pupil, which said new
book shall displace.

Sect. 5. It shall be the duty of the Committee on
Finance, to confer with any committee of the Board of
Aldermen and Common Council on the subject of appro-
priations for the Public Schools.

Sect. 6. Stated quarterly meetings of the Board shall
be held on the "Wednesday after the fourth Monday in
February — on the first Wednesday in June — on the
Wednesday after the last Monday in July — and on the
second Wednesday after Thanksgiving Day.

Sect. 7. At the last quarterly meeting in the year, the
teachers of the public schools shall be elected, and their
salaries voted.

Sect. 8. Seven members shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business.

Sect. 9. All meetings of the Board shall be held in
public, except when otherwise ordered by special vote, and
notice thereof shall be given to all the members at least
four days previous.

1856.] CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 3. 5

CHAPTER II.

Rights and Duties of the Chairman.

Sect. 1. The Chairman shall take the chair precisely
at the hour appointed for the meeting of the Board ; he
shall call the members to order, and on the appearance of
a quorum shall cause the minutes of the preceding meet-
ing to be read, and proceed to business. In the absence
of the Chairman, the Board shall choose a Chairman pro
tempore.

Sect. 2. The Chairman shall call a special meeting of
the Board whenever he may deem it necessary, or at the
request in writing of any two members.

Sect. 3. He shall appoint all committees, unless the
Board shall otherwise direct.

Sect. 4. He shall preserve decorum and order in the
meetings ; he may speak to points of order in preference
to other members, and shall decide all questions of order
subject to an appeal to the Board, on motion of any mem-
ber regularly seconded.

Sect. 5. He shall declare all votes, but if any member
doubt the vote, the Chairman, without further debate upon
the question, shall require the members voting to rise and
stand until they are counted, and he shall declare the result*

Sect. 6. The Chairman may call any member to the
chair, provided such substitution shall not continue longer
than one meeting. When the Board shall determine to go
into Committee of the Whole, the Chairman shall appoint
the member who shall take the chair. The Chairman may
express his opinion on any subject under debate, but in
such case he shall leave the chair, and appoint some other
member to take it, and he shall not resume the chair while
the same question is pending. But the Chairman may
state facts, and give his opinion on questions of order,
without leaving his place.

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Sect. 7. When any member shall require a question to
be taken by Yeas and Nays, the Chairman shall take the
sense of the Board in that manner, provided one-third of
the members present are in favor of it.

Sect. 8. After a motion has been stated by the Chair-
man, it shall be disposed of by a vote of the Board, unless
the mover withdraw it before a decision or an amend-
ment.

Sect. 9. The Chairman shall consider a motion to
adjourn as always in order, unless a member has possession
of the floor, or a question has been put and not decided ;
and said motion to adjourn shall be decided without de-
bate.

Sect. 10. He shall put the previous question in the
following form : " Shall the main question be now put ?"
and all amendments or further debate of the main question
shall be suspended, until the previous question shall have
been decided ; and the previous question shall not be put
unless a majority of the members present are in favor of
it.

Sect. 11. When two or more members happen to rise
at the same time, the Chairman shall name the member
who is first to speak.

CHAPTER III.

Duties of the Secretary.

Sect. 1. The Secretary shall have charge of the records
of the Board, and of all papers directed by them to be
kept on his files ; he shall keep a fair and full record of all
the proceedings of the Board ; he shall notify all stated
and special meetings ; he shall notify the Chairman of any
committee appointed, stating the commission, and the
names of the members ; he shall notify the meetings of all
committees when requested by their Chairman; he shall

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notify the instructors of their appointments, and shall give
other notices as the Board may require.

Sect. 2. He shall prepare the annual report required
by the statute of the Commonwealth.

CHAPTER IV.

Rights and Duties of Members,

Sect. 1. When any member is about to speak in de-
bate, or to deliver any matter to the Board, he shall rise
in his place, and respectfully address the Chairman ; shall
confine himself to the question in debate, and avoid per-
sonality.

