Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-30
Saturday Morning, March 80, 81.
t45-4rH WARD SCHOOL ExANrsATIoS.-


Weyrsterduy afternoon dropped in upon
the i,h Ward School, and spent an hour
or two very pleasantly, witnessing the con-
clusion of lis annual examination. The
examination had been going on all week
and was concluded yesterday by testing
the classes in the higher department of Tie
School. We were not in time to hear al!
the Glasses of this department, but those
we listened to gave evidences, that rnust
have been very encouraging to parents aud
teachers, Of thorough familiarity with
the different branches of their studies.
The frat class in Arithmetic passed very
crcditably. The pupils answered the ques-
tiUns with great readiness and correctness,
almost without exception. The principal
seemed to put such questions AS would tax
the understandings Of his scholars rather
than their memories, and their ready and
correct answers showed that they UNDER
stood, not only the forms, but the sub
stance of this branch. The problems for
the blackboard we're selected in the same
way. The pupil did not know until he
got his problem what would be required,
and hence the correctness of their solu-
lious showed Enthusiastically that they
knew what they about.
After the examination OF the Arithmetic
class, there was spicy little dialogue on
''Cousinly Affections" by Misses E.Dillon,
NJ. HallOwell, F. MCusky, and E. Taney.-
This was followed by the reading of the
School paper ltte Star of tile West, we
believe it was styled, consisting OF COM
positions from the vnrious departments of
the school, with an article or two by the
addresses. Miss u. Stout, and Miss ]. Me-
Gully. Many of these illusions were we'll
written, an exhibited no small degree of
sprightly talent.
After the reading of this paper, that ma
tiOnal anthem. "the Star Spangled Banner"
was sung by the eutiFe school. This was
followed by tue examination Of the class
in Natural Philosophy. Notwithstanding
the general abstruseuess of the subject
and the intricacy of the questions, they
were answered in the main quite readily
and satisfactorily. Owing to tue late hour
to which the exercises had been prOtrac-
ted, the examination of the Algebra Glass
was, Mt the suggestion of the Board of Trus.
lees, dispensed with. The Principal how
ever, insured the audience that the pupils
were fully as well prepared to be examined
in that brnncl, us in tue Others.
..Sirs. Pnrtiugton's Tea Party,"a very
amusing dialogue, in which the old lady's
plumbers were done up in inimitable style
by MissesJ. McCully, f. Dillon, N. HALO
well, and E. McCIusky, followed.
Some very good determinations were de-
livered by Messrs. Henry Hubbard, Samuel
Crawford, and Jacob jefferson. The lat.
ter particularly struck us as being quite
meritoriOus. \ comic speech was deliv-
cred by Mr.. Milton Tharp, which was
amusing and we'll done.
On the whole this school appears to be
acredit to its teachers Mr.. Stephens, the
excellent principal, is, we learn, greatly
beloved by the scholars and parents. The
school now numbers some three hundred
and seventy pupils, and is represented to
US as being in very prosperous eondi-