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City Document. — Wo. 4.
REGULATIONS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
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In School Committee, January 8, 1862.
Messrs. Cummings, Williams, and Seavek, were appointed a Commit-
tee to prepare and report to this Board, Rules and Kegulations for their
government the present year.
January 21.
The Committee on Rules and Regulations submitted the Report of said
Committee, which was read and adopted. Whereupon it was
Ordered, That two hundred and fifty copies of the Rules and Regu-
lations, accompanied by the Course of Studies, and Text-Books allowed
in the several Schools of the City, be printed for the use of the Schools
and Committee.
JOSHUA SEAVER, Secretary.
HEaULA-TIONS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE OE HOXBURY.
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, or as soon after as practicable, Local Commit-
tees for the several Schools in the City, to consist of three
members for the High and each of the Grammar Schools,
and one member for each Primary School ; a Committee
on Primary School Teachers, and on Books, each consist-
ing of five members, one of whom shall be the Chairman
of the Board; a Committee on Rules and Regulations, on
Finance, and on Accounts, each consisting of three mem-
bers.
Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of the Committee on
Primary School Teachers to receive the names and creden-
tials 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, acting in
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concert with the Local Committee, to appoint a teacher
from those examined and approved, to fill a vacancy in any
Primary School, to be confirmed within three months by
the Board, on recommendation of the Local Committee.
The Chairman shall also 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 ifsed in the schools,
which 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 for
examination 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, and report to this Board
as occasion may require.
Sect. 6. The Committee on Accounts shall audit all
accounts presented for approval by the Board, and two
members of said Committee shall, in all cases, approve
and sign each bill before it is paid.
Sect. 7. 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
Wednesday before Thanksgiving Bay.
Sect. 8. At the last Quarterly Meeting in the year,
the Teachers of the Public Schools shall be elected, and
their salaries voted.
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Sect. 9. Seven members shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business.
Sect. 10. 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 daj^s previous.
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 meeting
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 order in the meetings ; he
may speak to points of order in preference to other mem-
bers, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an
appeal to the Board, on motion of any member.
Sect. 5. He shall declare all votes ; but if any member
doubt the vote, he shall, without further debate upon the
question, 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, he shall appoint the member
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who shall take the chair. He 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 pend-
ing. But he may state facts, and give his opinion on ques-
tions of order, without leaving his place.
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.
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 amendment.
Sect. 9. The Chairman shall consider a motion to ad-
journ 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 debate.
Sect. 10. He shall put the previous question in the
following form : " Shall the main question be now put ? "
^nd 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; shall notify all stated and
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special meetings ; shall notify the Chairman of any commit-
tee appointed, stating the commission, and the names of
the members ; shall notify the meetings of all committees
when requested by their Chairman ; notify the instructors
of their appointments, and shall give other notices as the
Board may require, and act as one of the Committee on
Accounts of this Board.
Sect. 2. He shall prepare the annual report required
by the statute of the Commonwealth.
CHAPTER lY.
Rights and Duties of Members.
Sect. 1. When any member is about to speak in debate,
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 personality.
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, it shall be considered
by the Board ; 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
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certain — to commit — to amend — or to postpone indefi-
nitely ; which several motions shall have precedence in the
order in which the}'^ stand.
Sect. 5. Every motion shall be reduced to writing,
if the Chairman desire, or any member of the Board
request it.
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. 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
reconsideration; but if it be made at a subsequent meet-
ing, the subject shall not be reconsidered unless a majority
of all the members of the Board vote therefor. No more
than one motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall
be permitted.
Sect. 7. Every member 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 ; and no
member shall speak longer than ten minutes at any one
time upon any question under consideration, unless by
special permission of the Board to continue his remarks.
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 over until the next meeting. Any rule may be
suspended, for the time being, by a vote of two-thirds of
the members present.
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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 in-
structors and parents or guardians of pupils, or between
the teachers themselves, relative to the government or in-
struction 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 on any matter of interest to the school,
without the sanction of a majority of the Local Committee.
Sect. 4. Li case of a vacancy in the office of Principal
or Assistant in the High, or Principal in the Grammar
Schools, nominations and elections for the place shall be
made by the Board.
