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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 374 374 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 63 63 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 53 53 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 27 27 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 10 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 8 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 8 8 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 7 7 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 7 7 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 6 6 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., History of the Medford High School. (search)
the use of the High School. Furnaces took the place of stoves, and a stone wall succeeded the board fence in front. With the additions and improvements made in 1890 all are familiar. The original desks, to which reference has been made, were of cherry, double, very low, very narrow, and with turned legs nailed into auger-ho6), from April 16, 1877. Miss Caroline E. Swift, from September 1, 1877. Miss Genevieve Sargent, from September 1, 1881. Stephen Emery (Boston University, 1890), from September, 1890, to June 24, 1892. Miss Annie M. Sawyer (Wellesley, 1889), from September 14, 1891, to June 24, 1892. Miss Josephine E. Bruce, from Set the further demands of increasing numbers and give greater latitude in the election of studies, a third assistant was added in 1881, a fourth in 1888, a fifth in 1890, and a sixth in 1891. Sessions and Vacations. When the schools became annual, they were made superlatively so. In 1846 they had eleven three-hour sessions ea
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
m was broadened by a study of natural history and by experimentation in a working chemical and physical laboratory. These changes mark the rapid growth of the school and the rapidly on-rising tide of modern demand upon our educational system. By 1890, two petitions from the boys and girls of the high school were laid before the school board, for gymnastic exercises or physical training. In response to this request, military drill was introduced. In 1890, Superintendent Hunt voiced the agitat1890, Superintendent Hunt voiced the agitation now felt for a new high school building sufficient for four hundred pupils. The old building was recognized to be inadequate, but an attempt at economy was made by doubling the capacity and erecting the annex at the rear. I can well remember that at the time of my attendance at the old high school, these buildings were always referred to by my father as Gog and Magog, or Chang and Eng, the famous Siamese twins. The two great upstairs study halls, where we all had declamation weekly, seeme