The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-23
school examinations.
FORENOON.

FtfSt BOyS) Iftern1e0tGte.-In the
forenoon of yesterday, the examina-
ton of the First Intermediate School
took place. There were registered
eighty-six scholars, seventy-six being
present at examination. Like the
other intermediates, this one is d.
vided into four classes. The ladies
who have control Of it, Miss O. Byrne
and Miss Ashley, are very successful
teachers, and evidently labor earnest
ly and faithfully for the best interest
of the scholars. They are among the
best teachers in the city, as the exam
ination proved, notwithstanding the
excessive heat and ooppressiveness of
the atmosphere, Yltis 1, ll5 a
The First Glass in this school is
composed of eighteen boys, who had
completed the entire book. The
class read correctly and well through
out, but some of them spoke too Tow.
This fahltWas observablelto greater
or less extent throughout the exam
ination, probably on account of9their
being quite number of scholars that
had been admitted to the school at a
late day In the quarter. In Mental
Arithmetic, we noticed two who failed
to recite perfectly-one was a boy
who had uniformly been first in his
class. At this failure, the little fellow
was exceedingly mortified. He had
of course expected to please his teach
er and parents, and was confident that
he would succeed, hence his great
modification at the failure. In spell
ing, the class made but few failures.
During the entire recitation one word
was missed, and only one we believe.
In Geography, the class was first rate.
There were one or two who did not
answer readily, but the examination
as whole, was highly satisfactory to.
the visitors. We heard number ex-
press satisfaction with it and speak
laudatory of the class in every partic-
ular. !. The recitation in Rays Arith=
metic was short, but evineed clearly
that the boys had not been idle, nor
The teachers negleetful of duty.
2 The second class read very well in
deed, and spelled exceliently. If there
was a failure in Spelling or blunder
in Reading, it escaped our notice. In
Geography the class was very good.
During lengthy examination there
were but FIVE who failed to answer
readily and correctly, which was GER
tainIy doing we'll There are quite a
number of small boys in this class
who are very quick and exceedingly
apt In Mental Arithmetic the class
was not so. ready as in Geography, but
there were but two who failed to solve
the problems given them. Several
hesitated, but gave clear solution of
the questions without assistance. The
class is good one, and certainly gave
to all. aaiIaa r
The Third Glass had passed over
forty lessons. InMental Arith.
metic, five boys failed TO answer
readily, but solved the problems after
! little hesitation. Those ladies have
a quiet way of giving confidence to
+he scholars, that greatly assists such
Is are disposed to be timid. In &C.
the class did not make fail
ire. 1.-THE questions were answered !
readily and intelligently In Spelling
here were perhaps a half dozen
words missed, and not more. The
class throughout recited well, and |
bore an excellent examination. The !
parents of the boys comprising it may
Justly feel proud of the class, as we
ire sure the accomplished ladies who
aught'it did. 92 - r. go
The Fourth class had passed over
.hirty-eight lessons, and is composed t
If twenty boys. In reading we
noticed that two boys missed, or
niscalled one or two words, which
we're corrected With that excep-
ion, the reading was excellent. In
spelling, two only failed to spell cor
,ectly. The examination in geography
vas somewhat protracted, but the
boys passed well. The anxiety of
some of them to appear perfect was
plainly manifest. Four or Ave cues
ions were missed in this branch of
study. In, Mental Arithmetic the
lass answered the questions pro- Q
with great readiness. A few
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