Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 2, 1911, Page 20

f ! EASTERN CONNECTICUT SCHOOLS OFFER ADMIRABLE EDUCAT Norwich Free Academy a Leader Among the High and College Preparatory Schoo!s of New London Educational Institutions of High Standard Behind it a little more than half a century of magnificent achleve- ment and distingulshed place in the educational field. Ahead of it, as the secend half century 1s entered, still grander and wider opportunities, with an entarged and modern equipment in buildings and constantly growing numbers .n graduating and entering classes. Such in brief is the history and outiovk for the Norwich Fres Academy, long known for its prominent position in the sducational affairs of Eastern Connecticut. Stirred (o enthusiasm in the cause of higher education by the zeal of DPr. John Putnam Gullivan, at that time pastor of the Main street (now Broadway) al church, public spirited citizens of Norwich raised an endowment fund of $50,000, with $30,000 additional for the build- ing, and “The Norwich dex in 1854. The sehool opened Oetober 2 building, whose Congregaty ¥ was incorporated 1856, in t e old original m distinctive exterior architectu desisn will be a fadeless memory to more than 1400 grateful alumni who have constituted its graduating classes in the last 72 years. More than half of these have been in the classes of the last fifteen vears, a period of special enlargement in the school which in broadening and enriching its courses of study to meet the growing needs of its pupils, has just replaced the old main building with & splendidly appointed new structure, capable of accommodating 500 students was jed for the first time at the opening of the present school year. NORWICH FREE AGADEMY WITH 464 PUPILS. Dr liver and the fifty or more citizens who subscribed the original endowment saw the institution open with S0 pupils and its first graduat- ing class, 1858, numberad two. The Academy class of 1910 numbered 65 and the present registration of pupils for this vear is 464, about equaily divided between the sexes, with 40 registered in the Art school. Prin- eipal Henry A. Tirrall is the fourth in a line of well-known and able edu- ewtors whose position at the head of the Academy has added power and prestige to its place in the educationa There are twenty-two in- structors on the faculty Three courses of study the academic course at ¢ scientific sehools, and the more suited to the needs of tudy at college. No pupil turaliy Jargest proy of Norwich, but there are usually & offered, e of four the classical course preparing for ears each, the scientiflc course for which offers a broader training o not intend to take advanced vears of are received, students are from the town and city om 75 to 90 non-residents. general course those who under twelve LARGE GIFTS TO THE SCHOOL. Thromhont fts history the Academy has retained the confidénce and active support of umber of Norwich citizens who have added to its original e wiwent and made g for buildings and other specific purpomes. The largest benefactor has been Mr. William A. Slater, whose generosity has r possible h of the expansion of the school. The hequest of Hon. Jeremiah Halsey in 1899 was followed in 1900 by the bequest of (‘ol. Charics A. Coaverse. In 1901 the Academy came into possession. as residuary legatee, of the FFoster mansion and grounds, the bequest of the Hon, L. F. S. Foster. Bequests in 1904 avere received from the estate of IMzabeth B. Woedhull and the estate of Franklin Nichols, and in 1908 them wer estate of Adam.Reid Mitchell and from the bequests from Joanna D. B. NEW BUILDINGS SINCE 1886. The compiodio st upon which the Academy buildings are located fe ome of great natural and of ample size to provide a large athletic field for basebail footia nehes of sport in which the achool has heen represented by npion teams. The growth bulldings has nduded the ere « r Memortal building in 1886, the Manue % buil he Converse Art gallery ir 1908, and the new r merionl building, the the gift of Mr. WAlliam ain lding ast vear. The Slater Me. Peck Library, was A. Slater. MANUAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT. The Manusl Training department, which was established in January. 