Nature studies, elementary course in, Easy nature work, good centre for little children to start from, New England Association of Superintendents in favor of local training schools for teachers, Norfolk County, report of agent on work in, Normal Art School, State, Boston, visitors' report of, Aims of, Appropriation for, Established for, Instructors, with branches of study in, Manual training introduced through shop work, more direct, Principal of, George H. Bartlett, . Reunion of past pupils of, Richards, William R., address of, and invitation to visit Public Library, Scope of school, an abridged outline of each member of faculty, showing, Teaching, more direct normal, obligatory upon instructors, Normal pupils, appropriation for aid to, Normal schools, accommodations of, Admission to, requirements for, advanced, An act to establish additional, Advantage of new normal schools over old, Building committee appointed, and selection of building sites, Apprenticeship system, advantages of, Appropriations and expenditures for support of, Attendance, effect of the local training school on, Attending, persons debarred from, by want of ready means, Compensation for teachers in Salem Normal School should be increased, Demand for skilled teaching, Demand for graduates of, exceed supply, Established as an experiment at, 181 30 474 11 10 474 Graduates of, employed in ten years, 79 Gymnastics, instruction in the theory of, 34 High school education, or equivalent, required for admission to, 10 Kindergarten, excellent work of, 24 Manual training, act of 1894 making, compulsory, will call for systematic in- Pierce, Mrs. Harriet, benefaction of, to be applied to fitting teachers in need 180 Students, insufficient preparation of, embarrassed in work by, Normal, the word a stranger to Massachusetts vernacular in 1844, 38-41 . 475, 476 North Adams, new state normal school to be established at, PAGE .9, 439 97 464 223 Northend, Charles, represented Essex County at Worcester Convention in 1844, School committee and teacher shall state in writing, upon application of, reason for exclusion of child, . Reformed, child may be discharged from institution, to, Parochial schools affecting expenditure and attendance of child on public schools, 441, 442 445 465 78 481, 482 Patriotism should be taught in the schools, 427 Peirce, Cyrus, remarks on, and comparison with Benjamin Greenleaf, For non-payment of tuition by towns not required to maintain high schools, . Upon corporation or employer retaining schooling certificate, Upon parents and factory owners for employment of children contrary to law, Extract from report of trustees in reference to library, Education of the three deaf and blind children under care of, Music, department of, well equipped, . Publications of, furnished to public libraries of other cities, Statistics of sixty-third annual report of, Stringer, Tommy, progress of, Thomas, Edith M., progress of, . Pierce, Mrs. Harriet L., number of persons who have received aid from benefac- tion of, Form of note required to be signed by beneficiary, Funds of, to be applied to fitting teachers in need of aid, Plymouth County, report of agent on work in, Plates illustrating industrial drawing, Plates illustrating sloyd models, Population of towns, abstract of statistics, Ratio of, having access to high schools, 117 367-375 139, 140, 238 180 180 180 247-263 376-391 414-416 i-lxxiv 69 Abstract of school committees' returns for, Appropriations and expenditures for ten years, table showing, Atlas map of Massachusetts, resolve to provide for distribution of, Manual training to be taught in, 17, ii-lxxiv 437 Religious element, prominent feature of contest, seventh annual report, Reformatory institutions at Lancaster, Monson and Westborough, Report of Committee of Ten. See Committee. Returns of school committees, abstract of. See Statistics. Rules and regulations for school management, by Richard Mather, remarks on, 151 Attendance, figures from records of, showing effect of local training school 129 Chairman and secretary of, to employ superintendent in case of union of Of towns comprising a union, to form a joint committee, Private school instruction, quality of, to be ascertained by, Report to Board of Education whether towns have complied with truant laws, Consolidating the smaller and feebler schools, plan of, recommended, 434 440 444 438, 439 443 443 441 76 438 54 51-53 16, 17 17 74 High. See High schools. Normal. See Normal Schools. Patriotism should be taught in, Private. See Private schools. Statistics of progress, 427 17, 18 71, iv-lxxv 484 18 434 479 Report of, Acknowledgment of obligations to persons for aid in preparation of, chusetts Teachers' Association, PAGE Seventh annual report, controversy between school masters and secretary over, 473, 474 American Asylum at Hartford, Conn., 464 . 14, 15 436 461-490 Blind, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for, at South Boston, 115-119 Speech and lip reading taught in American Asylum for Deaf,. 105-107 107-111 125 119-125 111-115 106, 107 326-329 State examination and certification of teachers. See Teachers. Third: (a) amount raised by taxes; (b) supervision by school committee, Percentage of taxable property appropriated for the public schools, CX Graduated tables, third series, attendance, towns' rank in State, Institutions, reformatory, at Lancaster, Monson and Westborough, . lxxix . 51-54 |