Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-03

| N'ilANg SA-N hldiO anu SthGutJ
seven female teachers, classified as follows :
Classical aud English High School, 6 teachers.
Eleven Grammar Schools. IA
| Twelve Secondary Schools, Is
Nine Primary Schools, Is
Fifteen sub-Primary Schools. 10
| One rruant School (ungrsdedl
One Eyeng school (rorboth sexes)
| Twelve Suburban Schools, IA
The supply of teachers is largely above the
demand. The number annually graduated
from our own high schools and the state nor
NAL school is greatly augmented by the return
| of many whom the rebellion has sent home
from the south, and whom the war has de.
prived of their accustomed occupation at the
west. The tide which has for twenty 1--WE
years set strongly from New England now
| flows back to us. That Worcester NAV edu-
cate her own teachers and encourage the
daughters of her own citizens to prepare to
excel in this profession, the committee have
prescribed normal course of instruction in
the high school, and in the selection ofteach-
ers they uniformly prefer one educated in
our own schools and livi g in the city to any
equal competitor from abroad.
There are twenty-five public school build
ings-thirteen central, twelve suburban.
supplied with seats for 1865 scholars. The
superintendent urges the necessity of new
school house, of the size and style of the one
on Salem street. to be located Il little east and
north of the hospital, to meet the pressing
| wants Of that neighborhood. Also house
half as large with two school rooms, in Pleas
antville, for the education of the smaller chill
| dren who can not now reach any school house
in existence. The small and ill-ventilated
rooms in Sycamore street have been greatly
renovated and improved, under the direction
| OF 5. ID. Harding, Esq, chairman of the COM
mittee on school houses. Six of the eight
rooms have been enlarged, an improved sys-
tenn Of ventilation adopted, stoves substituted
for furnaces. dormer windows placed in the
attic, and hall prepared for physical exer-
cises, at a cost considerably less than the ap-
preparation. The house is now one of the
best appointed for school purposes in the city
The whole number of children who received
| instruction during part or the whole of the
year 1862 was 5772, of whom $50 were over
fifteen, and 354 under five years ofage. The
average whole number belonging to the
schools during the year, for whom seats were
constantly appropriated, was 4l9S. The
twenty houses owned by the city are fur
nished with AVG seats; centre district, 35l9
suburban, 657. The suburban schools had an
average of 1914 seats unoccupied, while the
center had PIG scholars unprovided for, ex-
cept by the leasing of the Temple street
house, which gave only partial and temporary
relief The average daily attendance was, in
the center district 3174, suburban district 1914
the ratio of average attendance to the aver
age number belonging to the schools was
eighty-seven and third per cent. The SUI
perintendcnt publishes a full ''roll of honor
comprising the names of all scholars who have
not been absent, tardy, or dismissed during
| the entire year, or during a period of six
months. Of the former there are 92 of the
latter 800.
The department has been credited during
the year with the following sums =
City appropriation. 36,O50 CO
state Ind. ''...''..-............ Si3 II
snS,Je annronro,ions Is ~
| TOtal............ ...........S3S .39I IL
The department has expended as follows -
For ordinary current expenses. 5sl II
| Changes i'll the Sycamore street school
| house. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SSS "a
Temple street house. Observation-Disclosures. 325 w
| .S35, 195 Of
leaving an uneXpended balance in the treasu-
ry of 81, 500 TO- In 1861 there was left in the
treasury an unexpended balance of 81 ,IS4 %;
in 1860 balance of 1858 80. Previous to
that year the balance was invariably on the
other side. The cost per scholar for the
year was SO SO. The average annual cost
per scholar for the four years, lS56-7-S-9,
was $ll 35; for the three years, 1S6O-l-2, it
was 50 SO.
Till this year physical training formed a
part of the daily exercises ii but very few
schools in this city. Now the schools are ex-
ceptional where it does not constitute a part
of every days duties. The principal of the
| Sycamore street grammar school, Mr.. A. A.
| Hunt, whose enthusiasm is the inspiration of
his scholars, began this as he begins every
| "Oih, ny ulst peCOilliiIS lHtcTtsIeu III IL him.
self, and then leading his scholars into the
love Of it. The public exhibition of his school
in Mechanics Hall, last October, demonstrat
cd the practicability of combining in our pub
lie schools, the education of the brain and of
the muscles-the development of the mind
and of the body. Great credit is due to near
ly all the teachers in the city for the alacrity
with which they have sought to become famil-
lar with the subject, and with the best methods
of making it useful in the schools.
Instruction in vocal music is under the
charge of Mr.. Amos Whiting and Mrs. VIM.
Sumner. The experiment has not yet been
tried long enough-only three months-to
warrant the expressions of confident and
final judgment upon its success. The annual
examinationin the spring will afford a faVora-
ole opportunity to test the value of the exper-
lnent' and determine whether the develop |
nent and culture OF the musical taste and tai
ents OIL the young NAV he safely coro,n;ttad n,