North Waterford, Maine: High School Annual Report, 1857

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NORTH WATERFORD HIGH SCHOOL

CATALOGUE
of the
TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
of
NORTH WATERFORD HIGH SCHOOL
for the Year ending April, 1857

PORTLAND
Printed by David Tucker
1857

INSTRUCTORS

B. F. LAWRENCE , O.A., PRINCIPAL; member of Waterville College

Miss Maria Saunders PRECEPTRESS

Mr Orren A Horr, Assistant

Miss H.B. Jewett Teacher of Drawing and Painting

COMMITTEE ON DECLAMATION AND COMPOSITION

Rev.John A. Douglass
William W. Greene, M.D.
Solon L. Weston M.D.

VISITING COMMITTEE

Hon. Josiah S Hobbs
Calvin Farrar,M.D.
Rev. John A. Douglass

STUDENTS

GENTLEMEN

NAMES--------------------RESIDENCES
*Stephen H. Barker---------Stoneham
-Prescott K. Barker---------Stoneham
-David P. Bisbee------------Waterford
-Volney Bisbee--------------Waterford
*Walter M. Brown-----------Albany
-William H. Chadborn--------Waterford
*Charles Coffin---------------Lovell
-Edward P. Chaplin-----------Waterford
*Samuel J. Cummings---------Albany
*Wesley Cummings-----------Albany
-William B. Etter--------------
- Samuel S. Evens-------------Stoneham
*H. Rensselaer Foster---------Albany
*Charles P. French------------Albany
*Cyrus S. Green--------------Waterford
*Daniel Green-----------------Waterford
-George B. Glover-------------Waterford
*John F. Hale------------------Lovell
* John S. Henley---------------Albany
Stephen C. Horr---------------Waterford
-Jacob L. Horr-----------------Waterford
-John D. Horr------------------Waterford
-Calvin H. Horr----------------Waterford
*Orren A. Horr-----------------Waterford
*Augustus E. Horr--------------Waterford
*Sumner G. Holt----------------Albany
- Frank S. Hobson--------------Waterford

* means High English and Classical Departments

GENTLEMEN

Names----------------------Residences
-Obediah F. Irish-----------Waterford
*Lyman Jewett-------------Waterford
*Ira Johnson----------------Norway
-George M. Knight----------Waterford
-Charles G. Knight----------Waterford
*Franklin Locke-------------Locke's Mills
*George W. Locke----------Locke's Mills
-David H. Lebroke----------Waterford
-Moses H. Mosher----------Waterford
-Frederick M. Mosher------Waterford
*James Page----------------Waterford
-Elbridge Pride--------------Waterford
-Luville Proctor--------------Waterford
-Perley B. Proctor-----------Waterford
-George B. Rice-------------Waterford
*Theodore S. Saunders------Waterford
*Elbridge Styles--------------Stoneham
-Thomas H. Sawin-----------Waterford
-Henry Sawin----------------Waterford
-Willard Upton---------------Waterford
-Davis Woodard-------------Waterford
-Andrew J. Woodard--------Waterford
*Elbridge W. Whiting---------Waterford
-Charles York----------------Waterford
-Melville York----------------Waterford

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LADIES

NAMES----------------------Residences
-Susan J. Brackett------------Waterford
*Tamson E. Butters-----------Lovell
*Mary Cummings-------------Albany
*Elmira Cummings-------------Albany
-Luella Caldwell---------------Waterford
-Flora Caldwell----------------Waterford
*Serena M. Chaplin-----------Waterford
*Frances Dupee---------------Waterford
*Martha P. Foster-------------Stoneham (This was crossed out and Raymond is written in pencil: this pamphlet came from a person in Raymond, Maine)

