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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
edford, Mass.; Timothy Cotting, Esq., Medford, Mass.; Hon. Richard Frothingham, jun., Charlestown, Mass.; Phineas T. Barnum, Esq., Bridgeport, Conn.; Thomas Crane, Esq., New York City; Charles Rogers, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa. Faculty. President, Hosea Ballou, 2d, D. D., Professor of History and of Intellectual Philosophy; John P. Marshall, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and of Physical Science; William P. Drew, A. B., Professor of Ancient Languages and of Classical Literature; Benjamin F. Tweed, A. M., Professor of Rhetoric, Logic, and English Literature; Enoch C. Rolfe, M. D., Professor of Physiology and Hygiene;--------, Professor of Moral Science and of Political Economy;--------, Professor of Modern Languages. Admission to the regular College course. Applicants for admission must produce certificates of their good moral character. If they come from other colleges, certificates also of their regular dismission therefrom are required. For admission to the Freshman C
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Charlestown schools after 1825 (search)
Hill district. March 18, 1839, the trustees passed a vote that the Neck school hereafter be called the Bunker Hill school. A month before this, December 11, Benjamin F. Tweed was chosen to succeed William D. Swan at this school. A petition from Charles Adams and others residing on the top of Winter Hill for establishing a primae audience. Of the three high schools, the Bunker Hill (Neck) is for both sexes. William D. Swan, the principal, goes to Boston, and will be succeeded by Benjamin F. Tweed. The assistant is Miss Charlotte Cutter. The Harvard school, on Town Hill, is for girls. The teachers here are Paul Sweetser and Charles Kimball. (His te45.00 Paul H. Sweetser855.00 Charles Kimball800.00 Mary E. Jones$200.00 M. S. Fernald200.00 Bunker Hill— William D. Swan724.25 Robert Swan175.00 B. F. Tweed157.50 Charlotte Cutter200.00 Primary teachers, each $210, fourteen Schools2,940.00 Winter Hill:— Ann E. Newell20.00 Ellen A. Damon45.00 James Hove280
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Index (search)
s, Bowan A., 16, 21. Tufts, Charles, 11. Tufts College, 85. Tufts, Daniel, 11. Tufts Homestead, 39. Tufts House, 87, 88. Tufts, Isaac, 10. Tufts, Joel, 11. Tufts, John, 10, 60, 61, 70, 73, 87. Tufts, John, Jr., 12. Tufts, Joseph, 89. Tufts, Joseph F., 48, 49. Tufts, Joseph T., 71. Tufts, M. Alice, 53. Tufts, Martha, 53. Tufts, Nathan, 59. Tufts, Nathan, 2nd, 11. Tufts, Oliver, 11. Tufts, Samuel, 10, 55. Tufts, Timothy, 13, 53, 62. Turner, Captain, Larkin, 49. Tweed, Benjamin F., 78, 82, 83. Twombly, James, 92. Twycross, A. G., 71. Tyler, Columbus, 59. Tyler, George W., 49. Tyler, Mrs., Jonas, 86. Underwood, James, 49, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 92, 94. Unitarian Parsonage Grounds, 58. Universalist Meeting House, 81. Upper Winter Hill Primary, 95. Upper Winter Hill School, 92. Ursiline Community, The, Mt. Benedict, Charlestown, 24. Vacations, 1840-41, 96. Valentine, Elliot, 67. Valentine, J. W., M. D., 49, 73, 74. Varnum, N, . J., 15. Vinal
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
s1820from Medford 1821Feb.-Oct. 1822George W. Osborne1820from Bostonb. 1779 d. 1876 1821Nov.-July, 1826Luther Angier 1822Jan.-Feb. 1822Calvin Lincoln1820from Hingham 1823Jan.-Feb. 1823George W. Burnap1824from Merrimack 1827Jan.-June, 1827Jacob Gutterson 1827June-May, 1828William B. Duggan 1828May-Sept. 1832Amos P. Baker 1832Oct.-June, 1833Seth Pettee 1833June-May, 1834Thomas S. Harlow 1834May-April, 1835Alexander GreggHigh School established 1835 FromTo 1835May-Aug. 1838Benjamin F. Tweed 1838July-April, 1840James G. Foster 1840May-Nov. 1842Benjamin F. Gilman 1842Nov.-Aug. 1843Thomas Starr King 1843Aug.-Apr. 1846Aaron K. Hathaway High School in third School-house 1835-1844 1835May-Aug. 1835Charles Mason 835Aug.-Mch. 1836Luther Farrar 1836April-Feb. 1841Daniel H. Forbes 1841Mch.-April, 1844Isaac Ames 1844April-Sept. 1844M. T. Gardner The easterly section of the town, whose early ambitions for a school-house had been so completely buried in 1805, began to
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., Reminiscences of an earlier Medford. (search)
latter with both fore-feet off the ground and a monstrous redundancy of tail. But yet these were accomplishments not to be despised. Afterwards I attended school in the old brick schoolhouse behind the Unitarian Church. It was kept by Mr. Benj. F. Tweed, afterwards professor of rhetoric in Tufts College, and a supervisor of schools in Boston. He was an excellent teacher and did the best that could be done with the incongruous elements of which his school was made up. Here I learned somethuch of grammar except to commit the definitions to heart—as A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, and to suffer. Only Kant and Hegel could gain any information from that definition. I attended this school during the last two years of Mr. Tweed's incumbency, when he was succeeded by Mr. Foster,—an excellent teacher and a good man. I attended his school for a year, and was then admitted to the High School, being twelve years old. Of course I was very imperfectly qualified for such an a