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provement of many of the Grammar Schools; and in these schools, to which the Superintendent seems now to be directing special attention, through better methods of management, especially in the amount of oral instruction, which carries the school forward faster with less strain of mind and nerve to the pupil, through the programme of studies recently adopted by this Board, measures have been inaugurated which will make their improvement permanent and progressive, and enable them to send, year by year, to the English High School a larger number of better prepared pupils, entering at an earlier age, an age which will dispose and permit them to complete the course of instruction at the High School. For two or three years the number entering the English High School, and the proportionate number of those remaining to complete the course has been steadily increasing. The rule adopted a few years ago, of presenting diplomas to those who had satisfactorily completed the whole course, has undoubtedly had a good effect in retaining pupils till they had derived the whole benefit, improved the whole opportunity, which the school offers them. The class, leaving in July last, numbered forty-two, the largest class that the school has ever graduated; and in their examination and essays at the annual exhibition they gave conclusive evidence of their thorough instruction, and of the most faithful improvement of their opportunities. Indeed, we have heard that a Professor at Heidelberg says of one of this class, now studying at that University, that "so far as he is educated, he is more thorough and accurately educated than any American whom he has known as a student at Heidelberg," and

as to the French Language, when the Professor came to examine him in that, he found him so thoroughly acquainted with the grammar, construction and idioms of the language, etc., that he thought the young man had been stopping sometime in Paris paying particular attention to French, and expressed great surprise when informed that all his knowledge of French had been attained at a public school in Boston. This is such gratifying testimony to the thoroughness of the instruction at the English High School, that your Committee felt that in justice to its teachers, and especially to its Head-Master, it might so far be made public as to be mentioned in this report.

The number of candidates presenting themselves for examination this year was 241. The number admitted, was 231, making the whole number in school, 356. This number authorized and required the employment of another Sub-Master, and made it necessary, from lack of room in the High School building to accommodate all, to place between seventy and eighty of the pupils in the ward-room in Harrison Avenue, where they are very poorly accommodated. If the number of pupils continues as great, and especially if it increases next year, as there is every reason to presume it will, some better or larger accommodations ought speedily to be provided. The discipline of the English High School, as is well known to this Board, is paternal in its character, such a thing as the rod being hardly known in it, the teachers governing by the affections and the force of moral character. It was found that one of the difficulties encountered in the management and progress of the school

arose from the fact that the teachers of the third class were called Ushers; the pupils of this class, just coming from the Grammar Schools, where they had been in the Master's room, were disposed to measure their respect for their new teacher by his title, and to permit it to limit his moral influence and authority over them. The change which has therefore been made in the organization of the school, by which it has now one Head-Master, three Masters, and as many Sub-Masters as may be necessary to give not more than thirty-five pupils to each instructor, is working in every way favorable. In short, the whole condition of the school, it is believed, is such as should give satisfaction to this Board.

Respectfully submitted,

S. K. LOTHROP, Chairman.

BOSTON, September, 1868.

CATALOGUE OF THE TEACHERS AND PUPILS OF THE ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL.

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FIRST CLASS.

Abbott, Joseph W.

Allen, Charles F.

Alley, Francis E.
Baldwin, Charles H.
Bowen, Henry J.
Buck, Henry H.
Burgess, William B.

Burton, George S.
Butler, Elliot L.

Carleton, Walter I.

CAPT. HOBART MOORE.

Carpenter, George O. jr.

Carroll, Miles P.
Cobb, Charles E.
Cook, Thomas N., jr.
Cushing, Roland F.
Cutler, Ralph W.

PUPILS.

Cutting, Charles F.
Daniels, George F.
Dillaway, William E. L.

Dix, Charles W.
Domett, Charles C.
Drake, Martin W.

Eaton, Horace L.
Eveleth, Charles W.
Fairbanks, Henry O.
Fuller, Albert C.
Godfrey, James.
Glines, Arthur A.
Greenleaf, Lyman B.
Griggs, Herbert L.
Harrington, John H.
Hosmer, Willard B.
Hutchings, William R.

Johnston, Albert W.

Johnson, Charles H.

Burgess, Charles G.

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Capen, William H.
Carter, Herbert L.
Chase, Joseph jr.
Coggswell, Walter C.
Cook, George A.
Cooper, Abner B.
Crow, David.
Cusack, Thomas F.
Darling, Frank W.
Dyer, Charles H.
Ellis, Augustus H.
Endress, George H.
Foster, Charles.
Gill, Arthur E.

Gleason, William H. jr.
Goodale, Edward H.
Goodridge, Oliver H.
Grant, Franklin W.
Greeley, Joseph C.
Grover, Edward W.
Hathorne, Edward J.
Hinckley, Henry H.
Hunneman, Hewes.
Hunt, Caleb B.
Hunt, Edgar N.
Jackson, George W.
James, Benjamin jr.
James, Harrison W.
Jewell, William H.
Kelley, Edward F.
Kelt, William L.

Kent, George H.

King, Samuel M.

Baker, Walter A. Baldwin, George O.

Barker, William E.

Bates, Frank A.
Bates, S. Walter.

Bickford, Leroy M.
Blaisdell, Moses F.

Blodgett, Warren K. jr.

Braman, Jarvis G.

Brooks, Charles B.

Brown, Henry A.

Bugbee, Joseph S.

Ladd, Edward O.
Little, Arthur.
Loring, David jr.
Lothrop, Lewis W.
Lovell, Frank K.
Malloy, George W.
Mansfield, Gideon M.
Marsh, Rufus C. jr.
Means, Walter K.
Miller, James C.
Newman, Arthur H.

Nolen, Bernard M.

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