Evening star., 1867-06-18

THE PUBLIC ScHooLs-Anmual Examination.
The following schools were examined yes-
terday:
FIRST Distriet-Eighth (femaIe} Primary
school, Miss Marie Marsh, teacher This
school occupies q comfortable and well ven
tilated room in the basement of the First
Baptist Church, on 18th street, between G. and
ID streets: TIE examination yesterday was
conducted by MI Tustin, OF the Board OF
Trustees. The school has Sc pupils on the roll,
54 of whom were present: two being sick. The
uacher, Miss Marsh, was also detained al
home yesterday by sickness, and the school
was temporarily in charge of Miss Oceana
Walker, who is teacher of the primary which
holds its sessions in an adjoining room The
readinE OF the pupils was excellent, their
spelling fair for such very little girls, and
their exercises IN mental arithmetic far better
than the average Of primary schools The
'obJect system" OF teaching adopted in this as
IA otner public schools, seems to work well.
Quite mum ber OF the parents of the pupils
and friends Of educatio were present yester
day, among them Councilman Rutherford
After the examination, Trustee Tustin ad :
dressed the school, expressing his qualification
at the progress made by the pupils, and ad-
ding word or two to parents as to the readi.
ness with which they give the children writ
ten excuses for non attendance, for the most
frivolous reasons, g course, which is well cal
culated to impair the usefulness of the schools.
spoil the pupils, and discourage the teachers.
Second ,District.-Primaries9 9 and 10, under
the charge of Misses Jennie L. Adams and
Sallie Dalton, were examined by Meesrs. Fn1
and Rhees, in the basement of the German
Evangelical Church, 9th street. above r. in the
presence of a number OF the parents and reia.
tves OF the pupils, and several teachers of the
district. These schools were organized in Da.
CEN per 81 last and are both full l-the first num-
beriEg 80 boys, and the other the same humber
OF gfrls.' Some OF the scholars are very small
Just commencing to read and spell: and in the
scnool are some who until recently did not 90
ther edyanced than the youngest The EXAM.
NATION was as thorough as the time would
permit, and generally the answers were
classes read well tor their ages, and in small
ing and dennitions were much farther ad
Xapced than classes in the same grade of other
eonoeis: as far as advanced, they appeared
TO De thoroughly drilled In arithmetic, and
partic ular attention seemed to have bee q psid
TO penmanship. Many Of the pnpils are the
enmaIen ha n o. % German parents, and some of them
peat the alphabet In English, and considering
this fact, as we'll as the character of the mafas.
Iiai; the TWO yonng teachers Graduates of our
school room ID quite commodious one hnr n
not large enough for two schools, and II was
handsomely decorstsd with flowers. aver. .
she o.sa aPd T. ssSpspsuous place
motto seems 70 be very appr spriats, as Mr..
Rnses, in coneratulating the pupils on the
RroEress tnsy had made. compiiinentsd the
?cnocl, BY seelng that the puriIS are punctuai
10, attendance, ana the pnptia on beirg 20 Or
oerty when. In The school as 70 merit heinr
esIea the banner schools in thu district in this
respect Mr.. Fox also expressed his satisfac-
tion % the result Of the examinatioE; and after
tne pupils had surg song in fine style, &C.
companied BY one Of the teachers On the
piano. fhavine fntersttersed tAe oxercises Win
muPle, they Wexo Dismissed. =
:. Third DiseTiet.-P Primary School No. 10. Mias
Steevar (ecttng teacher, situated at the corner
Of soutA a and - streets aaat.Iw examinss
ev Mr. JOHNSON. This school was orgsnized
In QsceDbsr last, and u composed Of bows