New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-23

New ORLEANS, June @, 1866.
Ediior GreScent-Sr: The annual examination
of our public schools is one of the most interest
ing features arising from our municipal polity
| and this very agreeable phase Of the course of
education has been progressing in the various dis
trcts, for some weeks past, but is now drawing to
a close. TWAS nay good fortune TO be present at,
and enjoy the pleasure Of these examinations as in
The days of cate Jellunl.
Our city, mean our people-cannot fail to be
extremely grateful for the marked improvements
manifested in She various schools, since " grim
visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrnkled front, -
and these improvements are chiefly due to the
indofatigable and gentlemanly superintendent,
| VIZ. o. Rogers, ESD, who, within the past year
has sully organized and put them in complete
| operation. The result attained is exceedingly
ereditabe and must necessarily be very crafty
ing to him.
On Tuesday last had the felicity to visit the
Jefferson and Webster schools, on Dryades street.
the latter Of which ID one OF the most notable
scholastic institutions Of our city and over which
that refined lady and accomplished scholar Mrs. r.
A. Crane presides as principal. She is graduate
of the High and Normal schools, endowed with
intelligence of no common order, gifted with cana
bilities of inatructng youth to the best possible
advantage and possessed Of intellectual qualities
rendering her IS one best fitted for the highly re-
sponsible position she occupies.
This school is attended by some five hundred
and fifty girls of all ages within the prescribed
lzaits, of varied Eationaties, and as bright and
Intelligent a congregation as could be picked out
n any part of the world. In fact, unless specially
selected for special exhibition, 1 do not
believe Mrs Cranes little army of learn
ers conld be equaled by the same number
OF girls. no matter where sought for.
From what saw and heard of the critical ex-
aminationG made by Superintendent Rogers, and
the complex nature of the questions propounded,
am convinced that the reputation of this school,
which has nat been gained to-day, was 81 well
sustained as ever.
The girls generally exhibited s quickness in re.
plying that showed they had been diligently and
fifty trained; yet there was some lack Of responses
and errors committed, but it was more the result
OF tinidity or perpieXity consequent on the for
mality Of the occasion, and particularly to the
large number OF young men, or rather boys with
ineipient abOrtiOns Of maustaches, and generally
as "tads, HwhG crowded the principals
apartment and materially deteriorated the exam
it was not inherent slownesg or
want of attention
The regular order of the day was most agreeably
diversified by history grammar, arithmetic.
geography recitations, and compositions Some .
If which brought forth warm demonstrations of
applause to the manifest qualification Of an I'M
Isualig large number of visitors.
] was particularly interested in Mrs. Cranes
xeTcises on analytical grammar, and the most
ovel feature Of all is a daily newspaper edited in
he school by several of the young ladies', and
nul'ed Iha Bud was favored with perusal
I the mimic sheet, by a very charming young
10y whose bright blue eyes made me forget her