Counties and Towns Employing School Superintendents, etc. - Con.

2 Belongs to the school committee, or unites with supervising some other business or profession than teaching.

Teachers' institutes to the number of twenty-five were held during the year. They were distributed among the several counties as follows: four each to Middlesex, Plymouth and Worcester; two each to Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Hampden and Norfolk; one each to Essex, Hampshire and Nantucket.

The following table gives the names of the towns where institutes were held, the date of holding and the names of conductors, with items of statistics.

XX. Table showing the Location of Institutes for 1894, the Date of holding, the Number of Towns represented and Persons attending, with the Number of Exercises conducted.

The institutes were principally held during the autumn months, and continued for a single day with one evening meeting. The Northampton institute was held in the Laurel Park grove; it was of the nature of a summer school, with free instruction to the members. These numbered 306, and came from an extended range of towns, most of which, however, were within the Connecticut River valley.