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[203] April 15, 1836, voted to employ one of their number in that capacity, that Josiah Hayward was accordingly elected superintendent, April 25, 1836, and that his salary was fixed at $250. The office was not kept up long in Cambridge; but in Springfield it was permanent, so that Springfield's claim to priority has a pretty solid basis. The high school system of Cambridge embraces practically three schools,—the Cambridge Latin School, under the head mastership of William F. Bradbury, with 14 teachers and 388 pupils; the Cambridge English High School, under the head mastership of Ray Greene Huling, with 21 teachers and 674 pupils; and the Cambridge Manual Training School for Boys, under the superintendency of Charles H. Morse, with 10 regular teachers, 3 special instructors, and 172 boys, these boys being a portion of the 674 pupils in the English High School. These are the figures for December, 1895. Our schools give a wide range of choice to ambitious youth. Does a young man wish to fit for Harvard, a young woman for Radcliffe? It can be thoroughly done in the Latin School, which has a five years course for the purpose. Promising students can do the work in four years. Preparation for either of these colleges will answer for any corresponding college that may be selected. Has the pupil in thought the Institute of Technology or the Lawrence Scientific School? He may prepare himself in the English High School, with or without manual training. Is it an eminently practical course in carpentry, wood-turning, forging, machine-shop practice, and mechanical drawing, with sympathetic academical work, that is sought,— training in the alphabet and primer of the trades that aims to fit one to respond to the changing demands of industrial life? There is the Manual Training School, furnishing one half of such a course, and the English High School the other. Or is it an all-round and broader schooling that is wanted, with less of the classics and more of the sciences and English than in the traditional college course,—something that leads up to the normal school or to the college that admits without Greek, or to what we call the general-culture purposes of life? It is just this schooling that the English High School aims to provide. Cambridge has nine grammar schools, each for both sexes, with six grades of pupils. The following table of these schools is based on the data of December, 1895:—
Cambridge, 1896.
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