INDEX. REPORTS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND OF ITS SECRETARY. (For Index of Town School Reports, see the following pages.) Abstracts of School Committees' Reports. (See Abstracts which follow the Report of the Secretary and the appendix to his Report.) Academies, normal and training classes in, 8. system in State of New York, 8. Agent of Board, Report of, 80; services of, 81. special agents of Board, 6; appropriation for, 34, 108; duties of, 108, 109. American Asylum at Hartford, Report of, 58. notice of late Principal of, 60. terms of admission to, 65. list of beneficiaries of Massachusetts in, 67; annual cost of supporting a pupil in, 77. Appropriations and expenditures. (See Report of Treasurer.) Bell, A. M, Prof., inventor of new method of instruction for deaf-mutes, 72. Board of Education, Report of, 5. Boston School for deaf-mutes, statement of Geo. F. Bigelow M. D., concerning, 70. system of "Visible Speech," invented by Prof. Bell, introduced into, 72. annual cost of supporting a pupil in, 77. Bridgewater Normal School, Report of Visitors of, 22; statistics of, 22. teachers in, 23; enlargement of building for, 24; prosperity of, 27. Clarke Institution for Deaf-Mutes, Report of, 40. Report of president of, 41; endowment and funds, etc., of, 41. Deaf-Mutes, Clarke Institution for, and Report, 39. new system of articulation for, 43, 49, 72. Act relating to, 77; annual cost of supporting pupils in institutions for, 77. Drawing, director of Art Education appointed to teach it, 6, 9. papers and tracts concerning, and results, 9. models, casts, etc., to illustrate, 9, 110. circulars, pamphlets, provisions for teaching etc., 110, 111. paper of Walter Smith on teaching it, 134. Education, technical, in schools, 11, 14; importance of, 12, 13. Framingham Normal School, boarding-house for, 6. report of visitors of, 15; statistics of, 15. teachers and lecturers in, 16. addition to building for, and expenditures, 36. insurance of, 36. appropriation and expenditures for, 32. Half-mill School Fund, 117. Hartford Asylum for Deaf-Mutes. (See American Asylum, etc.) number, benefits and principals, etc., of, 88. Institutes for Teachers. (See Teachers' Institutes.) Normal Schools, buildings and boarding-houses for, 6, 103. establishment of school at Worcester, 7. increase in number of, proposed, 7. teachers trained in, too few, 7. appropriations for and expenditures, 32; State aid to pupils of, 33. success of, and buildings with appropriations for, 99. new Normal School at Worcester and Resolves respecting, 100, 101. Phipps, Abner J., Report of, as General Agent of the Board, 80. Report of General Agent of the Board, 80. Report of Board of Education, 5. Report of Secretary of the Board, 94. Reports of School Committees. (See Abstracts.) Report of Treasurer of the Board, 31. Report of Visitors of Normal Schools, at,- Framingham, 15. Westfield, 18. Bridgewater, 22. Salem, 28. Report of President of Clarke Institution for Deaf-Mutes, 41. Report of Committee of Clarke Institution, 47. Report of American Asylum for Deaf-Mutes, 58. Report of Boston School for Deaf-Mutes, 70. Salem Normal School, Report of Visitors of, 28; statistics of, 28. building for, enlarged, 6, 30; appropriation for enlargement of, 34. School Fund, amount, income and appropriation of, 9. deficiency of, 11; State Tax to increase it, 11. annual report of eommissioners of, 112. amount and investment of, 113. origin and history of, 115. demands upon, 116. half-mill tax for, 117. School Supervision, 5, 106. women elected for, 107. list of towns employing superintendents for, 107. common school studies in, 90. supervision of, 106. superintendents for, 106. women elected as supervisors