present number 255, attended by 30,540 pupils, a gain during the year of 1,958, or 6.5 per cent.

The amount of money raised by taxation for all school purposes is $9,778,644.81.

Twenty-five teachers' institutes were held during the year, attended by 4,640 teachers, superintendents of schools and members of school boards.

THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE BOARD.

Mr. Frank A. Hill, of Cambridge, was elected secretary of this Board at its regular meeting, in February last, to succeed Hon. John W. Dickinson, who resigned his office Dec. 31, 1893.

Mr. Hill entered upon his duties the following May, and he has not, therefore, yet had a full year's service in his new field of labor. He has begun his work with alacrity, and is devoting himself with fidelity to meeting the demands his new position makes upon him. He is a man of good scholarship and attainments, a diligent student of school affairs, has been a successful teacher and school administrator, is progressive, keeps himself abreast of educational advancement, and possesses the ability in a high degree to adapt himself to his circumstances.

The Board and the public will, we believe, extend to Mr. Hill their hearty support and co-operation in the arduous and responsible work upon which he has entered.

From the retirement of Mr. Dickinson, Jan. 1, 1894, to May 1, when Mr. Hill entered upon his duties, the secretary's work was most acceptably directed and performed by Mr. C. B. Tillinghast, the efficient clerk of the Board.

A. P. STONE,
for the Board.

IN BOARD OF EDUCATION, Dec. 6, 1894.

Approved and adopted as the report of the Board.

ELIJAH B. STODDARD, Chairman pro tem.
C. B. TILLINGHAST, Clerk.

REPORTS OF VISITORS

OF THE

NORMAL SCHOOLS.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGEWATER.

ALBERT G. BOYDEN, PRINCIPAL.

INSTRUCTORS.

ALBERT GARDNER BOYDEN, A.M., Educational Study of Man, including the Study of the Body, the Mind, Science and Art of Teaching, School Organization, School Government, School Laws of Massachusetts and History of Education; FRANZ HEINRICH KIRMAYER, Latin, Greek, French, German; ARTHUR CLARKE BOYDEN, A.M., Natural Science, History and Civil Polity; WILLIAM DUNHAM JACKSON, Physical Science, Mathematics, English Literature; FRANK FULLER MURDOCK, Geography, Physiology and Hygiene, Physical Training; HARLAN PAGE SHAW, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Industrial Laboratory; FRANK ELLIS GURNEY, Classics, Astronomy; ISABELLA SARA HORNE, Vocal Culture and Reading; CLARA COFFIN PRINCE, Vocal Music, Algebra, Geometry; FANNIE AMANDA COMSTOCK, Arithmetic, Rhetoric, Botany; EMMA CURTIS FISHER, Elementary English, Grammar, Geometry; ELIZABETH HELEN PERRY, Drawing; BESSIE LOUISE BARNES, Assistant Instructor in Physical Training; Model School, LILLIAN ANDERSON HICKS, Principal, MARTHA WILLIAMS ALDEN, FLORA MAY STUART, ABBIE STEVENS BEALS, MARY FAIRBANKS BOSWORTH, EMMA MABELLE MAGUIRE, HARRIETT MANLEY BEALE; Kindergarten, ANNE MORGAN WElls.

The statistics for the fifty-fourth school year, ending Aug. 31, 1894, are as follows:

The whole number of students who have been members of the school is 3,995,-1,173 men, 2,822 women.

The number who have received certificates or diplomas is 2,489, – 751 men, 1,738 women; of whom 192 have graduated from the four years' course, 104 men, 88 women.

Of the 242 members of the school for this year, Plymouth County sent 69; Norfolk, 33; Bristol, 25; Middlesex, 19; Essex, 18; Worcester, 12; Barnstable, 9; Suffolk, 7; Nantucket, 5; Hampshire, 3; Berkshire and Franklin, 2 each; the State of Maine, 13; New Hampshire, 12; Vermont, 2; Illinois, 1; Michigan, 1; New York, 1; Rhode Island, 1; South Carolina, 1; Jamaica, W. I., 3; Nova Scotia, 2; New Brunswick, 1. Total from Massachusetts, 12 counties and 95 towns, 204; other States and countries, 38.

The number of students during the year pursuing the special course has been 15, of whom 3 were college graduates; the four years' course, 73, 26 men, 47 women; the number in the intermediate course, 13; in the two years' course, 141.

The distribution of the students the first term was as follows: special course, 13; four years' course, 71; intermediate course, 12; two years' course, senior class, 14; sub-senior class, 32; ex-junior class, 21; junior class, 54; model school, 4. The distribution during the second term: special course, 12; four years' course, 66; intermediate course, 12; two years' course, senior class, 37; subsenior class, 18; ex-junior class, 46; junior class, 13; model school, 4.

The average age of those admitted during the year was 19 years, 9 months; of the men, 19 years, 7 months; of the women, 19 years, 9 months.

Of the 88 admitted, 6 came from college, 2 from normal schools, 67 from high schools (55 graduates, 12 undergraduates), 2 from grammar schools, 11 from academies and private schools; of these 33 had taught.

The occupations of the fathers of those admitted were given as follows: farmers, 25; mechanics, 16; merchants and traders, 7; superintendents and foremen, 4; professional, 4; bookkeepers and clerks, 3; laborers, 3; seamen, 3; manufacturers, 2; miscellaneous, 14; not given, 7.

Of the 88 pupils admitted during the year, Brockton sent 6; Taunton, 5; Bridgewater, 3; Cambridge, Cotuit, Fairhaven, Harwich, Maynard, Nantucket, Plymouth, Randolph and Rockport, 2 each; Abington, Boston, Bourne, Boxford, Bradford, Braintree, Burlington, Danvers, Dartmouth, Dighton, Easton, Everett, Fall River, Gloucester, Goshen, Greenfield, Hanover, Holbrook, Hyde Park, Manchester, Mansfield, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Medford, Middleborough, Milford, Milton, Natick, Needham, North Adams, North Andover, Provincetown, Quincy, Scituate, Stoneham, Tewks