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City Document. — iVb. 7,

ANNUAL REPORT

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YEAR 1867.

HOXBURY:

L. B. WESTON, PRINTER, GUILD ROW.

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In School Committee, April 26th, 1867.

The Chairman appointed the following members as the Annual Examining
Committee, viz. :

High and Grammar Schools. — Messrs. Shailer, Nute, Hobbs, H. G. Morse,
James Morse, Allen, and Greene.

Primary Schools. — Messrs. Monroe, Crafts, Williams, Merrill, and
Seaver.

December 10th, 1867.

Ordered, That the several reports be committed to Messrs. Rat, Shailer,
Monroe, and Williams, to revise, and cause to be printed the usual number of
copies, to be distributed to the citizens of this City, as the Annual Report of the
School Committee.

Attest: FRANKLIN WILLIAMS, Secretary.

REPORT.

The Board of School Committee of Roxbury, at the expira-
tion of their term of office, present to the citizens their Report
for the year 1867.

They are glad to be able to announce that the excessively
crowded condition of the Primary Schools of the city, to which
allusion was made in the Chairman's report of last year, was
relieved, some nine months since, by the completion of a new
school-house on Phillips Street. This building, the erection of
which was begun a little more than a year ago, is commodious
and well appointed in every respect, and may be fairly expected
to meet the wants of its section of the city for a number of
years to come. At the same time it is to be noticed that the
relief afforded the Primary Schools by this new building can
be but temporary, so far as the whole city is concerned, and
that the growing needs of the community will continue to call
for increased accommodations in this department. Indeed, it is
proper to state here, that before the expiration of a year a new
Primary School building will, in the judgment of the Board,
be required in the First Ward of the city.

The Committee also feel it their duty to state that, in their
opinion, the Centre Street School-house is in an improper and
dangerous location; and they trust that, in compliance with
their repeated recommendations to the City Government, a
new building will soon be erected to take its place. The

4 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

crowded condition of the Heath Street School-house also calls
for the earliest practicable action on the part of the successors
to our present City Government.

Our Grammar Schools continue to be filled to overflowing.
This condition of things is in the highest degree unfavorable
to the progress of the schools, and, taken in connection with
their general high standing in scholarship and deportment,
indicates a great amount of laborious and intelligent exertion
on the part of the teachers. The Committee are gratified at
being able to promise speedy relief in this particular. The
City Council, at the request of the School Board, have voted
to build a new Grammar School-house in Ward Five, of the
capacity of twelve rooms, on a lot of land at the corner of
Dale and Oneida Streets. It is believed that the erection of
this structure will afford sufiicient Grammar School accommo-
dation to the city for several years to come. During the sum-
mer vacation, also, two large and commodious rooms in the
attic story of the Dearborn School-house have been finished,
and made ready for occupancy. By means of this improve-
ment all the members of the school have been brought under
one roof, — an arrangement at once favorable to the interests
of the school and agreeable to the principal, though the advan-
tage was obtained by the loss of a singing hall, which was
much needed.

The cases of truancy during the past year have been few.
The vice is believed to have been nearly eradicated by the rigid
enforcement of the truant laws ; and the Board desire to thank
the City Marshal and his efficient aids for the good service
which they have thus rendered to the cause of education
among us.

Early in the year the salaries of the female assistant teachers
of the Grammar Schools and of those employed in the Primary
Schools were raised about twenty per cent., and those of the
principals of the Grammar Schools ten per cent. The Board
are of the opinion that the advance was just and equitable, and
that our teachers as a rule are none too well paid for the

. SCHOOL REPORT. 5

service they render the city. The fact is to be observed,
moreover, that the salaries which we give are even now less
than those paid the teachers of Boston, with which city ours is
so soon to be united.

The Evening School during the past winter has been a per-
fect success, — nearly twice as many availing themselves of its
privileges as had attended in former years. It has been
already reopened for this winter, under the most favorable
auspices. This school is devoted almost exclusively to the
instruction of adults, the ages of those who attend its sessions
ranging from fifteen to sixty years. The Board feel that this
institution has done a good work in the past, and that it may
also do a good work in the future. There can be no doubt
that, rightly conducted, it will prove to be a power for good
in the community, and an efficient help to many who, without its
aid, would make but small advances in education; and they
sincerely trust that it will be maintained and strengthened
under our incoming city government.

The Committee, teachers, and parents, have worked together
during the year with the usual harmony and good feeling. In
only one instance has there been any conflict between a teacher
and a parent, and in that the Board felt the teacher to be in no
degree at fault. The circumstances of this case are probably
familiar to most of our citizens. A criminal prosecution was
commenced against Mr. L. M. Chase, the master of the Washing-
ton School, for punishing a boy for throwing stones on his way
home from school at teams passing in the street. Judgment
was rendered against the master by the justice of the lower
court, but, on appeal to the Superior Court for the County of
Norfolk, the jury returned a verdict of " not guilty," without
leaving their seats. In this case, the ground of complaint was
not that the punishment was unduly severe, but that the teacher
had no right to inflict any punishment at all for an offei^ce — no
matter how gross and reprehensible — committed out of school
hours.

The charge of Judge Lord, under which the master was

6 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

acquitted, is noticeable for its clear statement of the law
applicable to such cases. " The relation between the teacher
and scholar," said the Judge, "is a peculiar one. It par-
takes while the pupil is in school of a parental character,
and is, absolute and without appeal from any quarter, when
exercised within its proper limits. Such also is the power of
the parent. His authority is absolute at home, on the same
conditions. A good parent desires to cooperate with the
teacher, and is thankful for any proper correction of his child.
A good teacher desires to aid parents by training his pupils in
habits of good order and obedience to authority. Between the
school and home the jurisdiction of the teacher and the parent
is concurrent. If the teacher sees or knows a boy to violate
the laws ; if he finds him acquiring habits of a dangerous
. character ; if he sees him becoming vicious, and his example
injurious to others, or calculated to affect his own standing at
school or at home, — it is his duty to interfere to restrain and
reform. For this purpose it is his right to punish to a reason-
able extent, if no other method will avail. But the teacher
must hold himself responsible to the law in his punishment,
and be careful not to transcend in severity its humane and
proper limits."

We have thought it well to make this extract from the charge
of Judge Lord, in order that it may stand upon the city records
as an evidence of the law by which the relations of parents and
teachers are to be determined. And we think that it will be
accepted with thankfulness by our citizens as a clear, just and
humane statement of a salutary principle.

