New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-14
Nem Orleans 4ailp Crescent
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL IA, 1860.
FOURTH DISTRICT SCHOOL EXAMINATION.

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SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL IA, 1860.
FOURTH DISTRICT SCHOOL EXAMINATION.
1 Away we HE'D us again yesterday to the z Gar
den District not to it alone, but throsgh its clea
and shaded avenues, lined with poetic cottages
mansions, half hid amid the fresh and clustering
| verdure Of spring and the breezes laden will
| sweets which sunny April dstils from the wealtl
Of roses, honeysuckles, and other delights Of ma
ture, from which the District so happily takes 1T
| name. All the way up through the District w
| sped, till We arrived at its verge almost till We
reached the corner Of Ninth and Constance streets
| where the young intellect of the Live Oak Schoo
| was showing to admiring parents and other Wis
| itors how it had been taught to shoot during the
| past year.
| shady, pleasant place, but cramped; thu
young multitude filing two-story brick building
| two frame buildings on an adjoining lot, and 9
third frame building across the street, the frames
| small cheap structures, put up by the Director:
| through necessity regular colony of a school
But, though crowded, the rooms all looked charm
ing the bright faces and clean gay clothes Of the
little girls and boys the wealth Of flowers piled
around on mantels and desks, the evergreen
i
word on the wall in the Fourth District schools on
| examination day, (" Welcome z eutin evergreen
the pleasant greetings given and cordial feeling
| manifested on all sides among teachers, visitors
| Superintendent, Directors and all these all com
/ bned to render the rooms charming and we were
| much pleased with our visit yesterday.
The Live Oak School, like the other schools Of
the Fourth District consists Of boys and girls
| department, the pupils numbering 2sS boys and
| 262 girls-total 55O-under the care Of ten teach
ers; Mr.. j. G. Cassidy being principal over the
boys, and Mrs. Yeiser principal over the girls
| The boys are divided out as follows:
| Division A-Mr. A. G. Cassidy-34 pupils.
Division B-Mrs. A. b. Chandler-40 pupils.
| Division C-Mrs. Skardon-60 pupils.
Division D-Mrs. Keplinger-7S pupils.
| Division E-NIiss Werlein--76 pupils.
| Whilst the girls are divided out among the fol
lowing ladies':
Division AIRS. Yeiser-F pupils.
Division B-Miss Wagner--53 pupils.
| Division C-Miss Coehrane-49 pupils.
| Division D-Miss r. Neelly-55 pupils. @
| Division E-Mrs. McGrew-5s pupils.
Seven Of the above teachers are graduates of the
| First and Fourth District High Schools, and all
bear the best reputation for assduity and ability
| in teaching We were able to visit only three 81
| the rooms yesterday.
In Mrs. Yeser's ROOM the girls Of the first grade
| parsed and analysed with great clearness and
| promptness. We were told by those who had beer
longer present. that in their other exercises the
girls were equally good We listened to their music
1 and their literary exercises with much pleasure
| They have piano, which they hire at their owl
| expense. Miss Blanche McCants and Miss Eller
| Connell presided at the piano whilst we were there
and the other girls aided them in an offering o
| melody which was sweet enough.
! Misses Laura Parker and Ida Carr read pleas
ant dialogue upon the relative merits of public and
private schools; each having written her own par
of it. What else we saw in the first girls depart
ment gave good evidence of the care bestowed
upon the girls by their kind and attentive teacher
| In Miss Wagner's room Second grade) the girls
| passed most admirable examination. Miss Wag
ner, who is High School graduate, and has taugh
for six years, is highly esteemed, not only by the
Directory, but by the parents Of the girls in hel
care for the great interest with which she attends
to her girls and the great headway that the girls
make in rstudes. Beside this, the girls all love
her very much. What better honor could teacher
desire than this? We need not detail the goot
points shown upon the examination of this class.
| The dialogues and compositions were uncom
kind to a'' was prettly read by Mary Jans
| Young, and so was "Too late,'i by Louisa Dolan
| The First Recollectionsn of Henrietta Folkes
and Jane Rayne's description of Life in tht
Country were very entertaining. octavia Beau
vets account of 'Storm at Sea- was about a.
good as the best. Mary A. Fulkerson read quite
| learnedly about the Discovery of America.
Mary Pierce and Annie Hartwell read pleasant ac
| nf4 4t,airf froy,n
the latter closing with the declaration that she wa
now under the teacher she wanted, and did no
wish to be promoted! sRat or Mousse dia
| logue by Buena Vista Parker and Jane Pierce ant
a dialogue by Octavia Beauvet and Mary Fulker
son. afforded equal qualification to the spectator
| who were seated around. These girls also CAV,
some piano music and singing they hiring thei
piano, the same as the girls in the other room.
| In Mr.. Cassidy's room, in the house across th
street, the first grade boys were showing thei
proficiency like band of little majors. Mr. Gas
sidy is another sterling teacher, who discharge
his trust with great success, and takes as much in
terest in the boys as if they his own children
Of the five hundred boys who turned out in TIL
Clay procession on Thursday, about half were th
boys of this school, led by Mr. Cassidy, who ha
kindly provided them with flag and badges AM
rosettes. Yesterday the boys had their flag on tn
wall, and were still wearing their ribbons, in homo
of examination day. We only had time to hea
the boys through their parsing, which they di
well, and some of their reeitatons. Master Charlie
Ferguson's speech Of counsel in tile famous case c
"Hobson Us, Nobson," was excellent the " Wis
of Mr.. Quidnunc to Mr.. Feeble" was cleyerl
talked and acted by Richard Burke and John Mi
ler and Julius Lund's address on the Duties q
Americans was very well given. Parents an
| others who visited the rooms of the other boy.
expressed themselves gratieti with all they ha
seen. The school, altogether is brave on,
sturdy and fiourishing as the tree whose name
bears. 1t ought to have better accommodation:
though.
Before we left, Mr.. Gassidy's boys paid us
very delicate compliment bunch of roses an
honeysuekles nearly as large as haIf.bushel, tie
together with big strip of fancy blue ribbon
which latter we intend to use for neck tie,
compliment to the boys, as soon as our spotte
summer shirts are done. The flowers are alt,
gether powerful.
An interesting fact in connection with the Liy
Oak School is, that between sixty and seventy
the boys and girls are orphans, from the 40
phans' Home.''
The primary school examinations of the Fouri
District are now finished. The High School e,
i att