Sect. 5. In case of a vacancy in the Grammar Schools,
in the place of any teacher other than the Principal, the
Chairman of the Board, with the Local Committee of the
School in which such vacancy exists, shall examine the
qualifications of candidates, and from, the list of those who
shall pass a satisfactory examination, the Local Committee
shall appoint one as a teacher pro tempore ; which appoint-
ment shall be submitted to the Board at the first ensuing
Quarterly Meeting for approval. And no such teacher
shall be appointed by the Board, until he or she shall have
been examined as aforesaid, and shall have received a
satisfactory certificate thereof. The masters, or heads of
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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 School, it shall be the duty of the Local
Committee to give immediate notice thereof to the Com-
mittee on Primary School Teachers, and with their
cooperation fill such vacancy.
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 neces-
sary, relative to their schools, or the convenience of the
instructors, in cases not provided for by the general reg-
ulations.
Sect. 8. Although the interest of the schools demands
Local Committees, yet each member of the Board shall
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 — or, in his or their absence
or inability, by the Chairman or Secretary of the Board —
for which such purchase is to be made ; and all bills for
repairs, books, and furniture, shall be approved by the
Committee on Accounts.
Sect. 10. No part of the premises occupied by the
Public Schools shall, in any case, be used for any other
purpose than that for which they were designed.
Extract from Ordinance No. 22, relating to Expenditures for Schools.
" Sect. 3. The Committee on Public Property shall cause all neces-
sary repairs to be made in and upon the several school houses and the
grounds attached thereto, belonging to the City, and provide all neces-
sary articles for the comfort and convenience of the schools (with the
exception of fuel) that may be deemed necessary ;
Provided, The School Committee may make any necessary repairs
and provide all articles that they may deem necessary for the comfort
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and convenience of the schools, whenever such repairs or supplies shall
not exceed the sum of fifty dollars in any one instance."
Sect. 11. No expenditure, under the provisions of the
above-named Ordinance, (so far as it relates to the School
Committee,) shall be authorized unless specially voted by
the Board, except for books for teachers and indigent
scholars, and other articles or repairs for the use of the
schools, not exceeding ten dollars in any one instance.
HEQULi^LTIOISrS
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 dis-
missing the school, and during school hours shall devote
themselves to the public service.
Sect. 2. When any teacher is reported as very de-
ficient by the Quarterly Examining Committee, and placed
on probation by order of the Board, the Secretary shall
notify such teacher of the fact, and state the deficiency re-
ported. Any teacher who shall persist in violating the
rules of this Boar5, shall be put on probation by the Local
Committee; or, in their absence, by the Chairman, who
shall report the delinquency at the next meeting of the
Board.
Sect. 3. The morning exercises of all the schools shall
be commenced by reading from the Holy Scriptures ; and
it is recommended that the same be followed by the Lord's
Prayer.
Sect. 4. The teachers shall open the school rooms of
their respective schools, for the reception of scholars, at
YQQ.'si fifteen minutes before the time prescribed for com-
mencing each session. The teachers shall require the
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scholars to be in their seats, and shall commence and close
the exercises of the schools, punctually at the prescribed
hours.
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,* and shall govern 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 deemed
necessary, it shall be administered with judgment, and
without undue severity. 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
occasions inculcate upon them the principles of truth and
virtue.
Sect. 6. The teachers shall respectively keep a list
of the scholars under their instruction, and shall record
the page of the text-book at which every class com-
mences in each term, and also the page to which it shall
have advanced during said term; and these records shall
be open to the inspection of the School Committee.
Sect. 7. 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 they
may deem expedient. And it shall be the duty of the
Principals to examine the pupils under the care of the as-
sistant teachers in said schools, as often as they can, con-
sistent 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
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to approved works for information, questioning tlicm upon
the themes assigned, and communicating such information
thereon as they may think necessary. These exercises
shall take place as frequently as may be thought practica-
ble by the Local Committee and teachers. A list of the
topics shall be open to the inspection of the Examining
Committee.
