New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-04
FOURTH DISTRICT SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.

, FOURTH DISTRICT SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.
We yesterday spent short time most delight
fully amid the buds and blossoms, human and
vegetable, that bloom in Live Oak 50 Colony" on
Live Oak street, at the corner of Ninth.
We found large increase of pupils since our
visit in April last, there being now eleven divisions
and upwards Of six hundred pupils receiving in
struction from the following teachers:
Male Department.-Mr. Cassidy, Principal; Mr..
Chandler, Miss Werein, Miss Whittier, Mrs. KEEP
lfnger, and Miss Davis, Assistants.
Female DepartmeM-Mrs. Yeiser, Principal !;
Mrs. Zorn, Miss Cochrane, Miss Pettiss, and Mrs
McGrew Assistants
We were panied to learn that one of the ladies
whose little girls last year so delighted us with
their beautiful reading and spelling, and, sad
thought the youngest of the teachers band, Miss
Neelly, is now no more.
Since last year the School Board have erected an
airy, spacious, beautiful delightful addition to the
brick schoohouse. The new rooms are occupied
by the Principal Mrs. Yeser, and the First Assist
ant. Mrs. Zorn They certainly are two of the best
school rooms in the city. This is a move in the
right direction, and we hope it will be followed up
Notwithstanding the additional accommodations.
the sheds and shanties stuck about on different
parts of the school ground, did not seem to us to
have lost many in point of numbers.
Our Live Oak friends do certainly understand
we'll the art of decorating their rooms, as well as
teaching their pupils.
The various classes in spelling, reading, gram
mar, geography, arithmetic, etc, acquitted them
selves with credit Many good compositions were
read by the girls of the two highest divisions, and
many pieces were spoken by the little ones in the
lower divisions, with all of which we were we'll en-
tertained.
Mrs. Yeser, Principal of the Girls Department
showed that her industrious and her motherly cul
ture of the girls under her charge had been as
charmingIy rewarded this year as in former years
Her class passed a most admirable examination.
Mrs. zorn the first assistant, was last year Miss
Wagner. Though changed in name, (and that's
her business, not ours } she is the same kind and
efficient teacher, whose girls love her as they learn
The people around ;here esteem her highly and
justly. Her class yesterday passed most triumph
ant examination.
We regret that we had not the opportunity of
visiting the other lady assistants and their classes
In Mr.. Cassidy, the Principal, the Board have an
excellent teacher. His classes in grammar and
intellectual arithmetic about as good as any
body could desire. His boys seem to be thor
| oughly instructed.
In Mr.. Chaudler's room we saw some of the
efforts of the boys at map making, which, though
not quite equal to those of their sisters at the Lau
rel School, were very creditable; and we hope te
see this branch of art more cultivated. We thinl
it decidedly good way of learning geography.
Many other things we could notice, could we
have devoted more time to them. We were pleased
to see a large attendance of parents and friends
also several of the Directors. To-day we shall try
to spend portion of our time at the Magnolia
| School.