The infliction of corporal punishment has been resorted to
in but few cases during the past year, and in these only when
gentler and more persuasive kinds of discipline had failed. In
no instance — so far as is known to the Committee — has it
been administered with undue severity.

It is thought that a sketch of the history of our different
school organizations of the higher grades will be interesting at
this time, and we append a very brief one.

SCHOOL REPORT. 7

A High School was established in 1852, for boys exclusively,
under the joint supervision of the School Committee of the city
and the Trustees of the Roxbury Latin School, and Mr. S. M.
Weston was elected as its Principal. In 1854 a City High
School for Girls was organized, under the mastership of Mr.
RoBEET BiCKFOED, a portion of the Dudley School-house being
devoted to its use. In 1860 a new building was erected in
Kenilworth Street, for the instruction of both sexes, and the
High School passed entirely under the control of the city. At
this time Mr. Weston was elected its Principal, and he has
continued to hold the position from that day to this.

The first Grammar School organized within our limits was
the Dudley, which was composed of. more advanced scholars of
the old Town School, and was moved into the brick building
on Bartlett Street in 1844. Since that time it has had but
three principals, namely, Jeeemiah Plympton, Miss Adeline
Seavee, and the present preceptress, Miss Saeah J. Bakee.
The Washington School, which occupied the first public Gram-
mar School building erected in the town, was established in
1840. Geoege B. Hyde was the first Principal ; and after
him Leyi Reed, late Auditor of the Commonwealth, G. M.
Weston, and John Kneel and, were principals. Mr. John D.
Philbeick, now Superintendent of the Public Schools of Bos-
ton, was at one time an assistant in this school. Mr. L. M.
Chase, the present principal, was elected in 1866. The
Dearborn School was organized in 1852, and was originally a
school for boys. In 1859 the building was enlarged, and four
divisions of girls were added. From the foundation of the
school it has been under the charge of the same principal, Mr.
William H. Long, and it has uniformly done credit to his
very faithful and efficient labor. The Comins School was es-
tablished in 1855, as a girls' school. It was originally placed
under the charge of Miss Saeah A. M. Cushing, who acted as
principal until 1859, when it was enlarged and made a school
for both sexes. At that time Mr. D. W. Jones was elected
principal, and he has continued to hold the position since. The

8 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

Francis Street School was established in 1856, as a school for
boys and girls. Mrs. Sophronia F. Wright was elected the
first principal, and has continued to fill the place to the present
time.

Our citizens will find printed herewith the reports of the
Chairmen of the various Special Committees upon the different
departments of school work. Attention also is called to the
statistical tables prepared by the Secretary, which, when com-
pared with former reports, exhibit the fact that the labors of
the Board of School Committee have doubled within the last
few years, without any increase in the number of Committee-
men. It is believed that the general impression derived from
the reports will be satisfactory. The teachers of our Public
Schools, of all grades, are thought to be, for the most part,
faithful and devoted instructors. Our High School teachers
are all persons of unusual attainments, and give themselves to
their work with the most untiring zeal and the best results.
The Committee feel that their fellow-citizens may take a just
pride in the distinguished position of their High School, and
they trust nothing will be done under the new city government,
either to interfere with its existence, or to lower its rank.

With the close of the year 186.7 the labors of the School
Committee of the City of Roxbury come to an end. The terms
of service of some members of the Board have been remarkable
for their great length, and unbroken continuance. One of the
present Board has served, with but a single interruption, for
the last twenty years ; one has been connected with the Board
for fifteen years ] and several count more than ten years of
service as Committeemen. There will naturally. be a sense of
regret with many of the Board at separating after so long a
period of united labor, but the feelings uppermost in the minds
of all are those of satisfaction and hope.

The Committee are persuaded that, on the whole, the citi-
zens of Roxbury have reason to congratulate themselves upon
the record of their schools in the past. Though the highest
standard has not always been reached, the schools of our city

SCHOOL REPORT. 9

have taken good rank; and especially during the last few
years they have held a position, for efficiency of discipline
and instruction, second to those of very few, if any, of the
municipalities in the Commonwealth.

In the general plan and status of the schools the Board see
little that requires any change at present. At the same time
they desire to express their gratification at the prospect of a
fuller and better development of our system in the future.
The improvements in methods of study and instruction during
the last ten years are but an earnest, they think, of the
advance to be made in time to come. And the union of
Roxbury with Boston, they trust and believe, will be a help
and not a hindrance to the progress and prosperity of the
schools of our own community.

. In conclusion, the Committee desire to give to their fellow-
citizens their sincere thanks for the honor of their election in
former years to these posts of responsibility ; and with a proper
sense of their possible mistakes of judgment in the past, to
make a renewed assurance of the desire which they have
cherished during their term of office to serve the city with
faithfulness and efficiency.

Respectfully submitted.

EDWIN RAY,

Chairman of the Board.

REPORT

HIGH AND GRAMMAR SCHOOLS,

Messrs. Shailer, H, G. Morse, Allen, James Morse, Hobbs,
and Greene, were appointed a Committee to make the semi-
annual examinations in the spring and fall, and the Annual
Report on the High and Grammar Schools.

The whole number of pupils in these several schools is 2454.
Every year swells their numbers, and gives additional impor-
tance and responsibility to their instruction and supervision.

The Committee are happy to report their belief that during
the present year the schools have maintained a character and
made attainment equal to that of any year in their history ;
that on the whole there has been improvement upon previous
years; that they have a faithful corps of teachers, who are
seeking to perform their duty well, and make their experience
a qualification for still higher accomplishment in their very
responsible service ; that, generally, they are anxious to avail
themselves of all the means for increasing their fitness for the
business of teaching, regarding with watchful attention whatever
may be said at Teachers' Conventions, and in the various publi-
cations giving instruction upon their important work. These
schools have made no radical changes in methods, nor adopted
new things ; but they have faithfully attended to all the different

12 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7. •

moral, intellectual and physical exercises which are required.
They are also giving so much attention to Music, Drawing, the
French Language, and the higher branches of study, that they
leave but very little opportunity for judicious parents to desire
to have their children go to a private or boarding school. They
can be as well trained and taught in our Public Schools. It is
not too much to say, in view of what our High and Grammar
Schools actually are, that on the whole they are better adapted
to educate accurately and highly than the best of private
schools.

We do not intend to intimate that there is not yet opportu-
nity for improvement ; nor do the teachers seem to feel that
they have done so well that they may not do better. The best
High or Grammar School is not yet realized. The perfect
model is in the ideal world. The best actual schools are only
approximating to it, and we believe our schools are among those
nearest.