Sect. 2. No member, in debate, shall notice another
member by his name ; but may describe him by the Ward
he represents, the place he sits in, or such other designa-
tion as may be intelligible and respectful.

Sect. 3. No member speaking shall be interrupted by
another, but by rising to call to order, or to correct a
mistake. But if any member, in speaking or otherwise,
transgress the rules of the Board, the Chairman shall, or
any member may, call him to order; in which case the
member so called to order shall immediately sit down,
unless permitted to explain; and the Board, if appealed
to, shall decide on the case, but without debate.

Sect. 4. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall
be considered by the Board, and not otherwise ; and when
a question is under debate, no motion shall be received
but to adjourn- — to lay on the table- — for the previous
question — to postpone to a day certain — to commit —
to amend — or to postpone indefinitely; which several
motions shall have precedence in the order in which they
stand.

Sect. 5. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the
Chairman desire, or any member of the Board request it.

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Sect. 6. "When a motion has once been made and
carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order
for any member to move a reconsideration, and if such
motion is seconded, it shall be open to debate, and be
disposed of by the Board. And in case the motion be
made at the same meeting, it shall be competent for a
majority of the members present to pass a vote of recon-
sideration ; but if it be made at a subsequent meeting, the
subject shall not be reconsidered unless a majority of all
the members of the Board shall vote therefor. But no more
than one motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall
be permitted.

Sect. 7. Every member who shall be present when a
question is put, shall give his vote, unless the Board, for
special reasons, excuse him.

Sect. 8. On the " previous question," no member shall
speak more than once, without leave of the Board.

Sect. 9. When the reading of a paper is called for,
and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be
determined by a vote of the Board.

Sect. 10. All proposed amendments to the Regulations
shall lie upon the table at least two weeks. Any rule may
be suspended for the time being by a vote of two-thirds of
the members present.

CHAPTER V.

Duties of Local Committees.

Sect. 1. The Local Committees shall visit their re-
spective schools at least once a month, and oftener if con-
venient.

Sect. 2. The Local Committees shall give their advice
to the instructors on any emergency ; and take cognizance
of any difficulty which may have occurred between the
instructors or parents and guardians of pupils, or between

1856.] CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 3. 9

the instructors themselves, relative to the government or
instruction of the School. An appeal, however, to the
whole Board, is not hereby denied to any citizen or
instructor.

Sect. 3. The several chairmen of the Local Commit-
tees of the High and Grammar Schools shall be the organ
of communication between said committees and the schools ;
but shall not act definitively on any matter of interest to
the school, without the sanction of a majority of the Local
Committee.

Sect. 4. In case of a vacancy in the office of principal
in the High or Grammar Schools, nominations and elec-
tions for the place shall be made by the Board.

Sect. 5. In case of a vacancy in the High or Grammar
Schools, in the place of any teacher, other than the princi-
pal, the Chairman and Local Committee shall, if they think
proper, after an examination of his or her qualifications,
appoint a teacher pro tempore, and give notice of such
vacancy, at the next quarterly meeting of the Board, that
it may be filled by election. And no such teacher shall be
appointed by the Board, until he shall have been examined
as aforesaid, and shall have received a satisfactory certifi-
cate thereof. The masters or heads of departments shall
be consulted in the appointment of their assistants.

Sect. 6. In case of a vacancy in the place of a teacher
of any Primary or Intermediate School, it shall be the
duty of the Local Committee to give immediate notice
thereof to the Committee on Primary and Intermediate
School Teachers.

Sect. 7. In addition to these specific duties of the
Local Committees, it shall be their duty, generally, to make
any temporary arrangement which they may find necessary,
relative to their schools, or the convenience of the instruc-
tors, in cases not provided for by the general regulations.

