The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-12
The average attendance has

ing His school is highly satisfactory both for /
order and progress. Miss Renolds is an ener-
getc and faithful assistant and will take charge
of an intermediate school next year.
GIRLS GRAMMER SCHOOL.
| The girls Grammar School, has been under
the charge of Miss Fannie Fisher, with Miss
Sarah Fisher as her assistant, during the past
| year.
| There have been admitted into this school /
during the year 105 scholars. The average
attendance has been about 76
Miss Fannie Fisher las had the charge of
this school for two years, and has given entire
satisfaction. She is energetic and devoted to
teaching and has the happy faculty of keep
ing an orderly school with little or no corporal
punishment; her scholars both love and re-
| spect her and advance rapidly and understand
| ingly. Her assistant is energetic and devoted
to her duties, and has given good satisfaction.
The scholars in this and in the boys Grammer
School have been taught to think, which is more
than half of an education
BOYS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
The boys intermediate School has been
under the charge of Mr.. Thos. Redmond, with
Miss Elizabeth Half, as assistant.
There have been admitted into this school
during the year IA scholars. The average
attendance has been about 80.
Mr.. Redmond has kept an orderly school
and his pupils have been we'll trained, and ad
vanced as rapidly as any scholars attending
our schools, and we think he has generally
given good satisfaction. Mr.. Redmond has
sorted to corporal punishment oftener than is
desirable, and hereafter such punishment will
not be allowed except in extreme cases. If
parents would half govern their children at
home, and not permit them to be proving
about the corners of the streets. absorbing vul-
garity, impotence and wickedness till midnight
from the lowest dregs and excrescences of so.
ciety corporal punishment would not be re-
quired at all in our schools.
4 Miss Half has been faithful assistant and
has given good satisfaction.
GIRLS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
The girls Intermediate School has been I'M
der the charge of Miss r. S. Clark with Miss
Anna Chandler for assistant.
There has been admitted into this school
during the year. 1GG scholars. The average
attendance has been about 81.
) Miss Clark has had charge of this school
from the commencement of our Public Schools.
This school has made good progress and given
general satisfaction, and the children appear to
be we'll satisfied and pleased with their teach
ers. Miss Chandler is san energetic and eff
cient assistant and has had considerable exper,-
ence in teaching.
go PRIMARY SCHOOL.
This school is composed of small girls and
; boys, and has been under the charge Of Miss
: C. Hooker with two assistants Misses Mary
Jane Mckay and Eliza Kellogg. There has
S been enrolled in this school during the year,
228 scholars. The average attendance has
5 been about $50.
Miss Hooker has had a good deal of expe-
. Mo - nj hoe
G school during the past year. With not less
$ than from $50 to 140 small children constant
0 ly under her charge, she has managed to keep
very orderly school, with little corporal
] punishment. She has labored hard and sue
| cessfully, and given good satisfaction. This
d school has exceeded our expectations. Miss
: Hooker's assistants have both labored hard
/ and given good satisfaction.
PRIMARY SCHOOL, MEDICAL COLLEGE BUILDING.
This school is composed Of girls and boys
, the youngest attending our schools, and has
been under the charge ofMiss Rachael Street,
for the past year. There have been enrolled
on this school, II scholars. The average at
r tendance has been about 40.
This school was established in the Old
q Medical College building to accommodate the
small children below Main street, we not be-
: ing able to procure a suitable room nearer, and
! this may well be termed an infant school, as
+ hardly child knew its letters when admit
, ted.
> Miss Street is an experienced teacher. and
\ has the confidence of the parents and the
love of the children.
t The Public Schools during the past year
4 have been highly prosperous and successful.
Harmony, and good order have prevailed, and
our teachers have all labored hard and asst
} duously, and devoted their best energies for
> the advancement of the scholars and the pro-
motion Of the schools, and we feel gratified
that so great success has crowned their eff
:, forts, and we trust that such faithful, unre-
! hitting labor and eXertion will hereafter be
= appreciated by their pupils, if 1t by the
parents.
The Trustees have endeavored to act with
+ impartiality, procuring the best teachers that
could be found, and they invite comparison
: with any schools, teachers or scholars in the
State whether Public or Private. Our aim
s. and that of the teachers from the commence
n ment of our Free Schools, has been to elevate
and raise their character and standing so high
that the Free Schools of Evansville will be-
. come the Lighthouse of The whole city, not
!, only to incite and guide the nobler faculties
: to higher and stronger efforts, but also to
q warn the rampant Young Americans Of ten
. now swearing, smoking and fighting about
% our streets, that there is distinction in hon
or and notoriety higher and more valuable
4 than that of becoming Gods runaway chill
: dren, and the loathsome excresence of juven-
i lie vagabonds. The expense of our schools
, is light in comparison to that of Poor Houses
+ and Prisons and their appendages.
= For more than two years after our Free
Schools went into operation, scholars could
Il not be found in the city sufficiently advanced,
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