KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY, Meri- NEW IPSWICH APPLETON ACAD den Village, Plainfield. (Incorporated 1813.) Cyrus S. Richards, A.M., Principal. Rev. E. T. Rowe, Rev. Abel Wood, Assistants. R. H. Duncan, Geo. F. Herrick, EMY, New Ipswich. (Incorporated 1789.) Elihu T. Quimby, A.M., Principal. In 1853 the original charter of this Academy was amended, and the name changed, in honor of the late The net amount of the funds of Samuel Appleton of Boston, from this institution is about $ 50,000. LISBON ACADEMY, Lisbon. John Fullonton, A.M., Principal. whom it has received nearly $30,000. -, Principal. OXFORD ACADEMY, Oxford. Hosea Quinby, Principal. PEOPLE'S LITERARY INSTITUTE, (Incorporated 1841.) PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY, (Incorporated 1781.) Gideon L. Soule, A.M., Principal. ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL, Millville, (Incorporated 1855.) TILDEN FEMALE SEMINARY, West WOLFBOROUGH AND TUFTONBOROUGH ACADEMY, Wolfborough. Lebanon. (Incorporated 1853.) Allen H. Weld, Principal. (Incorporated 1820.) John Wingate, Jr., A.B., Principal. HIGH SCHOOLS. THERE is no town or city in the State in which a Public High School is sustained by tax upon all of its inhabitants. Some large villages sustain, by general consent, schools of a higher grade a portion of the year. Others have secured special legislation, by which certain large districts in the most compactly settled parts of the town are authorized or required to sustain such schools. The following list, it is believed, embraces all schools claiming the title of High School, sustained by districts, towns, or cities. SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. OFFICERS ELECTED FOR 1857-58. Edwin D. Sanborn, A.M., President; Joseph Dow, First Vice-President; Levi Chamberlain, Second Vice-President; Nathaniel Bouton, D.D., Corresponding Secretary; Asa McFarland, Recording Secretary; E. S. Towle, Treasurer; Hon. William Prescott, Librarian; Asa McFarland, Joseph B. Walker, E. E. Cummings, D.D., Standing Committee; N. Bouton, D.D., Asa McFarland, Dyer H. Sanborn, A.M., Publishing Committee; Charles Burroughs, D.D., Joseph Dow, Edwin D. Sanborn, A.M., Committee on Education; Hon. William Prescott, Hon. Matthew Harvey, Dyer H. Sanborn, A.M., Committee on Geology; Hon. C. E. Potter, Committee on Aboriginees. This Society was organized May 20, 1823, and June 13 following it received its act of incorporation from the State Legislature. It has published six volumes of Collections, the first in 1831, of which the earlier ones bear the impress of the mind and efforts of the late John Farmer, Esq., of Concord, one of the greatest antiquarians of this country. THE NORTHERN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. THIS Society was formed June 24, 1841, and is composed of the Professors of Dartmouth College and a few other gentlemen in the vicinity. It has a valuable library of about 1,500 volumes, and a large collection of papers, pamphlets, and MSS. It contains nearly complete sets of the papers which were first printed in New Hampshire, and among which may be mentioned Spooner's Journal, published at Hanover in 1771, and afterwards (1781) at Windsor, Vt. [See Report on Public Libraries, by Prof. C. C. Jewett, page 13.] NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. President. Prof. Edwin D. Sanborn, Hanover. Vice-Presidents.-J. F. Patten, Auburn; Ephraim Knights, New London; S. H. McCollister, Swanzey; David Crosby, Nashua; John D. Lyman, Farmington; William C. Fox, Wolfborough; James W. Patterson, Hanover; Elihu T. Rowe, Meriden. H. E. Sawyer, Concord; William A. Webster, Manchester. Counsellors. Cyrus S. Richards, Meriden; Milan C. Stebbins, Nashua; Aurin M. Payson, Portsmouth; Elihu T. Quimby, New Ipswich; Nathan F. Carter, Exeter; George W. Gardner, New London; Harry Brickett, Reed's Ferry. The objects of the Association and the conditions of membership may be learned from the following articles of its Constitution. "The objects of this Association shall be the promotion of sound learning, and thorough discipline in the schools, throughout the State, by affording facilities for the acquaintance, interchange of views, and united efforts of its professional teachers. "Any practical male teacher, of good moral and intellectual character, residing or teaching in this State, and any professional teacher who has retired from the business, may become an active member of this Association, by signing its Constitution, and paying, in advance, an annual tax of one dollar." Annual meeting, first Tuesday in August. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. THIS educational periodical, published monthly, is under the management of the State Teachers' Association, who annually select a certain number of gentlemen to furnish matter for its columns. Each number contains thirty-two pages. The editors for 1858 are as follows: Augustus Berry, Mont Vernon. E. T. Quimby, D. H. Sanborn, G. W. Gardner, M. L. Morse, A. M. Payson, H. E. Sawyer, Concord, Resident Editor. Terms, $1 per annum. New Ipswich. Hopkinton. Manchester. III. VERMONT. Capital, Montpelier. — Area, 10,200 square miles. - Population, 1850, 314,120. THE Vermont Board of Education was created by an Act of the Legisla ture in 1856. It consists of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, ex officiis, and of three others, who are annually nominated by the Governor to the Senate and there confirmed. The Board of the present year is constituted as follows: His Excellency Ryland Fletcher, Cavendish. Hon. James M. Slade, Middlebury. Rev. Calvin Pease, D.D., Pres. Univ. of Vermont, Burlington. Hon. Timothy P. Redfield, Montpelier. J. S. Adams, Burlington, Secretary. The Secretary is expected to visit the State generally and address the people on the subject of Common School Education, hold an Institute in each of the fourteen counties once a year, and make an annual report of his official doings. The Institutes are held in the vicinity of some prominent Academy or seminary of learning, for the purpose of securing instructors from such Institutions; hence the lecturers are not permanent, but vary according to the place of holding the meetings, which occur during the fall and spring terms of the schools generally. During the last year, Institutes were held in the following towns:- Vergennes, Rutland, Townshend, Windsor, Chelsea, and St. Johnsbury. |