Sect. 9. In all the classes of the High and Grammar
Schools, (provided the pupils are able to write a fair, legi-
ble hand,) the teachers shall require, at least once in two
weeks, regular exercises in Composition, to consist of
Essays, Letters, Descriptions, Abstracts of Lessons, or
exercises from " Tower's Grammar of Composition," ac-
cording to the age and capacity of the pupils. These
exercises shall be corrected by the teachers, and preserved
in their original form with the corrections and their dates
respectively, in books, to be inspected by the Committee,
as evidence of the proficiency of the pupils in penman-
ship, punctuation, use of capitals, spelling, and the gram-
matical construction of sentences. In the first divisions
of the male department of the High and Grammar Schools
there shall also be regular exercises in declamation.
Sect. 10. In the Grammar Schools, no lesson shall be
assigned expressly for study out of the regular school
hours ; and in all the Schools, except the High Scho'ol, the
program of daily study shall be arranged, and the time ap-
portioned, as far as possible, so that the lessons assigned
may be prepared in school, and not remain for study out
of school. Of the pupils in the High School, a moderate
amount of study out of school may be required. The pro-
gram of study shall be open to the inspection of the Local
and Examining Committees.
Sect. 11. When the example of any pupil is very inju-
rious, and in all cases where reformation appears hopeless,
the Local Committee shall have power to suspend such
pupil from the school ; but no pupil shall be expelled from
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any school, except by vote of the Board. Any child who,
having been suspended, shall have expressed to the teacher
regret for such misdemeanor, as openly and implicitly as
the nature of the case may require, and shall have given
evidences of reformation, shall, with the previous consent
of said Local Committee, be reinstated in the privileges of
the school.
Sect. 12. 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 give vigilant attention to the ventilation and tempera-
ture of their school-rooms, particularly at each recess, and
at the end of each school session before the house shall
be closed.
Sect, 13. No subscription or contribution, for any pur-
pose whatever, shall be allowed by the teachers, in any
public school. Nor shall they entertain any proposals
from agents or venders of any kind, during school hours.
Sect. 14. 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
designated, and the name of the school thus visited shall be
entered in the teacher's register, with the date of the visit.
Sect. 15. When a teacher shall be obliged from sick-
ness, or any other urgent cause, to leave a division or
school temporarily, so as to require a substitute, such
teacher shall seasonably notify the proper Local Commit-
tee, who shall provide a substitute, to be selected as far
as practicable from the list of approved applicants in the
hands of the Committee on Primary School teachers, and
the salary shall be at least two-thirds of that paid to the
teacher of the division.
Sect. 16. No teacher shall be allowed to relinquish the
charge of his or her school without giving at least three
weeks' notice to the Local Committee ; and in ordinary
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cases no teacher shall be required to give up the charge
of his or her school without having received at least three
weeks' notice to that effect.
Sect. 17. The teachers are required to make vocal
music and vocal drill regular exercises of the school.
Sect. 18. The Principal of the High and of each of the
Grammar Schools shall respectively submit, at the close of
the Summer term, an annual report in writing, giving his
or her view of the state, progress, and wants of each divi-
sion of the school during the year.
Sect. 19. No teacher shall sell to his pupils school
books or any other articles, excepting writing books and
stationery.
CHAPTER II.
Pupils.
Sect. 1. All children of the age of five years and
upwards, residing within the limits of this city, shall, on
application to the proper Local Committee, have free
admission to such public schools as, in the opinion of said
Committee, they may be qualified by age, attainments and
residence, to enter.
Sect. 2. But no child shall be admitted into any of the
public schools without a certificate from a physician, that
he has been vaccinated, or otherwise secured against the
contagion of the small-pox. And such certificate shall be
kept on file by the teacher.
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 spell-
ing book used in the Primary Schools, in explaining the
use of the marks of punctuation, in enunciating clearly
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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, rnay 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 Monday of the Jii'st and
third terms; and no pupil shall be admitted into the
Grammar Schools from the Primary Schools except at
those times. Provided, however, that the Local Commit-
tees shall have discretionary power to admit pupils, pos-
sessing the necessary qualifications, at other times than
those mentioned. Pupils changing residence shall be trans-
ferred from one school to another of the same rank, pro-
vided 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.
