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Site Catchment Analysis Of The Middleborough Little League Site, Christine Leigh Paquette

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The Middleborough Little League Site in Middleborough, MA has undergone all phases of archaeological investigation, yielding nearly 70,000 artifacts and debitage that enhance our knowledge and understanding of the pre-historic past. This site is unique for its amount of ceremonial objects recovered, more than any other site in southeastern Massachusetts. Many artifacts of this site’s assemblage are made from lithic materials not available within the local catchment area – defined by a 15km radius from the site’s location. These factors beg the question of how this site fits into the context of others within the region. This project analyzes this …

Guide To The Massachusetts Reading Association Records, 1971-Current, Kara Leclair, Orson Kingsley

Archives & Special Collections Finding Aids

Administrative History:

The Massachusetts Readers Association, or the MRA, is a professional non-profit organization of individuals whose primary purpose is to improve the quality and level of literacy in the state of Massachusetts. The MRA is an affiliate of the International Reading Association, a worldwide literacy organization with a network of 300,000 educators in 99 countries. The MRA promotes literacy for all learners through professional development, research, publications, and advocacy for the literacy community. Some of the ways advocacy is met is through an annual state conference; disseminating best literacy practices to educators and parents; advocating for literacy issues through …

Guide To The Mary Jo Moriarty Collection, 1915-1998, Caitlin Gette-King, Orson Kingsley

Archives & Special Collections Finding Aids

Brief Biographical Sketch

Mary Jo Moriarty was born in Boston and received her bachelor’s degree in history from Villa Maria College and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Boston University School of Education. Moriarty worked as a health and physical education teacher at Hyannis State Teachers College from 1937 until the school’s closing in 1944. She moved with the college’s health and physical education program to Bridgewater State Teachers College when the two merged. She taught as a professor in the Physical Education Department, and later served as chairwoman of the Physical Education Major and the Department of Health …

A Slip Of Paper In A Black Walnut Box: An Examination Of The Suffrage Debate In Beverly, Massachusetts 1913-1915, Sarah R. Fuller

Undergraduate Review

It was not until 1920, 72 years after the birth of the suffrage movement, that Massachusetts women gained the right to vote. While other state suffrage associations succeeded in persuading their governments to pass laws securing the vote for women, Massachusetts reformers were met with an overwhelming amount of resistance. The forces behind much of this resistance were the white, middle-class women active in small cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth. Women in support, as well as in opposition, to suffrage in Massachusetts at the turn-of-the twentieth century were the same women swept up in the changing gender roles of …

Bridgewater State College: Adventure In Excellence, Adrian Rondileau

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater State College Sesquicentennial Celebration: A Century And A Half Of Tradition, Excellence, Community, Service, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater State College: As We Were … As We Are, 1840-1976, Jordan D. Fiore, David K. Wilson

Histories of Bridgewater State University

No abstract provided.

The First Parish, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Dorothy L. Mann, Anne H. Bates

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

The history and records of the First Parish Unitarian Church of Bridgewater, as found in the church records and other sources.

First Parish Bridgewater Unitarian Universalist was originally called the South Parish or South Precinct. It was created by an act of the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts in April, 1716. The actual effective date of incorporation was June 1, 1716. In that period a town and its church were considered one and the same. The new congregation in what would later be called the Town of Bridgewater was a mostly amicable split off from the First Church …

125th Anniversary, State College At Bridgewater, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

No abstract provided.

A Centennial Pageant: The First Century, Bridgewater State Teachers College

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

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As We Were, 1840-1940, Bridgewater State Teachers College

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

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A Brief History Of Bridgewater Academy, Maurice K. Walsh

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

The history of Bridgewater Academy begins in the year 1799. The thesis presents the history of the Academy in seven chapters. Chapter I treats of the movement which led to the establishment of the Academy and the factors which brought it about. Chapter II describes the steps taken by the Board of Trustees in satisfaction of the provisions of the Act of the Legislature that created the Academy. Chapter III discusses the conduct of the school as planned by the original Board of Trustees.

In Chapter IV the influences which insured the early success of the school are described. In …

The History Of Bridgewater Normal School, Arthur C. Boyden

Histories of Bridgewater State University

No abstract provided.

Ninety Years Of Progress, Arthur C. Boyden

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

No abstract provided.

Reminiscences For Biennial, 1931, Bridgewater State Normal School

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Education In Massachusetts, 1630-1930, Department Of Education, Commonwealth Of Massachusetts

Monograph Selections from the Archives

A reprint from the 93rd Annual Report of the Department of Education, this pamphlet contains a timeline of the history of education in Massachusetts, prepared for use in the Normal Schools. The timeline is divided into five periods:

1. Colonial Education, 1630-1789: In this period the Massachusetts system of schools was founded, in rough outline – dame schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, and colleges. In the latter part of the period local district schools became prominent and academies arose in the secondary field; also secular textbooks began to replace religious books.
2. Development of State Education – Citizenship, 1789-1860: Upon the formation …

Albert Gardner Boyden And The Bridgewater State Normal School: A Memorial Volume, Arthur C. Boyden

Histories of Bridgewater State University

No abstract provided.

The Pageant Of Bridgewater State Normal School Celebrating Its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, June 19, 1915, Bridgewater State Normal School

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

No abstract provided.

Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Of The State Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, June 19, 1915, Bridgewater State Normal School

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

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The Bridgewater Book

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

An illustrated history of the towns of Bridgewater (Bridgewater, England; West Bridgewater, Mass.; East Bridgewater, Mass.; North Bridgewater and Brockton, Mass.; and Bridgewater, Mass.) and their institutions (including the town library, State Farm, State Normal School, churches, and historical society). Essays in the book were contributed by Francis E. Howard, the Hon. Benjamin W. Harris, Bradford Kingman, John White Chadwick, Lucia Alden Bradford Knapp, Martha Keith, Theodore F. Wright, Albert G. Boyden, and Hollis M. Blackstone.

State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass,. Semi-Centennial Exercises, August 28, 1890; Dedication Of The New Normal School Building, September 3, 1891, Bridgewater State Normal School

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

No abstract provided.

History And Alumni Record Of The State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass., To July, 1876, Albert G. Boyden

Histories of Bridgewater State University

No abstract provided.

A Semi-Centennial Discourse Before The First Congregational Society In Bridgewater, Delivered On Lord's Day, 17th September 1871, Richard Manning Hodges

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

The Rev. Richard Manning Hodges served as minister of the First Congregational Society in Bridgewater (at the time called the South Parish and now known as the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Bridgewater, MA) from 1821 to 1833, after having been ordained there in 1821. On the fiftieth anniversary of his ministry and after a long career in Cambridge and Somerville he returned to his first settlement to address the congregation.

This volume of approximately sixty pages is a complete text of both his discourse and the other elements of a Unitarian religious service of the 1870’s period. The …