CLASS I. Nos. 1, 3, 5 continued, and 7.-Pierpont's American First Class Book. 8. Goodrich's History of the United States. 9. Exercises in composition and declamation.

The following studies and books may be intro

Studies allowed }duced at the discretion of the master

Smellies Philosophy of Natural History, Ware's edition, Blake's conversations on Natural Philosophy, Worcester's Elements of General History, Parker's Exercises in English composition.

Bible.

Bible.

Studies requir ed in writing de partment.

On Monday the children who usually read in the first class book shall instead of it read in the

11. The pupils of the writing department shall be divided into classes according to their proOgress: the books & exercises shall be as follows:

1. Emerson's North American Arithmetic, Part 1. 2. Colburn's first lessons in Arithmetic.

3. Colburn's sequel to First Lessons. 4. Robinson's Book-keeping.

All the children shall be taught writing and arithmetic daily; and the teachers are required to furnish the pupils copy slips written or from good engravings, or to write the copies themselves in the writing books.

The pupils of the first class shall be taught to make pens.

CHAPTER IV.

Regulations for the English High School.

This School is situated in Pickney street. It was instituted in 1821, with the design of furnishing the young men of this City who are not intended for a collegiate course of study, and who have enjoyed the usual advantages of the othe: public schools, with the means of completing a good English education to fit them for active life, or qualify them for eminence in private or public stations. Here is given instruction in the elements of mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in History, natural and civil, and in the French language. This institution is furnished with a valuable mathematical and philosophical apparatus for the purpose of experiment and illustration. To this school apply the following regulations in addition to those laid down in chapter II.

structers.

1. The instructers in this school shall be, a master, a sub-master, and so many assistants as shall give one instructer to every thirty five pupils, provided that no additional asNumber of insistant be obtained for any increase less than twenty one. It shall be a necessary qualification in all these instructers that they have been educated at some respectable college. In addition to these there shall be a teacher of the French language.

2. No boy shall be admitted as a member of this school under the age of twelve years; and the master shall require of every candidate for admission previously to examinaage of admission tion, a certificate from his parent or guardian

that he is of the age required.

time of entrance

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3. Boys shall be examined for admission into the school only once a year, viz: on the Tuesday and Friday next succeeding the exhibition of the school in August.

Qualifications for admission.

4. Candidates for admission shall produce from the masters of the schools they last attended, certificates of good moral character, and presumed qualifications for admission into this school. It shall however be the duty of the master to examine them in reading, writing, English grammar, modern geography, and Colburn's First Lessons in Arithmetic and Sequel, in which they shall be found to have made satisfactory progress in order to be admitted.

Classes and

Sections.

5. The school shall be divided into three classes; and such sections of these shall be formed as may be found expedient. Each class shall have its appropriate studies assigned it; and to every class and section of the same the master shall be required to give a due proportion of his personal attention.

6. Individuals shall be advanced according to their scholarship, Progress and and no faster, and none shall be permitted to remain members of the school longer than three years.

continuance in

schools.

7. Each class or section shall occasionally be reviewed in its appropriate studies; and general reviews shall Reviews. once a quarter be instituted in all the previous studies.

8. From the first Monday in April to the first Monday in October annually this school shall begin at eight Hours of school'clock A M. and end at 12; and from the first Monday in October to the first Monday in April, it shall begin at 9 A. M., and end at 12.

From the first Monday in April to the first Monday in October it shall begin at 3 P. M. and end at 6; and from the first Monday in October to the first Monday in April it shall begin at half past 2 P. M. and end at half past 4; except that in the months of March and October it shall begin at 3 P. M. and end at 5.

9. Tardiness beyond 5 minutes shall be considered a violation of school hours, and exclude the delin-. Tardiness. S quent.

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10. The books and exercises required during Studies required the course of instruction in this school are the following :

Class III-No. 1. Colburn's Intellectual and written Arithmetic,-2. Worcester's ancient and modern geography.-3. Wor

cester's Elements of general History.-4. Goodrich's History of the United States.-5. Stansbury's Catechism on the constitution of the United States.-6. Reading, grammar, declamation.7. Composition.-8. Colburn's Algebra.

Class II-Nos. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. continued, and 9. Bookkeeping by single and double entry.-10. Legendre's Geometry.11. Natural Philosophy.-12. Paley's Natural Theology, with Paxton's Illustrations.

Class 1-Nos. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. continued, and 13. Paley's Moral Philosophy, Whitaker's edition.-14. Paley's Evidences of Christianity.-15. Practical Mathematics, comprehending navigation, surveying, mensuration, astronomical calculations, &c.; together with the construction and use of mathematical Instruments.-16 A course of experimental lectures on the various branches of natural philosophy.

The several classes shall receive instruction in writing.

