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HISTORY OF COM ASSET, 



Festus Litchfield. 

 Enos Bates. 

 Joseph Hayden. 



Allen Hall. 

 Phineas Bates. 

 Peter Pratt. 



Lot Stodder. 

 Thomas Lothrop. 

 Hannah James. 



ADDITIONS FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 

 25, 1805, TO MAY 20, 1805. 



Amasy Bayley. Bela Bates. Abigail Otis. 



Caleb Bayley. Nabby Woodward. Betsey Lewis. 



John Beal. Maria Doane. Susannah Lewis. 



In the third quarter tuition increased to thirty cents and 

 forty cents per week ; thirty cents per week if taught by 

 preceptress, 40 cents per week if taught by preceptor. 



Photo, Octavius n. Reamy. 



Winter Scene from Sunset Rock. 



But the Cohasset academy was unable to get firmly 

 established. There were not enough people who would 

 afford to pay the necessary cost of this private or semi- 

 public tuition. Those who had put money into the enter- 

 prise had grown tired of it at about the time of the War of 

 1812. They were not willing to add to the outlay by 

 hiring teachers to carry on the school. An attempt was 

 made to sell the building, but it could not be sold. 



Then began its career as a sort of town hall. The 

 upper room had been already the place for many public 



