Annual report of the city of Somerville (1894) (14782243412)

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Title: Annual report of the city of Somerville
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Somerville (Mass.)
Subjects: Somerville (Mass.)
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Contributing Library: Somerville Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners



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eacher alone is the life-giving forcethat reaches the child and controls his future. Hence the teachersselected should be what the children should become. The citizens of Somerville have a right to expect much from theirschools. They have devised liberal things for them. They may beassured that the schools are steadily improving in their instruction,their discipline, their influence. They invite examination and criti-cism and suggestion. They ask continued co-operation and support.In return theyVill do their part towards making intelligent, virtuous,loyal citizens, ready to serve their city, and maintain the high char-acter and position it holds among the municipalities of the Common-wealth. The Superintendent wishes to assure the members of the SchoolBoard of his grateful appreciation of their confidence and support,and to thank principals and teachers for their hearty and sympatheticco-operation. Respectfully submitted, G. A. SOUTHWORTH, Super in tendefi t.Somerville, Dec. 31, 1894.
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CITIZENS FOR WHOM SOMERVILLE SCHOOLS ARE NAMED. APPENDIX r CONTENTS OF APPENDIX. CONCERNING FINANCE. No. OF Tarle. 1. Schedule of school property. 2. Cost of maintaining schools, 1894. 3. Cost per capita of maintaining schools, 1894. 4. Cost of maintaining schools for a series of years. 5. Cost per capita of maintaining schools for a series of years. 6. Amount spent annually for new school buildings, and lor repairs fora series of years. CONCERNING PUPILS. 7. Population of Somerville for a series of years. 8. School census for a series of years, and by districts for 1894. 9. Attendance, etc., of the schools for 1894. 10. Statistics of the High School, 1894. 11. Separate statistics for Grammar and Primary Schools, 1894. 12. Number of schools and pupils by districts, 1894. 13. Pupils by grades, December, 1894. 14. Pupils in each grade, and per cent of whole number. 15. Admissions to First grade in April and September. 16. Truant statistics, 1894. 17. Number of Grammar School graduates,