New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . HIGH SCHOOL SEEING THE SIGHTS. 109 old masterpieces of English literature and the cream of contemporaryauthors, apparatus and cabinets for scientific illustration, museumsfor object teaching, maps, globes, pictures, and musical the last year, for instance, $985 were spent for books, $1252 formusic and musical instruments, including a grand piano for the Highschool and two organs, and $137 for chemical and philosophicalapparatus. A large amount was also expended for purposes thatcannot be


New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . HIGH SCHOOL SEEING THE SIGHTS. 109 old masterpieces of English literature and the cream of contemporaryauthors, apparatus and cabinets for scientific illustration, museumsfor object teaching, maps, globes, pictures, and musical the last year, for instance, $985 were spent for books, $1252 formusic and musical instruments, including a grand piano for the Highschool and two organs, and $137 for chemical and philosophicalapparatus. A large amount was also expended for purposes thatcannot be classified. There are twenty-six school buildings, nine of which are of is one high school, four grammar, fourteen primary, five coun-try, two mill, and four evening schools. The total number of teachersemployed is one hundred fifty-two, and five thousand fifty pupils wereenrolled last year. The cost of maintaining each pupil in the Highschool in 1887 was $ ; in the grammar schools, $; in theprimary schools, $; and in the mill schools, $ Thetotal cost of maintaining


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