The noticeable improvement is not in the greater amount of
ground gone over. There seems a curtailment in this respect.
It is rather in the thoroughness with which the studies are con-
ducted ; a more radical and perfect idea and conception of the
principle involved, and a more complete analytical method in
recitation. We should not think of finding any where better
candidates for teachers in our schools, than among the gradu-
ates of these same schools.

Our best teachers are found to do much ouiside of the mere
text-book, by oral instruction, and comprehensive, lucid state-
ment of the subject matter of the particular branch in hand.
There is great room for improvement in the text-books used.
Judging from what we have in Geography, Arithmetic, or
History, we must conclude it is a difficult matter to make a
good text-book, as indeed it is.

The Committee are happy to refer to the method of govern-
ment as having very little of the tyrannical, and as filled with
the wholesome moral, largely free from the control of passion,

SCHOOL REPORT. 13

and approaching a complete freedom from physical force, which
is the ideal of every teacher of highest aim.

Our High School, consisting of 180 scholars, is a mixed
school of boys and girls, reciting together in classes and study-
ing in the same room — the natural and proper association for
children in the school-room, as well as in the family and social
circle.

There has been no change in the teachers of this school
during the year, and no marked changes in anything pertaining
to it. The examinations satisfied the Committee that the same
earnest, faithful and competent instruction is given, and the
same healthful, moral discipline is apparent as in former years.
There is no ground to complain that the scholars do not work
hard enough. Better text-books, of simpler and more compre-
hensive expression, of fewer words and better analysis, used
with still greater discretion and aptitude in the hands of our
accomplished teachers, will give us yet higher excellence.

The fourth year of the school seems to be gaining in impor-
tance and appreciation, and is really of very great utility in
fitting graduates of the third year for teaching, by a careful
review of the Grammar School studies during its first quarter.
It ig under the charge of Miss M. F. Gragg, who is highly
adapted to her position.

M'lle de Maltchyce, who is a French lady, and a successful
teacher, gives lessons in French, afi'ording her scholars a first-
class opportunity to acquire an accurate knowledge of that
language.

Considerable progress is made in this school in the art of
Drawing, under the competent teaching of Mr. B. F. Nutting.

This school, as well as the Grammar Schools, seems to be
deriving very decided advantages from instruction in Elocution,
by Pro£ M. T. Brown. It has been, and still is, a part of the
particular care of other teachers to secure good reading. But
the Committee find it highly beneficial to have special instruc-
tion in Elocution from so efficient a teacher.

14 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

The Grammar Schools are five in number, containing in the
aggregate 2274 scholars.

The Dudley School, the first on the list, is a girl's school,
Miss S. J. Baker, Principal.

This school is reported in good keeping, with its former com-
parative high standing. There is a careful general supervision
and faithful attention to all the variety of service required of a
principal. The school, in all its divisions, is in good order,
and there is no want of earnest industry, well directed and
successful. There is a watchful attention to all the require-
ments of our rules for the conduct and instruction of Grammar
Schools, and the results are highly satisfactory. Neat writing-
books, good compositions, and specimens of map-drawing were
shown. Throughout the school, in whatever department or re-
quirement the Committee examined, there was little to complain
of, and very much to commend. Everything is so well done,
as to put this school in the front rank of Grammar Schools,
and to leave no opportunity to doubt whether a Grammar School
for Girls can be well managed and instructed by a female
principal.

The Washington School is exclusively for boys, under the
care of Mr. L. M. Chase, as Principal, and numbering 430
scholars, in eight divisions.

It would be easy to speak in detail of the excellences of this
school, and particularize divisions as well taught. In no school
is there more apparent harmony among the teachers, and cordial
concerted action together with the principal, who is devoting
himself with enthusiasm to his work ; not only teaching his own
class admirably, but making himself well acquainted with the
condition of the whole school, and essentially helpful to his
assistant teachers.

It was delightful to witness the spirited attention and
promptness of scholars in recitation. So much enterprise was
manifested as to suggest the thought that possibly, while the
more indolent must be brought up to highly satisfactory attain-
ment, nervous, ambitious scholars might be overworked. Ex-

SCHOOL REPORT. 15

cellent specimens of penmansliip and map-drawing were shown
in the three highest divisions.

The Dearborn SchooL; under the charge of Mr. W. H.
LoNG; assisted by fourteen teachers, numbers 744 scholars, and
is a mixed school of boys and girls.

The quarterly reports of this school, as of all the others,
speak of the divisions in detail.

The government and general supervision of the school, in-
cluding care for the building and its surroundings, the order in
doors and out, are represented as very satisfactory. No strik-
ing defects, or very marked excellencies, are reported.

The CoMiNS School is also a very large school, embracing
both sexes, and numbering 709 scholars, Mr, D. W. Jones,
Principal.

. This school has a large porportion of scholars who have
little assistance at home, and are subject to many things which
serve as hindrances to their progress, and make their govern-
ment and instruction a greater task upon the principal and his
assistants, than they would otherwise be. It is a great duty,
and it requires a constant watchfulness and labor, to keep
everything in such a school in an entirely satisfactory condi-
tion. The several minute reports upon this school, during the
year, are for the most part commendatory. Especially was it
so with the last reports. The general drill and control of the
scholars is excellent. The principal has been particularly
vigilant and successful during the last quarter, and he has a
faithful corps of assistant teachers.

The Francis Street Grammar School is small, consisting
of one division, under the charge of Mrs. S. F. Wright, who
has been with it from its beginning in 1855. It was established
and is maintained because the Grammar School scholars who
attend it were situated so distant from any of our graded and
large schools that they could not conveniently attend them.
It is a school for both sexes, and has studies ranging through
the whole Grammar School course. Its method must necessa-
rily be modified. The classes are more numerous than in

16 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 7.

any one division in larger schools. The teacher is regarded as
adapted to her special service, and very successful. The ex-
aminations have been well reported, and the government and
enterprise and accomplishment of this school, which hav6
always been favorably spoken of, are well sustained at the
present time.

No one can pass through our schools in examination, or
reflect upon them, without being stirred with a conviction of
their importance and utility. As much as any one thing they
are the foundation of our good social condition, — carried on
at great expense, but accomplishing great good.

No service is more important than that of the faithful teach-
er, — none more honorable, and jione takes more vital hold of
our social well being. We cannot hold in too high estimation
those who are spending their strength and sparing no pains as
teachers to give us such schools as we are permitted to ex-
amine in Roxbury. The teacher's post is so responsible that
it ought not to be occupied except by those who are personally
adapted and well educated, and who have a love for their
work, which will not allow them to be listless or careless.