Sect. 8. Although the interest of the schools demands
Local Committees, yet each member of the Board shall

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consider it his duty to watch over all the public schools in
the city, to attend their examinations, and to visit them at
other times so far as practicable.

Sect. 9. No teacher or other person in the employ of
the School Committee, shall purchase anything at the
expense of the city without a written order from the Local
Committee of the School for which such purchase is to be
made, or from the Chairman or Secretary of the Board,
and all bills for salaries, repairs, books and furniture,
shall be approved by the Local Committees, or in case of
absence or any other inability, by the Secretary of the
Board.

EEGULATION8

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

CHAPTER I.

Teachers.

Sect. 1. All the teachers shall be responsible to the
Board for the faithful discharge of their duties. They
shall punctually observe the hours for opening and dismis-
sing the school, and during school hours shall devote
themselves to the public service.

Sect. 2. When any teacher is reported as very defi-
cient, by the quarterly examining committee, and placed
on probation by order of the Board, the Secretary shall
notify such teacher of the same, and state the deficiencies
reported.

Sect. 3. The morning exercises of all the schools shall
be commenced by reading from the Holy Scriptures, fol*
lowed by the Lord's Prayer.

Sect. 4. The teachers shall open the school rooms of
their respective schools, for the reception of scholars, at
least ten minutes before the time prescribed for com-
mencing the school.

Sect. 5. The teachers shall give the children constant
employment, and endeavor by judicious and diversified
modes, to render the exercises of the school pleasant as
well as profitable; — they shall maintain firm, prudent and
vigilant discipline ; they shall punish as sparingly as possi-
ble, consistent with securing obedience, and shall govern

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by persuasive and gentle measures as far as practicable.
They shall never resort to corporal punishment, until other
means of influencing the pupils shall have failed; and when
it shall be necessary, it shall be administered in such a
manner as to operate on the moral sense of the pupil in
the strongest manner. As far as practicable, they shall
also exercise a general inspection over their scholars, as
well out of as within the school, and on all suitable occa-
sions inculcate upon them the principles of truth and
virtue.

Sect. 6. The teachers shall keep a list of the scholars
under their instruction, and shall record the page of the
text-book at which every class commences in each term,
and also the page to which it shall have advanced during
said term, and this record shall be open to the inspection
of the School Committee.

Sect. 1. The principals of the Grammar Schools are
authorized under the direction of the Local Committees,
to make such classification of their respective schools, and
such regulations for the discipline and government thereof,
(not in violation of the regulations of this Board,) as in
their best discretion they may deem expedient. And it
shall be the duty of the principals to examine the pupils
under the care of the assistant teachers, in said schools, as
often as they can, consistent with proper attention to those
who are under their immediate charge.

Sect. 8. The teachers of the several Grammar Schools
shall impart oral instruction to their pupils, at stated
times, by assigning topics for their consideration, referring
them to approved works for information, questioning them
upon the themes assigned, and communicating such infor«
mation thereon as they may think necessary. These ex-
ercises shall take place as frequently as may be practicable
in the opinion of the Local Committee and teachers. A
list of the topics shall be open to the inspection of the
examining committee.

1856.] CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 3. 13

Sect. 9. In all the classes of the High and the
Grammar Schools, (provided the pupils are able to write
a fair, legible hand,) the teachers shall require, at least
once in two weeks, regular exercises in Composition, to
consist of Essays, Letters, Descriptions, or Abstracts of
Lessons according to the age and capacity of the pupils.
These exercises shall be corrected by the teachers, and
preserved with their dates respectively, in writing books,
to be inspected by the committee, as evidence of the pro-
ficiency of the pupils in penmanship, punctuation, use of
capitals, spelling, and the grammatical construction of
sentences. In the first division of the Washington and
Dearborn schools there shall also be regular exercises in
declamation.

