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of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 1008+. 
VOLUME 1. NUMBER 42. 
SATURDAY, MAR. 4, 1905. 
PRIMARY SCHOOL BUILDING. 
The New Building Being Agitated in Man- 
chester Likely to be the Subject 
of Much Discussion at 
Town Meeting. 
No subject that will come before 
the Manchester voters at town meet- 
ing next week has promise of so much 
discussion as that of a new school 
building recommended by the School 
Committee and by the Superintendent 
in their annual reports. 
The articles in the Warrant which 
will introduce the matter are : 
‘ArT 14s «To sees they Lown 
will empower the School Committee 
to select a suitable lot of land fora 
school building, and to report at the 
adjourned meeting. 
“ Art.15. To see if the Town will 
purchase a lot of land for school pur- 
poses and erect thereon a school build- 
ing, and appropriate money for the 
same.” 
The committee in their report say: 
‘““The time has come when we are 
greatly in need of additional school 
accommodations. The G. A. Priest 
School building, in the four lower 
grades, is very much crowded, one 
room having fifcy-five scholars at the 
opening of the school in September. 
We need a Primary School building, 
and an article has been inserted in the 
warrant asking an appropriation for 
that purpose.” 
Superintendent Fish in his report 
says: 
‘“My recommendations and my ex- 
pectations for high grade work are 
based on the assumption that the town 
will soon select a suitable sight and 
build thereon a primary school build- 
ing. 
‘This should be a one-story build- 
ing of four rooms for grades 1, 2 and 3 
and a public kindergarten. It is not 
necessary to repeat the arguments in 
favor of a kindergarten, which have 
been well stated by my predecessors 
in office for many years. The primary 
grades ought to occupy a separate 
building having a large playground 
where the rules and regulations are 
adapted to such grades ” 
Whatever may be the feelings of 
the people of Manchester in the 
matter, it is evident from the expres- 
sions of the officials who are entrusted 
with school affairs that something 
ought to be done toward relieving the 
congested condition of the George A. 
Priest school and providing a place for 
the lower grades and give an oppor- 
tunity for a_ kindergarten school, 
something which has long been urged. 
Manchester has the name of hav- 
ing good schools, —far better than 
most towns of its size can boast of. 
And well it might, for the town can 
well afford to have good schools. This 
next step, as recommended, is but 
another step forward in the work of 
making the schools on a par with the 
best in the state, and merits the 
earnest deliberation of every Man- 
chester voter. 
Superintendent Fish 
Says Building is Needed. 
In an interview with the BREEZE 
man yesterday relative to the ques- 
tion at issue regarding a Primary 
School building in Manchester, Supt. 
of Schools Fish said : 
‘“‘ When we consider that less than 
one per cent. of the public school 
pupils ever go to the college or univer- 
sity, and hardly five per cent. attend 
the high school, we see the lack of 
wisdom of giving distinction to elem- 
entary education from the top down, 
so to speak. And yet the whole his- 
tory of elementary education shows 
that until very recent years that has 
been the case. 
“Within the last decade particu- 
larly not only professional educators, 
but thoughtful people generally have 
come to feel that in this industrial 
age a more rational system should be 
employed in the training of our young 
children. 
‘“What the wisest and best parent 
in the state wants for his child, the 
people of Manchester want for their 
children. 
‘‘T believe that the school is a place 
where the child should “ve and ex- 
press his activities, namely: Com- 
munication, investigation, construc- 
tive notions, artistic expression — art 
and music, for example. 
“The little desks geometrically ar- 
ranged, which we see crowded into 
most of our school rooms, suggest a 
little group of absorbers, listeners, 
and not a company of workers. 
‘‘Kducationally, therefore, in the 
primary school, when, as Horace 
Mann says, ‘Things are growing,’ 
‘one former is worth a thousand re- 
formers.’ 
“We need a building and grounds 
surrounding as suggested in the 
School Committee report, that the 
little lives may have the best oppor- 
tunity possible to secure the training 
for the social conditions and needs of 
the present day. 
“Prof. John Dewey of Chicago 
University, in speaking of the worth 
of the University Elementary school, 
says the every day work of the school 
shows that the children can /ve in 
school as out of it and yet grow daily 
in wisdom, kindness and the spirit: of 
obedience, that learning may, even 
with little children, lay hold upon the 
substance of truth that nourishes the 
spirit and yet the forms of knowledge 
be observed and cultivated, and that 
growth be genuine and thorough and 
yet a delight. 
“Coming more directly to Man- 
chester people, and arguing not from 
the educational standpoint, but from 
the requirements of law to provide 
proper seating room, something must 
be done in the near future.”’ 
Whisperings. 
I was somewhat amused in walking 
into the Beverly Farms station the 
other day, to see my good friend 
Rand with his coat collar turned up, 
his cap pulled down over his ears al- 
most, and his gloves nearby on the 
desk, and this in spite of the fact the 
temperature of the office was around 
70 degrees. 
He threw me a souvenir postal card 
when I asked him what the matter 
was, and I saw at once what was the 
cause of the cold shivers which I could 
almost feel myself after reading the 
postal. It was from Thomas Con- 
nolly, the well known contractor, who 
is spending a few weeks in California. 
Mr. Connolly extended greetings ona - 
beautiful souvenir postal dated Feb. 
20, and incidentally said it was 70 in 
the shade in California. 
‘“‘Tsn’t that enough to send the cold 
shivers up and down your back?” said 
Mr. Rand. It was about 15 above in 
the shade that day in Beverly Farms. 
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