Those who have the responsibility of appointing to such
service should be exceedingly careful as to whom they appoint,
and quick to discern inefficiency on the part of those they may
have appointed, and prompt to dismiss the unworthy. The
difference between a good teacher and a poor one is so great,
and takes such hold on the interests of the young, that we
ought to feel the absolute necessity of instantly displacing the
poor teacher.

There has been much discussion and different opinions as to
the wisdom or necessity of practising corporal punishment. A
thoroughly competent teacher can take the law of love and
justice and truth, and win order and progress and a delightful
moral cultivation, with a wide margin between the method
pursued and any corporal punishment. We will hope that our
schools may be fully supplied with such teachers.

SCHOOL KEPORT. 17

We were glad to see, in the late decision at court, so happy
an exposition of the mutual care of parent and teacher over
the conduct of children in going to and from school. It is mu-
tual, and nearest to the school it belongs largely to the teacher.

"With a hearty good will we commend our High and Gram-
mar Schools. Parents who have the good fortune to avail
themselves of their superior advantages for children, have no
occasion to envy the privileges of any other schools.

For the Committee.

J. S. SHAILER.
Eoxbury, Dec. 10, 1SQ1.

REPORT

PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

The Annual Examining Committee appointed for the Exam-
ination of the Primary Schools of the City of Eoxbury would
report in relation to these as follows :

The examinations were conducted, as usual, in May and
November, the work being allotted to the five members of whom
the committee is composed (Messrs. Monroe, Crafts, Wil-
liams, Merrill and Seaver), in as nearly equal proportions
as was desirable. From the Reports made by these, together
with such knowledge as could be obtained from visits during
other portions of the term, the facts presented below are
derived.

There are now in Roxbury 52 Primary Schools, being an
increase of two during the year. The additions have been in
the new Phillips Street building, and in the George Street
School-house. Both have been rendered necessary by the
crowded state of the school-rooms in these localities respective-
ly. With this relief, the Primary school-rooms of the city are
still, on the average, as crowded as they were at the beginning
of the year, and there is no reason to doubt the necessity of
a steady increase in the future at least equal to that which has
this year been made.

20 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

The buildings in which these schools are held are of widely
differing excellence and adaptability in their construction.
Some, like the Franklin Place, Sudbury Street, George Street,
and Munroe Street, are highly creditable to the city, and one —
the new Phillips Street building — is probably unexcelled in
the State ; while there are others which are to be contemplated
with much less complacency. It is peculiarly gratifying, how-
ever, to be able to report that most of those school-rooms
which in their accommodations for pupils were a discredit to
the city exist no longer, having been abandoned for the airy
and spacious accommodations of the Phillips Street building,
and that, with two exceptions, we have now no positively unfit
school-houses in Roxbury.

As regards the condition of the different Primary Schools of
the city, the committee would generally and rapidly report —

The George Street has a large attendance, containing now
six divisions. There have been several changes in this school
during the year, the teachers of its first and fourth divisio s
having been promoted to Grammar Schools, and a new division
having been created. The new appointments appear to have
been judiciously made, and the school has still an ambitious and
interested corps of teachers. It is favorably reported upon by
its examiner.

The Yeoman Street, containing four divisions, called out
some criticism from the examiner as regards one or two of its
teachers. In one case, defects were attributed to inexperience,
and a second examination disclosed much better results; in
another, the opinion was that there was a lack of tact in im-
parting instruction. The teacher of the second division of this
school is highly praised by the examiner. Her room is cited
as an example of what the most intelligent and judicious effort
may accomplish. This commendation is not unjustly bestowed.
There is seldom seen a Primary school-room in which more is
done to interest children, or where the general aspect is more
entirely inviting and pleasant than in this one. Several paint-

SCHOOL REPOET. 21

ings, the fruit of the teacher's leisure hours, hung about the
school-room, essentially heighten this good effect.

Of the Bustis Street School little of particular interest is
remarked by its examiner. The rooms in this building are
generally in charge of experienced teachers. The teacher in
the upper division is especially commended, and the reports
from the other divisions are in the main satisfactory. The
school was greatly crowded during a portion of the year, but
has been somewhat relieved by the transferring of a portion of
its scholars to the new division of the George Street building.

The school in Vernon Street is very favorably reported on.
The grading of this school leaves the teacher of the lowest
division in charge almost exclusively of infants just out of the
nursery. The utmost care is necessary in selecting a suitable
person for such a post, for it is one requiring great patience,
and calling less for scholarship in a teacher than a kind heart
and motherly thoughtfulness. The wisdom of creating more
than three grades in any Primary School is believed to be
more than questionable. There was no evidence of lack of
proper qualities on the part of the teacher, in this instance, how-
ever. The next room above is taught by one who is apparently
anxious and careful, and presents the example of a gentle and
re lined deportment to her scholars. The second division is
perhaps, without the design to be invidious on the part of the
committee, the model Primary school-room of the city. Its
teacher has put her heart fully into her work, and does not
allow her thoughts to be diverted by any outside attractions
from it. She is thoroughly progressive, interested in ascertain-
ing and appropriating new ideas upon the subject of edu-
cation, and performs the work of teaching so faithfully and in-
telligently as to render her school a completely satisfactory
one. It is but fair to others with whom this teacher may be
brought in comparison, to say that she has been aided to this
excellence by several years' experience ; yet the committee feel
that, after all, the chief reason of her superiority is to be found
in the fact that she is more ii\terested in her school than in

22 CITY DOCUMENT— No. 7.

anything else. The first division of this room is also entitled
to strong praise. Its teacher for most of the year has just left
it, and is succeeded by one apparently fully competent to main-
tain the standard it has held.

The Sudbury Street School is well reported in all its divis-
ions. There are but three grades in this bulling, though it has
four rooms. The teacher of the third division has been absent
a considerable portion of the year, and still remains in a pre-
carious state of health. Her room, however, appeared well,
showing that a competent substitute has had charge of it ; and
the examiner also commends the aspect and general proficiency
of the first division. This building is a very good one in its
arrangement, the sunlight reaching it from every side.

The Cottage Place School is not so fully reported on as
some of the others. What is said of it, indicates a satisfac-
tory state of affairs there. There have been some changes,
both in the teachers and in the pupils of the school, but its
present state is believed to be as efiicient as in the average
of years past.