Sect. 10. When the example of any pupil is very inju-
rious, and in all cases where reformation appears hopeless,
it shall be the duty of the teacher, with the approval of
the Local Committee, to suspend or expel such pupil from
the school. But any child under this public censure, who
shall have expressed to the teacher his regret for his folly
or indiscretion, as openly and implicitly as the nature of
the case may require, and shall have given evidences of
amendment, shall, with the previous consent of said com-
mittee, be reinstated in the privileges of the school.

Sect. 11. It shall be the duty of the teachers to take
good care of the apartments of the public buildings which
they occupy, and of the appurtenances thereof, that there
may be no unnecessary injury sustained by them ; also to
attend to the ventilation and temperature of the school
rooms, and to the cleanliness and comfort of the pupils.

Sect. 12. No subscription or contribution, for any
purpose whatever, shall be allowed by the teachers, in any
public school.

Sect. 13. Any teacher may, by permission of the Local
Committee, take half a day each term, for visiting such
other school in this city, or in the vicinity, as may be

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designated, and the name of the school thus visited shall
be entered in the teacher's register, with the date of the
visit.

Sect. 14. When the teachers in the Grammar and
Primary Schools leave their divisions, temporarily, and
require their places to be supplied by others, they shall
notify their Local Committees, who shall provide the sub-
stitutes ; and as far as practicable, these substitutes shall
be taken from the list of approved applicants in the hands
of the Committee on Intermediate and Primary School
Teachers, and the salary shall be at least two-thirds that
which is paid to the teacher of the division.

Sect. 15. No teacher shall be allowed to relinquish
the charge of his school without giving at least three weeks
notice to the Local Committee ; and in ordinary cases no
teacher shall be required to give up the charge of his
school without having received at least three weeks notice
to that effect.

Sect. 16. Any teacher who shall persist in violating
the Rules of this Board, shall be put on probation by the
Local Committee or the Chairman, who shall report the
delinquency at the next meeting of the Board.

Sect. 17. The teachers are authorized to make vocal
music one of the exercises of the school.

Sect. 18. It shall be the duty of the principals of the
Grammar Schools, to see that those pupils, who have com-
pleted the course of studies required in these schools, are
transferred to the High Schools, at the first examination
for such transfer.

1856.] CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 3. 15

CHAPTER II.
Pupils.

Sect. 1. All children residing within the limits of this
city, shall, on application to the Local Committee, have
free admission to such public schools as, in the opinion of
said Committee, they may be qualified to enter, provided
they be five years of age ; and no obstacle shall be inter-
posed by any teacher or any member of this Board.

Sect. 2. But no child shall be admitted into any of the
public schools without a certificate from his parent, or a
physician, that he has been vaccinated, or otherwise se-
cured against the contagion of the small-pox.

Sect. 3. Children of the age of eight years and up-
wards, who may pass a satisfactory examination in the
reading books used in the Primary Schools, in spelling
words selected from the reading lessons and from the
spelling book used in the Primary Schools, in explaining
the use of the marks of punctuation, in enunciating clearly
and accurately the elementary sounds of our language, in
writing words in script hand upon the slate, in reading
and writing Arabic numbers containing four figures, and in
the arithmetic used in Primary Schools, shall be entitled
to admission into the Grammar Schools. Children above
eight years of age, though not possessing the requisite
qualifications, may be admitted into the Grammar Schools
by special permission from the Local Committees.

The examination for admission into the Grammar
Schools shall be made by the Principal or Assistant
Teachers thereof, and shall take place on the first Mon-
day of the first and third terms ; and no pupil shall be
admitted into the Grammar Schools from the Primary and
Intermediate Schools except at those times. Provided,
however, that the Local Committees shall have discretion-
ary power to admit pupils possessing the necessary quali-

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fications at other times than those mentioned. Pupils
changing residence shall be transferred from one school to
another of the same rank, provided they bear a certificate
from the teacher of the school they leave, expressing their
standing and character, as a condition of their admission
by the teacher to whom they apply for that purpose.