The examination for admission into the High School
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 literary qualifications, from the Principal of the
school which they last attended, and shall pass a satisfac-
tory examination in the following studies, viz. : Spelling,
Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Modern
Geography, and the History of the United States, shall be
regarded by the School Committee as qualified to enter
the High School.
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.
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Sect. 5. In the Grammar Schools, during 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 minutes, — excepting as provided for in Chap. 3,
Sect. 2, of these Regulations.
Sect. 6. Pupils shall be prompt and punctual at school,
and shall not absent themselves therefrom except on ac-
count of sickness or other urgent reason; and no request
for absence shall be deemed valid, unless it be a written
or personal one from parent or guardian. Every pupil en-
tering after the time prescribed for the commencement of
school, shall be marked tardy; and whenever any pupil
shall absent himself or herself for two weeks in succession,
such pupil shall be considered no longer a member of the
school.
CHAPTER III.
Periods of Instruction.
Sect. 1. There shall be four Terms in the year. The
first 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 the first Monday in Septem-
ber.:}:
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, except-
ing Sundays and the holidays and vacations hereinafter
specified, and except that from the first Monday in Novem-
* March 3d. f June 2d. | September 1st.
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ber to the first Monday ia February the schools may omit
the afternoon recess, and shall close at four o'clock.
Schools shall begin at eight o'clock in the morning during
the summer term; at other times, at nine in the morning j
and shall commence at two in the afternoon, except the
High School, which shall commence at nine in the morning,
and close at two in the afternoon. Scholars may, how-
ever, be detained, for delinquencies or discipline, a reason-
able time after the regular school hours.
Sect. 3. There shall be the following Vacations :
1. One week commencing on the fourth Monday in Feb-
ruary.*
2. One week commencing on the Monday before the last
Wednesday in May.f
3. Six weeks next preceding the first Monday in Sep-
tember..^
4. One week commencing on the Monday before Thanks-
giving Day.
Sect. 4. The following holidays shall be granted alike
to all the schools: — Every Wednesday and Saturday af-
ternoon; Past Day; Independence Day; Christmas Day;
May Day, and Washington's Birth Day. No holiday not
herein specified shall be given except by a vote of the
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 may be dismissed ; it being understood, however,
that this permission is not granted, except to those teach-
ers who actually attend said Convention.
* February 24th, f May 26th. t July 21st.
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CHAPTER IV.
Examinations.
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, m writing,
of their examination and its results, of the condition of
tlie 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 the High and all the Grammar Schools, and
a committee, also, of five members, shall examine all the
Primary Schools in the City, and report upon the same at
the next quarterly meeting of the Board.
Sect. 3. All reports of the examinations of the several
schools shall be duly filed according to their dates, and shall
not be taken from the custody of the Secretary, except by
permission of the Board.
CHAPTER y.
Books and Studies.
Sect. 1. The exercises, studies and text-books author-
ized in the Primary Schools, shall be the following :
FIRST YEAR.
1. Charts, and Sargent's Primer;
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2. Enunciating the elementary sounds of letters and words ;
3. Oral Instruction ;
4. Exercises on tlie Slate ;
5. Singing.
SECOND YEAE.
1. Sargent's First Reader, (Sargent's Second Reader;)
2. Spelling, from the Reader and Worcester's Elementary
Spelling Book;
3. Enunciating the elementary sounds of letters and words ;
4. Marks of Punctuation;
5. Arithmetical Cards;
6. Reading and Writing Arabic numbers ;
7. Exercises on the Slate ;
8. Oral Instruction;
9. Singing.
THIRD YEAR.
1. Sargent's Second Reader, (Hillard's Fourth Reader;)
2. Spelling, from the Reader and Worcester's Elementary
Spelling Book;
3. Enunciating the elementary sounds of letters and words ;
4. Eaton's Primary School Arithmetic ;
5. Geography, taught orally, (Cornell's Primary;)
6. Oral Instruction ;
7. Writing words in script-hand, and other exercises on
the Slate;
8. Singing.
Sect. 2. The studies pursued, and the text-books author-
ized, in the Grammar Schools, shall be the following :
FIRST year.
