New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-21
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A pressure upon onr columns has prevented our
earlier notice Of most interesting school examina
ton which began Thursday last and concluded on
Friday. we mean the Eighth Ward Girls School Of
the Third District, at the corner Of Elysian Fields
and Craps streets, Of which Miss Fry is principal
This is schools which gives particular evidence Of
the fecundity Of that part Of the city The number
of girls at present is three hundred and fifty and
this is the minimum attendance, as the population
thereaboutis ductuant, and the maximum attendance
daring the last year has been upwards Of six hun.
dred And the children, besides aording the graft
flying evidence above mentioned, give by their ma
tibnality the most solid promise of the populousness
OF the next generation being mostly the children of
the two most prolific nations on the globe-Germany
aud Ireland. f5 y ses sstz ~ aa ss-
In looking upon this host of young buds and flow
efs from the Emerald Isle and the Yaterland,"
however, we were bound to experience emotions of
pleasure and qualification. In them we saw beings
who, perhaps had they been born and raised in the
land Of their parents wonld have risen above
the lowest grades of humsnty--who would have
lived in ignorant serfdom, and died in that hopeless
stupidity which is the blight Of the European mil
lons-hut Who, in this free and enlightened land,
where education and the spirit ofberty flow plenti-
fully as, the rain that falls, are in fair way of be-
coming what God intended them to be-human
beings, fully developed in mind and in spirit.
F{Whateyer may be araigned against the foreign
Population, in the social prejudices and political ex
elements which sometimes irresistibiy oppose their
harmonious admixtpre with the native population,
one thing may be set down as certain, and that u.s.
that the children Of the foreigners, when in their
turn they shall become fathers and mothers OF other
children will be Americans intelligent enlightened
equal with all, and worthy the blessing Of living in
nee and enlightened country. They will, of course,
owe something to the happy chance which trans.
planted their parents TO our shores but they will
owe more, infinitely more, to the public school sys-
tenn of this country, which opens the fountain of
knowledge and beekons to the high and low to drink
thereof and to drink freely. 1t must not be under
stood, from the tenor of these remarks that all the
pupils OF Miss Frys school are of foreign parentage.
There are great many American children attending
the school, bat the foreign children largely outnum-
hcr them. q. ,,4-,7,, .,,, ,,,-...-5e..-
Miss Fry who teaches the first English class has
six assistants Mrs Bourges, first assistant Miss A.
j gCplson, second; Miss Mary A. Hoy, third Miss
Rachael NJ. Woodley, fourth; Miss Eunice Smith,
fah-al in English; and Miss vlavant French
teacher. All gave a good report Of themselves
during the examination, through the children. The
primary classes were examined on Thursday and the
upper classes on Friday. The rain of the latter day
prevented any extensive visitation by the public butt
those who got to the school before the rain and the
b1perintendentand others whose duty it was TO crltl
else had the pleasure Of witnessing an examination
which reflected credit alike uponteachers and pupils
We were unable to be present for any length Of time
but whilst we we're present, all went on in the most
admirable manner. The rectanons aud other forensic
exercises Of the girls, at the close, were happily
chosen and admirably given; and it gives pleasure
to echo the praise which awarded to Miss Fry by
those whose duty il was to weigh her. and who by no
means found her wanting.
Tie Seventh Ward Girls School, at the corner of
Frenchmen and Morales Streets is to be examined I
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