The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-01-08

Lambartville, N. j., Jan. 6, 1873.
Mr. EDrToR.-I, in company With DIR. T.
X Studdiford, one of the Trustees, visited and
carefully examined the Public Schools OF our
city ON Monday and Tuesday last, and tepter
you a copy of my report for your paper.
The school building on the hill is in q good
condition. The late Improvements add much
to the comfort and convenience of both the
teachers and the pupils; and the Coryell street.
house has been refitted and is in better con-
dition than heretofore. There are in both
buildings eleven rooms used for school pur-
poses (the Coryell street building having only
pose of storing hats, caps, overwhelming, &c,
making fifteen rooms in all. The largest room
is in the hill building, and is used for the
higher grade of pupils, and is Of such proper
tions as to take up the whole of the second
story, with the exception of the space occupied
by two recitation rooms on the south end.
A Principal and eleven teachers are employ
cd, each holding legal certificate, Of either
the first, second or third grade, based upon
thorough examination, as required by law;
the Principal having supervision Of the whole.
The following are the text books used in tho
hill school: Physiology. G. Dalton's
Philosophy -Pecks Ganot; English Compo-
sition-Hart Grammar-Brown'san and Kerl's;
Mathematics Series of Arithmetics
| Brooks Algebra Brooks Geometry, Critten-
den's Commercial Arithmetic; Geography
Monteiths Series, Mitchell's Physical; APP
gar's System of Drawing Readers-Parker
and Watson's Series Spellers-Parker and
Watson's Series; Book keeping Bryant and
STATIONS; Constitution U. S.-Townsend !;
History U. S.-Willard's.
In place of Brooks Series of Mathematical
works. so long in use in our school, would
recommend Greenleafs New Mathematical
Series, which have recently been adopted in
more than half the counties in this State.
They are now the best in use, and have been
so revised as to make the advancement Of the
pupil easy and thorough. saa1
l have carefully, examined the recitations,
and find that the instruction given is thorough
and practical in character; and the teachers
prove themselves competent for their positions.
The classes in geography, physical geogra-
ply, physiology, philosophy grammar, mathe-
matics, history, bookkeeping, constitution of
the U. s., &c, &C., compare favorably with
other schools in this and adjoining counties.
| The Clerk of the Board of Trustees, at the
beginning of the present school year, Sept. !,
1872, reported to my office 124S children in
the city between the ages of 5 and 18 years !;
and we have on our hands that part of dis
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ship, in which are enrolled about 80 more
The number enrolled on our School Register
for the present term is $50. In all the private
schools of the city the attendance does not
exceed 200, leaving out of the computation 400
who do not attend any school; while we have
ample accommodations for many more than.
have yet attended.
| The Board of School Trustees is composed
of three from each ward--nine in ALL 1t is
organized and holds regular monthly meetings,
and keeps legal record of the same. Chas.
Roberts, Esq, is President Of the Board and
John l.. Corycll, Secretary for the present
year. The recent expenditure by the Board
of less than 81, 900 on the school property has
enabled those in charge to accommodate many
additional pupils with better facilities. BY
law the District must be at The expense of the
school property, for which our City Common
Council has appropriated 81 900; and the two
mill State school tax, with the State appropria-
ton, meets the expenditure for teaching. The
two-mill tax is State law, and is paid alike
over the whole State.
| With 124S children enrolled in the city, and
| 81, 900 city appropriation, our city school ex-
penditures are less than 81 cents for each pu-
pill for the current year, including all the ex-
penses for improvements on school property.
The law, of course specifies my duties, the
most important of which is to see that the
Public School is adequate to the demands Of
the city and well and judiciously conducted in
all it's departments, which find to be the
case.
A word to patrons and those who pay the
tax for public instruction. 1t is not only your
privilege, but your duty, to frequently visit
Our public schools in all their departments
where you will be welcomed to carefully ex-
anime and make such suggestions as will best
subserve the work in which we are engaged.
1t is a lamentable fact that SO few visit our
public schools, or even have a faint conception
of the ample provision made by our city for
public instruction. If the general attendance
and patronage would demand it, the Board of
Education will add an additional teacher in
the Languages and thus in our own city pub
lie schools pupils could be fitted to enter either
the Freshmen, Sophomore or Junior Classes
of Princeton or Rutgers College, or of any
college in other States.
GEO. ii. LARSON,
City Superintendent of Public Schools.
Mr.. EDITOR II cheerfully endorse the