No pupil shall be admitted into an Intermediate School,
from a Primary, except by the express permission of the
Local Committee of the Intermediate School, and in such
case, only on the first week of the month. The examina-
tion for admission into the High Schools shall take place
during the last week of the second term. Pupils who shall
have reached the age of twelve years, and shall present a
certificate of good moral character, and of presumed liter-
ary qualifications, from the Principal of the school which
they last attended ; and shall pass a satisfactory examina-
tion in the following studies, viz : — Spelling, Reading,
Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Modern Geogra-
phy, and the History of the United States, shall be re-
garded by the School Committee as qualified to enter the
High Schools.

Sect. 4. No pupil, whilst under sentence of suspension
from one school, shall be admitted to the privileges of
another, unless by a vote of this Board.

Sect. 5. In the Grammar Schools, each session, there
shall be a recess for every pupil, of ten or fifteen minutes ;
and in the Primary Schools of from fifteen to twenty min-
utes.

Sect. 6. Pupils shall be prompt and punctual at school,
and shall not absent themselves from school except on
account of sickness or other urgent reason; and no re-
quest for absence shall be deemed valid, unless it be a
written one from the parents or guardians. Every pupil
entering after the time prescribed for the commencement
of school, shall be marked tardy ; and whenever any pupil
shall absent himself for two weeks in succession, he shall
no longer be considered a member of the school.

1856.] CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 3. 17

CHAPTER III.

Periods of Instruction.

Sect. 1. There shall be four Terms in the year. The
first term shall commence the Monday after the fourth
Monday in February.*

The second shall commence the Monday following the
last Wednesday in May.f

The third shall commence in five weeks after the last
Monday in July4

The fourth shall commence on the Monday after Thanks-
giving Day.

Sect. 2. The schools shall be kept three hours in the
forenoon, and three in the afternoon of each day, Sundays
and the holidays and vacations, hereinafter specified, ex-
cepted. Schools shall begin at eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, from May to August inclusive ; — at 'other times, at
nine in the morning; and shall commence at two in the
afternoon, except the Girls' High School, which shall com-
mence at nine in the morning, and close at two in the
afternoon. Scholars may, however, be detained for delin-
quency beyond the regular school hours.

Sect. 3. There shall be the- following Vacations:

1. One week, commencing on the fourth Monday in
February.§

2. One week, commencing on the Monday before the
last Wednesday in May.||

3. Five weeks, commencing the last Monday in July.T

4. One week, commencing on the Monday before
Thanksgiving Day.

Sect. 4. The following holidays shall be granted, alike
to all the schools : — Every Wednesday and Saturday after-
noon; Fast Day; Independence Day; Christmas Day;

* March 3d. f June 2d. % Sept. 1st.

§ Feb. 25th. |j May 26th. 1 July 28th..

2

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New Year's Day ; May Day. No holiday not herein speci-
fied shall be given except by a vote of this Board, or by
a written certificate, signed by at least seven members of
the School Committee ; and in such case it shall be given
alike to all the schools in the city.

Sect. 5. The Norfolk County Convention of Teachers
may be attended by all the teachers belonging to the
schools in this city, for which purpose their respective
schools maybe dismissed; it being understood, however,
that this permission is not granted, except to those teach-
ers who actually attend said Convention.

CHAPTER IY.

Examination.

Sect. 1. Quarterly. The Chairman, or some member
or members of the Board designated by him, shall visit
and examine every public school in the city, at least once
each quarter, without giving previous notice to the teach-
ers, according to the provisions of the Statute. It shall
be the duty of this committee to obtain accurate informa-
tion of the condition of each school, and at the next quar-
terly meeting to make a report to the Board, in 'writing,
of their examination and its results ; of the condition of
the school-houses, and of any occurrences affecting the
standing and usefulness of the schools.

Sect. 2. Annual. During the last two weeks of the
first term, a committee of seven members of the Board
shall examine all the High and Grammar Schools, and a
committee of five members, all the Primary and Interme-
diate Schools in the city, and report upon the same, at
the next quarterly meeting of the Board.

