Salem Normal School Catalog: Fall and Winter 1867-1868.

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OF THE

FALL AND WINTER TERM,

1867-8.

Register for the Fall and Winter Term, 1867-8.

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BOARD OF EDUCATION. Samuel

His Excellency, the Governor.

Rev.

His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor.

John D. Philbrick, A.

Rev.

James

F.

Prof.

John

P.

Rev.

George

Rev.

William Rice, A.M.,

Clarke, D.D., Jamaica

Marshall, A.

Seelye, D.D., Easthampton.

T.

David H. Mason, A.

riain.

M., Boston.

M.,

Newton

Centre.

M., Somerville.

Hon. Joseph White, A. M.,

D. Wildes, A.M., Salem.

Rev.

Springfield.

Samuel

Abner

Hon. Emory Washburn, LL.D., Cambridge.

C.

Sec'y

Jackson, D.D.,

J. PiiiPPS,

and

Treas'r.

Assist. Sec'y.

A. M., Agent.

BOARD OF VISITORS. Prof.

John

P.

Marshall, A.

M., Somerville.

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Rev,

George

D. Wildes, A. M., Salem.

INSTRUCTORS. Daniel

B.

Hagar, A.

Ellen M. Dodge.

Mary

E.

Caroline

M., fPrincipal.

Christine Chaplin, Teacher of Drawing.

O.

B.

Brown,

Esq.,

Teacher of Music.

Webb.

J.

Cole.

Hon. Joseph White,

A. M., Lecturer on

Civil Polity.

Mary

N. Plumer.

Sophia 0. Driver.

M. Isabella Hanson.

Harriet

L. Martin.

Prof.

William

P.

Atkinson, Lecturer on

English Literature.

Prof.

Edward

S.

Morse, Lecturer on Zoology.

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STUDENTS.

Class ^.

Mary A.

Catharine D. May, Lynn.

Clarke, Salem.

Harriett E. Clough,

Gloucester.

Eliza

H. Merrill, Franklin, N. H.

Catharine F. Corner, Marblehead.

Annie H. DoUiver, Gloucester.

Esther R. Perkins, Lynnfield Centre.

Nellie A. Pierson, Lawrence.

M. Echols, Salem.

Cynthia A. Goodnow, Littleton.

Elizabeth J. Hadley, Swampscott.

Florence E. Jtlannan, Sandwich.

Ellen J. Hunt, Maiden.

Elizabeth A. Pinnock, Salem.

Eliza

Mary

Leora L. Upton, Lowell.

Charlotte

Harriet P. Prichard, Marblehead.

Jane K. Sanger, Lynn.

Ida Tappan, Gloucester.

Marblehead.

Linella Lewis, Salem.

J. Lefavour,

arias

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M. Upham,

Chelsea.

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Fanny Ashenden, Melrose.

Harriet A. Harris, Freetown.

Marietta H. Barstow, Hanover

Addie H. Hatch, Cliftondale.

Abbie M. Johnson, Stoneham.

M. Esther Marshall, Tewksbury.

Maria

Taunton.

Mary C. Bowler, Marblehead.

Mary E. Boynton, Swampscott. \V. Baylies,

Elizabeth S. Merritt,

Salem.

Mary A. Burnham, Durham, N. H. Clara M. Cassell, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sarah J. Patten, Westfbrd.

Marietta Poole, Rockport.

Sarah J. Sanders, Lynn.

Harriet S. Crosby,

Chelsea.

Elizabeth

E. Florence Davis,

Lowell.

Mary

Patience Breck, Franklin.

Sarah S. Davis, Haverhill.

Louisa M. Elliott, Taunton.

Clara A. Emerson, Lowell.

Hannah

E. Fabens,

Fort Lee, N. Y.

Emeline

C. Farley,

Ipswich.

Jessie F. Ford, Salem.

M. Furber, Dover, N. H. Marianna Gay, Chelsea.

AbbieM. Goodwin, Newburyport.

