Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of DedhamThe Committee, 1899 - Public schools |
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9th Grade Ames School AMES SCHOOLHOUSE Assistant attendance Avery building Avery School BABCOCK beautiful Boston boys Building Committee C. E. Lewis Chairman CHAIRMAN,-Ladies and Gentlemen citizens Commonwealth course of study dedication Dexter School drawing elected Endicott School English erected Fisher Ames Florence FREDERICK FREDERICK D free public school girls graduate hall High School HILL Hine History HODGDON honor hundred increase interest January John JULIUS H June June 23 Keelan Kindergarten KINGSBURY Latin Mabel G MANSFIELD manual training Marion Mary Massachusetts McManus Miss ninth grade Normal School number of children number of pupils Oakdale School Principal PUBLIC LIBRARY Quincy School repairing resigned Riverdale School salaries SAMUEL W scholars School books school building School Committee School Fund September sewing Slafter sloyd Story sundries Superintendent of Schools teachers teaching tion to-day Total per week TOWN OF DEDHAM TUTTLE vacancy William Newberry
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Page 16 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 3 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 70 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 20 - Else why so swell the thoughts at your Aspect above ? Ye must be Heavens that make us sure Of heavenly love ! And in your harmony sublime ' I 'read the doom of distant time ; That man's regenerate soul from crime Shall yet be drawn, And reason on his mortal clime Immortal dawn.
Page 17 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 8 - The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have had one year's systematic training, with three lessons a week, or its equivalent.
Page 17 - If we think of it, all that a University, or final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first School began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences ; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves ! It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for...
Page 20 - ... read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, or is exempted by law from such attendance.
Page 20 - WHAT'S hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker meant not should be trod By man, the image of his God, Erect and free, Unscourged by Superstition's rod To bow the knee?
Page 53 - REGISTER. One could go on indefinitely with droll quotations. In 1803 he speaks of President Jefferson's message, "lam edified as much as if I had heard a Methodist sermon in a barn. The men who have the best principles and those who act from the worst will talk alike, only that the latter will exceed the former in fervor . . . Suppose a missionary should go to the Indians and recommend self denial and the ten commandments, and another should exhort them to drink rum : Which would first convert the...