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clergymen, engineers, lawyers, livery-stable keepers, lumber dealers, mariners, merchant tailors and tanners, 2 each; butcher, cabinet-maker, cashier in bank, clerk, colonel, commission-merchant, cooper, fresco-painter, furniture-dealer, gardener, grocer, insurance agent, leather-dealer, maker of patterns for iron-work, merchant, proprietor of boarding-house, provision dealer, real estate agent, register of deeds, restaurant keeper, rubber manufacturer, ship carpenter, shoe-cutter, shoe-dealer, shoe-stitcher, stereoscope-manufacturer, stock-fitter, superintendent in cotton mills, and treasurer of a lead company, 1 each.

4. Of the class admitted in February, 5 had taught school; of the class admitted in August, 13 had taught; total, 18.

5. Number graduated January 17, 19; number graduated June 30, 40.

Whole number of graduates of the school (32 classes), 659.

6. Number of pupils present in the several classes during the first term of the year:-Advanced class, 4; class A (senior), 41; class B, 29; class C, 49; class D, 29.

Number present during the second term:-Advanced class, 12; class A, 19; class B, 47; class C, 21; class D, 59.

7. Thirty-one pupils have received State aid during the year, and thirty-seven have received aid from the income of the Bowditch Fund.

8. During the year, 525 volumes have been added to the general and text-book library,-425 by purchase, and 100 by gift.

9. The class that graduated in June very liberally contributed one hundred dollars to the fund for procuring a telescope for the school.

During the first half of the past year, the sessions of the school were held in the High School building, belonging to the city of Salem, where they were but indifferently accommodated; during the last half, in the remodelled building belonging to the Normal School. The enlargement of the Normal building, which was begun in July, 1870, was so far advanced in June, 1871, as to allow the school to reoccupy the house on the occasion of the public examination at the close of the summer term. In addition to the customary exercises, there were held at that time services appropriate to the rededication of the edifice to its important objects. There were present on the occasion, participating in the exercises, several members of the Board of Education, among whom were,

Hon. J. D. Philbrick, Hon. D. H. Mason, and Hon. A. J. Phipps, Agent of the Board, and distinguished citizens of Salem, among whom we mention Dr. George B. Loring and Professor Alpheus Crosby, former Principal of the school.

The building has been nearly doubled in capacity, and greatly improved in appearance and convenience. It now contains a spacious and beautiful assembly hall; numerous large, well-ventilated and cheerful recitation rooms; a fine library and reading-room; a philosophical room; a chemical room; and various other rooms, all of which are well adapted to meet the wants of the school, and to advance its prosperity.

Owing to the exhaustion of the appropriation made for the enlargement, three rooms in the third story have been left unfinished. As these rooms are needed for use (two of them being already occupied), and as the cost of finishing them will be only a few hundred dollars, it is hoped that an appropriation sufficient for the completion of the work will soon be made.

The Visitors of this school would most heartily congratulate the Commonwealth on having thus secured an admirable building, of fine appearance, symmetrical and convenient - scarcely less so than it would have been if constructed entirely anew from its foundations, and all at a very moderate cost. It must not be forgotten that very much of this success is to be attributed to the thorough study of the plan of the building, and constant watchfulness over its execution, by the vigilant Principal.

A. A. MINER,

Visitor.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

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MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF EDUCATION in account with J. WHITE, Treasurer.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR NORMAL SCHOOLS.

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$10,296 80

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$12,548 59

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