Clementine D. Grover, Gloucester.

Martha C. Hagar, Worcester.

Lorette

I.

W.

Savory, Salem.

Shankland,

Lynn.

Lynn.

A. Arabella Somes, North Chelsea.

Mary E. Terry, North Weymouth.

Elizabeth Turkington, Methuen.

Clara E. Turner, Bremen, Me. Mary E. Weston, Chelsea.

Clara J. Simonds,

Emma M.

Whitford, Waltham.

Alfrena J. Whittredge, Lynnfield Centre.

Edith K. Wiggin, Wakefield, N. H. Mary A. Wiggin, Exeter, N. H. Alida C. Willis, Swampscott.

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Class

or.

Georgiana Beckett, South Danvers.

Matilda J. Carapbell, Machias, Me.

Abby C. Lewis, Alfred, Me. Lovey A. Lewis, Alfred, Me.

Emma

LydiaMendum,

.

L.

Chadwick, Chelsea.

Woonsocket, R.

S. Letitia Clarke,

Harriet T. Nealley, Lynn.

Susan P. Clark, Melrose.

Clara M. Colcord, Swampscott.

Mary E. Conant, North Beverly,

Emma

L. Crosby,

Anna D. Newman, Middleton.

Anna G. Nichols, Melrose.

Mary E. Nichols, South Reading.

Lowell.

Charlotte H. Oliver, Lynn,

Jane F. Dean, Taunton.

Ruth H. Driver, Salem.

Lizzie

W.

Maria

Millville.

Pitts,

Justine F. Proctor, Lynn.

Dunn, Salem.

O.Reed,

Maria Grant, Salem.

Ellen A.

Myra

Maria A. Rust, Ipswich.

Helen P. Tenney, Manchester.

Emma F. Thomas, Charlestown.

Alice R. Turnbull, South Reading.

Abbie F. Woodward, Lowell.

Hall,

Dennis.

M. llarriman, Stoneham. ^anny L. Hughes, Beverly.

Eliza

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Melrose,

Ellen H. Mort, Lowell.

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Susan E. Hunt, Charlestown.

Sarah E. Lakeman, Ipswich. or

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Topslield.

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Susan E. Allen, Lynn.

Ella A. Bailey,

Ellen A. Lothrop, South Reading.

Emma

Lowell.

Newbernc, N. C. Augusta Billings, Sedgwick, Me. Mary H. Boyes, Andes, N. Y. Annie Brown, Circleville, Ohio.

Julia L, Brigham, Montpelier, Vt. Marcia A. Burbank, Danville, N. H.

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Mary

Emma

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E. Dager, South Reading.

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Lowell.

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Sarah M. Dike, Beverly.

Ida A. Emerton, South Reading.

Mary E. Emery, Montpelier, Vt.

Susan G. Fellowes, Deerfield Cen., N. Harriet E. Flye, Saugus Centre.

Annie B. Fgeter, East Saugus.

Eliza C. Gutterson, Lynn.

Sarah A. Hamlin, Provincetown.

Emma M. Hoyt, West Amcsbury.

Abbie F. Jaquith, Chelsea.

Sarah L. Lawrence, Saugus Centre.

Nichols,

JNIartha J. Porter,

Virginia A. Clarkson, Newburyport.

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Beverly.

Lucy A. Peabody, Wenham.

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Nettie E. Currier, South Amcsbury.

Abbie L. Davis,

Fitzwilliam, N.

Newman, Winchendon.

Jennie A. Norris, Dracut.

Sarah F. Norton, Maiden.

Mary B. Chamberlain, Salem.

Mary

J. Merrill,

Sarah

Eliza A. Baxter,

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P'ast

Boston.

Mary A. Richardson, Lawrence.

Ella L. Rogers,

Tewksbury.

Ellen E. Rowe, Gloucester.

Annie L. Sanborn, Salem.

Annie R. Sawyer, Durham, N. Emma L. Shedd, Waltham.

