The American Journal of Education (Volume 30) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... The next great charity work in this cause was done by Mr. S. H. Hill of Florence. Miss Pcalxxly having given a lecture in the Cosmean hall of that village, and some citizens expressing a desire for the Kindergarten, this gentleman offered his own house and paid Mrs Aldrich to open a nursery and had it free to all the children of the village. This was in 1874-5. The Kindergarten grew and he subsequently paid more Kindergartners, built two houses--one for the teachers to live in, and one acommodating two hundred children. At present there are nearly one hundred in actual attendance. With four Kindergartners paid by a fund that Mr. Hill has put in trust, some other citizens of Florence contributing, and children of all colors and social position are prepared in these Kindergartens for the public schools. In 1876 Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw had two Kindergartners trained by Miss Garland, dividing between them $1,200 and providing rooms, furniture, and material for a charity Kindergarten in Jamaica Plain. Immediately afterwards she did the same thing for Brookline, that town providing a room, rent free, in the town hall. Soon after followed another in Roxbury in connection with a nursery. This Kindergarten of eighteen pupils was under the care of one teacher, paid $600. Then, hearing of Mrs. Mann's effort to get up a charity Kindergarten in Cambridge by means of a subscription headed by the poet Longfellow, she came to her aid with what was wanting. This Kindergarten still goes on, supported by the subscriptions of Cambridge citizens. The perfect success of all these Kindergartens in improving the children, together with the collateral gracious effects on the poor parents, soon stimulated Mrs. Shaw to establish more of them and a nursery in Cambridge, and the same in ...