Registers, 1940-1947

The collection consists of 236 attendance and grade registers maintained by instructors in textiles for both day and evening classes offered at the Institute between 1909 and 1968. Most registers are standard “Massachusetts School Registers” supplied by the state department of education. Instructors’ names are handwritten on the front, in most cases; some registers were shared by more than one instructor teaching the same class. Many registers cover the same course over several years. On either the front or the verso of the registers is an excerpt of the applicable Massachusetts General Laws. Chapter 43, Section I, governs the state supplying registers to every school, and Chapter 72, Section 8 governs the requirement that instructors maintain and turn in registers to the appropriate school committee at the close of any term, to receive payment.