Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-03-17

Kansas question. We have no room 10
day for his remarks, but will give then
in q NEXT. The speech is worthy III,
reputation of out staunch Senator.
Report of the State Commissioner.
PUBLIC ScHooIs OF TRuMBuLL COUNTY
We extract some items from the re
port of the State Commissioner relative tc
the schools of this County. The Warren
graded Schools were organized in l849
The number of pupils enrolled in the
High School last year was 14s. Aver.
age daily attendance SO. Average age
of pupils Is years. No. studying ancient
languages 2l. No. preparing for Col.
eye 8. No. of teachers 8. No. of Pupil.
in lower department 61o. No. of teach
ers 10. Value of School Buildings,
grounds and furniture Sl4, 500. Appa-
ratus $3.50. Libraries $3.50. Expen-
ditures last year: Paid teachers 50. 400.
Fuel and incidental 1865. Sites, bull
digs and Library $500. Other pur-
poses s4S. Total s7.so4.
Nc. of youth in the County between 5
and 81 years 11.646. No. youth enroll
ed in the schools last year 1854. No.
of Common Schools l47. High 9. No.
of teachers employed-Male 156. Fe-
male 251. Total 4o7. Average wages
per month ofteachers in Common Schools
Of the County, for male 1851 Female
sil,8I. Total amount for teachers in
Trumbull Co. last year S24 $50 90.
Or THE PRESENT SCHOOL SYSTEM OF ONO,
The Commissioner says. it has survived
the dangers incident 10 its Infancy, ard
is now working out its desirable pur-
poses.
He thus speaks of the necessity Of
good teachers:
As the chief of all causes of poor schools
poor teachers stand first. That one hall,
or e-tenth, even, of the thousands of
Teachers in Ohio are in all respects what
their profession demands, no one can Just
" claim. There are among them hun
dreds who possess amirable qualifications
for the performance of the duties of their
high calling: but the fact cannot be de-
MED that there are thousands of others,
whose abilities are such as to demand
no emphatic eulogy. They have sue
ceeded in gaining certificates of uualif
cations for teaching. but the quolyfea-
tions themselves, they have not gained.
Most of the Teachers in the Graded
Schools-of the State, make honorable sp-
.proaches to the qualifications demanded.
The same is true of a portion of those
who teach in the rural districts but of
the majority of them it is not true.
Another cause which proves %ruinous
to the scholarship Ct mullitudes ofyouth
is the fact that they commence and com
plete their education, such as it is. Ct too
early an age. Allusion has already
been made to this fact as productive OF
physical feebleness and deformity. In
:tellectusl debility and distortion origi
nate in the same source of evil.
i Judge that the average age of stu
dents in the prominent Colleges of the
land, is not less than twenty years.
But the average age Of pupils in the High
Schools of Cincinnati Cleveland, Col
umbus, Chillicothe, Circleville, Dayton,
Toledo. Uibana, Massillon and numer.
Gus other towns, is but fifteen years.
This is indeed a sore evil and one
that calls loud for a remedy. The scol.
arship of those who graduate so young.
must be of a low grade. And such
graduates Kill find it difficult to apply to
any practical purposes the branches of
learning which they have pursued.
The graduates of the Mount Holyoke
Female Seminary have, l Judge. gained
3 higher reputation for sound learning
.sad successful teaching, than those of any
similar institution in oar country. How
is it that they have achieved this hon
orable distinction?
The principal cause of their high scol-
arship, is found 10 the fact that none are
admitted as pupils there. till they reach
the age of seventeen years /; and conss-
quentiy none can complete their studies
under the sge of twenty. They are not
children, nor mere school girls /; but
young ladies of sufficient mental maturi-
~ to acquire a thorough knowledge of
the subjects of their studies.
But in many Of the schools in our
State, children between the ages of four
and fourteen years. are rushed over
studies which they are utterly unable to
msster ; and not unfrequently this course
proves fatally injurious TO both body and
mind"
GYMNASTICS AID CAEIsrHEEIcs.
As a daily and inexpensive exercise,
they can be practised in every school in
the State. Grounds, and, when needed
halls. a easily be arranged for the pur-
pose. For boys. gymnastics are invalu-
able; and Galen declared him the best
Physician who was the best teacher of
of Gymnastics. They give f%ullness
and strength to the muscles, they in
crease Aexibility, dexterity and form
of movment, and contribute to grace of
person. By opening the chest. and in
creasing the size and action of the lungs,
they give tone and vigor 10 the whole
organism. Debility, scrcfula. ricketf.
and various determines, are thus RENE
died."
Irregular attendance upon school,
the result Of truancy, ETC., is a sore evil
in all our larger towns. As a corrective
of this evil, a law has been enacted in
MASSACHUSETTS, to punish and prevent
truancy. The several cities and towns
have the authority for the appointment
of three or more persons, who are au.
thorized t. make complaints to Judicial