1881, has been an Important development of the school and now occupies its own building, lete Octaber, 18! cost, with equipment, of about $12,000 as contribute rt by the alumni of the school. The drawing classes are also imodated in the manual training buildin. A o f the manual training depart- ment is the print fice. It in v juipped to do ordinary k., and abor. Books and catalogues have als 1 produced the past year 25 students did volun work in printing CONVERSE ART GALLERY. The Com Art ¢ joining the Slater Memorial buflding on e east and connected with it en the seconc feet, and was arected in accordance with bequest 1 harles A. Con- erse. Its first story is occupied by the Ar second story contains a large gallery for pictures, with The new main bullding is a three-story brick structure, 166x tafning 19 recitat coms, prin two large « physics and chemis Ahorator room, and two separate symnasioms features outsid rescribed curriculum, and occasional plays Been given. T . alum vhich has assisted the my in various gift recent vears. THE NORWICH ART SCHOOL. h Art school in connection with the Academy was e Heibed 590, tudi \ the fir of the Converse wal its si utiful of the smaller cities of New England, with < he immediate vici it has a uniquo field which ) rt schools of Boston and New do mot possews. The work of the s s carried on in three main divisions, day diasses, evening cla r ng class. The chil- dren’s cla a distinet children enrolled out 300 NEW LONDON SCHOOL PIONEER IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING COURSES. UNBQUE PLACE HELD BY NEW LONDON MANUAL TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL—WOODWORKING, BLACKSMITH AND MACHINE TRADE FOR BOYS—HOUSEKEEPING, MILLINERY AND OTHER LINES FOR GIRLS, Piomeer not only in New in the state, in the line of voeatiortl training is tne Al London and Windham counties, but in fact n educational institution devoted directly to nual Training and Industrial school of New Londen, the outcomo of the gift of $100.000 to the city by William FL Chapmen in 1908. It was the object of the school to le suitable bulldings for that training which put the productive idea first, a training whieh should have the effect of making its araduates, both boys and g at home in productive vocations immediately after sraduation. Vocational training was to be exemplified through woodworking, blacksmithing and maohinist trades for the boys and througit housekeeping, cooking, sewing millinery, and dressmaking for the branches was 1o be as much mathe school acmdemic studies as woulkd train for an girls. Acce 1pan Ing these productive «. Inglish and otber high lligent citizenship pen- ing to its graduates a wider and correspondingly better choice of life- eccupation and an increased earning power for if b MANUAL TRAINING COURSE WORTH $40,000. ‘What this means merely sraduate s comparcd with the $40.090 more in iife earnings to nual traini wisch represents the valus of his manual trainic sister state on the north, Massachusctis, where have been a prominent feature of bms been the subject of special Iny ates. of such training can glean the figures to demonstrate its value, when consMered merely from the lars and cents standpoint; but in addition to this they point to the inculeation of th, many qualities which go to the making of an Intelilgent, desirablc. productive citizenship. Applying the measure of dollars ts they show that the grs #chool boy who enters the shop at the o 14 at nual wages and by the time he Is 22 is zelting $460 per year, having earned & total of 33,165 in wazes: but the b ho, is trained in a techni- cal sciieol starts work at the age of iS at a salary of $a00 and e of 22 remches and passes the shop-trained bey in fots Ty the time each is 26 the shop-traincd boy is earning S technical school boy $1,650. At this waze rate for the 1ie sarning power of the shop-traincd boy is 32 of the boy.from the technical school is $66,000, a value in the latters favor of $40,000, which represeuts the value of his manual training high school educ ¥or four years such trafning has been the work of New Lohdon Manu Training schcol, of which Fred S. Hitchcock been the enthusias- #ic and able principal since its beginning. Iie has five assistants on the scheol facuity. ars when the manual aining school estimated, school hoy edication. From our ndustrial training scheols system and their value and report, the adve p-trained boy is to give, it % high stigatio mar r an- has GIFT OF $100,000 AT THE START. The way for the foundation. of the school was opened in 1903, when William H. Chapman, president of the Savings bank of New London, pre- sented the city $100,000 for a manual training school, and organization was effected with a self-perpetuating board of trustees appointed by him- self, but providing that the board should not exceed ten in number and that three of them should be, ex-officio, the mayor, the chairman and the secretary of the public school board. The same year the school was in- corporated under the name of The Manual Training and Industrial School of New London. The building, a and basement brick and stone building was completed in 1906 and occupied for the first classes October 1st, 1906 e bu ned mechanical drawing room, dressmaking