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Miss Elma Ball [now Mrs. H. I. Stuart of Pasadena] was teacher at Color- 

 ado street, and Miss Hannah Ball [now Mrs. F. R. Harris of Pasadena] at 

 the Monks Hill school. These two houses were designed and built by 

 Ridgway & Ripley, and were first occupied in January, 1885, after the holi- 

 day vacation, the schools having been opened a few months previously in 

 temporary rooms. 



All through this year, and for two years following, the teachers were 

 embarrassed with difficulties of a peculiar nature ; for in addition to the rapid 

 increase of population, there was a large contingent of winter visitor pupils. 

 And the new-comers, both permanent and transient, were of all sorts and 

 grades, from all sorts of schools — ranging in quality from the poorest of re- 

 mote country districts in the mountains or in the South, up to the highest 

 type of graded schools in the great eastern cities ; and thus it was extremely 



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WASHINGTON SCHOOL. 

 Architecture, American. Erected i88S. Cost $25,000; 9 rooms; 450 seats. 



hard to grade them satisfactorily to pupils or parents. Also, the rooms 

 were overcrowded, the teachers overworked, the apparatus and supplies, 

 such as globes, wall-maps, blackboards, reference books, charts, etc., greatly 

 short of what were daily needed. Such were some of the difficulties 

 which E. T. Pierce had to struggle with continually during the last three 

 years of his arduous administration ; yet he laid the foundations good and 

 firm for better things in after years, the credit of which has often been mis- 

 takenly given to others. In May^ 1884, he published a statement showing 



