Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-09
uR EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.
nasnvil,e,s Ins..tu.lous Of learning.

NashV1lso's AmStttusiO0S OF LearnAnSs
A city or State has no interest more i'm
portant than her educational facilities, for
upon these depend her prosperity. Within
the past few years a system Of free educa-
ton has been established, so perfect and
complete in all its details, that it has now
become in our lsading cities so popular
that the free schools are patronized by the
most wealthy and influential citizens. In
the principal cities of the North pupil can
be taken to q strange city and placed at
once in the same grade in the public
school which he occupied before changing
his residence. There might be slight
difficulty about books, for different school
boards have their own ideas on that subject,
but the system of grading is almost Pre-
cisely the same, and q pupil OF any OF the
free schools will enter college much more
advanced In his studies, and with his mind
much better disciplined than one who has
had equal advantages, with the exception
of having been educated in private
school.
The public schools of this city are now
in very fourishiDg condition. We quote
from report by O. h. Winston, President
of the Board OF Education, dated July Il,
1872:
at should be source of profound graft
fication TO the people OF Nashville to know
that the public schools are now in highly
prosperous condition. Struggling under
many difficulties since the War, the Board
of Education have been able, with a small
| abatement, to keep them in successful and
vigorous action; and at no time since their
organization have they yielded larger re-
| ward.
| There are a few things, however, which
| merit the future cor sheraton of the Board.
| One, is the better organization of the High
| school; another, corporal punishment; and
| still another, the moral qualification OF
/ teachers.
1 would suggest also the propriety Of es-
/ tsblishing a department of music in con-
| nection with the Public Schools. l mean
! by this that all the children should be
| taught vocal scientific music. Nothing is
| better calculated to refine and elevate the
| moral tone, if we except the Bible.
am happy 70 stare that the finances OF
the Board are in good condition. The
school fund derived from county and city
tax has paid current expenses this session,
until the last month OF the term. The sal
aries for that month are still due, in conse-
| duence of a deficit in the collections, show
inc that a more liberal assessment should be
made.
! The buildings arr all in good condition,
/ excep, the Mess Hall a. Hume, and the
| Ninth Ward School. The city ought st
once to MAKE Al appropriation Tor decent
and comfortable accommodations for az
! least five hundred children cooped up IN
these miserable shsut es.
| can not close this hasty report without
bearing testimony to the cheerful and faith
fill discharge Of duty by the corps of teacn-
ers for the last yesr, for the spirit OF emula-
| ton maintained among the children, and
| for the kind and cordial feeling usually pre-
served, much of which is due 10 the asSldu
ity and constant attention of the Superin
te ndent, whose praise is in all the schools
as we'll as throughout the entire commn
nifty.
In conclusion, | would remark that the
. graded public school system, after the mos
thorough discussion and amplest eype
rieDce. may be regarded as fixed fact
the fRI6llment of promise. Il is the only
mode by which education can be success
| fully extended to the masses, and that thi
! should be done will not admit OF ques
| ton
1t IS our intention to show what is nov
! being done in the various schools OF tE
, ciJy, beginning with The
+ HUME SCHOOL
: ! which is located on the corner Of Broad an
n ! Spruce s.reeS. The building, which IS
: | very substantial one, cost $4,000, an;
g stands on a LOT which is value
at $4,000. On each of the fr5f an
: second fours are four school rooms, 25x3
feet, occupied by girls from lst to I'm grad
q elusive The third floor embraces tT
. study halls, 30x52 feet, and two recitation
r rooms, and is the present High SchoC
y | Department. Under the management
f the efficient Principal, the Hume school
III very prosperous condition, and Is OF
e servedly popular. s 90
J The number Of pupils enrolled is 9Zo
4 | which number the average attendance 10
last month is 94-14 per cent.
The following named are the officers an
teachers:
= IN. Brown, Principal; Miss NJ. A. Wa
IS son, Principal Girls High School; Mt. j.
Falj, Prof. of Classics and Natural ScieI
8 | ces: Mr.. E. II. Plummacher, Teacher
{ German: Miss NJ. D. SlcClelland, Princip
y Rows 7th Grade; Miss NJ. a. Eietche
: Principal Girls 7th Grade; Miss Aurel
q Wharton, Principal Girls 9th Grade; j.
= Onev. Bows 9th Grade; Mrs. NJ. E. Bruce
J. Bows 9TH Grade; Miss L. G. Ewing, Girl
: | nth Grade: Miss Emma Clemmons, Boy
: 4th Grade; Mrs. @. W. Haiber5, Girls #
: Grade: Miss Ella Irwin; Girls Sd Grad
Miss Alice Fluff and Miss Ella Howe
# Rows, Sd Grade; Miss Bette Hereford
l. Bows I'd Grade; Miss Julia Blac6maI
l. CHS, ID Grade; Miss Jessie Lattiman an
,e Mrs. S. 4. Funston, Boys lst Grade; ILL
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