room, luboratory, space for general woodworking and laboratory practice, and rooms for general The machinery and tools and general furnishings were rat a time as the pupils advanced in their courses. In the first year, benches and tools and lathes for general woodwork- and woodturning were instalied, the domestic art department was supplied with suitable tables, desks, sewing machines and other equip- ment, the domestic sclence laboratory was equipped with hot plates for cooking by ith other necessary appointments and utensils, and the class rooms : fitted with the usual schoolroom furniture for conduct- ing work ® Th 1309 4 blacksmith shop and equipment were added building and in 1910 the first fine two-story ding con domestic science woodturning and machine academic work. installed one ye in a separate machine shop equipment was placed in the annex. GRADUATED SIXTEEN IN FIRST CLASS. From its opening the number of applications for admission has been more than the school could accommodate, so that of the first 150 applying only about 7§ could be taken, since the applications were about double the capacity of the school as at first equipped. The is four years in length and the first class, was graduated June 10, 1910. These gracuates are now all at work along the lines upon which they received instruction in the school. The boys 1y employed as draughtsmen or in machine shops at average wage: en $10 and $12 per week course , sixteen in num- For the present year the enrolment is as follows: Full four-yvear hizh school course students, two-year special students in domestic ce and domestic art post-graduate special students, 5; total, 151, about equally divided aprize the athletic ned by the between t TS of the student ho e sexe: Baseball, football and tennis students and a small orchestra is main- PLAINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL MAKES RAPID RISE IN PAST FIVE YEARS. ENROLS PUPILS ALSO FROM TOWNS OF STERLING, VOLUNTOWN 3 AND CANTERBURY. of the One soungest of the sisterhood of educational institutions above rammar school grades is the Plainfield high school established in he spring of 1903 by a vote of the town which located it in the vacant room in the school buikiing at Central Village. For the new school a two-year course of study was Iaid out and Mr. John Lee Chapman, at t ime superintendent of schools in Chester, Massachusetts, was engaged s principal and superin sistant principal. Mr since then and h From its enro stride wrolled ndent of all schools in Plainfield, with an as- Chapman has held the same position continuously tes on the high school faculty now number four. ent of 31 pupils in the first year the school grew with nearly doubling these figures in the second year when 58 were *d year was added to the course of study and a second as- 1. In July, 1906, the town also appropriated an addition to the Central Village school build- was eng. the sum of $5,000 to buil ing to provide the room needed for the high school e addition was built, a physics laboratory was provided and the school began to assume regu 00l form:. At the close of the third year, the committee voted to add a fourth year to the course of study, to engage still another assistant teacher and to provide and equip laboratories for physics and chemistry. The school v became a full-fledged high school with college prepuratory and gen- eral courses of study the end of this year graduated its first class f four pupils. T t has grown to a graduating class of ten mem- ber J . infield high school now numbers sixty pupils, has weil-equipped laborator physics, chemistry and biology, has courses that prepare for Yale ywn, Mt Smith and other colleges, cour pare for normal 0ol and offer general preparation for he &chool is approved by the state board of education as a sch pupils from other towns, and enrolls pupils frc anterbury, Sterling and Voluntown, STONINGTON HIGH SCHOOL. Ster high school with a present e 31 pupils whom 21 n the senior class, 14 girls and 7 a considerable expansion since it v ganized in 1589 and located in the present build- ing on Orchard st erected at that time. Then as now the high and the grammar scho upied the building jointly, the high school at first requiring only one room but now it uses two whole floc ] irst two graduates, class of were Miss Lillian Braytos Da the early enrolment of the school being from 30 to 40 pupils. In graduating class of re four girls and one boy. In providing ed fonal opportunities for its pi thorities have kept abreast of the times to equip the modern methods, and at the last October election the people of the voted for school consolidation which became operative in July, 1910, and took in the West Broad Street school at Pawcatuck, Mystic and