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Summer Term,
Register for the Spring and
1864.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION. 1^ His Excellency, The Governor.
Abner
His Honor, The Lieutenant Governor.
Rev.
J.
Phipps, Esq., Lowell.
William Rice, A. M.,
Springfield.
Hon. Emory Washburn, LL.D., Cambridge. Rev. William A. Stearns, D. D., Amherst.
Hon. Joseph White, A. M.,
Secretary.
Hon. John D. Philbrick, A. M., Boston.
David H. Mason,
Esq.,
Newton Centre.
Rev. Jasies F. Clare:e, D. D., West Roxbury.
John
P.
Marshall, A. M., Somerville.
Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, D.D., Assistant Sec'y.
George B. Emerson, LL.
D.,
Treasurer.
BiRDSEY G. Northrop, A. M., Agent.
Rev.
BOARD OF VISITORS. John
P.
Hon. Joseph White, A. M.
Marshall, A. M.
Hon. John D. Philbrick, A. M.
George B. Emerson, LL. D.
INSTRUCTORS. Alpheus Crosby ,S a. M., Principal.
William Russell, A. M., Instructor
in El-
ocution.
Martha
K.^^Crosby.
Ellen M. Dodge.
Mary
E.
Webb.
Rev. Birdsey G. Northrop, A. M., Lecturer
on Mental Philosophy.
James
C.
Frances
Caroline
J.
Cole.
Josephine A. Ellery.
Maey
C.
0.
Brown, Teacher of Music.
B.
Spofford.
Sharp, Esq., Lecturer on Chemistry.
M. D., Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, and Health. S,
Cooke,
Sanborn Tenney, A. M., Lecturer on Geology and Mineralogy. Frederic
W. Putnam,
Zoology.
Esq.,
Lecturer on
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STUDENTS.
Class.
Qlbnanccb Ella G. Page, Gloucester.
]\Iary
Newburyport.
N. Plumer,
Louise F. Parsons, East Glo)icester.
Senior Huldah
QI
I
ass
.
Anna
S.
Lamson,
Marzette H. Coburn, Dracut.
Abby
F.
Lane, Lynn.
Mary
Harriet Lane,
E. Boothby,
T. Danforth,
Jackson, Me.
Lynnfield Centre.
Topsfield.
Newport, Vt.
Mary Ann Dotey, Manchester, N. H.
Julia Packard,
Sophia 0. Driver, Salem.
Abby
Marcia L. Duley, Annisquam, Gloucester.
Caroline A. Pitkin, Winchendon.
Lucinda
Emily R. Pitkin, Winchendon.
J.
Gregg, Derry, N. H.
Ella F. Hay,
West Auburn, Me.
L. Peak,
Chelsea.
Addie M. Spinney, Charlestown.
Stoneham.
Augusta, M. Howe, Somerville.
Mary
Helen M. Hunt, Lowell.
Elsie A. Woodward, Keene, N. H.
iHibble
G. Stone,
Charlestown.
Class.
Helen L. Abbott, North Andover.
Clara B. French, Greenville,
Mary V.
Annie E. Friend, Gloucester.
Allen, Manchester.
Eleanor E. Boies,
Martha
Chelsea.
C. Brainerd,
Halifax.
111.
Katharine T. Fuller, North Andover.
Mary
Hinsdale.
E. Gilbert,
Augusta A. Brown, Newburyport.
Effie
Emma
Rebecca B. Gove, Weare, N. H.
D. Coburn, Pelham, N. H.
Eveline Conant,
Sarah
J.
Ellen B.
Wenham.
20.
J.
Gould, Lowell.
Caroline W. Graves, North Reading.
Crosby, Lowell.
Maria A. Holt, Keene, N. H.
Cushman, Plymouth.
Lucy M. James,
Deerfield Centre, N. H.
Sarah F. Daniels, South Danvers.
Julia T. Jellisou, North Ellsworth, Me.
Sarah A. Dewing, North Chelsea.
Ella F.
Sarah C. Fiske, Lowell.
Mary
Kehew, Salem.