The following studies are allowed in the first class if the masStudies allowed ter think proper to introduce them; Smellie's Philosophy natural History, edition, Chemistry.-Intellectual Philosophy.-Linear drawing.-Logic.

ADDRESS

OF

THE TRUSTEES

OF THE

New England Enstitution

FOR THE

EDUCATION OF THE BLIND

TO

THE PUBLIC.

It is four years since an act incorporating the Trustees of the new England Asylum for the blind was passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts. Why so much delay has occurred in commencing operations will be duly explained.

The Trustees have now the satisfaction of announcing that their institution has been in actual operation for five months; and that their most sanguine expectations of the capacity of the blind for receiving an education have been fully verified in the progress of the interesting beings under their charge.

But before giving any account of the state of their institution, the Trustees beg leave to make some general remarks on the blind; on the light in which they have been held, and the manner in which they have always been treated by their fellow

men.

Blindness has been in all ages one of those instruments by which a mysterious Providence has chosen to afflict man; or rather IT has not seen fit to extend the blessing of sight to every member of the human family. In every country there exists a large number of human beings who are prevented by the want of sight from engaging with advantage in the pursuits of life, and who are thrown upon the charity of their more favored fellows. And it will be found that the proportion is at all times about the same in the same countries for not only is the proportion of those who shall be born blind decreed in the statutes of the Governor of the world, but the number of those becoming so by what we call accident, is regulated by laws as infallible and invariable; and it is as little probable that by any accident all mankind should lose their eyes as that by any precaution all should preserve them. Blindness then is one of the evils entailed upon man, and it becomes him to grapple with it and try to diminish its pernicious effect.

The blind may be divided into two classes; those born blind, and those becoming blind by disease or accident: the latter class being infinitely the most numerous.

The frequency of blindness varies in different climates, and upon different soils; it is most frequent in that part of the temperate zone bordering upon the torrid, and decreases as we approach the poles. It has been ascertained by accurate censuses taken in different countries of Europe, that the number is fearfully great, and that although they are screened from the public eye they exist in almost every town and village. In middle Europe there is one blind person to every 800 inhabitants. In some Austrian provinces it has been accurately ascertained that there is one to every 845 inhabitants; in Zurich, one to 747. Farther North, between the 50th and 70th degree of longitude, they exist in smaller proportions; in Denmark are found one to every 1000, Prussia there are one to every 900. Egypt is the country most afflicted with this evil, and it may be safely calculated that there are about one blind to every 300 seeing persons.

In

In our own couutry, no means have been taken to ascertain with exactitude the number of blind; the returns made by some censuses have been ascertained to be very erroneneous; nor is there any reason to suppose that the laws which act on nations under the same latitude in Europe should be null here: indeed the Trustees have ascertained

that in some small towns not exceeding 2000 inhabitants, and where the census gave but one or two blind, there really exist four, five, and six. These unfortunate beings sit and wile their long night of life away, within doors, unseen and unknown by the world; and society would be startled were it told that there exist in its bosom so many of its children who never see the light of heaven: it would hardly credit the assertion that there are more than eight thousand blind persons in these United States; yet such is undoubtedly the case.

The public must be ignorant of this fact; to suppose it is not so, and yet that it had done nothing for so large a class of the afflicted would be an impeachment of its charity and its justice; and the Trustees appeal to it in the full confidence that the ready answer will be "what can be done for them?”

Fellow citizens, much can be done for them; instead of condemning the poor blind man to stand at the corner of a street and ask for charity, or to remain cooped up within the walls of an almshouse, or to sit and mope away his solitary existence among his happier friends alike a burthen to them and himself-you may give to him the means of becoming an enlightened, happy, and useful member of society; you may give him and his fellow blind the means of earning their own livelihood or at least of of doing much towards it; you may light the lamp of knowledge within them, you may enable them to read the scriptures themselves,

"And thus, upon the eyeballs of the blind,

To pour celestial day."

All this you can do by the establishment of institutions for their education; and it is to demonstrate this fact that this circular is addressed to you. The Trustees do not ask assistance for the Institution alone, but they call upon the public to consider the situation of the blind everywhere, and everywhere to extend to them those benefits which are greater than the most liberal alms that can be bestowed.

This is not a common call, nor is it a common case, for the object proposed differs materially from most charitable establishments: first in that there is no possibility of deception, since no one can doubt or deny the claim which the blind have upon the charity of their more fortunate fellows; and second, that the object is an economical one to the community. It is to take from society so many dead weights that it is proposed to educate the blind and enable them to get their own livelihood: and society ought to consider any capital so invested as a sinking fund for the redemption of its charitable debt: as a provision for preventing the blind from becoming taxes to the community. In proof of this the trustees would try to draw the attention of the public to the dif

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