The Franklin Place School is in some respects one of the
best in the city. It is kept in a modern brick structure, of
ample size, and well provided in all particulars. Its first
division is in the charge of a superior teacher, the good effect
of whose method is felt throughout the building. The children
generally are neater and more orderly than are those of the
same class in most other sections. This teacher is particularly
animated and self-reliant in her methods, and stimulates her
scholars to interest both in thought and in study. The teacher
of the second division also merits notice for her energetic and
interested manner, and has had the best success in instructing
her scholars in gymnastic exercises.

The Avon Place School was not visited at all by its Local
Committee in the early days of the year, and the reports then
had of it were from volunteer sources. It is spoken of by its
examiner on this committee as being in as good condition as
usual. There has been one change among its teachers. The

SCHOOL REPORT. 23

locality of thi:; school causes visits to it on the part of the gen-
eral committee to be less frequent than in most other cases.

The Mill-Dam School is a peculiar one in many respects.
The school is entirely cut off, for all purposes of intercourse,
from other portions of the city, being kept in a tongue of land
that projects toward Boston, in a settlement composed of manu-
factories and laborers' residences. The building in which it is
held is unfit for the purpose, though somewhat improved during
the present year. On entering this room, one is carried back
at least a generation in all the outward aspects of the road to
learning. The teacher, however, seems to adapt herself well to
this state of things, and is highly praised by the examiner.

The Orange Street, Tremont Street, Smith Street, and Parker
Street Schools, have all been removed to the new Phillips Street
building, and, thanks to this change, the city is relieved, in three
out of four of these cases, of either buildings or localities which
were anything but a credit to her care of her children. These
have now gone literally from one extreme to the other. The
Phillips Street School-house is a model structure, and one to
which our city may point with unalloyed satisfaction. The
Committee on Public Property of the City Council, the Sub-
Committee of this Board with which they cooperated, the
architect and the mechanics, all are entitled to credit for their
excellent accomplishment in giving this long-neglected section
of the city the best Primary School accommodations now enjoyed
anywhere within its limits. Those schools which had naturally
suffered from deficient arrangements are now reported by their
examiner as feeling some impetus from the change. Yet, as a
whole, there is room for improvement in the instruction given
in this building, and though a portion of the teachers are earn-
est in their work, and producing excellent results, others are
below the general standard elsewhere. This school now
contains seven divisions — a new one having been added.

The Francis Street School is in one of the outlying districts.
It is reported as being somewhat easy in discipline, an arrange-
ment that perhaps the superior character of its scholars, whom

24 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

gentle government is effective to control, justifies. The lessons
are generally pronounced satisfactory.

In Heath Street is one of the most peculiar schools of the
city. It is unreasonably crowded in its attendance, in the
lower room, and the class of pupils who compose it are of
the most difficult to govern. The teacher who had held its
lower room had failed utterly, and the present teacher — -a
young girl, just graduated from the High School — entered
upon her work with formidable obstacles to success. It is
believed that she has done as well as could reasonably be hoped,
and has accomplished much more than many would have accom-
plished in her situation ; but there is a limit to what may be
reached by human industry and endeavor, and it is utterly un-
reasonable to suppose that eighty or ninety of the most unruly
children of the city can be properly managed and taught by
any but one who is a prodigy of strength and endurance. The
wonder is that this school is in half as good a condition as it
is, with all the difficulties encountered. Immediate measures
should be taken to relieve it, by adding to its building, and
creating a new division of the school. The upper room is
smaller in its attendance, is taught by a teacher of mature
years and considerable experience, and is in a highly satisfac-
tory condition.

The Centre Street School has probably been under the con-
trol of the same teachers longer than any other school in the
city, there having been no change here for a dozen years, at
least. It is satisfactorily spoken of, in the main, by its ex-
aminers, the classes that graduate from its upper room having
proved of late among the best. The quality of the scholars
in attendance on this school is constantly improving, and it
now stands second in this respect to only one of our Primary
Schools elsewhere. A new building for its use is obviously
needed. The entrance to the present one is objectionable, and
even dangerous, and there is further constant danger to be ap-
prehended to small scholars from the high and steep flight of
steps in its rear. It is altogether wrong that the Primary

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School of one of the best districts in Roxbury should be placed
in the rear of an engine-house and stable, and the attention of
the next School Board should be early directed to the need of
a new building, in a different location.

The Edinboro' Street School is probably the smallest in its
attendance of any containing more than one division in the
city, and neither in numbers nor in general aptitude and intelli-
gence is there improvement among the pupils from year to year.
The first division falls much below the average in attendance,
scarcely reaching thirty pupils; the second is considerably
larger. The school is well taught — particularly well in its up-
per division, which is under the charge of one of the most com-
petent teachers of the city, whose governing powers are of an
admirable order. The teacher of the second division is quiet
in her methods, and to one examiner appeared to lack energy ;
but the progress " of the school is satisfactory, and indicates
careful and judicious instruction.

The Munroe Street School is reported upon very favorably
in its lower division, as usual. There is no question that the
teacher of this division is one of the most successful in the city.
She takes an unruly class of scholars by nature and from defec-
tive home training, and brings them into almost military disci-
pline in the school-room. This strict rule might not be an
altogether salutary one with some classes of pupils, but it is
probably needed, and certainly produces in the main good re-
sults, here. In the upper division, in which are combined
Primary and Grammar School studies, the experiment is suc-
ceeding well, under a promising teacher.

The Winthrop Street School has an excellent attendance, and
presents more the aspect of a select school than of one in which
children of all classes are gathered. It is favorably reported
upon in both its upper and lower divisions. The graduating
classes of the upper room are pronounced in the Grammar
Schools this year as among the best received.

The Elm Street School is in a quiet portion of the city, off

26 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

of ordinary routes of travel, and seldom visited except by its
local committee. It makes fair progress, and is not open to
decided criticism, or more than average commendation.

The above sketch of the condition of the various schools is,
on the whole, an encouraging one. The Committee have not
looked for perfection anywhere. In estimating the attainments
of teachers, they have not tested them by the ideal standard,
neither have they felt it necessary to parade every instance of
individual deficiency for the public inspection. They have
simply gone into their examination with what seemed a. reason-
able expectation of results, and, as a whole, the aspect is favor-
able. While they do not feel that the 'system under which
teachers are chosen here is the best attainable one, they are
convinced that it operates at least as well in Roxbury as in the
average of localities.

A perfect Primary School teacher is probably as difficult to
be found as is perfection in any other sphere of endeavor ; but
there are certain points in character which much conduce to
efficiency in this work. The greater the degree in which they
are possessed by any person, the more marked will be her suc-
cess as a teacher. She who has them largely by nature is truly
fortunate, for her work is made comparatively easy. She who
has them not, should assiduously cultivate their development
in her mind and heart.