Stoning- ton borough, Four courses are taught, the classical, technlcal, scientific and com- mercial. At the beginning of the present year Professor Clarence R. Sibiey of Needham, Mass., with five assistants, came to the pal, succesding Professor Charles P. Eaton, end of the school year in 1910 after 13 year: Stonington high school whose death as the successful 1 POMFRET SCHOOL. GIFTS THAT TOTAL $600,000 SINCE 1905 TO WIDELY-KNOWN PRIVATE SCHOOL AT POMFRET CENTER. Tn a place by itself among the educational instituti of the two counties stands Pomfret s at Pomfret Center in Windham county, a private school for boys founded in 1894 by Willlam Edward Peck, A.M., who set for it the highest standard in schools of its Aiming after and achieving the best, the school has grown to ten times its original proportions and in the last five years has received benefactions in g for endowment, building and equipment of $600, The erection of a gymnasium has just been provided for by the gift of $50,000 the last month. hout new announced in The schdol = incorpor in 1398 and its extensive school proper has grown until it now includes the recitation building, four dormitor infirmary. gymnasiom, chapel, and dining hall. Boys to enter the form must not be under 12 years of age. From the thirty with which the school opened in 1894, the registration has steadily increased, reach- ng 135 for the present y and graduating a sixth form class of 18 in June, 1916, e Rev. William Beach Olmstead, M.A., L.H.D., is head master of the teaching staff of twelve. The school draws iis largest percentage of bovs from New Yor about seventy per ce and the remainder come from various citi WINDHAM HIGH SCHOOL ABOUT TO ENTER GREATLY ENLARGED QUARTERS. NEW MODERN BUILDING WITH 16 RECITATION ROOMS, ASSEM- BLY HALL AND LABORATORIES WILL SOON BE READY. Windham high schooi, in the city of Willimantic, is on the eve of en- tering upon enlarged opportunitics in ocoupying the addition to its pres- ent sciool building, w to be reacy in 1911. The old bullding erect- ed by the town of V n and opened in 1897 has proved inadequate to modern requirements and growth, calling for the addition now under construction, which, when compl will contnin 16 recitation rooms, ssembly hail. full equipment for commercial department and new labor- tories for physics. chemistry and biology. Principal Egbert A. Case and faculty of 15 teachers have under thelr instruction an enrolment of 323 pupils, who represent fifteen of the towns of Windham and New London county. Of this number, 150 are boys and 173 girls, who register from the following towns: Andover, Ashford, 2; Chaplin, 3; Coventry, 21; Columbia, 17; Franklin, 6; Hamp- ton, 18; Lebanon, 26; Mansfield, 23; Pomfret, 4; Scotland, 8; Sprague, 6; Tolland, 2; Willington, 7; Windham, 175. Outside of the prescribed curriculum, pupils and teachers come to- gether for mutual helpfulness through their membership in Die Besse- rung, a society which includes every teacher and pupil, and has for its Objects the promotion of interest along lines of art and literature, par- liamentary practice and debate, and to enlistment the interest of all in the beautifying and adornment of the rooms in the school building. A glee club of 40 is a thriving orsanization, and the athletics association enlists every boy in the school, sending out teams which represent it in baseball, football and basketball. members MYSTIC ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. Attended this year by 54 scholars, ranging in age from four to nine- teen, the Mystic Oral School for the Deaf continues the beneficent work which it has done for many vears for the children handicapped in life's struggle by the loss of hearingz. The school property is pleasantly locat- ed about a mile and a half outside of the village. Outgrowing the build- ing which has served for many years, there added a year ago further accommodations by the purchase and alteration of a barn to make more house room, and in the past year the erection of an annex has beem started, which will comfortably accommodate 64 pupils. The childrén attending the school come from all parts of Connecticut, the sum of $275 per capita being allowed by the state for all expenses of the school and providing everything for the need of the children. All pupils are given a training in cooking, laundry work, and sewing, and learn how to take care of their own rooms and the house. The boys, who average now about 14 years old, show remarkable proficiency in the car- pentering and wood-working line in which they are instructed. = A rug- weaving department is connected with the school, a branch which all the girls, have a chance to learn. From the kindergarten up, a good common school education is