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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The public schools of Cambridge. (search)
to 1861, was the Otis,—the school which, from 1843 to 1847, was known as the High and Grammar School of East Cambridge; or like the Washington, whose history, as we have seen, makes it difficult to assign a satisfactory date for its founding. The Morse and Wellington schools have primary in addition to the grammar grades. In addition to these ten grammar schools mentioned there are three others that contain grammar pupils to the number of 388 (December, 1895),—the Corlett, Agassiz, and Sleeper. These schools send their pupils of the upper grades to such of the other grammar schools as are in their vicinity. With the exception of the Corlett, the same schools have primary as well as grammar grades. The Wellington School is a training school for teachers. There had previously been a training school from 1870 to 1882. An interval of two years without such a school brought into bold relief its value to the city. Consequently, in 1884, the present school was organized. It has
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
tock remained as part of the capital stock until 1895, when it was charged off from the earnings of the company and is no longer a part of the assets, although when mortgage bonds were issued the franchise was included as part of the property of the company. The original members of the corporation were John E. Burgess, George A. Burgess, Porter A. Underwood, A. J. Applegate, and E. H. Mulliken. Subscriptions for stock were opened, and L. M. Hannum, A. P. Morse, Dr. Charles Bullock, S. S. Sleeper, C. W. Kingsley, Gustavus Goepper, and others became stockholders, there being twenty-four in all. John E. Burgess, George A. Burgess, and P. A. Underwood were elected directors, and, January 27, 1886, were made officers of the company at a meeting of the stockholders then held: John E. Burgess, president; George A. Burgess, treasurer; P. A. Underwood, clerk, and E. H. Mulliken, superintendent. On December 30, 1886, the board of aldermen authorized the company to erect and maintain p