The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
EDUCATIONAL.

Meeting Of the Board of School Controllers.
A stated meeting of the Board of School
Controllers was held yesterday afternoon, M.
Hall Stanton, President, in the chair.
The Committee on Normal School, through
Mr.. Steinmetz, reported that the condition of
the school demands that there should be in
creased accommodation, or that there should
be an amendment of existing rules in refer
ence to the number appointed to each section
in the admissions to this school. The COM
mittee present statement by which it ap-
pears that, while the building will properly
accommodate no more than 460 pupils, there
are now 800 pupils in attendance, and that
the next admission will so increase the num-
Der as to make the accommodations wholly
insufficient
The report did not contain any proposition,
but the chairman suggested that the board
should advertise for O lot of ground on which
to erect q school building sufficiently large to
accommodate all the pupils who may be found
to be sufficiently advanced.
Thespecial committee appointed to consider
the subject of o change in the plan of admis-
sion to the High and Normal Schools, re-
ported through DIR. Nebinger.
1t is proposed that the Committee on the
Boys High School shall select three male
principals, who shall prepare ten questions
on each of the following named SUBJECTS
Geography, history, arithmetic, grammar,
parsing, etymology, defining, and spelling,
upon which the boys who desire admission
into the Central High School shall be ex-
amined; and in like manner shall principals
be chosen in reference to the Normal School
the questions to be sent to the principals of
the grammar schools twenty-four hours before
the examination begins, which is to continue
for five days; the average to be rs to entitle
to admission; the age of the pupil to be not
less than thirteen years. 1t is also required
hot Ibo,1 obo1I hox, hoo NJ oiv he
in regular attendance at school in the Sec
ton from which they were sent.
A minority report was presented, signed by
Mr.. Gratz and Mr.. Hartman, in which they
recommend the lowest average to entitle to
admission into the High or Normal Schools
to be IS, and the lowest age to be fourteen
years. The reports were ordered to be
printed, and action upon them was post
poned.
A proposition to reduce the average neces-
sary for third-class certificate of leadership
from 60 to 55 was not agreed to, after pro-
tracted discussion.
The Committee on the Revision of Studies
reported through Mr.. Armstrong that three
of the teachers of music had resigned, and
recommended an examination of candidates
to fill the vacancies The committee suggest
that unmarried ladies have the preference;
also those who can play the piano and have o
strong voice.
Mr.. Millikin moved that the Committee on
Accounts be requested to obtain the opinion
of the City Solicitor as to the power of the
board to fix the salaries of school teachers in
dependently of the action of Councils.
Mr.. Armstrong read an opinion of Judge
Woodward, in which it was decided that
Councils have the controlling power in fixing
the salaries of teachers.
A motion to so amend as to take the ques-
tion into Court on test case was carried.
Adjourned.