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It is just, to give great credit to Miss Guild (a lady of long experience in the work) of the "Lincoln" school in the heart of Hampton, the operation of which was not, I believe, seen by Mr. Alvord, at any rate, not her apartment: it does not lack interest, it is ably controlled, skillfully taught, as bright and sparkling a gathering of children, as I ever saw. The other school in the same building is much inferior to it, but doing very well. The lack of interest is, then, not general, and what of it there is, is in my opinion due to an incompetent Superintendent, to the large proportion of the new teachers sent here this year, and to the peculiarly unsettled state of Hampton (156 children in November and 138 in December left the Hampton schools for other parts; 239 joined during those months).

Mr. Alvord visited the schools on, or about the 12th of December, and saw them at a great disadvantage. They were, indeed, owing to the great distance most of the pupils have to walk, much reduced by the terrible cold season in January, and the continuous storm in March; but in February the attendance was, in spite of the large emigration, quite as full as at the same time 

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