All these traits naturally grow out of one sentiment, and few
of them can exist without it. We refer to love for children.
It is plainly an indispensable requisite to success. A teacher
may possess education of a thorough and finished order, may
have the most careful and correct ideas as regards government*
may have thought over new and improved methods of instruc-
tion, and may enter with enthusiasm into the work of applying
them — if her interest is in instruction as an art alone, if it does
not extend to a personal sympathy with the beings she is called
on to conduct in the path of knowledge, she has not the best
fitness for her work. We do not need so much women of

SCHOOL REPORT. 27

superior intellects, brilliant scholarship, or energetic ambition,
in the instruction of our smaller children, as we do those of
kind hearts, and affectionate, sympathetic natures. Let them
but love children at the beginning, and all these other requisites
shall be added unto them. Out of this love comes patience,
sympathy, forbearance, motherly care, and those kindred
qualities that are most needed.

This sympathetic nature is of course most of all required in
the lowest divisions of a Primary School. A large share of
the attendance in these is made up of infants, who require that
the teacher shall stand in a mother's place towards them. Her
work is not by any means all confined to teaching them the
alphabet and the first lessons in reading. They need constant
oversight and care for their physical frames, a watchfulness such
as only personal interest in them is adequate to cheerfully
rendering. Then comes in the occasion for the exercise of the
rarest patience in their stammering and too often seemingly
stupid attempts to acquire the rudiments of knowledge. The
teacher soon finds the task not a dignified one, and is too apt
to ask herself if all her stores of knowledge were gained for
this end. She greatly needs to feel sympathy for the little
beings before her, to make her patient and forbearing at such a
time, for without patience and forbearance she is failing at the
very outset.

A heart that goes out in kindness to children is therefore the
first requisite in a good Primary School teacher, and it is an
indispensable one in the lower grades. The next quality re-
quired is a vivacious, active temperament. Sympathy with and
love for children alone is not enough — there should be spirit
and energy sufficient to interest them. It is necessary that
they should be grounded thoroughly in the lessons of the text-
books, but making them perfect in a series of recitations from
these is only doing half the work. Their little minds come to
the teacher almost a blank as regards knowledge. It rests
with her very largely to determine whether what they learn at
school shall rouse their imaginations, stimulate their thinking

28 CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

powers, impress itself so vividly upon the mind by association
as to be remembered with interest and pleasure, or be conned
by rote as a lesson to pass into the memory for the time being
and then become obliterated. There is no such aid to the
teacher in this aspect as the object-lesson, which it is not
pleasant to see so generally falling into disuse as it is in many
of our schools.

Permanence in the profession of teaching is also desirable.
The frequent changes that are made are to a great extent un-
avoidable while the material from which our teachers are
selected is such as it is ; but this, at least, appears certain,, that
it would be well in the selection of Primary School teachers to
have an eye to their fitness for this branch of teaching especial-
ly, and not to regard them while in it as serving an apprentice-
ship for Grammar Schools. As a rule, each branch of the pro-
fession should be considered a separate one, and. Primary
School teachers being selected with a view to their aptitude
for this kind of teaching, success should be considered rather a
reason for continuing than for removing a teacher from her
sphere of work.

The Primary School teachers of the City of Roxbury are in
largest part comprised of young girls but recently graduated
from the High School. They enter upon their work, generally,
with good education, careful training, an interest in the pro-
fession of school teaching, and a desire to excel. Their suc-
cess is in almost all cases respectable, and in some even
brilliant. Excellence, it is but just to say, is the rule, and
failure the exception. The interest in their work which we
have said above that most of them feel, combined with an in-
tellectual aptitude of no common order, makes of these begin-
ners good teachers frequently in a very brief space of time.
Could the best of this talent be retained, our city would have
as efficient a corps of teachers as any locality in the nation ;
when we consider how frequent are the changes, it speaks
strongly for the native capacity of these young girls that our
schools are in as good condition as they are.

SCHOOL REPORT. 29

Such criticisms as suggest themselves grow in a great degree
out of the apparently temporary nature of the school teacher's
office to most of those .who are occupying it. These do their
duty conscientiously, but their whole mind and heart are not
given to it as would be the case with one who intends to make
it a life-work. The stated routine of the school is not neglect-
ed. The text-books are carefully studied, and there is good
evidence of progress in them at examination ; but the care of
thinking out object-lessons is shunned, and the mind is divided
in the prospect of other interests in life, instead of concentred
chiefly upon this one. This is not referred to in a spirit of
complaint, but as showing the defect of the system — perhaps a
necessary one — of temporary rather than permanent teachers.
We are reminded, too, that among these teachers are some very
young people, with modern young-lady ideas, from the fact that
their reports come to us with such signatures as ''Susie," "Mat-
tie," "Fannie," "Nellie," "Lizzie," etc., in lieu of the Christian
appellations which all these parties doubtless received at the
baptismal font. This may be no great affair in itself, but it
is hardly consistent with that exactness and dignity which
ought to inhere in the teacher's office. Let us trust, at any
rate, that the fashion may not spread to the other sex, and the
committee be visited with official documents from "Willie," and
"Dannie," and "Freddie," and " Charlie," and "Eddie," and
"Frankie," and the rest.

It is fortunate that under the new system which is to be in-
troduced from another city, in the reorganization of the schools
immediately to take place, the equalization of pay between
the Primary and G-rammar School teachers will be likely to
remove one temptation to leave the Primary Schools on the
part of teachers. This arises, however, it is fair to say, fully
as much from the added dignity which is given to an office of
greater pay as from the mere money consideration.

Finally, let the committee, in closing their report, say a
word as regards the duty of parents to the schools. Parents
may be an important aid to the teacher. First, by the mere

30 CITY DOCUMENT— No. 7.

fact of showing an interest in her work. There is nothing
more grateful to a teacher's heart, in most cases, than to feel
that somo one is especially concerned for her success, is watch-
ing her eflforts in even a single case. It is a grateful stimulant
to effort, which is increased in proportion as more and more
parents participate in it. There should be cooperation, too,
as well. Occasions are constantly occurring when a teacher's
hands can be effectively strengthened by words fitly spoken
at home. Let these not be withheld. Above all, let the
largest charity towards teachers be exercised. Many of them
are young and all are human, and youthful humanity is prone
to err; but it is the testimony of those having years of obser-
vation that in a large majority of cases of complaint occurring
in the discipline of a school the right is plainly on the side
of the teacher. Let parents remember this, and forbear to
blame before full investigation is made. The presumption of
duty done should be always with the teacher till a clear case
is made out to the contrary.

