Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-11-26
OHIO UNION SCHOOLS.

ne" class OF institutions has recently sprung up in
country villages, called UNION SCHOOLS The plan is to
unite several small schools into one having one super
vision but various departments The result is more and
better instruction at less expense Ohio has probably
entered more generally literally and more success
FULLY INTO the plan than any other State in the Union
In several instances choohouses have been erected s
the purpose at the expense of from twenty to thirty thou
sand dollars In Crcleville village Of four thousand
inhabitants their Union School house with the land cost
twenty-five thousand dollars Teachers receive salaries
Of eight hundred, ten hundred and fifteen hundred
dollars.
The Union School of Marlboro village of five hun
dred inhabitants IN Stark county, illustrates the policy Of
liberal provision for education in q manner worthy the
attention Of American citizens generally and the citizens
of all other countries 1t is very much extended its
plan and exceedingly successful in its operations From
the normal department Of the school about sixty teachers
have gone under the offer Of hgh salaries females
with equal qualifications, receiving much males
The course OF instruction OF extended and elevat
ed character. by an apparatus costing fifteen hundred
dollars full course Of experimental chemistry given
the various departments of natural philosophy fully illus
trated; experiments electricity and galyansm libe
rally given; physiology and comparative anatomy Illus
trated by manikin and large variety Of anatomical
preparations and, by microscope magnifying one mil
lion five hundred thousand surfaces various departments
of botany and other branches Of natural history
fully illustrated to show the beauties and the wonders
of science.
For knowledge of the English language aconstant
and varied exercises in composition inseparably
nected with eoey branch every department OF the school,
in which orthography etymoogy and synax objects
Of unremttng attention" daily paper also prepar
ed alternately by the ladies and gentlemen and read each
morning as the opening exercise recognised OF
| the most useful features of the school,"
Departments for Agriculture and Engineering arc in
future to be made prominent in the plan Of the school
The rormer embracing oil the sciences win be especially
and practically illustrated by chemistry and geology ak
ing the elements and the analysis of Soils and the various
manures adapted to them subjects of rigid examination
and experiment For engineering the mathematical train
ing will be rigorous with thorough of instruments
in mensuration, surveying leveng plating draughtng,
and designing.
"a rigid proprety in department and language
cheerful compliance with established regulations tho
rough and constant self-conrol, noble and generous
bearing towards Others and pure and lofty religious sen
ments incucaed and in good attained, in the
school exert healthfu influence the habits Of the
people among whom it is located"
During the last year the school has numbered three
hundred and thirty pupils than half of whom
were from abroad The salary of the principal is one
thousand dollars It's public school, opening of
these high intellectual and moral privileges eoy child
in community supporting it, and at the time made
available to many teachers Of other communities.