L. Kilburn,
Lonsdale, R.
L
Sarah
S. Kittredge,
Ann
iSalem.
B. Smith,
East Medway.
Olive A. Leggett, North Andover.
Helen M. Titcomb, Newburyport.
Hannah
A. Nash,
Mary
Mary
J.
Parker,
Sarah
S.
Perkins, Lynnfield Centre.
Amanda M.
Greenfield.
Annisquam, Gloucester.
Philbrick, Galeshurg,
111.
Sophia M. Pike, Newburyport.
Emma
H. Proctor, South Danvers.
Iitnior Martha E. Abbott, North Reading.
New
liUcy E. Bacheller,
Lynn.
Emma
Rockport.
R. Welch,
Harriet
J.
Lowell.
West, Lynn.
Martha E. Whittredge, Hamilton. Helen Willson, Como,
111.
Sarah L. Woodberry, Beverly.
Sarah P. Sanborn, Lawrence.
Gertrude E. Allen,
Eliza S. Tufts,
South Danvers.
Louise A. P. White, Salem.
Lawrence.
Adelaide C. Plumley,
E. Torr,
Bedford.
44.
QliaBB. Sarah
Lucy
S.
Hibbard, Methuen.
L. Holden,
West Concord, N. H.
Lavina Barnard, West Charleston, Vt.
Anna M. Holmes, Ipswich. Mary E. Hutchinson, Middleton.
Mary
Amanda
E. Bartlett,
Haverhill.
Elizabeth T. Blaney,
Mary
South Danvers.
A. Bryant, Stoneham.
H. James, Deerfield Centre, N. H.
Rosa G. Jarard, Gay Head, Chilmark. Susan Jordan, Poland, Me.
Rosanna A. Burnham, Essex.
Mary
Eleanor M. Butler, Bedford.
Martha A. Lakeman, Hallowell, Me.
Eliza C. H. Coburn, Pelham, N. H.
Julia
Harrietta C. Critchett,
Lowell.
F. Kittredge,
South Danvers.
M. Mann, Salem.
Esther L. Merriam, North Tewksbury.
Delia A. Curtis, Northborough.
Caroline M. Osborne, South Danvers.
Emeline M. Dickinson, West Townsend.
Alice H. Packard,
Isabel
Abby
M. Emilio, Salem. D. Esty,
Margaret B.
Middleton.
Fitz,
Salem.
Lowell.
Sarah A. Phelps, Middleton. Julitta E. Prescott,
Anna
South Danvers.
E. Richardson, Lowell.
Helen C. Frye, Lowell.
Imogene A. Rowe, Stoneham.
Caroline A. Fuller, Salem.
Ellen P. Sibley, Salem.
Emma
H. Gage, Methuen.
Charlotte E. Stephenson,
Boston.
Susan M. Glover, Salem.
Joanna Thompson, Roxbury.
Charlotte Goding, North Livermore, Me.
Sarah W. Tompkins, Lawrence.
Julia A. Goodwin, Boston.
Georgianna Wilkinson,
Helen M. Hastings, North Chelsea.
Ellen Wonson,
Number
of Students in attendance during the Term,
North Chelsea.
Gloucester.
4G.
113.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.. ..SALEM, MASS.
This Institution was established by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the
Salem and the Eastern Railroad Company, for the
liberal co-operation of the City of
Common and High
direct preparation of Female Teachers to instruct in the
quired by law.
Board of
under the charge of the State Board of Education, and of a special
It is
During the period that has elapsed since the reception of the
Visitors.
Class in September, 1854, seven hundred and ninety-nine Ladies have been
the School;
Schools re-
and of
members of
hundred and forty-three have received diplomas,
three
these,
first
upon the honorable completion of the prescribed course of study.
.S
The School Year ruary and the
first
is
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I)
Year
a n
S" c r in s
ti
divided into two Terms, commencing
Wednesday
in September,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; each
tlie last
Wednesday
in Feb-
containing twenty weeks of study,
with a week's recess near the middle of the Term.