1856.] CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 3. 19

CHAPTER V.

Books and Studies.

Sect. 1. The Books used, and studies pursued, shall
be such only as are authorized by this Board.

Sect. 2. The Text-Books authorized in the High
School for Girls shall be the following : —

MATHEMATICS.

Arithmetic. — Continuation and Review of the Arithmetic

of the Grammar Schools ;
Algebra — Sherwin's ;
Geometry — Davies Legendre.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

Worcester.

LANGUAGES.

Latin — McClintock and Crooks' First Book; Andrews
and Stoddard's Grammar ; Arnold's Nepos ;

French — Bolmar's Perrin's Fables ; Telemaque (Le Brun's)
Collot's French Anecdotes.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Reading and Analysis — Cleveland's Compendium of Eng-

glish Literature,; Hillard's First Class Reader;
Rhetoric ;
Original Composition.

NATURAL SCIENCE.

Geography of the Heavens — Burritt ;
Natural Philosophy — Johnson ;
Chemistry — Stockardt ;
Botany ;
Hygiene ;

PHILOSOPHY.

Intellectual Philosophy — Wayland ;

Moral Philosophy — Wayland's Abridgement.

DRAWING.

Bartholomew's System.

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The course of studies in the High School for Girls, shall
be as follows : —

FIRST TEAR.

First and Second Terms.
Arithmetic — Leach and Swan's ;
Ancient History and Geography — Worcester's ;
Physiology — Cutter's First Book;
Reading, Spelling, and Defining ;
English Grammar, Analysis, and Composition.

Third and Fourth Terms.
Algebra — Sherwin's ;

History, France and England — Worcester's ;
Latin — Grammar and Reader ;
Botany ;
Reading, Spelling, and Composition.

SECOND YEAR.

First and Second Terms.

Algebra — Sherwin's ;

Latin — Grammar and Reader (continued) ;

Physical Geography — Cartee's ;

Natural Philosophy ;

English Literature and Biography — Cleveland's Com-
pendium ; Hillard's First Class Reader ;

Composition.

Third and Fourth Terms.

Geometry — Davies Legendre ;

Latin — Nepos or Caesar;

French — Fasquelle ;

Chemistry ;

English Literature and Biography — Cleveland, or Hil-
lard.

THIRD YEAR.

First and Second Terms.
Geometry — (Continued) ;
Latin — Virgil;

1856.] CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 3. 21

French — Telemaque ;
Astronomy — Olmstead's ;
Rhetoric — Composition ;
English Literature and Biography.

Third and Fourth Terms.
Latin — Virgil (continued) ;
French;

Intellectual Philosophy — Wayland ;
Moral Philosophy — Wayland ;
English Literature and Biography;
Composition.

[Note. — Any parent or guardian desiring a change made in the
course of studies, in reference to the pupils under his or her charge,
is requested to confer Avith the Local Committee and Teacher.]

Sect. 3. The Text-Books authorized in the Grammar
Schools shall be the following: —

Worcester's Dictionary,
Webster's Dictionary,
Sargent's Third Reader,
Sargent's Fourth Reader,
Sargent's Standard Reader,
Russell's Introduction to the

Young Ladies' Reader,
Goodrich's History of the

United States,

Mitchell's Geographic Ques-
tion Book,
Swan's Spelling Book,
Butler's Grammar,
Green's Grammar,
Mitchell's Prima. Geography,
Mitchell's School Geography,
Colburn's Mental Arithmetic,
Leach and Swan's Arithmetic.

Sect. 4. The Text-Books authorized in the Primary
Schools shall be the following: —

Swan's Primary Spelling Book, Swan's Primary School
Readers, Mitchell's Primary Geography, Outline Maps,
Leach and Swan's Primary School Arithmetic.

