. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . y Beal. Susannah Nichols. William Bordman. Caleb Lothrop. Deborah Hayden. Abraham Tower. One week vacation, November 12 to November 19. ADDITIONS FOR THIRD QUARTER, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1804, TO FEBRUARY 11, 1805. Sally Lewis. Sophia James. Southward Stockbridge. 388 HISTORY OF COHASSET. Festus Litchfield. Allen Hall. Lot
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . y Beal. Susannah Nichols. William Bordman. Caleb Lothrop. Deborah Hayden. Abraham Tower. One week vacation, November 12 to November 19. ADDITIONS FOR THIRD QUARTER, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1804, TO FEBRUARY 11, 1805. Sally Lewis. Sophia James. Southward Stockbridge. 388 HISTORY OF COHASSET. Festus Litchfield. Allen Hall. Lot Stodder. Enos Bates. Phineas Bates. Thomas Lothrop Joseph Hayden. Peter Pratt. Hannah James. ADDITIONS FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER, ] MONDAY, FEBRUA 25 1805, TO MAY 20, 1805 Amasy Bayley. Bela Bates. Abigail Otis. Caleb Bayley. Nabby Woodward. Betsey Lewis. John Beal. Maria Doane. Susannah Lewis. In the third quarter tuition increased to thirty cents andforty cents per week; thirty cents per week if taught bypreceptress, 40 cents per week if taught by Photo, Octavius H. Reamy. Winter Scene from Sunset Rock. But the Cohasset academy was unable to get firmlyestablished. There were not enough people who wouldafford to pay the necessary cost of this private or semi-public tuition. Those who had put money into the enter-prise had grown tired of it at about the time of the War of1812. They were not willing to add to the outlay byhiring teachers to carry on the school. An attempt wasmade to sell the building, but it could not be sold. Then began its career as a sort of town hall. Theupper room had been already the place for many public SCHOOL PROGRESS AND THE ACADEMY. 389 meetings, one of which we have noted — the celebrationof peace after the War of 1812. For thirty years and more the hall was rented for vari-ous purposes — singing school, theater, debating society,March meeting ball, phrenological lecture, temperancemeetings, and other gatherings. It was used as a sail l
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