The present Term Tuesday, July
19th.
will close
All
these Exercises, which will at other times that
may
with Exercises of Examination and Graduation, on
Friends of Education are respectfully invited to attend
commence
at 9 o'clock, A.
M.
;
and
also to visit tlie School
suit their convenience.
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f
s s
f
n
.
Candidates for admission must be at least sixteen years of age; must present a satisfactory certificate
of good moral character;
must declare
their
full
intention
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!
observing the regulations of the School during their connection with
of faithfully
and of afterwards teaching in the public
it,
schools
of Massachusetts;*
and must
pass a satisfactory examination in Reading, Spelling, Defining, Writing, Arithmetic,
English Grammar, Geography, the History of the United States, and Algebra (through
Equations of the First Degree with
unknown
one
A
quantity.)
greater age
and
higher attainments than those prescribed, with some experience in teaching, render the course of study in the Institution
The Examination
commencing
more
for admission takes place
Except
useful.
on Wednesday, the
first
day of each term,
or as soon after that hour as the Candidates
at 8 o'clock, A. M.,
able to arrive.
still
in extraordinary cases,
no one
is
examined
may
be
later in the term.
St iitJf es. These are of two kinds
the
:
more
strictly
professional, which are prescribed for
all
the members of the School; and those that are more general in their character, which are pursued as the students
may need
several grades of public schools.
" Blanches for all
of Learning" prescribed
High Schools
;
III.
or
The
desire, in
by law
Those prescribed
Professional Studies.
1.
preparation
for teaching
latter are divided into three classes for all public schools; II. for
High Schools
:
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
in I.
the
The
Those prescribed
of the second class.
Philosophy, History, and Art of Education in
its
several
departments; including General Principles and Methods of Instruction, Mental and
Moral Philosophy, School Laws, School Organization and Government, &c. Principles and Best Methods of Instruction, both elementary and more advanced,
2.
in
tlie
several branches of school study.
3.
Exercises in Teaching, for the illustration and application of these Principles and
Methods; and other Exercises, both Oral and Written,
for cultivating that
power and
propriety of thought and expression which are so essential to the teacher's success.
Observation and practice in other schools are also recommended, and the former, to
some extent, required.
General Studies.
Class
"Orthography, Reading, Writing, English Grammar,
I.
Geography, Arithmetic, the History of the United States, and Good Behavior;" and also
"Algebra, Vocal Music, Drawing, Physiology, and Hygiene," (which, in the
words of the law, â&#x20AC;˘mittee
deem
it
*'
shall be taught in all the public schools in
expedient. "
By
which the School Com-
a recent statute, "Agriculture" has been added to
these studies.
* Ladies designing
to teach in
paying; S^"^ ^ terra for tuition.
other States or in private schools
may
be admitted by
Class
General History, Book-keeping, Surveying, Geometry, Natural Philoso-
•'
II.
phy, Chemistry, Botany, the Civil Polity
of
Commonwealth and of
this
the United
and the Latin Language."
States,
Class
III.
" The Greek and French Languages, Astronomy, Geology, Rhetoric,
Logic, Intellectual and Moral Science, and Political
Economy."— See General
Statutes
of Mass., chap. 38, §§ 1, 2.
Pupils
who have
who approve Studies of the
successfully completed the Professional Studies of the School,
upon examination,
themselves,
receive the First
first class,*
and
competent to instruct in the General
fully
Diploma of the School.
Those who also show
themselves well acquainted with the General Studies of the second class, and with the
French Language, receive the Second Diploma special Certificate
is
while for the remaining studies a
;
So far as practicable, the needed acquaintance with these
added.
General Studies, especially with those of the
first class,
should be acquired by students
before their admission to the School.
The prescribed Course of Study but pupils
may
for the first
Diploma estends through two years
enter in advance, whenever their examination
;
shows that they can
do this advantageously.
Slfhrary, The
Slpparatus,
Institution has already a valuable supply,
anti
Museum.
chiefly
through donation, of these
material aids of education, which are so important for
its full
success, (the Libra-
ry containing, in works for general reference and reading, and in text-books, more than seven thousand volumes.)