given and the standard of the school is high. Religious training is inculcated with opportunity given for the exercise of denominational preferences. For a number of vear delphia. but keeps in close tendent, and for the pa: ™ Mrs. John McGuizan, who resides in Phila- touch with the school, has been the superin- four vears Miss Jane S. Worckster has been ss Eleanor Wo er as assistant. Eight teachers various departments. Last June two scholars were the principal wi are in charge of th graduated, BLACK HALL SCHOOL. The Black Hall s which began its thirty-fifth year last fall, has made and maintained a place as one of the most distinctive home schools in the country, since it was founded in 1875 at Black Hall in the town of Old Lyme, by its p principal, Charles Griswold Bartlett, upon whom in appreciation of educational work, Yale university in 1888 conferred h ary degree of Master of Arts. The resident teaching staff num ive instructors, and there are 23 boys enrolled this year. Under exceptional home and ¢ tian influences the object of the school is to afford a limited number of boys thorough preparation for e school, any college or s or a good English high school educatiton to those who do not intend to enter an advanced institution of learning. Boys are received into the school as early as ten years. For the little boys, rooms are provided in the part of the house occupied by the prin- cipal and his family. The house occupied by the school is commodious and well arrapged, the greater part having been built since 1392, and many improvements have recently been made. Athl interests are fostered, but not to the detriment of studles. There s a asium fitted with modern appliances and an athletic field on the sci \amirably adapted to the purpose BACON ACADEMY. FOUNDED IN HAS MEANT MUCH TO THE YOUTH OF COL- CHESTER AND NEIGHBORING TOWNS. 3 tn 1802 b ociety of Colchester, in accordance W will of Piery more than a century the academy which bears name an important influence in the lives of the youth of that t ighboring towns of Lebanon, Hebron, ddam In the passage of years, thy a steady ressive growth, which, however, original & ng in which the institution started. Its present e ment i 86 1 £ whom 43 are boys and 37 girls, and follow Seniors, ; juniors, 24; sophomores, 15; freshmen, Moore, A. M Principal Royal a Harvard graduate, is the capable official in charge, asslsted by two other heads of departments, who make up the Academs there are baseball and basketball faculty. In athieti > ven enthusiasti in Der Ve s we teams, and a glee t ademy are enro nprovement so support, rbesserer, ained. while all attending a debating and general WILLIAMS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE. GIRLS OF NEW LONDON ENOY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH GIFT OF NORWICH WOMAN. Through the phil interest of Mps. Harriet Peck Williams of Norwich in educatior ts and her desire to erect a memorial to her son, Thomas W. Williz a distinguished whaling merchant of New London, an e o unity of incalculable benefit was placed wil of New London in the founding of the Will- institute, a sccondary school for “the promotion and ad- female education,” to quote from the will.of’ the donor. By the 1889 the funds. left by the will of Mrs. Williams, dated ten yvears before, had accumulated to a sum considered adequate;, and plans were prepared the trustees for the school building to be placed upon the lot given and designated for that purpose by Mrs. Williams. This was the same plot to build a house, when It is a commanding site of the und upon which her son had been planning death occurred suddenly, September 12, 1855. for a school property, with an extensive view itry and of the water of the Thames river and magnificent stone school building, admirably adapted to school needs, was erected in 1590 at a cost of about $85,000, and the school was opened in September, 1891 Its first graduating class was in 1592 and consisted of 25 members. Since them more than 1e he assed out from its walls and the present enrolment n Long Island sound. A ¥ : tennis courts for the use of the stu- dents surround the bu £, <o held the spring and fall meets )f the athletic associ -commodate 250 students and has eight large, airy recitation rooms, besides the general study and assembly rogms 1| gymbasium. At the head of the faculty of ten members is Principal Colin Buell. A.M. Under the able instruction ceived, the graduates of the school have given it a meritcrious standing nk in educationa fund The endowmen for maintaining the school now amounts to 75.000 and ion is free to girls of ars and over residing manentiy or temporarily in New London. Various gifts from friends of the school have added to its equipment or