1. Reading — Hillard's Fourth Reader;
2. Spelling — The Reader, and Worcester's Speller;
3. Mental Arithmetic — Colburn's First Lessons ;
4. Geography — Cornell's Primary ;
5. Penmanship.
22 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 4.
SECOND YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Third Reader;
2. Spelling — Continued ;
3. Defining — Worcester's Dictionaries ;
4. Mental Arithmetic — Continued ;
5. Written Arithmetic — Greenleaf's Common School;
6. Geography — Cornell's Primary^ and Grammar School ;
7. Penmanship and Drawing.
THIRD "YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Third and Fourth Readers;
2. Spelling and Defining — Continued ;
3. Geography — Cornell's Grammar School ;
4. Mental and Written Arithmetic — Continued ;
5. Grammar — Tower's Common School ;
6. Penmanship, Map-Drawing, (Z^rai^w^-Continued.)
FOURTH YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Fourth Reader;
2. Spelling and Defining — Continued;
3. Geography — Continued;
4. Mental and Written Arithmetic — Continued ;
5. Grammar — Continued;
6. Composition — Tower's Grammar of;
7. History — Quackenbos's United States ;
8. Penmanship, Map-Drawing, ( Z>rai^f w^-Continued.)
FIFTH YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Fifth Reader;
2. Spelling and Defining — Continued ;
3. Geography — Continued;
4. Mental and Written Arithmetic — Continued ;
5. Grammar — Continued ;
6. Composition — Continued ;
7. History — Continued ;
SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 23
8. Penmanship, Map-Drawing, [Drawing— QonimwQdi])
9. Book-Keeping — Hanaford and Payson's (by the Boys j)
10. Declamation — (by the Boys.)
Sect. 3. The studies pursued, and the text-books
authorized, in the High School, shall be the following :
FIRST YEAR.
1. Review of Preparatory Studies ;
2. Arithmetic — Greenleaf s National, and Colburn's First
Lessons ;
3. Geography — Zornlin's Physical ;
" — Worcester's Ancient Scripture ;
4. History — Worcester's — Commenced ;
5. Algebra — Sherwin's ;
6. Physiology — Coming's Class Book of;
7. Grammar — Tower's Common School;
8. Composition and Rhetoric — Quackenbos's ;
9. French — Pinney and Arnoult's Grammar, Le Grand-
Pere ;
10. Penmanship ;
11. Drawing;
12. Geometry — Legendre's;
13. English Literature.
SECOND YEAR.
1. History — Worcester's;
2. Algebra — Sherwin's;
3. Geometry — Legendre's ;
4. Composition and Rhetoric — Quackenbos's ;
5. English Literature and Biography — Cleveland's
Compendium ;
6. French — Le Grand-Pere, Conversations sur le Grand-
Pere ;
7. Book-Keeping — Hitchcock's ;
8. Constitution of the United States — Sheppard's ;
24 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 4.
9. Lessons on Reasoning — Whately ;
10. Latin — (Voluntary.)
11. Drawing.
THIRD TEAR.
1. Algebra and Geometry — Finished;
2. Trigonometry, with its applications to Surveying,
Navigation, Mensuration, 6^c.;
3. French — Continued;
4. Natural Philosophy ;
5. Astronomy — Olmstead's ;
6. Moral Philosophy — Wayland's;
7. Rhetoric — Finished ;
8. English Literature ;
9. Latin Language ;
10. Drawing ;
For the pupils who continue in the School the fourth
year, the course of study shall be as follows :
1. Latin Language ;
2. French Language ;
3. Mental Philosophy ;
4. Moral Philosophy ;
5. Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Sfc. ;
6. English Literature — Standard Authors ;
7. Drawing.
The several classes shall have weekly exercises in Com-
position, Reading or Declamation.
The Instructors shall pay particular attention to the Pen-
manship of the pupils, and give constantly such instruction
in Spelling, Reading and English Grammar, as they think
necessary to make their pupils familiar with the fundamen-
tal branches of a good education.
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 request-
ed to confer with the Local Committee and Teachers.
SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 25
Sect. 4. 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
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.
Morals — Encouragement of Literature.
The attention of Teachers is particularly directed to the
following from the General Statutes :
" Chap. 38, § 10. It shall be the duty of the president, professors
and tutors of the University of Cambridge, and of the several colleges,
and of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and all other instruct-
ors 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 temperance, 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 bless-
ings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to
point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices."
" Chap. 5, § 2. Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused
generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the pres-
ervation of their rights and liberties ; and as these depend on spreading
the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of
the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be
the duty of legislators and magistrates, in all future periods of this
4
26 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 4.
Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences,
and all seminaries of them ; especially the University at Cambridge,
public schools and grammar schools in the towns ; to encourage private
societies and public institutions, revpards and immunities for the pro-
motion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures,
and a natural history of the country ; to countenance and inculcate
the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private
charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their deal-
ings ; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous
sentiments among the people."
CHAPTER VII.
Duties of the Curator.
Sect. 1. The Curator shall have charge of all the
school houses of the city, and the furniture therein, and see
that everything about them, and the outbuildings and
yards connected, is kept in a neat and tidy manner, and
nothing from neglect be allowed to suffer or go to ruin.
Sect. 2. He shall have the care of the Committee
room, be in attendance at all the meetings of the Commit-
tee, serve all notices issued by the Chairman or Secretary
of the Board relating to the meetings of the Committee, or
of the Sub-Committees thereof, at the request of any
member.
Sect. 3. He shall attend to the purchase of any article
of supply or furniture used in the schools at the request of
any teacher properly vouched for. He shall also hold
himself in readiness to perform any reasonable errand or
service relating to the schools not specially laid down.
Sect. 4. He shall be responsible for the making of
fires in all the school houses, see that they are properly
kept up, and that the fuel is used in an economical manner,
and every precaution taken against accident by fire.
Sect. 5. He shall also have the sole care of sweeping
all the rooms, and dusting the same ; and at least once a
SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 27
year wash the paint, floors, windows, etc., of each school
room. He shall furnish the Committee on Accounts with
the original bills, as vouchers, for purchases, repairs, and
all other expenses incurred by him in the discharge of his
duties.
JONAS PIEECE, Jr., Curator,
Kesidence, Washington Place, (first house on the right.)
NOTE TO TEACHERS.
As articles which may Ite needed for the schools cannot be purchased
without written orders from Local Committees,* teachers will perceive
the necessity of procuring such orders, when they desire to have any-
thing purchased for the use of their schools at the expense of the Com-
mittee. All such orders, if the teachers prefer, may be given to the
Curator, or deposited in his box in the Post OflSce,f as it is his duty,
in such cases, to see that the articles needed are purchased and promptly
delivered.
* See Sect. 9 of Chap. 5, on page 10.
t Box 336,
SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1862.
ELECTED AT LARGE.
GEORGE PUTNAM, Highland, near Cedar Street;
JOHN S. SLEEPER, 111 Eustis Street;
FRANKLIN WILLIAMS, Winslow, corner Union Street.
ELECTED BY WARDS.
Ward 1. — Horatio G. Morse, 65 Zeigler Street;
George W. Adams, 6 Reed's Court.
" 2. — Joshua Seaver, Cabot Street, cor. Sumner PI. ;
Ira Allen, Cabot, cor. Sudbury Street.
" 3. — Arial I. CuMMiNGS, 119 Dudley Street;
John D. McGill, Washington, near Francis St.
" 4. — John W. Olmstead, Centre, cor. Cedar Street;
Jeremiah Plympton, 7 Hawthorn Street.
« 5. — Sylvester Bliss, 2 Dana Place ;
Alfred P. Putnam, Elm, op. Chestnut Street.
HORATIO G. MORSE, Chairman.
JOSHUA SEAVER, Secretary.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Regulations. — Messrs. Cummings, Williams, Seaver.
Finance. — Messrs. Seaver, Sleeper, Adams.
Accounts. — Messrs. Sleeper, Williams, Seaver.
Books. — Messrs. Morse {ex. off.), G. Putnam, Olmstead;
A. P. Putnam, Williams.
Examination of Primary School Teachers. — Messrs.