To provide
for
them ampler accommodations, the School
Building has been enlarged, and now presents room cabinet-cases, ality of its
for filling
which the School must rely
for long ranges of book-shelves chiefly
upon the continued
and
liber-
Friends and the Friends of Education, especially of those who appreciate
the claims of Higher Female Education with particular reference to the
work of educa-
ing others.!
* Full preparation for instructing in these branches is regarded as requirinp: an elementary acquaintance with Geometry with the Natural Sciences, both philosophical and descriptive with the History and Etymology of the English Language and with ;
;
;
English Literature.
t Contributions of books and pamphlets
and chemical and of other articles appropriate to an Educational Museum, will be gratefully received, and will make an important addition to the means of usefulness which the Institution already for the Library, of philosophical
apparatus, of minerals, plants, shells, and
other specimens
of natural history,
possesses.
School Committees and Superintendents will confer a special favor by sending copies of
Annual Reports and other educational documents; and Instructors in Institutions of every grade, by sending copies of their Catalogues and Circulars. their
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
8 3E);penses, Tuition
is
free to those Avho
($1.50)
is
comply with the condition of teaching in the public
wherever they
schools of Massachusetts,
0it),^c.
may have
A
previously resided.
small fee
paid by each pupil at the beginning of the term, for incidental expenses.
The text books required are mostly furnished without charge from the School Library. It is
recommended, however, that the pupils should bring with them,
the text books which they have already studied ;
reference and comparison,
should especially be provided with a Dictionary
The price which or separate prices,
it
fire
commonly paid by
is
and
for purposes of
and recent
the pupils for board, (not including washing,
lights,) is, at present, $2.75 per week.
will probably be
and they
Atlas.
From
the advance of other
somewhat more next term.
For the assistance of those who would
find
even the light expenses of the School bur-
densome, the Commonwealth makes an annual appropriation of a thousand
One
half of this
amount
may
Massachusetts who
is
among
distributed at the close of each term,
dollars.
pupils ffom
merit and need the aid, in sums varying according to the
distance of their residence from Salem, and their necessary expenses in attending the School, but not exceeding in any case $1.50 per week.
In this distribution, the
first
thirteen weeks of a pupil's connection with the School are not reckoned, unless she
enters prepared to complete the prescribed course of study in less than two years.
Aid
Fund
is also
of Five
rendered, in cases of special merit and need, from the income of the
Thousand Dollars,
bequest of Nathaniel
for
which the School
is
indebted to the munificent
Bowditch, Esq., of Brookline.
I.
Through the bounty of Thomas Lee, Esq., of Boston, awards are made,
amount
to
the
of seventy-five dollars a year, for excellence in Reading.
At the beginning of the next term, awards admission
who show
will
be made to those candidates for
special excellence in the introductory examinations
:
1.
In Arithmetic and Algebra, to the amount of one hundred dollars.
2.
In Orthography, through the bounty of Leander Wetherell, Esq., of Boston.
3.
In Reading, through the bounty of Thomas Lee, Esq.
,
of Boston.
Salem, July, 1864.
ANNOUNCEMENT. The Next Term of the State Normal School at Salem, Mass., will commence with un Examiuiition of Candidates for admission,
on Wednesday,
Sep-
tember 7th, 1864. This Institution
open
is
who may wish
to
direct preparation for the
or
High
Schools.
TERM.
Public Schools of Massachusetts, Tuition
to
Ladies not less than
To
all
is
Free.
Text books are mostly furnisiied from the Library of the School.
The common
ent, $2.75 per
sixteen years of age, (without limit as to iilacc of resi-
dence,)
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; NEXT and other
week.
sources,
tributed to pupils
price of
From
Board
is,
at pres-
the State Appropriation
more than $1500 are annually
who merit and need
dis-
the aid.
pursue a Com-sc of Study in
work
who
of teaching in
Common
For Circulars, or further information, address
intend to teach in the
Salem Observer Press.
THE miNCIPAL.