for the beautifying of the school rooms and property. In this respect the thriving and active Alumnae association. formed in May, 1901, has been a leader, its work co-operation of every girl who calls Willlams Memo- a mater. meriting the rial institu hearty al WILLIMANTIC NORMAL SCHOOL OF PRCVED EFFICIENCY IN TEACHER-TRAIN!NG. 128 RESIDENT STUDENTS—CORRESPONDENCE COURSE WITH 65 ° STUDENTS—SUMMER SCHOOL AT STORRS. Since the state normal tr 1 at Willimantic was established by act of the legislature ‘in ned in September of that in the building now occupied by the Willimantic Sayings institute, the increasing demands of the institution and enlargements, until it now have called for several changes occupics its present handsome school and Windham Counties---Many structure, which was completed In 1895 and enlarged to its present size 1n 1903, ‘Willimantic Normal is one of the four schools established by the state board of education to provide trained teachers for the schools of the state through normal training. From the time the Willimantic school started, high school graduates in large numbers grasped the opportu-ities offered, calling for greater provisions for the needs of the insticution, and in 1907 the legislature appropriated money for a new training sehool building, which was completed in January, 1910, and at once occupled. By agreement, the town of Windham contributed one-third of the cost of the building. In addition to this new building the state owns a four- room wooden building occupled by two grades of the training school The state also controls two other bulldings owned by the town of Wind- ham and used by the state for training purposes. Principal Henry T. Burr has at present a corps of 28 teachers for the normal school and the training school. The enrolment is as follows: Resident students 128, summer school (July, 1910) 80, correspondsnce sfu- dents 5. Of the students in the Willimantic Normal school the greatsr number come from New London and Windham counties, but thers ars usually a few from ather sections of the state. Since men have prac tically ceased to teach in the elementary schools, few male studemts a:- tend the normal at this time. An occasional man emters the school for a special course. The average graduating class for the last few years has numbered from 25 to 35 members. The commendable records made by its long list of graduates, whe have passed out to their chosen work after taking the two-year courses offered, are testimony to the value and efficiency of the instructien they have recelved at Willimantic Normal. There are, at present, twenty schools, including kindergartens, available for observation and tratning. Correspondence courses in a number of subjects are offersd to the teachers of the state and have found many to take advantage of the opportunities put within their reach. A summer school for Connecticut teachers was held between July § and July 29 at Storrs, jointly by the Willimantic normal school and the Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs, with an enrolment of %0, am increase of 13 over the preceding year. BULKELEY SCHOOL FOR NEW LONDON BOYS. FOUNDED BY LEONARD H. BULKELEY FOR THE YOUTH OF HIS NATIVE TOWN—CLASSES NOW LARGEST IN SCHOOL HISTORY. In its handsome granite school buitding, erected at an original cost of about $40,000, Bulkeley school of New London has enrolled from first to last over a thousand boys, sending out in its thirty-six gradusting classes more than 600 furnished with a high school education. From its Dbeginning the history of the school has shown the increasing use of the institution by the boys of New London, Groton, Waterford, East Lyme and Fishers island, its alumni containing the names of men who have achieved much in business and mechanical spheres of activity. From its first graduating class of four members in 1875, thers has been an in- crease to ten times that number in the past several years, which have been the largest in the school history. At present there are 180 boys in the school. Bulkeley school was incorporated in 1850 by the trustees named wn- der the will of Leonard H. Bulkeley, who was a native of New London and at his death in 1849 left the bulk of his estaie to found and main- tain a free high school for boys to be calied Bulkeley school In 1871, when the original fund of about $25,000 had accumulated to about $80,000, the trustees erected the school building, considered ome of the finest the state. The lot on which the bullding was erected was contributed by the city of New London. The school sessions commensed in the fall of 1873. Generous contributions have several times increased the original endowment, These have been $10,000 from the estate of Asa Otis, $5,000 from the estate