Morse {ex. off.), Allen, Cummings, Plympton, Bliss.
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CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 4.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
[Each School for both Sexes. Salary the first year, $275 ; afterwards, $300.]
TEACHERS.
LOCATION.
COMMITTEES.
No. 1.
Lizzie M. Wood. . . .
Yeoman Street.
Adams.
2.
Anna M. Balch. . . .
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3.
Susan F. Rowe. . . .
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4.
(Vacant.)
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5.
Mary F.Neal
Eustis Street.
Williams.
6.
Emma C. Wales. . . .
Sumner Street.
((
7.
Mary L. Walker. . . .
a a
((
8.
Elizabeth C. Backup.
Eustis Street.
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9.
Clara M. Adams. . . .
Vernon Street.
Bliss.
10.
Susannah L. Durant. .
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11.
Eliza D. Cole
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12.
Catherine F. Mayall.
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13.
Sophia L. Stone. . . .
Sudbury Street.
Allen.
14.
Sarah E. Field. . . .
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15.
Cornelia J. Bills. . •
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16.
Mary C. Williams. . .
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17.
Sarah J. Davis. . . .
Avon Place.
Cummings.
18.
Eliza G. Lewis. . . .
li a
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19.
Sarah W. Holbrook.
MillDam.
Allen.
20.
Elizabeth M. Hall. . .
Francis Street.
McGill.
21.
Caroline N. Heath. . .
Heath Street.
G. Putnam.
22.
Anna M. Eaton. . . .
Smith Street.
McGill.
23.
Anna E. Clark. . . .
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24.
Mary E. Tucker. . . .
Heath Place.
Seaver.
25.
Mary E. Munroe. . .
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26.
Charlotte C. Simpson. .
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27.
Asenath Nichols. . . .
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28.
Sarah A. P. Fernald.
Orange Street.
Cummings.
29.
Martha H. Horn. . . .
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30.
Henrietta M. Wood.
Centre Street.
Olmstead.
31.
Mary A. Morse. . . .
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32.
Maria L. J. Perry. . .
Edinboro' Street
Plympton.
33.
Matilda M. Hutchins. .
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34.
Almira B. Russell. . .
Munroe Street.
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35.
Frances N. Brooks. . .
Winthrop Street
Sleeper.
36.
Maria L. Young. . . .
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37.
Anne E. Boynton. . .
Elm Street.
A. P. Putnam
38.
Fanny H. C. Bradlee.
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39.
(Discontinued.) . . .
Aims-House.
40.
Sarah H. Hosmer. . .
George Street.
Morse.
41.
Caroline E. Jennison. .
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42.
Mary C. Bartlett. . •
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43.
H. B. Scammell. . • .
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44.
Josephine G. Thaxter. •
Coniins School-house
G. Putnam.
45.
Annie G. Fillebrown.
Sudbury Street.
Allen.
NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE CITY CHARTER IN 1846.
At Large.
George Putnam, 1846, 48, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.
Gyrus H. Fay, 1846, 48.
-*Samuel H. Walley, Jr., 1846, 48,
George R. Russell, 1847.
Thomas F. Caldicott, 1847.
George W. Bond, 1847.
John Wayland, 1849, 50, 51.
William R. Alger, 1849, 50, 56,
William Hague, 1849, 50.
Theodore Dunn, 1851.
Thomas D. Anderson, 1851. '
Horatio G. Morse, 1852, 53, 54.
William H. Ryder, 1852, 53, 54, 57, 58.
William A. Crafts, 1852, 53, 54, 59, 60.
J3radford K. Peirce, 1855.
Joseph H. Streeter, 1855.
John S. Flint, 1855.
Julius S. Shailer, 1856, 57, 58.
Arial I. Cummings, 1859, 61.
Edwin Ray, 1860.
William S. King, 1861.
John S. Sleeper, 1862.
Franklin Williams, 1862.
Ward 1.
Allen Putnam, 1846.
Henry B. Wheelwright, 1846, 47.
Horatio G. Morse, 1847, 48, 49, 50,51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.
William R. Alger, 1848, 52.