Commending the schools of Roxbury to the renewed inter-
est of its citizens, and congratulating them especially on the
manner in which the reputation of these has been sustained
during the past year, the undersigned respectfully submits the
above statement for their consideration.

For the Committee,

GEO. H. MONROE.

STATISTICS

OF THE

SCHOOLS FOR 1867

The whole number of teachers is 103.

The number of Pupils in all the Schools is 5276, being an increase
over last year of 187 Scholars. Average attendance in all the
Schools, 5076.

The number of Pupils at the High School is 180, two less than
last year. The School has four Teachers.

There are five Grramraar Schools. The number of Pupils belong-
ing to them is 2274, an increase from last year of 204. Number of
Divisions, 43 ; an increase of one Division each to the Dudley,
Washington, and Dearborn Schools, during the year. Average
number to each Division, 53. Number of Grrammar School Teach-
ers, 47.

The number of Primary Schools is 52, an increase of two from
last year, one at George Street, and one at Phillips Street. Num-
ber of Pupils belonging to these Schools, 2822, a decrease from last
year of 15. Average to each School, 54.

There is also a Special Teacher of French and a Teacher of
Drawing in the High School ; a Teacher of Elocution in the High
and Grammar Schools, and a Teacher of Music in the same Schools.

The percentage shown at the examination of candidates from the
various Grammar Schools for admission to the High School, in
July, were as follows :

Dudley School, average per cent., . . 78

Washington School,
Comins School,
Dearborn School,
Francis St. School,

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66
63
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In December, eleven of the Pupils of the High School, who had
been continuing their studies for the fourth year, were examined in
their qualifications to become Teachers in our Public Schools.
The results attained varied from 89 per cent., the lowest, to 99, the
highest, which last was the highest percentage ever attained at any
examination : the average per cent, was 94^.

The salaries of the Teachers have been increased the past year,
and now stand as follows :

Principal of the High School, . . . $3,000

Teacher of the 3d Division, Miss Gushing, . 1,500

Teacher of the 2d Division, Miss Tincker, . 800

Teacher of the 4th year Class, Miss G-ragg, . . 700
Principals of Grammar Schools, male, . . 2,200

Principal of the Dudley School, Miss Baker, . 1,200
Principal of the Francis St. School, Mrs. Wright, 800
First and Second Assistants in Grrammar Schools, 650

All other Assistants, after the first year, . 600

Primary Teachers, first year, .... 500

Primary Teachers, second year and after, . 550

Teacher of French, M'lle de Maltchyce, . 400

Teacher of Drawing, Mr. Nutting, . . . 400

Teacher of Music, Mr. Alexander, . . 400

Teacher of Elocution, Mr. Brown, . . 600

Janitor, Mr. Pierce, ..... 1,500

The cost of maintaining our Public Schools, the past year, was
$88,302.19, averaging $16,73 per scholar.

The Schools, according to the new division of Wards, are located

as follows :

Wakd Thikteen.

Grammar School. — Dearborn, . . 14 Divisions.

Primary Schools. — Greorge Street, . 6 "

Yeoman Street, . 4 "

Eustis and Sumner Sts., 4 "

Total,

Wakd Fourteen.

High School,

Grammar Schools.

— Dudley,

Washington,

Primary Schools. -

— Elm Street,

Winthrop Street,

Munroe Street, .

Vernon Street,

Sudbury Street, .

Total, . 33

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Waed Fifteen.

Grammar Schools.

— Comins,

13 Divisions

Francis Street,

Primary Schools.

— Franklin Place,

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Avon Place,

Mill Dam,

Cottage Place,

Phillips Street,

Francis Street,

Heath Street,

Centre Street,

Edinboro' Street,

Total,

The following statement exhibits the whole am
Schools, exclusive of new School-houses, with the
per scholar, for the years since the incorporation

ount expended for
average expended
of the City :

Year.

Scholars.

Total expense.

Av. per Scholar.

1846

2,321

$17,104.01

$7.37

1847

2,601

20,555.23

7.90

1848

2,633

24,422.69

9.28

1849

2,910

25,480.00

8.75

1850

2,950

26,177.86

8.87

1851

2,793

21,976.32

7.87

1852

2,952

24,709.61

8.37

1853

2,609

26,391.51

10.11

1854

2,857

30,284.69

10.60

1855

3,137

32,616.68

10.40

1856

3,209

36,266.58

11.30

1857

3,411

39,223.53

11.49

1858

3,485

38,670.81

11.10

1859

3,901

43,386.44

11.12

1860

4,197

49,010.68

11.20

1861

4,396

48,507.52

11.06

1862

4,350

45,921.47

10.56

1863

4,465

47,714.95

10.68

1864

4,619

57,422.99

12.43

1865

4,737

63,021.62

13.30

1866

5,089

75,774.46

14.87

1867

5,276

88,302.19

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NAMES OP MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,

SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE CITY CHAETEE, IN 1846.

At Large.

George Putnam, 1846, 48, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64.

Cyrus 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, 65, 66, 67.

William H. Ryder, 1852, 53, 54, 57, 58.

William A. Crafts, 1852, 53, 54, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66, 67.

Bradford K. Peirce, 1855.

Joseph H. Streeter, 1855.

John S. Flint, 1855.

Julius S. Shailer, 1856, 57, 58, 65, 67.

Arial I. Cummings, 1859, 61.

Edwin Ray, 1860.

William S. King, 1861.

John S. Sleeper. 1862. 63.

Franklin Williams, 1862, 63, 64.

J. Warren Tuck, 1866.

40 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 7.

Ward 1.

Allen Putnam, 1846.

Henry B. Wheelwright, 1846, 47.

Horatio G. Morse, 1817, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 5Q, 57, 58, 63, 60, 61, 62, 64.

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, 65, 65, 67.

George W. Adams, 1861, 62, 63.

William H. Hutchinson, 1863.

George J, Arnold, 1864.

John G. Bartholomew, 1865.

James Morse. 1866, 67.

Ward 2.

Thomas F. Caldicott, 1846.

Joshua Seaver, 1846, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61

62, 63.
Alfred Williams, 1847, 48,

Ira Allen, 1849, 50, 51, 52, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67.
Arial I. Cummings, 1853.
Charles Marsh, 1854, 55.
J. Warren Tuck, 1864, 65.
B. Frank Bronson, 1863.
George Warren, 1866.
William Seaver, 1867.

