The Grange advance., 1873-10-22

."s :. for seats and furniture. .. 175 @
impqoSe@ents neppSeee 4 ienairs 81 II II
" IS g fuel and eupplins 7s5 q
% apparatus and MAPS. 1873 W
janitor's fees 482 Is
Incidental expenses, printing, &c.,. 215 q
amount IN treasury. AZ %
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .1a,166 a6
Of school apparatus the Board of Edu-
cation have placed in the schools during
the year l box Of Webb's reading cards
for the lower and alphabet schools, l set
of Cutters anatomical charts, 8 sets of
Guyot's wall maps, and other apparatus,
of the value in all of $138.
The new textbooks adopted are:
Woods Object Lessons in Botany, Steel's
Chemistry, studies which have just been
reached in our High School, and having
never been pursued in the schools there
had never been any text books adopted
in the branches. Besides these, there
have been adopted Bartholomew's new
series Of drawing books, Curtis copy
books, the National system of music
readers, Monroe's English readers, and
Hagar's arithmetics.
These drawing books were adopted
because considered, for all practical pur-
poses, as good for the pupils as the old
series, while they are furnished at one
half the price. This change has not
necessitated any purchase by those
having the old numbers, as both series
are by the same author, upon the same
general plan, and the latter is in fact but
q new and cheaper edition.
The copy books adopted are those
used in the Normal Schools of the State,
and the author of the system is the pro-
fessor of penmanship i'll those schools.
1t is regarded as decided improvement
over old systems, and as great majority
of our teachers are from the Normal
Schools, it was thought they would b.
more successful in teaching this than
any other system. * The method is
better for and less expensive to pupils,
but it requires much more work on the
part of teachers.
In the adoption Of the music readers
it was not intended to make it compul.
sorry that pupils should be furnished with
the books, though this is desirable. The
system Of lessons contained in these
books, as we'll as the system Of teaching
contained in books for the teachers, has
been adopted in the best public schools
Of the nation. They were specially pre-.
pared for the Boston schools, by Ger.
man professor Of music, who was sent to
Europe for the purpose of investigating
the best methods of music teaching in
use in Prussia and other countries where
particular attention is given to this rein.
ing art. The importance of 3
permanent system of musical instruction
in our schools is greatly increased by thu
difficulty found in obtaining or retaining
permanent teacher in this department
No pupil was obliged to buy one of thes,
new books who would not have beer
obliged to buy anew book had no chang,
been made.
At the commencement Of the presen
school year the study of chemistry hav
ing been reached in the regular cours,
by class in the High School. the Boart
ordered to be furnished such chemica
apparatus and chemicals as were though
absolutely essential to the successful
prosecution Of the study.
A course Of lectures has been proposed
to be delivered during the coming win
ter, before the class in chemistry and tn,
citizens, on topics embracing the differ
ent branches Of that study as related te
hygiene, carrying on, in illustration o
the same, system of experiments by til,
use of the chemical apparatus and chem
icals. The lectures will be without cos
to the district.
At the close Of hast year it was foun(
that $3,076.83 Of current funds h.t
accumulated in the treasury, and thi,
amount was deducted from the tax esti
mate, and there is now on had 1922. .6s
In order to get rid of this surplus
amount the taxes were reduced from te,
mills to five Mills lower rate than Q
itself would at any time support tn
schools. This year, Notwithstanding tn
exhausting of the funds in the treasury
it is thought possible to pay the curren
expenses with seven-mill tax.
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