Note 14 — Chapter I · The Period of Beginnings

General Statutes of Massachusetts, 1860, ch. 38, sec. 1, p. 215; Public Statutes, 1882, ch. 44, sec. 1, p. 299. According to a table in ‘A. J. Inglis’ The Rise of the High School in Massachusetts (Columbia University, New York, 1911), p. 90, history was offered in six out of seven towns in 1860, with a per cent of 200 with algebra as a base of 100 per cent. This would indicate an interest in history to a considerable extent.