Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-04-27
Chr ltwisburg Cbronifle.
FRIDAY, APRIL -, 1881
s.n0rial Correspondence Of Lewisburg Chronicle
State Convention.
HARRISBURG, April Is, 1St


iutendents of the Common Schools, met
in the Supreme Court room in the State
Cani,ol, On Wednesday last, the 1lth
inst. at l. o'clock, noon. The at
tendance was quite large, some forty -one
County Superintendents, among whom, l
noticed, the Superintendent of your coun-
,y, was Present. An eloquent and for
chile opening address was delivered by Mr.
CURTIN, State Superintendent. The COM
mittee appointed at an informal meeting
in the morning, reported the following as
the permanent officers of the Convention:
President-TuoMAs NICHOLSON, OF
Beaver county.
Vice Presiients-Rev. WM. A. Coop,
Berks county, Rev. WM. ). GIBSON, OF
Centre county.
Secretaries-E. NJ CoNKLING, Montour
county, JOHN KLuGg, Lebanon county.
An Executive Committee vas then ap
pointed TO prepare business for the Con-
eention. Committees we're also appointed
to invite the Legislature and the Cover
nor to be preseut at the sessions Of the
Convention, and to invite DR.. NJ CLINToCK,
of the Senate, Chairman of the Committee
on Education, to make an address before
the Convention. The Convention then
adjourned to meet in the Hall of the House
of Representatives, and it was ordered that
verbal reports should be heard from Coun
ty Superintendents, of their operations in
their several counties, until the Executive
Committee should report and other busi-
ness would be prepared for transaction.
In the evening, the Convention met in
the Senate Chamber Professor Hart de-
iivered lecture and explained the archi-
tectural construction Of the Philadelphia
High School The verbal reports of Su-
perintendents were also continued.
The Executive Committee reported the
following items Of business, on which Com
mittces were respectively appointed
l. What have been the effects, thus far,
of the County SUPPLEMENTARY on public
feeling in regard to education, on Direc-
tors, on Teachers aud on Schools ?
9. BY what means can the local curer-
vision of Schools be most improved, ,wheth-
or by paying the present number of direc-
tors for the time necessarily occupied ir
the discharge of their official duties by
reducing their number and paying them,
or by the appointment by them of De-
putty Superintendent with reasonable
compensation for visiting the schools in
accordance with their instructions?
3. Would the adoption of uniform
series Of text books in each county, be in
accordance with the existing Common
School Law; be promotive of the true OBJ
jects of the Common School System of
Education, or conducive to the efficiency
of the schools?
4. Should provisional certificates con-
tinue to be issued, if SO under what cir,
cumstances and for what timer
S. For what reason. should Teachers
Certificates be aunuled, and in what man.
ner, and how should the annulment be
made known?
6. Should State Certificates be issued to
Teachers I; what degree of qualification
and experience should be possessed to OBJ
tain them, and in what manner, and by
whom should they be examined!
The Committees appointed on these sub
jects made able and interesting reports,
which became the subjects of discussion
during the sessions of the Convention.
The Committee on Provisional Certificates
reported favorably to their continuance for
the present with scale of gradations.
The report on the second item, was dis
cussed at some length. 1t was generally
conceded that Directors ough. to have some
compensation for their services; that on
account of the time spent and the expen'
ses necessarily incurred by directors in
attending to the discharge of their off
cial duties, especially in districts in the
country, it would be nothing more
than right that they should receive some
reasonable remuneration for the time and
Services thus rendered for the general good.
The report was finally recommi.ted to the
Committee with the request to report
again at the next meeting Of the Conven-
tion.
On Thursday evening addresses were de-
tivered by Gov. Pollock, DR.. NCLIH
rocK, of the Senate, Col. CURTIN, Super
inteudent, and also by the Deputy Su
perintendent, and at IL! o'clock, P. NJ
the Convention adjourned to meet at the
call Of the State Superintendent, which i
rs understood will be at Reading, in Sep
tember next.