NAMES-------------------------Residences
* Etta C. Frost-------------------Norway
*Marietta French-----------------Albany
*Selinda H. Green----------------Waterford
-Abby K. Green------------------Waterford
-Tabitha Green--------------------Waterford
-Ella Green------------------------Waterford
-Lurietta Graham------------------Waterford
*Melissa M. Henley---------------Waterford
* Helen M. Hobson----------------Bangor
*Sarah C. Horr--------------------Waterford
*Hannah F. Horr-------------------Waterford
-Mary C. Horr---------------------Waterford
-Sarah G. Holt---------------------Albany
*Miranda Hutchinson-------------- Albany
* S. Frances Irish-------------------Stowe
*Han.B. Jewett---------------------Bethel
*Lizzie C. Jewett-------------------Waterford
*Sarah Kilborn---------------------Waterford
-Emily J. Lebroke------------------Waterford
* Cynthia J. Lord-------------------Waterford
*Abby E. McKeen------------------Lovell
-Almira Proctor---------------------Waterford
*Nancy S. Plummer-----------------Waterford
*Irene G. Plummer------------------Waterford
* Maria Saunders-------------------Waterford
*Caroline Sloan---------------------Albany
*Charlotte M. Upton-----------------Norway
*Louisa A. Watson------------------Waterford
*Josephine Woodard----------------Waterford

* High English and Classical Departments

SUMMARY

Gentlemen-------------------------52
Ladies-----------------------------38
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------------------------------Total 90

LYCEUM LECTURES

In connection with the School, there has been before the NORTH WATERFORD LYCEUM, a Course of Lectures by the following gentlemen:

AMERICUS FULLER , of Bowdoin College. Subject- The Christian Scholar.

TRUMAN S. PERRY , of Naples. Subject- The Progressive Characters and Tendencies of the Age

Rev. WM.WARREN, of Upton,Mass. Subject-The School and the Schoolmaster .

WM. WARREN GREENE, M.D., of Waterford . Subject-Geology

Hon. D.R. HASTINGS, of Lovell. Subject-Influence of Government on Literature

Hon. JOSIAH S. HOBBS of Waterford. Subject-Morals and Moral Education

CALVIN FARRAR, M.D., of Portland . Subject----

Hon. MARK H. DUNNELL, of Norway. Subject----

B.F. LAWRENCE, of Waterville College. Subject- The Schoolmaster. (A Poem.)

COURSE OF STUDY

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT

Sander"s Readers; Greenleaf;s Common School Arithmetic; Tower's Grammar; Wilson's History of the United States

HIGH ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Smyth's Algebras; Davies' Geometry, Trigonometry and Surveying; Natural Philosophy; Chemistry; Illustrated Astronomy(Smith's); Rhetoric; English Composition(Quackenbos'); Moral science; Mental Philosophy,(Upham's); English Classics; American Speaker,(Zachos); High School Readers,(Sanders).

CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT

Andrews and Stoddard;s Latin Grammar and Reader; Cooper;s Virgil; Anthon's Cicero and Sallust; Sophocles' Greek Grammar; Jacob's Reader.

MODERN LANGUAGES

Practical French Grammar,(Pinney and Badois'); Elementary Readers,(De Fiva's); Classic Reader(De Fiva's); Picciola. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The School have a set of Pelton's Outline Maps, a large Globe, and other apparatus of the kind; thus furnishing the scholars with an opportunity of obtaining a comprehensive and correct knowledge of Geography.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

This School has been in successful operation for six years, and affords to the student facilities for obtaining a thorough education with the least possible expense. The house is large and commodious, and is beautifully finished and furnished. It is highly important that parents in this immediate vicinity, should understand and appreciate the advantages thus offered of educating their children at home- thus saving a large expenditure of money , and retaining the moral culture of their sons and daughters in their own hands; while those who are obliged to leave their homes in search of knowledge, will here find a thorough course of instruction, pleasant homes in intelligent families , and freedom from the many temptations which so often surround institutions of Learning. ____________

EXPENSES

Tuition For a Term of Eleven Weeks

Common English---------------------$3.00
Higher English------------------------3.50
Languages----------------------------4.00
The price of board in private families, is from $1.50 to $2.00 per week.
Students by boarding them selves in clubs, may considerably reduce their expenses.
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CALLEOPIAN SOCIETY

This is a Society formed and conducted by the Students, and holding weekly meetings for debates and other exercises. A Normal Class is formed at the close of each term, to which Lectures will be given by the Principal. _______________

NOTICE.

The Fall Term will commence on Wednesday, September 2nd.