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the hall, and beside it was the account 
in the BREEzE of several weeks ago 
showing the proficiency of the drill in 
the Priest school, and how the building 
was emptied of its 325 pupils in 47 
seconds. 
Beside this was a card showing the 
number of browntail moths collected 
this fall by the children of the various 
grades as follows: Grade 1, 48 ; 2, 267 ; 
3, 1050; 4, 3186; 5, 1568; 6, 2121; 7, 
4729 ; 8, 4913. John Spinney leads 
with 1680. 
The work was tastily arranged, for 
the most part on large cards suspended 
from wires which ran around the entire 
room, while tables set about the room 
contained much more of the work that 
could not be pasted on cards. 
On the left of the stage, as one en- 
tered the hall, was displayed the work 
of Grade 1, Miss Etta Woodbury, 
teacher, Miss Alice Sanborn assistant. 
It is in this grade the little tots re- 
ceive their start, and where the rudi- 
mentary ideas of education are set 
forth. The crude, though matchless, 
work of the little ones displayed, spoke 
most emphatically of this. In this 
grade the color work is what appeals 
to the children mostly, and so they are 
given peg boards and _ beads, which 
they arrange according to colors. And 
then the drawings in color — grasses 
in September, fruits in October, and 
vegetables in November—speak most 
emphatically of the advance made in 
this line. During the past year the 
new system of reading has been taken 
up, the comprehensive method by Mrs. 
Gordon, and the results of this could 
easily be seen from the work displayed. 
The work of Grade 2, Miss Nellie 
Leonard, teacher, was displayed on 
the right of the entrance. Here the 
advance made by the little ones over 
the first year could readily be seen. 
The number work is, perhaps, the 
most conspicuous, for it is at this stage 
arithmetic is firstintroduced. At first 
it is merely a combination of numbers, 
and then problems in simple addition. 
There were some pretty objects for 
‘Christmas made by the children dis- 
played here—pretty calendars with 
novel designs, and Christmas cards in 
‘court-plaster cases, etc., while needle 
books made by the girls made a very 
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pretty effect. This grade is the only 
one where the sewing cards are taken 
up. The children are given a design to 
follow with needle and worsted, and 
the crude looking stitches are in some 
cases most amusing, though exceeding- 
ly good for so young children. The 
work of drawing is especially notice- 
able, that of Marshall Winchester and 
Donald Height being best. 
Grade 3, of which Miss Carolyn E. 
Allen is teacher, was next in order. 
Like the preceding grade it showed a 
marked advance over the grade below. 
The work begins to assume more of 
the cultured touches, if such it can be 
termed. The writing grows better, 
the spelling more accurate and the 
number work more perplexed for the 
tots. What caught the eyes of most 
everybody was the large calendar 
sheet which had been made by the 
children, where the dates had been 
sketched on paper, cut up and pasted 
on the large sheet, and the rough out- 
line of some scene filled in with colors 
by them. The Indian pottery made 
by the children in their study of Hia- 
watha was another feature, while the 
Raffia work, embossed leather pen 
wipers, snow crystals, attracted much 
attention. 
Across the hall was displayed the 
work of Grade 4, Miss Lila Goldsmith, 
teacher. Here the fine work of the 
young boys and girls in drawing, writ- 
ing, composition and spelling was dis- 
played in abundance. One sheet was 
filled with the individual work of the 
pupilsin writing music. Another with 
spelling lessons, another with arithme- 
tic and another with drawings. On 
the table were books with nature study 
work, compositions, etc. One com- 
position we print forexample. It was 
written by Albert James and was ad- 
dressed to Supt. Fish. 
MANCHESTER, MASss., Dec. 12. 
Dear Mr. FIsH: 
Saturday I had to feed my hens and bring 
up wood and coal. And after I had done 
that I had to eat my breakfast and then mind 
the baby till ten-o-clock. And after that I 
went’ down skating and stiad till twelve- 
o-clock and then I went home to diner. 
And in the afternoon I went down to the 
chanel agian. By the time I went home it 
was six-o-clock. And after supper I went 
down again. You couldn’t see the skate. 
You couldn’t see anything it was so dark. 
Yours truly, 
ALBERT JAMES. 
Next table to this was Grade 5, 
Miss Ina Eldredge, teacher. Some 
very interesting work was displayed 
here, but most noticeable of all, to say 
nothing of the fine display of writing, 
spelling, number work, etc., was the 
Raffia work done by the boys while 
the girls are at their sewing. The 
feature of the display was a basket 
made by Eric Ericson, which was of 
an excellent design, with foundation 
of reed, sewed with Raffia. This at- 
tracted lots or attention. There were 
also here some very pretty calendars, 
those of Helen Wing, Rufus Long, 
Sidney Tappan and Marion Spinney 
being particularly well gotten up. 
Grade 6 of which Miss Avis 
Antill is teacher, was next in order. 
It is in this grade the children begin 
to get into harder work and it is quite 
interesting to note the strides made 
from the grades preceding. One of 
the features of display were the maps 
of the New England states drawn from 
memory in color. While all were good, 
those of Willie Mahan and Roland 
Knight were exceptionally fine and 
nearest perfect. In glancing over the 
composition, spelling, writing and 
number work, all of which were well 
done by the children, the work of 
Mary Perry was of especial interest, 
as a mark degree of perfection was 
noted in all her work. The nature 
work books were well gotten up. 
In passing on, Grade 7 was next in 
order, Miss Annie Clark, teacher, and 
as in all the other grades, big advances 
were noticed over the others. The 
crudeness is fast disappearing and the 
more difficult work is taken up. Some 
very interesting composition work was 
displayed, prominent among which 
was a card containing a dozen or more 
fables with original morals, the fable 
being that of “‘The Farmer and the 
Stork.”” The analytic work and origi- 
nal language work were other features. 
A colored map of South America by 
Everett Robbins attracted considerabe 
attention. All the work displayed 
was exceptionally neat. 
The work of Grade 8, of which 
Principal Albert Mead is teacher, was 
displayed in front of the stage curtain, 
and as might well be expected it 
showed wonderful progress over the 
display of Grade1 besideit. Yet one 
could scarcely think eight years could 
make such a difference in such young 
people. The crude lettering of Grade 
1 had grown into smooth, easily dis- 
cernable writing, elementary Algebra 
and more difficult studies in all the 
branches had been taken up; geo- 
graphy, history,language, composition, 
all had advanced most encouragingly. 
In the front of the hall, too, was dis- 
played the work in Sloyd, which is 
taken up by the boys of grades 7, 8, 9. 
This is also taught by Mr. Mead. 
This display attracted attention more 
than anything else. Scores of useful 
articles made not from other models, 
but from working drawings, were dis- 
played. There were rolling pins, ping 
pong sets, writing sets, blocking pads, 
book racks, picture frames, sleds, and 
scores of other things. The pyro- 
graphy work was-particularly attract- 
ive. This has recently been taken up. 
Among the features were a weather 
