The New York herald., 1871-01-12
EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Meeting Of the Board OF School
Commissioners.
The Opening Day-ExPresident smyth Re-
elected Unanimously-His Addrsss-Reports
ofCommittees Spslling in the Schools.


The Board OF EDUCATION met for the first time this
year at the Board rooI.s; corner Of Elm and Grand
Streets yesterday, CommisI. .apers smyfh, Brennan
Lewis Wood, Sherwood, Sands Gross, laSyis In
gersoll Palmer and He'll being present. Srs
The Board was called to order by Mr, Is4.enee Ker
nan, clerk who ANNOUNCED .:.a nrss pos: In
order was the election OF temporary chairman, in
ORDER to fe6reAnize for the ensuing year.
Commissioner sands was chosen temporary chair
man, ana made an address to the Board, touching
Upon various questions Of interest in connection
with education. -
rendering the thanks Of the Board i lrs late Presi
dent, Mr.. smyth, and ;ne motion having been
adopted unanimously the resolutions were ordered
on file. ..-., !.
Commissioner woop then moved that Mr.. smyth
be reelected President. No opposition being made,
o vote was taken, and Mr.. Smyth was unanimously
elected
On taking the chair Mr.. SMYTH said:-
GENTLEMEN---I return you my Acknowledgements for
this renewed expression Of ySar confidence IN = again re-
on are at times decase and embarrassing, and the path
Il savs s ash. he
Of your presiding olacer Faithfully and impSrsy; with
If had done otherwise would neither have Secured your
iS'ts
sustained myself your presiding ocer without your kind
S which i. Sa @S.
auspices The average atendsncs and whole numbey
ns
entitled to By law and at about half million Of dollars
also estseshed thus so@pe!ns iAe eaasatona sdiaes
ne
caona system great city The the Board
| administer
his city that results may
that et esS SsS,s All
adminisier most sacred trust sondded to Us
own conscences and 'fi the ssnc,ionp Of ali good
6nA Of oa Of sA' Ssns
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.Sou. $4,000 @ psyas annually an:s.sSs
hs nss
whe % ,s
these cSdr.n g attend ssSoo at hour: daily
n sa M cd ao to pa should %
to rescue them from what M merely preparation for life
long and again return acknowledgements for the
the aid Of the Great e. Give. q Al good that he may guide and
| Christian, the philanthrepst or the Humanitarian
/ suPERINTENDENT's ANNUAL REPORT.
The usual business being taken en- up ER the clerk
tendent, which was voluminous document 1t
was ordered to be printed. From among large
number OF tabular compilations 1t may be summed
up that the whole number taught IN Al male schools
for the year $4,000; in AZ female schools, 30 181
schools. 4ls90; in colored schools 2oS3; in 50 cor
| porate, 1928; In 80 evening" 24.084; in normal
INTERVENING wears has Increased nearly 81 per cent
while the increase OF population for that time was
only per cent AS to instruction for the past year
coMMrrTEE on SUPPLIES.
There were two reports from this committee, one
setting forth the figures for last year at $125 000 de-
crease of $4,000 compared with 1862 The second
report was merely the figures relative to expendi-
| lures for advertisements, &c.
| STATED MEETINGS.
/ 1t was resolved to amend section tive of bylaws
80 that the stated meetings shall be held on the Sec
ond Wednesday in January, and every alternate
Wednesday during the year, except in August.
| A communication from Farrell Dorrity, inspector
OF Sixth School district complained against Jeremiah
Haleman, for violation OF section three article one
in that he in the name OF his foreman John Gleason
had been dong carpenter work on the school build.
] ings and receiving compensation from the Board.
The names OF several witnesses were appended to
the complaint.
BAD SPELLING IN THE SCHOOLS
4 was made the subject Of some remarks by Commits
missioner Wood, who said it was astonishing to fin
how bad the spelling of pupils in the schoo ls
and he regretted to say that others in the schools
besides the pupils had the deficiency TO which he
alluded. He thought there ought to be new system
Of teaching children how to read writing especially
as IN this particular the errors made were the rule
| and not the exception. He advocated the introduce
tion OF scrp into the school books, that pupils
might become famliarzed with spelling in the
handwriting OF others and thus be imperceptlbly
| improved themselves.
Commissioner GROSS opposed the introduction OF
new books owing to the expense to be incurred on
| account OF such a sweeping change.
| COMMITTEES FOR Mex YEAR.
! The distribution Of members the various COM
mlttees exactly the same as that of last year,