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The Intelligencer, & Petersburg Commercial Advertiser
Petersburg, Virginia
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Praise for the Eastern States' school system, exemplified by Portland, Maine's public schools. Annual examination on September 1 showed 1,038 pupils across nine schools, impressing visitors with progress and future promise. Population: 9-10,000.
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The School System of the Eastern States deserves to be admired and imitated by the rest of the Union. It is the only system by which the benefits of education can be made as diffusive as they should be in this country. The following statement strikingly exemplifies how generally the people of that part of the Union are induced by the system to avail themselves of its advantages. The town of Portland, in Maine, embracing a population of nine or ten thousand, contains, by a late report the following public schools, in which, at the annual examination on the 1st instant, the number of pupils were found which is annexed to each; these are exclusive of the private seminaries of instruction.—Nat. Intel.
PORTLAND, Sept. 6.
PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
On Thursday and Friday last week was the annual examination of the Public Schools in this town. The school committee, together with several gentlemen of the town and some strangers, visited the several Public Schools, and went through a minute and patient examination of the pupils in the various branches of instruction to which they had attended. The state of the schools generally was such as to give a high degree of satisfaction to all who visited them, and a most cheering promise of their future usefulness. The number of pupils in the several schools on the day of examination, were as follows:
Mr. Libby's, Classical, 107
Mr. Jackson's, Monitorial, 182
Mr. Junkins', North School, 133
Miss Thrasher's, Centre School 121
Miss Kidder's, West do. 136
Miss Hodgkin's, Primary do. 132
Miss Powell's, do. 128
Miss Talbot's, do. 76
Miss Baker's, Colored, 23
Total, 1038
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Portland, Maine
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Annual Examination On The 1st Instant; Thursday And Friday Last Week (Reported Sept. 6)
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the state of the schools generally was such as to give a high degree of satisfaction to all who visited them, and a most cheering promise of their future usefulness. total pupils: 1038
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The annual examination of the Public Schools in Portland was conducted by the school committee, several gentlemen of the town, and some strangers. They visited the several Public Schools and examined the pupils in the various branches of instruction. The town of Portland, embracing a population of nine or ten thousand, contains the following public schools with the number of pupils on the day of examination: Mr. Libby's, Classical, 107; Mr. Jackson's, Monitorial, 182; Mr. Junkins', North School, 133; Miss Thrasher's, Centre School, 121; Miss Kidder's, West do., 136; Miss Hodgkin's, Primary do., 132; Miss Powell's, do., 128; Miss Talbot's, do., 76; Miss Baker's, Colored, 23.