Sect. 5. Scholars requiring books shall be directed by
their teacher to provide them. If not so provided within
three days, the teacher shall notify the parent or guardian
in writing, of the kind of book required, and in case of his
neglect to provide in two days thereafter, shall then make
a requisition upon the Local Committee, in which shall be
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expressed the name of such scholar, the name of the parent
or guardian, and the name of the book ; and it shall be the
duty of the Local Committee thereupon to furnish the
book, and make return thereof, according to law, to the
Assessors of the city.

CHAPTER VI.

Mortals.

The attention of teachers is particularly directed to the
following section of the Revised Statutes :

" Sect. 7. It shall be the duty of the president, profes-
sors and tutors of the University of Cambridge, and of the
several Colleges, and of all preceptors and teachers of
Academies, and all other instructors of youth, to exert their
best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and
youth, committed to their care and instruction, the princi-
ples of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to
their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety,
industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation and temper-
ance, and those other virtues which are the ornament
of human society, and the basis upon which a republican
constitution is founded ; and it shall be the duty of such
instructors to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages
and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the
tendency of the above-mentioned virtues to preserve and
perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings
of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness,
and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the
opposite vices."

SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1856.

ELECTED AT LARGE.

William H. Ryder, Julius S. Shatter, George Putnam.

ELECTED BY WARDS.

Ward 1. — Horatio G. Morse, Henry W. Farley.
" 2. — Joshua Seaver, Ira Allen.
« 3. — William A. Crafts, A. I. Cummings.
" 4.— James Waldock, Joseph N. Brewer.*
" 5. — Samuel Walker, Theodore Otis.

William H. Ryder, Chairman. A. I. Cummings, Sec'ry.

RESIDENCES OP THE COMMITTEE.

William H. Ryder, 48 Vernon st.

Julius S. Shatter, Washington, corner of Ruggles st.

George Putnam, Highland st.

Horatio G. Morse, 65 Zeigler st.

Henry W. Farley, Eustis, opposite Plymouth st.

Joshua Seaver, Ruggles st., corner of Sumner place, (Office

63 Washington st.)
Ira Allen, Cabot, corner of Sudbury st., (Office, corner of

Ruggles and Tremont sts.)
William A. Crafts, Washington, near Francis st.

* Elected in place of John W. Olmstead, resigned.

24 SCHOOL REGULATIONS. [Feb.

A. I. Cuminings, 121 Dudley st.

James Waldock, Alleghany st.

Joseph N. Brewer, 37 Centre st.

Samuel Walker, Eustis, near Dorchester Brook.

Theodore Otis, Otis, near Walnut st.

SUB-COMMITTEES.

Regulations. — Messrs. Shailer, Crafts, Farley.
Books. — Messrs. Ryder. Shailer, Morse, Farley, Crafts.
Finance. — Messrs. Seaver, Putnam, Walker.
Filling Vacancies in Primary and Intermediate Schools.
— Messrs. Ryder, Morse, Otis, Shailer, Cummings.

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PUBLIC LIBRARY

Off TTIE

CITY OF BOSTON.

ABBREVIATED REGULATIONS.

. One volume can be taken at a time from the
Lower Hall, and one from the Bates Hall.
Books can be kept out 14 days.

A line of 2 cents for each volume will be
incurred for each day a book is detained more
than 14 days.

Any book detained more than a week be-
yond the time limited, will be sent for at the
expense of the delinquent.

No book is to be lem; out of the household
of the borrower.

The Library hours for the delivery and re-
turn of books are from 10 o'clock, A. M., to
8 o'clock, P. M., in the Lower Hall ; and from
10 o'clock, A. M., until one half hour before
sunset in the Bates Hall.

'Every book must, under penalty of one dol-
lar, be returned to the Library at such time
in August as shall be publicly announced.

The card must be presented whenever a
book is returned. For rencAving a book the
card must be presented, together with the
book, or with, the shelf-numbers of the book.

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