Ward 3.

Charles K. DiUaway, 1846, 47.

Francis Hilliard, 1846, 48, 49.

Theodore Otis, 1847.

Julius S. Shailer, 1848, 50, 51, 62, 53, 54.

William Gaston, 1849, 50, 51.

Timothy R. Nute, 1852, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 66, 66, 67.

Joseph H. Streeter, 1853, 54.

William H. Ryder, 1855.

Benjamin Mann, 1855.

Arial I. Cummings, 1856, 57, 58, 62.

William A. Crafts, 1856, 62.

Richard Garvey, 1859.

John D. McGill, 1860, 61, 62.

Gsorga M. Hobbs, 1853, 64, 65, 66, 67.

SCHOOL EEPORT. 41

Ward 4.

Benjamin E. Cotting, 1846, 47, 49,

David Green, 1846, 47, 48.

Henry Bartlett, 1848.

Henry W, Fuller, 1849, 50, 51,

Jolin S. Flint, 1850, 61, 52.

John Wayland, 1852, 53, 54, 55.

Theodore Otis, 1853.

John W. Olmstead, 1854, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65.

James Waldock, 1855, 56, 66.

Joseph N. Brewer, 1856, 57, 58, 59.

Jonathan P. Robinson, 1857.

Jeremiah Plympton, 1860, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65.

George H. Monroe, 1866, 67.

Benjamin H. Greene, 1867.

Ward 5.

Augustus C Thompson, 1846.

Daniel Leach, 1846, 47, 48, 49, 60, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55.

Samuel Walker, 1847, 56.

John H. Purkett, 1848.

Charles F. Foster, 1849, 50, 51, 52.

Bradford K. Peiree, 1853, 54.

Edwin Ray, 1855, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,

Theodore Otis, 1856.

Alfred P. Putnam, 1857, 61, 62, 64.

Robert P. Anderson, 1858, 59.

Sylvester Bliss, 1860, 61, 62, 63.

William S. King, 1860.

Henry B. Metcalf, 1863.

Moody Merrill, 1865, 66, 67.

Ward 6.

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.

Ward 7.

John O. Choules, 1846, 47.
Joseph II. Allen, 1846.
Theodore Dunn, 1847, 48, 49, 50.
Grindall Reynolds, 1818, 49, 60, 51.
Stephen M. Allen, 18ol.
6

42 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 7.

Ward 8.

Theodore Parker, 1846.
George R. Russell, 1846.
Baxter Clapp, 1847, 48, 50, 51.
Matthews W. Green, 1847.
Abijah W. Draper, 1848, 49.
Joseph H. Billings, 1849.
Cornelius Cowing, 1850, 51.

Chairmes^,

Charles K. Diilaway, 1846, 47.
George Putnam, 1848, 64.
Daniel Leach, 1849, 50. 51.
Julius S. Shailer, 1852, 53.
John Waj'land, 1854.
Bradford K. Peirce, 1855.
William H. Ryder, 1856. 57, 58.*
Horatio G. Morse, 1859, 60, 61, 62.
John W. Olmstead, 1863, 65.
Edwin Ray, 1866, 67.

Secretaries.

Joshua Seaver, 1846, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 5J, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63.-f
Arial I. Cummings, 1856, 57.
Franklin Williams, 1864, 65, 66, 67.

* Resigned, and Horatio Q. Morse elected,
t Deceased, and Franklin Williams elected.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE

FOR 18G7.

ELECTED AT LARGE.

WILLIAM A. CRAFTS, HORATIO G. MORSE,

JULIUS S. SHAILER.

Ward 1. — Franklin Williams,
" 2. — Ira Allen,
" 3. — Timothy R. Nute,*

" 4. GrEORGE H, MONROE,

" 5. — Edwin Ray,

elected by wards.

James Morse,
William Seaver.

GrEORGE M. HoBBS.
BeXJAMIN H. GrREENE.

Moody Merrill.

MEMBERS SCHOOL COMMITTEE

ELECT, 1868.

Ward Thirteen.
For Three Years. — George W. Adams,
" Three Years. — Joseph A. Tucker.
" Two Years. — Allen Putnam, . .
" I'wo Years. — James H. Marsh, .
" One Year. — James Morse, . .

2 Reed's Court.
29 Orchard Street.
Eustis Street.
4 Guild Row.
Dudley Street.

" One Year. — Wm. II. Hutchinson, 48 Warren Street.

* Resigned, and Tacancy not filled.

CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7.

Watjd FouRTEEisr.
For Three Years. — George H. Monroe, Walnut Street.

Three Years. — MooDY Merrill,
Ttfo Years. — Ira Allex, . .
7Vo Years. — John Kneeland,
One Year. — Edwin Ray,
One Year. — JoHN 0. Means,

2 Warren Place.
61 Cabot Street.
31 Winthr op Street.
121 Warren Street.
31 Elm Street.

Ward Fifteen.

For Three Years. — George M. Hobbs, Edinboro' Street.

" Three Years. — George Morrill, Centre Street. •

" 'J'lvo Years. — Chas. K. Dillaway, 230 Washington St.

" Two Years. — Cyrus C. Emery, . 17 Clark Street.

" One Year. — Benjamin H. Greene, 13 Porter Street.

" One Year. — Joseph N. Brewer. 37 Centre Street.

CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 7,

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Fremont place,
Washington, n. Parker st
169 Eusds St., Mt. Pleas't
Roxbury,

Washington, c. High st.
Bradford place.
Grove Hall Avenue,
20 Mall street, . .
8 Magazine street, .
121 Bartlett street,

16 Elm street,

11 Reed's court,

Bradford place,

9 Myrtle street,

87 Davis street.

Centre street,

4 Tyler street, Boston,

Wash'gton, op. Putnam st

13 Zeigler street,

4 Fremont place,

13 Cottage street, .

Myrtle street.

Sarah E. Peck, .
Mary E. Mather,
Caroline S. Gushing,
Jenny K. F. Bottcher,
Ada L. McKean,
Avis E Spencer,
Ella A. Glynn, .
Georgiana Adams,
E. K. Souther, .
Louisa D. Gage,
Emma W. Cushman,
Emma A. Bell,
Abby R. Wood, .
Mary C Smith, .
Charlotte L. Brown,
Mary E. Nason,
Kate C. Lefstrum, .
Frances A. Cragin,
Katie R. Shailer, .
Clara L. George,
Emily S. Lydston, .
Lizzie F. Todd,
Alice E. Gould,

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