Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester, Together with Other Annual Reports and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the City (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...number of scholars in that school of the grade of grammar scholars was far too small to warrant its continuance under its present organization as a grammar school. It had scholars enough for some organization, but what precisely should be done, the committee thought could be better told at the commencement of the next year. The committee have no hesitation in saying that ample provision should be made, and no doubt will be made, for all of those scholars who desire to attend the public schools, in the locality and grade to which they belong. Most of the schools of the city have done exceedingly well for the past year. They have made good progress, their standard has been high, and their methods improved and excellent. Both teachers and scholars have labored with the committee to make them places of the best instruction and greatest improvement--a grace and ornament to our city. But while speaking thus favorably of most of the schools, the committee feel that the High school is deserving of especial notice, and that.it will be regarded as no disparagement to any other school that it is so mentioned. Perhaps it deserves a particular notice the more, because that heretofore it has not always been what it was desirable it should be. But during this past year it has made fine progress. There has been among its pupils a marked desire to excel, and a thoroughness of scholarship, a propriety of conduct, an elevation of aim and attainment, and about the whole school, such evidence of progress and such an atmosphere of culture, as made it delightful both to visit and to teach. It graduated this year twenty-two pupils. It should graduate more, many more, and it is to be hoped that the time will soon come when its annual classes shall number scores, and even hundreds. ...