WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,

18 POST OFFICE SQUARE.

APPROVED BY

THE STATE BOARD OF PUBLICATION.

CONTENTS.

I. MEMBERS AND APPOintees of the Board of EDUCATION,.

VI. - REPORT OF JOHN T. PRINCE, AGENT OF THE BOARD, "SCHOOL

ORGANIZATION AND SUPERVISION, ETC.,"

173-192

VII. - REPORT OF JAMES W. MACDONALD, AGENT OF THE BOARD,

"LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS OF MASSA-

VIII.-REPORT OF JULIUS E. WARREN, AGENT OF THE BOARD, "INDUS-

TRIAL EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS,"

257-265

IX. - REPORT OF FREDERIC L. BURNHAM, AGENT OF THE BOARD FOR
THE PROMOTION OF MANUAL ARTS, "SUPERVISION AND THE
TEACHING OF THE MANUAL ARTS IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS," 267-296
X.-"INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS," AN AD-

DRESS BY GEORGE H. MARTIN, SECRETARY OF THE BOARD, 297-316

XI. - REPORT OF VISITS TO NORMAL SCHOOLS IN OTHER STATES, BY

JOHN G. THOMPSON, PRINCIPAL, FITCHBURG STATE NORMAL

PAGE

317-328

SCHOOL,

XII. AN OUTLINE IN ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY, BY BRENELLE HUNT,

PRINCIPAL, STATE MODEL SCHOOL AT BRIDGEWATER STATE

XIII. - REPORT ON SPECIAL SCHOOLS FOR DEAF, BLIND AND FEEBLE-

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XV. ABSTRACT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES' RETURNS FOR 1907-08,

i-cxx

XVI. - INDEX,

cxxi-cxxxii

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

1909.

EX OFFICIIS.

HIS EXCELLENCY EBEN S. DRAPER, Governor.

HIS HONOR LOUIS A. FROTHINGHAM, Lieutenant-Governor.

1 Appointed March 10, 1909, to succeed Carroll D. Wright, deceased, who was appointed June 30, 1908, to succeed Caroline Hazard, resigned.

2 Deceased, April 28, 1909.