aforesaid, and that the buildings standing thereon be taken and removed.

And this Board doth adjudge that the expense of reducing the grade of said territory, and taking and removing the buildings as aforesaid, will amount to the sum of sixty-seven thousand dollars.

In School Committee, April 12, 1870.

Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.

Attest:

BARNARD CAPEN,

Secretary.

CITY OF BOSTON.

IN SCHOOL COMMITTEE, April 12, 1870.

THE Committee on Evening Schools beg leave to report. The term provided for in the regulations as amended by the Board at the last meeting closed on Wednesday, April 6th. The Committee regard this winter's term as exceedingly satisfactory, and as taking the enterprise from the list of mere experiments. Still there is much to be accomplished, as will be seen by the accompanying abstract. The attendance, being voluntary, is irregular, and much confusion results; some classes at times being uncomfortably full, and then almost empty. Again, the large attendance of very young persons, against whom the doors can hardly be shut, but who were not intended as the special objects of instruction, has driven away adults, for whom the schools were originally opened. The Committee hope by another year to devise some means of accommodating adult pupils separately, and thus benefit both classes of scholars.

The Evening High School, located in Harrison avenue, has not been troubled to an equal extent with the other schools by irregularity of attendance, and the results are correspondingly gratifying. Some pupils have attended every night, and have put themselves to great inconvenience to maintain this regular- ity. The school might perhaps have been continued, but it seemed best to close it before warm weather and out-door attractions should diminish its average.

The rooms kindly allowed us for this school have proved too small, and, if the school is to become permanent, it must have rooms large enough to seat comfortably one hundred or two

hundred pupils at the least. The Committee hope before opening it again to obtain some building in a central part of the city, for their permanent accommodation. The Committee desire to express their appreciation of the services of the principals (Messrs. Woolson and Anderson) and assistants of this school, most of whom are employed during the day, but who have devoted themselves to this special instruction with an enthusiasm which has had the most satisfactory effect upon the school. The Committee append a report from the assistant teachers in the school, which will clearly indicate the course of study pursued, with the manner of instruction. They also add a statement of the number of teachers employed in all the evening schools, the entire number of pupils upon the rolls, and the average attendance at each school for the term.