New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-04-22
/, Annual Examination Of Public Schools.

SECOND pIsTRicr.
Incur paper Of Wednesday gave an account of the
examination Of the Girls School, In Benville street. We
pleased with the exhibition that accepted
the polite invitation of Miss Cooper the Dauphn Street
Girls School, to attend the examination of that School,
yesterday We found the crowded with the beauty
our Creole population end much pleased to End
they took such deep interest in public education Most
the pupils are Creoes The Schools under the charge
Miss Cooper principal English teacher Miss Lou
bere principal French teacher and Miss Pohlouse Miss
Van pycke Miss White, Miss Hubbard and Miss Blanca
Assistants We not present during the examina
ton of Miss Van Dycke's department but all who
present bestowed high praise, ETC. We would have no
objection to going to school ourselves If could have
beautiful young lady Miss Van Dycke for teacher
and we would never desire any vacation.
We listened to long examination In French from Miss
Louberes pupils they passed most excellent
in reading spelling dictation geography, and grammar
ALSO rected several dialogues and speeches in French
After the examinations in French concluded the
Young ladies exercised in the various
of English and exhibited great proficiency in all their
studies We much pleased with the examination in
arithmetic the young ladies solved with apparent
eral very difficult problems in evolution extraction square
and cube root geometrical progression and allegation
Several of the young rected the Orphans Prayer
and other select pieces.
= The following address composed and recited by
Miss Rachel Woodley:
ADDRESS RACHEL woopLEy
When the question asked in the conservative Sem
ate of Paris What shall do for the future prosperity
of our country Educate your families was the reply
of Napoleon Bonaparte Aud pray what has the educa
ton of females do with the prospects Of country
they grid the warriors sword and draw forth the
gttering blade in defence Of threatened berties Can
they oppose the shield and bucker the invading foe
ua bid his ss mot to but far
knowledge they teach boyhood the difference
between and mad ambition, which has been cause
of all the factions that have existed since the creation
it essential then that the daughters Of America
well sons should be educated that this educa
ton should rest on the basis Of trnth and virtue
And in our own generous South this may be done the
child of the rich and the poor have the advantage
Talent and worth duly appreciated ignorance and
vice only desped The stranger visit proud
cy-ths grand commercial mart fthe South and est
and after visiting her various institutions of
sciences will they not turn and view public schools
will they exclam that these the proud mopu
msnts of a noble city Here the youth, in whose
hands the prosperity and future liberties of
try and may the time come when Directors and
worthy superntendents shall see some distinoushed
statesman, splendid scholar emanate from these
public schools And while they hear his spoken
triumph they will feel the glow, not of shame but of
honest pride their cheeks when they reflect that
they were the guardians of that pupils education.
To Directors we would return thanks for your
kind and fostering care, and proud that no dis
union has marked your proceedings in regard to the
schools OF the Old FIRST To Superintendent our
Aldermen Teachers feel that much gratitude
due for the they have taken in our welfare and
improvement. and for the uuweared attention which
they have bestowed upon every one connected with
public schools.
Several compositions in French and English were pre-
sented They well written and the penmanship of
many truly beautiful The following composition is
from Miss Josephine Sora, daughter of our esteemed
fellow-citizen Jacob Soria Esq,
FLOWERS PLANTS.
In selecting subject for my composition have chosen
that will interest alike the school girl and the deep
thinking man of science The Supreme Being has i'm
planted in the of all his creatures love of plants
and flowers and in his goodness he has given to every
portion Of the earh surface those the best suited to the
wants Of its inhabitants.
The Tropical regions, and our sunny South, may
be considered the Paradise of plants for it Is that
they attain such wondrous size and rapid growth it is
here the botanst delights to nger and the poet twnes
his favorte laurel and by his inspirations cherishes
love for this beautiful Eden in the midst which we
first walked into existence Flowers created things
the simple and innocent yet they the most
superby complete they the most useless yet in their
very nutiity consists their chief beauty one
look closely into the structure of plant without
loving it. and its awakening in the mind sense of all
that is good and beautiful They the embems and
of mans love to bis fellow creatures
Flowers the playthings Of childhood the
the grave they beloved by the wandering idiot
and cherished by the condemned criminal in his lonely
CELL who that has visited quiet Cemeteries on All
Saints Day festival relgously observed by the Ca
thoc church, doubt that these beautiful offerings
soothers of human sorrow They fit emblems of
the victors triumphs, of the young BRIDES bushes
welcome to the crowded halls and graceful upon
litary grave Flowers the stars of earth,, What
dreary place would be face without smile a feast
without a welcome and such would be the earth with
out Plants and Flowers.
The exhibition continued until near four O'Clock bpt
there was such deep interest manifested by those
sent the exercises that all regretted its close We
turn thanks the ladies for their polite attentions and
hope that future examinations may prove as satisfac
tory the The usual collation. was spread
u.s. by the teachers consisting Of every luxury and
= good supply of the genuine sehrieder Champagne
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