Excerpt from Progress in Grammar School Education in Massachusetts, 1887: Third Annual Report

In the year 1884 your committee, in its first annual report, gave a general survey of high school education within the Commonwealth. A year later, the methods used and results secured in the primary schools passed under review. In order to complete the comprehensive view of our system of public schools which was contemplated at the beginning of the committee's efforts, there remained to be examined the field of grammar school work. To compass this task is the aim of the present report.

The method employed in ascertaining the facts upon which the opinions of the committee should rest, has been essentially the same as in the two previous reports. A circular bearing ten groups of questions relating to the subject under consideration was sent to two hundred persons, superintendents and teachers in grammar schools, with a request for an early answer. This request was emphasized by a return envelope, directed and stamped.

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