514    STATE    REFORM    SCHOOL.

Before the Fall term 1871, Silas H. Pearl, A. M., was elected
Principal, remaining in charge until his decease in August, 1873,
when the Trustees employed the present Principal.

Terms of Admission, and Course of Study.—Candidates
must pass examination in the fundamental rules in arithmetic—the
natural and political divisions of the earth, and the general geog-
raphy of this State, in geography; and the first principles of gram-
mar and analysis.

There are two courses of study—the first including the common
English branches ; the second, the higher. Graduates of the first
course are entitled to teach in this State, without further requisi-
tions, for three years, and for the second course, five years.

Location and Buildings.—Plymouth is near the geographical
center of the State, at the confluence of Baker’s River and the
Pemigewasset, on the line of the Boston, Conco d and Montreal
Railroad, about fifty miles fro .: Concord. The buildings are mod-
ern in style and convenience, the school buildings having cost near-
ly $ 20,000, and the boarding house being situated just above it,
on one of the most beautiful sites in the village—overlooking the
valleys of both rivers and with a fine view of the mountain region at
whose gateway this charming summer resort stands. See engrav-
ing of building on page 306.

STATE REFORM SCHOOL.

Trustees.—Hon. Daniel Marcy, Pres., Portsmouth ; David
Gillis, Esq., Nashua, Hon. William P. Wheeler, Keene, Hon.
Daniel Clark, Sec., Manchester, D. C. Churchill, Esq., Lyme, Hon.
L. P. Cooper, Croydon, Edward Ingham, Sup’t. and Treasurer.

The New-Hampshire State Reform School was chartered in 1855,
and one hundred acres of the Gen. John Stark farm, lying on the
east bank of the Merrimack River, in the city of Manchester, one
and one-half miles from the City Hall, was, the same year, pur-
chased for its location, at a cost of ten thousand dollars—to which
ten acres more land, from the same farm, have been added, at a
cost of one thousand dollars.

Buildings, suited to the design of the Institution, were immedi-
ately erected, at a cost of three thousand dollars, and, in 1858, it
was opened for the reception of “Juvenile and Female Offenders
ag-ainst the laws,” under the title of “The House of Reformation ”,

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which was subsequently changed to its present name.