The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-06-23
Eofol affairs.

EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS FOR
THE Public SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY. TO
OPEN IN SEPTEMBER, NExr.-The labors of
the President of the County School Board
,, in this department of his duties, and his
assistant, Professor Leakin, of the State
Normal School, closed, at Port Deposit, at
late hour on Friday night, the 18th inst
! The number of candidates, who presented
themselves at Port Deposit, was thirty seven,
| which, with the fiity-nine previously exam
ined at Elkton, as stated in our last issue,
made total of ninety six; seven of whom
only applied for certificates of the lst grade,
and cightynine for certificates of the second
grade.
The exercises for certificates of the second
grade consisted Of thirty three questions IN
photography, Reading and Punctuation
forty one in Arithmetic; forty in Geography,
Mathematical, Physical and Political forty
| five in English Grammar; and twenty.tlrce
| in History of the United States.
The exercises for certificates of the first
grade included all the foregoing, with TWEEN,
ty-eight questions in Algebra; forty in
Natural Philosophy, and tive ty.ive in Book
up in the order in which we have named
them; and the questions in each branch
were required to be returned to the EXami-
| ncrs, with the answers written out, before
| the questions in the following branch were
| submitted. All the exercises were required
| to be written out in the presence of the Ex-
| amlners; and whenever a candidate desired
to leave the room, before completing his
| or her answers to any series of qU ,stions,
the exercises in hand, and questions apper-
tanning to them, were required to be left
with the Examiners until the candidate
should return. Taking copies of any of the
questions, was strictly prohibited, and all
| conversation between the candidates, or with
| visitors during the exercises, was rigidly in
| terdicted.
The exercises, when completed, were
patiently and carefully examiHed, the nature
of each branch estimated, and the whole OF
| each branch equitablY averaged.
From all the exercises of each candidate,
a general average was made; and upon this
general average the granting of certificates
and the classification of the applicants, was
determined The number 10 being estab
lished as the standard of perfectness in each
branch, the number 5 was made the mini.
mum Of value. 1t was decided, therefore,
| that all those candidates, whose general av
crage should fall below that figure, must be
rejectcd-and that those to whom certificates
should be awarded, should be divided into
three classes, thus :-Gencral average, s..
and upwards, LIST class from So to So, I'd
class from to &C, Sd class.
OF the ninety-six applicants, one retired
after answering the first series of questions
and nine others failed to come up to the re-
CURED standard. OF the remaining eighty
six, seven were awarded certificates Of tho
first grade, and seveny-nine, certificates o.
the second grade.
Our space will not allow us to give full
report, but we annex below a table showing
the names of the successful candidates, al
phabctically arranged. with their genera
average and classification: