New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-16

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comprising the graduating class. Mr.. VIM Mceiregor
thorough and accomplished teacher, is the Prnci-
pal, and his assistants, Nj. John McNair and MONS
Roux, teacher Of French. The following are tne
names Of the pupils comprising the graduating class
7. R. Dnval A. H. Clark, W. =. Cooa' Du'a'
WA. Clarke, j. v. Hopkins -. :. Z. n.'.
The third class had httle 70 W ses.etuay' oe.us
exercise, in intellectual philosophy only y Wnlcn
they displayed commemorate Resumes. aus uts'
class was examined IN Latin, history, declamauon
and composition, and 'ne second class IN rhetoric.
The compositions were presented as the controu
items and editorial mateI OF nsnt-ent'''eo
:" The Independent "a Wrlesen newspaper .san rs
the news, its topics Deng matters q mere li.efa'
ture, save and except one noticeable local item,
which stood out prominently but alone, and resting
solely upon merits which were sufficient to sustain
it. and to entitle the incident recounted to place
in real newspaper.
The Independent" was in favor Of the acquisition
Of Cuba, advocating the scheme in conservative
leader, was down on Benedict Arnold and treason
generally, and for or against many other OF
matters some OF the compositions which were read
from the pages Of the paper by it's editors being very
clever In the exercises in defamation, two or three
Of the smaller boys showed themselves very fair re-
+ s 3 4s . "
The examination Of this school will be continued
to day. but the graduating class will have little to do,
being exercised in French only, in common with the
whole school, but they viii monopolize Friday, no
other class participating in that days exercises.
GrsLs, H1cH scHooL.-The examination Of this
school commenced on Monday. Miss E. A. Perry is
the Principals her assistants, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs.
Abbott and Mile Loubere, teacher of French. Az.
erage attendance Of pupils, one hundred, Of whom
forty are in the first course, thirty-two in the
second and twenty ght in the third. The first day
was exclusively devoted to the first course, which
was examined in rhetoric, physical geography,
French, history, algebra and composition, with graft
tying results.
Yesterday the second course was catechised in his
tory, French, natural philosophy, rhetoric and chem
isty, the pupils Displaying greater rless proficiency,
but all showing that they had proted by the labors
Of careful and competent instructors, and giving pro
mise that next year will lind them thoroughly drilled
in the various studies, and with inteects enlarged
and strengthened by the enlightened system of Gull
tnre to which they are subjected. We were pleased
with the progress Of the class in the branches Of his
tory and rhetoric. As exercised in the latter many
Of the pupils proved themselves to be extensively in
formed, evncing great acnmen in replies which were
quite as much arrived at by their own reasoning
powera as learned from the book. They had been
taught that they possessed 2 capacity other than
memory-that unfortunate mental part which is TOO
often burdened with an entire Education, leaving
other faculties TO be dwarfed from lack OF the exer
else which would strengthen them and lett TO pine
away into insignifcance.
To-day the examination 81 the third course-the
graduating class-commences to be concluded to
mi
history natural philosophy botany ana COMPOSITIONS
The PAULDING BOYS AND GIRLS ScHooL.-
This, the third on the list OF the primary schools,
underwent examination yesterday. y is in a hand
some and well.ventlated building, at the corner Of
Constance and Gainnie streets and children being
comparatively scarce in that quarter it is both male
and female school the boys having the lower story
and the yard on one side, and the girls having the
upper story, and the yard on the other side.
The school is organized and divided as follows:
Male Department, containing 22O boys, under four
teachers Principal, Mr.. A. L. Lyon first assistant,
Mr. Q. II. Pearce; second assistant, Mrs. 2. NJ.
North and third assistant, Mrs. R. Crane. Female
Department, containing 1876 girls under four teach
ersPrincpal, Miss j. Faconer; first assistant, Miss
81. Hagan second assistant, Mrs. G. E. Leonard !;
and third assistant, Mrs. E. T. Clarke. Total. 415
pupils, uuuer elSut uehCutTss Su!IS b uuluutT vi
ladies, and some few gentlemen, were present in the
different rooms, and we are grati6ed to state that
four members Of the School Board thought it worth
their while to CALL and see how teachers and children
we're getting along.
We looked in upon several Of the younger classes,
and seeing that they getting brayey on divided
The remainder of our time there to the inspection Of
the elder graduating classes-the boys under Mr..
Lyon down stairs and the girls under Miss Falconer
up stairs. Both the Principals, we found labored
under the disadvantage of having classes under
their immediate than usually allotted to the
head teachers-three separate classes under each
circumstance resulting from the necessity Of divid
ing the pupils in each department into four rooms,
instead Of five or six, as in other schools.
Miss Falconer's first class consisted of dozen fine
looking girls, mostly verging upon young lady hood
and they proved that their time had not been wasted
We heard them through reading, geography and his
tory, and were much pleased. In the two latter
branches they gave evidences Of great and severe
study The histories Of different States Of the Union,
called for at random, were given with as much readi
ness and cearness, (save in few instances resulting
evidently from confuson0 as ii they had the whole
OF their books by rote. In geography they took
general circumnayigation of the globe, defining
coasts islands, capes and other points Of navigation,