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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
in 1735 it seems fair to assume that the school was an annual one previous to this time, for the old rate of a pound a month for three months that was paid to the first teacher would not seem a sufficient burden from which to ask the General Court to give relief. From this time on the vacations were few, occurring at irregular intervals and mostly between the resignation of one master and the installation of his successor. William Whitmore, appointed master in September, 1744, resigned January, 1747. There was a vacation from that time till Caleb Upham took the office the April following. A still longer interval occurred between his resignation in January, 1748, and the appointment of Samuel Angier in August of the same year; but for the most part a new master seems to have been ready to take up the burden immediately on the resignation of the other. That the school as first established was of a very elementary character is certain; that later it became of higher grade likewis