Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-07-19
The Review of the school In District


The Review of the school I'm Distric
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We had tie pleasure, last week, of attending
the review of the scholars in District No. /, OF
this CITY, This school has been in operation
less than one year. The children were takor
from all parts Of the district Some few had
been to other private schools; bnt the great ma
jority were arrested as they were running wild
and vagrant through the streets, and coaxed into
effort was made, apparently for the first time, to
subject the untamed specimens ofyoung human
ity to the idea of discipline and comparative or
der. Those only who had the temerity to look
in upon that scene of suppressed tumult and la
borious effort of the scholars in their vain and
fruitless attempt to "be stiU," can have any idea
of the herculean task that presented itself at the
outset of organizing the school. At length
however, (for the longest night has a morning at
the end of IT'D ii was announced that the observ-
ance of the primal law was attained" order
reigned in Warsaw" The classification of the
scholars was soon completed, and by the indie
fatigable labor Of the teachers every thing was
rolling in beautiful harmony.
To the casual observer the effect was most
pleasing, to observe the change of habits and the
effect of the advantage of discipline upon the
success of the pupils in their studies, was in tine
highest degree satisfactory. Since the first
opening of the school, a gradual and marked i'm
boc ~
ency exhibited by the scholars who have been
under the charge of Mr. Marks and Miss Phillips
in the upper room. What we could say with
truth, we fear might be suspected of being ex-
aggerated.
We are satisfied, however, from what expert
ence we have had as data that no pupils in any
institution of learning ever made more progress
in the same length of time than have those in
attendance upon the above-named teachers.
AT the risk Of seeming partial, however, we
cannot refrain from making mention oftwo class
es, one in English Grammar, and the other in
Algebra. The class in Grammar can unrayel
any thing in the shape of the Queens English,
and we will venture the assertion that they can
not be beat by any class in the State, even if
they have studied longer time.
The class IN Algebra have been about one
term under the particular training of Mr. Marks.
we are willing to place them in comparison
with any class of Sophomores in any College in
the U. s. This training has been thorough. and
whoever is not satisfied with the progress that
has been made, and the proficiency displayed by
the scholars as whole, is very ignorant of what
should be demanded of pupils of their age
When Mr. Marks place is filled in the mathe-
maical and arithmetical department in that
school, we hope TO know it. We have under
stood that the Trustees have seen fit to disc
charge Mr. Marks, and have employed couple
of gentlemen by the name of Coe to take charge
of both rooms of the school for the next term.
The lower room has been well managed latterlv
under the charge Of Miss Kellogg; and if they
succeed in maintaining as good order and ensu-
ring as rapid progress in the scholars, as have
those teachers who have left, we shall be salts
fed. We hopo that the friends of the school
will have no occasion to regret the change.
In concluding this article, we may be allowed
the privilege of saying, for the benefit of other
friends of free schools who are laboring for their
establishment in the rising towns and cities Of
this great State, that the experiment of the free
school in the city of Kenosha (Which numbers
its 500 scholars) has been emnentIy successful,
and has exceeded the most ardent desires of its
most sanrilina friends