Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-28
Friday Morning. March p, 1856.
Our JIuaIcIpaI Affairs.
THE PUBLIC scHooLs.-CoxcLuDED.


September, 1855, and the Board of Edu-
cat.ol were sorely pressed for room to ac-
como llte the pupils. Tie building COM
m;ttee of the Bolr procured the hall over
the engine house on Capitol Hi, a room
in the rear Of the McKendree Church, a
room at the corner Of Cedar and Vine
streets a room ia the Third Presbyterian
Church, on Spring street, Lincoln'S Hall on
Cherry street, aud a room in the Baptist
Church in South Nashville. Many of these
rooms, as WI as several rooms in the
III lme building, were crowded to excess,
so ne Of them having as many as one hun
drei pupils TIE building committee, com
posed of x. ]. Meigs, Allen A. Hall, and
Charles Tones, recommended to the Board
Of E Location the importance Of providing,
w.tlo1t delay, accommodations for two or
three ad l'tiOnal schools. With view to
c0l-entrlte the schools as much as posi-
bic, and maintain the system originally
adopted, the committee recommended the
erection of school building north of Cedar
street aud an addition to the South Nash
vile schoo-houSe, so that it would afford
room for 400 scholars The building north
Of Cedar, they suggested, should be Of
capacity sufficient to accommodate 400
pupils. The Comm ttee further remarked:
'Bpt your committee believe. and indeed
entertain doubt. hut that the scholastic
pn"nlati"n nf the CITY il not less than $500
aud il il needless to say, that every child has
an eqpal titS 10 the b.uetif~ of the Free
Schonls. ard that II the CITY undertakes the
du'y of ,ducating IT, Nnuih NJ all, n half way
performance. on accou"f of it, inequality. j.
wholly inadmi-s'blp. r. is plain, therefore
thai there Is uo room fer rrcrdlug. aud that
there IS nn'hns let fer ~, hat 4" erect auo-
thor hHidirg. ~ a very early dnv. upun The
II ~ Scr""l lnt large enough 20 accommodate
uot le- than 800 pupils"
TIE City Council, in accordance with
portion Of these recommendations, bought
the lot on the corner of Summer and Line
streets, of John p. Erwin, made contracts
for the binding, and the house is now in
process of erection A census Of the scho
laStic population was ordered, and Henry
y Myers was employed TO take such a
census. The result showed the scholastic
population of Nashville to he 24I4 in that
portion of the city embra, ed in the first
civil district Of the county. NJ. c. Cotton
and Charles COnger took the census in the
9Th district, aud the report shows that
the scholastic population in that district
within the corporate limits, was jl3-ma-
king the aggregate scholastic population
ia the corporate limits, 1921 SO that
President Fogg was below the mark, when
he estimated the scholastic population at
$500.
TAe success Of the system, by which all
the children Of the city should have the
facilities Of an education afforded them. is
no longer probematical 1t was entered
into originally with some forebodings, and
with evident misgivings as to the result of
the experiment The public school system
of Nashville l., however, no longer an Eek
pertinent" Success, the most unbounded,
has crowned the undertaking, and the Sys-
TEN is firmly engralted upon the minds Of
the people No oae, at all familiar with
the beginning Of the enterprise, can fail to
acknowledge that its success is beyond all
precedence.
Let us for a moment, look at the pres
ent condition of these schools:
Tae number of tickets of admission is
sued last session, was l,6S2. The great.
est number in attendance was 1871, viz
697 males and GA females. The number
of tickets issued for the present session,
now in progress, was 1901. or these,
1000 were for boys 9Ol for girls. Tue
average daily attendance is about | 400
There are twenty i've schools, taught by
as many teachers, who were employed by
the Board Of Education after a most crit.
cal and thorough examination. As some
little murmuriug has been made in rela-
ton To Yankee teachers" in an opprobri-
Gus sense, by few who have not taken the
trouble to inform themselves on the subject,
we will note the ee,hty from which these
teachers come.
OF the % schools, II are conducted in
the Hume building, as follows -
Two primary schools, taught by Miss
Eyelina Buie, Of Nashville, aud Miss Lizzie
5. Pearl, OF New Haven, Connecticut Two
intermediate schools, taught by Mrs. Ellen
Scott, of Nashville, aud T. Lindsey Nichol,
A. b., Of Na>hyille-one for girls. the
other for boys. -Four grammar depart
ments for girls, taught by Miss Emily II.
Brown, of Massachusetts, Miss Christina
Henderson, of New Hampshire Miss Ma.
ry L. Dunn, of Nashville, and Miss Della
Tdrbox. of New York The two FIRST
named teach the branches pertaining 10
strictly High school" Two grammar de.
partments for boys, taught 10y K. Dorman,
of Massachusetts. aud w. b. Thompson,
A. b., of Nashville. One classical depart
ment, taught by S. H. Tobey, A. B, Of
Massachusetts One commercial depart.
ment, taught by l.. G. Tarbox, A. b., Of
New York
la the Soath Nashville Institute build
ing, there are four departments, taught by
c n paldu,.u II or Na.A..at