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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) 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
grammar school grades, it was as often called a high and grammar school as a high school. The high schools of Wards Two and Three were for both sexes, that of Ward Two being the only one in the town not associated with grammar school pupils. In 1847, the plan of uniting the high school pupils of the three wards was revived. A high school for the city (Cambridge had ceased to be a town May 4, 1846) was opened October 4 of that year in the high school building of Cambridgeport, with Elbridge Smith as master and Miss N. W. Manning as assistant. Seventy-four pupils were admitted, all but one from the Port and the Point. The single exception was the mayor's daughter from Old Cambridge. Members of the city council from Old Cambridge had said in substance to their associates, Place your high school where you choose, we shall make no use of it. This attitude, however, was not long maintained. In June, 1848, the high school of Old Cambridge was closed, and in the following September