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Identifier: newbedfordmassac00peas (find matches)
Title: New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter), b. 1861 New Bedford Board of Trade Hough, George A Sayer, William L. (William Lawton), 1848-1914
Subjects: Industries -- Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: (New Bedford, Mass.) : Published by order of the Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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SWAIN FREE SCHOOL. Briggs ; 1871-72, Israel C. Cornish; 1872-77, George B. Wheeler;1877-81, William B. Sherman; 1881 to date, Robert C. P. Cogges-hall. Hon. James B. Congdon acted as clerk of tiie board from thethe commencement until 1879, since which time the position has beenfilled by the superintendent. The water rates here are lower thanin any other city in the United States, ranging from $2.50 a yearfor a single faucet in a dwelling house to two and one-half cents athousand gallons for manufacturing purposes. Our public schools, resumed the old resident, plunging into anew subject, were the pioneers in the practical exemplification of themethods of instruction which now prevail. In 1821, notwithstanding
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SEEING THE SIGHTS. IO5 the fact that the wealth of the town was intensely hostile to the move-ment, it was voted to appropriate $1200 for the establishment of aregular system of public schools, in conformity to the laws of thecommonwealth. Prior to that time there was a free school supportedat public expense. It was intended for the poor alone, and, as JamesB. Congdon pnce remarked, was in every sense a -poor school. Amovement for the establishment of a high school a few years after-wards, excited acrimonious hostility, but finally the opposition gaveway and from that time forward, the schools grew more and moredeeply in popular favor. In 1861 Abner J. Phipps was elected super-intendent, and he was succeeded in February, 1865, by Rev. HenryF. Harrington, of Cambridge, who at once commenced a series ofreforms and improvements which have secured for our schools a dis-tinguished position. The reorganization of the primary schools, andthe substitution of intelligent and attractive methods

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