The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-07
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THAT CONCERT. A"
We find the following article in THE
BULLETIN Of this morning
The Juvenile chorus concert is advertised
TO take place at the Atheneum tonight. and
thereby hangs tale. Miss Fanny Cullum,
the teacher IN the grammar school depart
ment, has spent some time preparing her
scholars for the chorus concert, the funds to
be spent In rciurnshing lhe grammar school
department. a day or two ago IL was init
mated to Miss Cullum by the board of drec-
tors, that v was desirable that she should
not give the concert-Miss Cullum did not
wish TO give II up so-the board OF directors
informed her that it was her concert or her
| "sit." Miss Cullum was determined not to
give 1t up so she wrote her resignation and
will give the concert as advertised tonight.
We tell the story as twas told TO us. We do
not know the grounds on which the board
OF directors objected to the concert, and
| Miss Fanny Cuum Is stranger TO MS, but
| at this present writing The BULLETIN is for
the lady, for two or three reasons. We re-
| call several instances in Cairo of school en-
| tertalnments being givcn to raise funds TO
| purchase books, apparatus, etc, for the
| schools, and hence see no objection TO the
proposed concert by Miss Culium for the pur-
pose stated.
to remain uncorrected.
The high school building Of which the
| grammar department is part, was erected
and furnished at = cost OF $50, 900 and is one
of the best buildings OF the kind in the West
Its furniture Is Of the best, and the directors
have always esteemed it pleasure as well
rs duty TO keep il in order. IT, therefore,
| In the grammar school room there WAS u
want of furniture or fixture, the directors
on notice would have supplied it.
The taxpayers OF this, district are now
| paying $4,000 year, or 81 - Oh every
hundred dollars worth OF property they
own, 20 keep up our schools. The di-
rectors were not willing that further call
should be made upon the people in that di-
rectiou.
Taking this view OF the case, and calling to
mind that the "concer" was fixed at Il time
that 1t would necessarily distract the atten-
ton and mar the efficiency of the school, the
directors withheld their sanction but did
not intend, at the start, 10 express their dis
appreciation. During the past week, how
| ever, complaints OF a neglect Of uuty on the
part Of Miss Cullum multiplied SO rapidly,
that the directors felt it their duty to inter
plants need not be laid before the public.
Enough TO say that the directors were most
positively and correctly informed that Miss
Z. made participation in the concert a
standard OF favor among the scholars, reius-
Ing 10 hear lessons from those who declined
to take part. They were further informed
that SO much Of school hours was consumed
in preparation for the concert that She ne.
, elected TO hear whole classes reci,c lessons.
, These facts in connection with the further
fact that the children of the gram.
mar school during school hour,
last Friday were employed at ticket
A.. selling--to the neglect of their studies
E compelled the directors 10 say to Mis- Cul-
lum that the concert, If persisted In. would
be given without their consent and contrary
5 TO their wishes. There was 40 intimation
OF 4 desire to accept Miss Culmm's resigna.
4, ton, or OF purpose to discharge her in the
: event she persisted in her course. Her res.
: igpation was entirely yoluntsry-and has
} been accepted.
. The statement that public school exhibs.
tions have been held 10 purchase books, ap.
: paratus, etc., for the schools, is not strictly
true. At the end Of their sessions. when The