Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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8 I) EDIT AM HIGH SCHOOL. every one of the two hundred and four questions. The lowest one admitted had given one hundred and seventy-two correct answers, or eighty-four per cent. The school opened Monday, Sept. 15, 1851, and occupied Masonic Hall till September, 1854, when it was removed to the Town House on Bullard street. During the summer of 1855 a High School House was erected on Highland street, and was dedicated on the tenth of December. The school remained there nearly twenty-two years. The present High School House was first occupied October 3, 1887. It is the purpose of this catalogue, so far as it is historical, to indicate the family ties, the occupations, and the residences of all who have been members of the school. As most of the facts concerning those who are still living have been obtained directly from the persons themselves, and as those relating to the dead have generally been supplied by their nearest relatives, it is presumed that the record is accurate. In a few instances, however, no information could be obtained ; but it is hoped that all persons, who have furnished material for this catalogue by filling out the circulars, will find that careful use has been made of their valuable assistance. If errors still exist in the work, it must be excused on the ground that all human performances are subject to imperfections. As it was not convenient to make any other classification, both the teachers and the students are arranged in the catalogue according to the years when they became connected with the School. The Post Office address is printed in Italics.

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INTRODVCTOBY. 7 performed? Rule for placing the numbers to be added or subtracted? Rule for the Product and Quotient in Multiplica- tion and Division? Interest. Explain the terms, p?Hncijjal f interest, rate per cent., amount, legal interest and usury. How find the interest of one dollar for any given time at six per cent? How if it be more than six per cent? How find the interest of any sum of money for any given time at six per cent? How find the inter- est on any sum of money for any given time at any given rate per cent? What is compound interest, and how is the com- pound interest on any sum for any given time at six per cent, found? Reading. Some of the qualities of good reading. Spelling. Correst theas words : Anticquity, extravigant, gramarian, acquiescence, indispensible, conditionaly, imperterpable, physi- ology, escutchon, amazing, waggon, sinopsis, transitary, vertue, opasity, discription, incompleat. Grammar. What is a noun? What a participial noun? What an, asbtract noun? What belongs to nouns? What number is a noun of multitude? What is an adjective? What is an adverb? What is a verb? What belong to verbs? The difference between regular and irregular? What a defective verb ? What an impersonal verb ? What a transitive one ? What is a simple sentence ? O woman! great is thy faith. Give the rule for parsing faith. The rule for woman? A Syro-Phoenician woman. What part of speech is Syro- Phoenician? When is a noun absolute? What is Grammar? Fifty-five candidates presented themselves and spent two days, or more, in writing their answers to these questions. Forty-one were successful. One of the girls answered correctly %

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MELIOTYPE PRINTING CO., BOSTON, MASS.