of, and reasons for it, 107. Secretary of Board of Education, Report of, 94. Smith, Walter, appointed director of Art Education, 6, 9. services of, 9; appointment, qualifications, salary of, as State Director of Art Educa- paper of, on teaching drawing, 134. Special Agents, 6, 34, 108 et seq. State Tax, suggested, 11; half-mill, 117; (see Tax, half-mill). Statistics of Public Schools, for school-year 1870-71, summary of, 94. State Aid, appropriations for, 33. Stone, Collins, Rev., notice of, 60, 62, 97. Supervision of Public Schools, 5. Tables, graduated, of statistics. (See Appendix.) showing valuations of '71 and '65, increase, number of persons between 5 and 15, etc. 119 et seq. Tax, half-mill, amount of, on valuation of 1871, etc., 125 et seq. objections to, considered, 126. tables concerning, 119 et seq.; example of other States concerning State tax, 130. supply of, by normal instruction in Academies and High Schools, 8. Teachers' Institutes, number and length of, 81, 97. attendance, and when and where held, etc., 81, 97. expenditures for, 34. teaching exercises, lectures and lecturers in, 83. Technical Education, Resolve concerning, 11. importance of, 12, 13. Thompson, C. O., 112. Todd, Henry, fund of, income and expenditure of, 34. Town Reports. (See Abstracts which follow the Report of the Secretary.) Treasurer's Report, 31. Westfield Normal School, Report of Visitors of, 18; teachers and lecturers in, 18. White, Joseph, Report of, as Treasurer of the Board, 31. Report of, as Secretary of the Board, 94. circular of, relating to Industrial Drawing, 148. Worcester County Institute, 12. Worcester Normal School, Resolves respecting establishment of, 101. grounds, plans and materials for, 102. TOPICS IN THE ABSTRACTS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES' REPORTS. Absenteeism, 3, 4, 12, 26, 30, 45, 72, 127, 128, 161, 168, 198. Apparatus, 3, 22, 102, 252, 258. Arithmetic, 221, 251. Attendance, 3, 7, 10, 12, 16, 22, 26, 29, 30, 33, 34, 45, 72, 82, 88, 103, 131, 134, 137, 162, 202, compulsory, 3, 7, 35, 73, 124, 127, 161, 181, 197, 199, 212, 225, 283, 285. Boston, schools of, 231; Primary Schools of, 236; Evening Schools of, 237, 247. Superintendent of, 238; truancy in, 243; Latin School of, 246; drawing in, 249. Children employed in manufacturing establishments, 170, 284. Common School System, 18. progress of, 19, 20, 46, 102, 108, 199, 276. Composition, 230, 231. Coöperation of parents, 9, 12, 16, 63, 82, 100, 125, 139, 140, 230, 251. Deaf-Mutes' School, 248. Discipline and government, 80, 92, 116, 135, 142, 181, 222, 276. Dismission of scholars, 113. District System, refusal to return to, 23, 99. return to, and evils of, 63, 103, 105, 109, 131. Drawing, teachers of, 8, 14, 83, 114, 129, 136, 220. requirement and importance of, 16, 18, 36, 43, 49, 69, 76, 77, 78, 87, 91, 113, 121, 128, school, mechanical and industrial, 278. Education, object of, 13, 164. importance of, 18, 21, 48, 50, 184, 199, 262. Evening Schools, 14, 42, 68, 77, 78, 83, 122, 136, 148, 151, 168, 196, 206, 237, 247. Factory Schools, 44, 88, 122, 171. Geography, 130, 164, 174, 216. Graded course, 29, 62, 86, 103, 108, 118, 179, 229, 244, 263. Grammar, 79, 112, 155, 230, 232, 252. Grammar Schools, 9, 40, 67, 174, 178, 263. Latin in, 95. High Schools, 20, 21, 26, 28, 74, 169, 175, 239, 255. course of study in, 27, 41, 60, 91, 137, 169, 178, 192, 232, 245, 255. lectures in, 86. History, study of, 186, 217. Hoar, E. F., Hon., testimony of, in favor of general education, 184, 223. Industrial Education, 36, 43, 47, 128, 146, 225. Kindergarten Schools, 245. Libraries, 65, 218. Licensed minors, 248. Morals and Manners, 36, 141, 163, 267. Moral and Religious Instruction, 251. |