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Excerpt from Memorial of Joshua Bates Late Master of the Brimmer School, Boston
G. Carter, Charles Brooks, Edmund Dwight, and Horace Mann should ever be held in remembrance, in connection with these schools so indispensable, to a complete system of public instruction.
In 1852, while Barnas Sears was secretary of the Board, the first Teachers' Institute, or Flying Normal School, was held in Boston, although they had been held in other cities before this. The afternoons and evenings of four days were given to it and schools were dismissed that teachers might attend. The meetings were held in the Lowell Institute, and at the close, Mr. Bates as chairman of a Committee on Resolutions, in behalf of the teachers of the city, presented thanks to the Legislature for the establishment of the Institutes.
Lowell Mason, on his return from Europe in 1840, set himself to secure the introduction of music into the schools. This took place in Boston in 1844, and drawing was introduced at about the same time. School supervision became also a subject of discussion, and after years of agitation the Boston School Committee, in 1851, decided to employ a superintendent of schools, and Nathan Bishop was elected to the position.
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