Ida Sheldon,

Mary

II.

Lowell.

Salem.

Vesta M. Vaughan, Portsmouth, N. H.

II.

E. Trask,

Eliza J. Wallace, j

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Luella A.

Lawrence.

Ward well,

Lowell.

[N. H. Kate Watkins, Farmville, Va. Hattie A. Watson, North wood Narrows, Lucy B. Wiggin, Wakefield, N H.

Hattie F. Wiley,

Lynntield.

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Nuinbcr of Students in attendance dun ng Number present during tlie past year

tlie

term,

....

145.

195.

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STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.. ..SALEM, MASS.

This Institution was established by the Comrnonwealth of Massachusetts, with the liberal co-operation of the City of Salem and the Eastern Railroad for the direct preparation of Female Teachers to instruct in the

Hifli Schools required by law.

It is

Common and

under the charge of the State Board of

Education, and of a special Board of Visitors. elapsed since the reception of the

Company,

During the period that has

Class, in September, 1854, one thousand

first

and of these, four and eiyhty-seven Ladies have been members of the School hundred and sixty-three have received diplomas, upon the honorable completion ;

of the prescribed course of study.

S The School Year

is

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divided into two terms, each containing nineteen weeks of

study, with a week's recess near the middle of the term.

The next term close

will

commence on Thursday, February 20th,

1868,

and will

on Thursday, July 9th, 1868.

January 23d, with public exercises "j J of Examination and Graduation, commencing at 9 o'clock, A. M.

rThe present term will close on Thursday,

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.

Candidates for admission must be at least sixteen years of age *satisfactory certificate of

;

must present a

good moral character; must declare their

full intention

6 of faithfully observini; it,

tlie

.

regulations of the School, during their connection with

and of afterwards teaching

in the public 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 one unknown quantity).

A

greater age and higher attainments than those prescribed, with some experience

in teaching, render the course of study in the Institution still

The Examination

for admission takes place

more

on Thursday, the

useful.

first

day of each

term, commencing at 8 o'clock, A. M., or as soon after that hour as the Candidates

may

be able t) arrive.

Except in extraordinary cases, no one

is

examined

later in

the term.

S These arc of two kinds for all the

;

more

the

members of the School

I

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f

p

strictly ;

s

.

professional, which are prescribed

and those that are more general

character, which are pursued as the students

may need

in their

or desire, in preparation

grades of public schools. The latter are divided into " The Brai^ches of Learning" prescribed by law for all i)ublic

for teaching in the several

three classes schools

;

:

II,

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I,

Those prescribed

for all

High Schools

;

III,

Those prescribed

for

High

Schools of the second class.

Professional Studies. several departments

Mental and

Moral

1.

Philosophy, History, and Art of Education in

its

including General Principles and Methods of Instruction,

;

Philosophy, School Laws, School Organization and Gov-

ernment, &c.

2.

Principles and Best Methods of Instruction, both elementary and

more

advanced, in the several branches of school study.

3.

Exercises

in

Teaching,

Principles and Methods; cultivating that

recommended, and the former,

General

illustration

and

of these

application

both Oral and Written,

power and propriety of thought and expression which are

essential to the teacher's success. also

the

for

and other Exercises,

Studies.

Class

I.

for

so

Observation and practice in other schools are to

some extent,

is

required.

Writing,

"'Orthography, Reading,

Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, the History of the United

States,

English

and Good

Behavior;" and also "Algebra, Vocal Music, Drawing, Physiology, and Hygiene."

* Ladies design iii'.' to toach in other States or paying $15 a term for tuition.

in

private schools

may

be admitted by

7 which, in the words of the law, " shall be taught in

which the School Committee deem

it

expedient.'

'

By

all

the public schools in

a recent statute, Agriculture

has been added to these studies.

" General History, Book-keeping, Surveying, Geometry, Natural

Class II.

Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany, the Civil Polity of this

Commonwealth and of

the United Slates, and the Latin Language," Class III. Logic,

" The Greek and French Languages, Astronomy, Geology, Rhetoric,

Intellectual

and Moral Science, and

Statues of Mass., chap. 38,

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Political

Economy.". See General

1, 2. *

Pupils

who have

successfully completed the Professional Studies of the School,

and who approve themselves, upon examination, General Studies of the

first

Classes, receive the First

class,

and

in

fully

competent to instruct in the

most of those of the Second and Third

Diploma of the School.

Those who also show themselves

well acquainted with the remaining studies of the Second and Third Classes, receive the Second Diploma.

by students before

So far as practicable, the needed acquaintance with

especially with those of the first class, should be acquired

these General Studies,

their admission to the

The prescribed Course of Study but pupils

may

SchooL

for the first

Diploma extends thr mgh two years

enter in advance, whenever their examination

;

show that they can

do this advantageously.

2liliratiÂť,

The

Apparatus,

auti

ii^useum.

Institution has already a valuable supply, chiefly through donation, of these

material aids of education, which are so important for

its

full

success,

(the

Library containing, in works for general reference and reading, and in text-books,

about eight thousand volumes).

To provide

School Building has been enlarged, and shelves and cabinet-cases, for filling

continued liberality of

who

its

now

for

them ampler accommodations, the

presents

room

for

long ranges of book-

which the school must rely

chiefly

upon the

Friends and the Friends of Education, especially of those

appreciate the claims of Higher Female Education with particular reference

to the

work of educating

Tuition schools of

who comply with the condition of teaching in Massachusetts, wherever they may have previously resided.

is

fee ($2.00)

penses.

others.

free to those

is

the public

A

small

paid by each pupil at the beginning of the term, for incidental ex-

8 The text-books required arc mostly furnished without charge from the School Library. It is recommended, however, that the pupils should bring with them, for purposes of reference

studied

and comparison, the text-books which they have already

and they should especially be provided with a Bible, a Dictionary and a

;

recent Atlas.

The

price

which

commonly paid by the pupils

is

washing, or separate

who come

Pupils

and

fire

to the

lights,)

is,

at present,

for

board, (not including

alx)ut $3.50 per

week.

School daily in the steam cars, obtain season tickets

at one half of the usual rates.

For the assistance of those who would find even the moderate expenses of the School burdensome,

thousand term,

dollars.

among

Commonwealth makes an annual appropriation of a

the

One

half of this

amount

pupils from Massachusetts

distributed at the close of each

is

who may

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.

School

is

In this distribution, the

first

term of a pupil's connection

Avith the

not reckoned, unless she enters prepared to complete the prescribed course

of study in less than two years.

Aid

is

also rendered, in cases of special merit

and need, from the income of the

fund of Five Thousand Dollars, for which the School bequest of Nathaniel

I.

Bowditcu,

To School Committees.

If the

is

indebted to the munificent

Esq., of Brookline.

Chairmen of the School Committees of Massa-

chusetts will send to the Principal of this School copies of their School Reports,

he will esteem

it

a

(ircal

favor.

To

the few

ness to respond to a former similar request,

gentlemen who had the kindthe

Principal

hereby

oficrs

his

sincere thanks.

Salem, December, 1867.

ANNOUNCEMENT.窶年EXT TERM. The Next Term of the Statk Noiimai. at Salkm, Mass., will commence

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an examintition of candidatos for admission, on Thursday, Fi^bruary L'O, ISCiS. Tins Institution is open to Ladies not less than sixteen years of age, (without limit as to place of residence,) who may wish to ])ursue a Coarse of Study in direct prejjaration for the work of teaching in Common or High Schools. To all who iutead to teach in the witii

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Public Schools of Massachusetts, Tuition is Fi:kk. Text booksi are mov^tly furnisiicd from From the State tiie Library of llie Suliool.

Apjiiopiiation and oilier sources, more tlian $1400 is annually distributed to pupils who merit and need the aid.

For Circulars, or further information, address

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