of Henry P. Haven, and a gift of upwarde of $11000 from Hon. George F. Tinker, who provided for a large addititon to the school building in 1898. This addition eontains the assembly reom on the first floor, capabla of seating 150 students, and the chemical and physical laboratories on the second floor. Bulkeley school is fres to boys who reside in New London, but thers 15 a charge for non-residents. Four courses of four years each, classical, scientific, commercial and general ,are offered and conducted under thy capable direction of Principal Walter A. Towne, A.M. and six associats instructors. E. B, Collister, AM., was the first principal of the sehool from 1873 to 1880, succeeded by E. R. Hall, A.B., 1530-1385, and then by the present principal. KILLINGLY HIGH SCHOOL. HIGHER EDUCATION WELL PROVIDED FOR BY DANIELSON STITUTION—NEARLY 200 PUPILS ENROLLED. IN- The town of Killingly made suitable and adequate provisions for its pupils of high school grade when in 1903 it erected a mew modern sehool building at a cost of $50,000, which has been occupied since them by Killingly high school, having removed from its former location. The site for the building at the corner of Broad and Cottage streets in Danjelsor was given to the town by John Danielson of Providence, being former the Danielson homestead. This school draws a large enrollment from Daniclson and the other parts of the town and maintains a high standard of instruction under Principal H. R. Eaton and his associate staff of te For iast grad- uating class numbercd 40 members, and there are now enrolled a total of 189 pupils, divided in the classes as follows: Seniors 37, juniors 31, sophomores 54, and freshmen 67. Killingly High's school home is a two-story and basement, brick and granite building of modern colonial architecture, 109 by feet. It is nicely finished, heated and ventilated throughout and furnished with modern school appliances. On the main floor are three recitation rooms and the library. On the second fioor class rooms, two is the commodicus assembly hall with a seating capacity of 250, stage platform’ and two ante-rooms. Two class rooms are also on this floor, with the chemistry and the physics laboratory. storage and d room botler and of general it turns out suc- In the basement are the play room, two locker rooms, other rooms. The student body is enthu ts supp athletics, including baseball and other sports, in which cessful teams. MISS BUTTS’ SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Among the well-known private schools Miss Butts's School o Girls, under the management and direction of Miss Matilda Butts, the school building being invitingly and healthfully situated on Beech drive in Norwich. The school offers a charming family life for girls in a weli- ordered and refined household under the personal guldance of Miss Butts The course of study is so arranged as to give particular attention fo the needs of each pupil, and for those preparing for college is determined by the college requirements. The ample grounds around the school offer outdoor recreation at all seasons of the year, coasting and skating in winter, with golf and other seasonable sports in their proper time. PUTNAM HIGH SCHOOL'S NEW BUILDING. FINELY APPOINTED STRUCTURE FOR OPENING OF NEXT SCHOOL YEAR—NUMEROUS LARGE CLASS ROOMS, GYMNA. SIUM, LABORATORIES AND AUDITORIUM. is expected Putnam By the time the next school year opens it high school will have ready its new modern edi urse of com- struction at a cost of about $75,000, including t and equipment. When completed it will give Putnam one of the finest high schools in the state perfectly adapted to accommodate more than the average registration which is this year, under Principal C. C. Spratt and his five assist ants. The new building is at the corner of sl and Providence strecis, with main entrance facing School street and ends of the building. It is a brick building, basement, of fireproof construction. The first floor will include six large class rooms, a school committes o other entrances af the 50 feet, two stories and room, library and superintendent’s room, togciher with a lobb ridor in which are to- be sanitary drin < The v divided to two commercial rooms, & clise wctare room and chemical laboratores. On this floor there is also (o be an aneitoriom and a stage. The seati of the ortum will be Al In the bazemecnl the princi A1l be thé gymmuniims Will be 45 by 69 jeet, and 18 fe s area aior grente the present hizh school Liv one five feet in st baths for boys and the remsinder school construetion manual training room, Jocker rooms, girls, lunch counter and the heating apparatus of the basement space. The most modern ideas in are embodied in the various details of the building.