Bradford K. Peirce, 1849, 50, 51, 52.
John Jones, 1853, 54.
Joseph Bugbee, 1853, 54.
Henry W. Farley, 1855, 56, 57.
Franklin Williams, 1858, 59, 60.
George W. Adams, 1861, 62.
Ward 2.
Thomas F. Caldicott, 1846.
Joshua Seaver, 1846, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 64, 55, 66, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.
Alfred Williams, 1847, 48.
Ira Allen, 1849, 50, 51, 52, 56, 67, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.
Arial I. Cummings, 1853.
Charles Marsh, 1854, 65.
* The junior dropped in 1850.
34 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 4.
Ward 3,
Charles K. Dillaway, 1846, 47.
Francis Hilliard, 1846, 48, 49.
Theodore Otis, 1847.
Julius S. Shailer, 1848, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54.
William Gaston, 1849, 50, 51.
Timothy R. Nute, 1852. 57, 58, 59, 60, 61.
Joseph H. Streeter, 1853, 54.
William H. Ryder, 1855.
Benjamin Mann, 1855.
Arial I. Cummings, 1856, 57, 58, 62.
William A. Crafts, 1856.
Richard Garvev, 1859.
John D. McGill, 1860, 61, 62.
Ward 4.
Benjamin E. Cotting, 1846, 47, 49.
David Green, 1846, 47, 48.
Henry Bartlett, 1848.
Henry W. Fuller, 1849, 50, 51.
John S. Flint, 1850, 51, 52.
John Wayland, 1852, 53, 54, 55.
Theodore Otis, 1853.
*John W. Olmstead, 1854, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.
James Waldock, 1855, 56.
Joseph N. Brewer, 1857, 58, 59.
Jonathan P. Robinson, 1857.
Jeremiah Plympton, 1860, 61, 62.
Ward 5.
Augustus C. Thompson, 1846.
Daniel Leach, 1846, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 62, 53, 54, 55.
Samuel Walker, 1847, 56.
John H. Purkett, 1848.
Charles F. Foster, 1849, 50, 51, 52.
Bradford K. Peirce, 1853, 54.
Edwin Ray, 1855, 57, 58, 59.
Theodore Otis, 1856.
Alfred P. Putnam, 1857, 61, 62.
Robert P. Anderson, 1858, 59.
Sylvester Bliss, 1860, 61, 62.
William S. King, 1860.
Ward G.f
George W. Bond, 1846. •
Edward Turner, 1846.
Edmund F. Slafter, 1847, 48, 49, 50, 51.
Dan. S. Smalley, 1847.
George Faulkner, 1848.
Edward D. Boit, 1849, 50, 51.
* Eesigned in 1856, and Joseph N. Brewer elected.
t Wards 6, 7 and 8, with parts of Wards 4 and 5, were set off and incorporated, by Act
of th« Legislature, May 24, 1851, under the name of the Town of West Koxbury.
SCHOOL RBGULiiTIONS. 35
Wakd 7.
John O, Choules, 1846, 47.
Joseph H. Allen, 1846.
Theodore Dunn, 1847, 48, 49, 50.
Grindell Reynolds, 1848, 49^ 50, 51.
Stephen M. Allen, 1851.
Ward 8.
Theodore I'arker, 1846.
George R. Russell, 1846.
Dexter Clapp, 1847, 48, 50, 51.
Matthews W. Green, 1847.
Abijah W. Draper, 1848, 49.
Joseph H. Billings, 1849.
Cornelius Cowing, 1850, 51.
Chairmen.
Charles K. Dillaway, 1846, 47.
George Putnam, 1848.
Daniel Leach, 1849, 50, 51.
Julius S, Shailer, 1852, 53.
John AVayland, 1854.
Bradford K. Peiree, 1855.
♦William H. Ryder, 1856, 57, 58.
Horatio G. Morse, 1859, 60, 61, 62.
Secretaries.
Joshua Seaver, 1846, 47, 48, 49, 60, 61, 62, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62'.
Arial I. Cummings, 1856, 57.
* Kesigned in 1858, and Horatio G. Morse elected Chairman ad interim.-
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