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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., A Medford teacher. (search)
A Medford teacher. Ellen M. Barr. About half-way between Mt. Monadnock, N. H., and Mt. Wachusett, Masas not been thereby foiled of its reward. Miss Ellen M. Barr, the youngest of Dr. Barr's children. came tDr. Barr's children. came to Medford a young girl, attended our high school under Mr. Cummings, and later gave to its teaching force a paport for 1875-6 may be found this comment:— Miss E. M. Barr's return to her place in the school was greetedthe summer term, to accept the resignation of Miss Ellen M. Barr, she having a call to a higher and more lucrar own daughter and a few of their friends, invited Miss Barr to take charge of it. After two or three years in this school Miss Barr decided to open a school of her own. For this purpose she built a house in Marlborough stew Ipswich, referring to this effort says:— Miss E. M. Barr's school for girls in Boston for ten years was gratitude and love, I place it to the memory of Ellen M. Barr; a woman who inspired love of duty as few can in
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., History of the Medford High School. (search)
y 18, 1860. Miss Arabella L. Babcock, from February 18, 1860, to September 1, 1861. Miss Emma J. Leonard, from September 1, 1861, to March 5, 1866. Miss Ellen M. Barr, from March 5, 1866, to July 1, 1875, and from September 1, 1876, to July 1, 1877. Edward A. Drew (Tufts, 1867), from December 2, 1867, to June 1, 1869. s for admission, no class was received. Six of the assistants were once members of the school; namely, Miss Sparrell, Miss Gregg, Miss Wellington, Mr. Redman, Miss Barr, and Miss Teele. It will not be deemed invidious if allusion be made to the subsequent history of some of these assistants. Miss Wellington married Mr. Darile in Medford she assisted Professor Bocher in the preparation of a French grammar, and shortly before her death published a treatise upon Political Economy. Miss Barr first took charge of an endowed school in South Boston, then became manager of a private school for girls in the city proper, and finally opened a school on her
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
ere at the time of Mr. Dame's entrance upon his duties some nine school buildings of twenty-three rooms in the town. The whole number of pupils in attendance was one thousand two hundred and fifty, an average of forty-four regular attendants for each of the rooms. In the high school there were eighty-seven students, and sixteen in the graduating class, among them being the well-known names of Helen Tilden Wild and William Cushing Wait. There were two assistants, Mr. E. P. Sanborn and Miss E. M. Barr. The year following, Mr. L. J. Manning took the place of Mr. Sanborn and the school report records, Mr. Manning is a graduate of Harvard University; and to sound scholarship and an unusual aptitude for the duties of an instructor he adds the graces of a fine temper and kindly manners. No better summary perhaps could be made of Mr. Manning's influence in the school than the early judgment of this sagacious committee, and they struck the keynote almost as well with another teacher dearl