New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-21
CITY SCHOOL WORK.
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
COMMITTEES APPONTED-THE REPORT OF ST
PERISTENDRNT RIDDLE.

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF MISUNDERSTANDING
COMMITTEES APPONTED-THE REPORT OF ST.
PERINTENDENT RIDDLE.
The Board of Education held a regular
meeting Yesterday when President Nelson announced
the following standing Committees for the year:
yerDye Dowd. Beardsee, Townsend
"Tsari|s-Commsioners Ha.ed Kelv Trsna Dosd verny.
BuiLry s-Comm.ouers Dowd Patterson, Baker Lewis Herng
sppIR-C Beardse MathewsoH wetore, Ha1tel
adnq-C West fraud Baker Jenkins Patterson
and Nto SehOols-COmn oners Patterson rr.u Herrug
Csa1 OF Study Commissioners Herring Mar
School Furliue commissioners wemore Lewis selsmsu Jen.
Normal Schoo,-CoumissoDe Farr Fuller Kamroh
Ereaug shoo,-C Commissioners Mahewsou Townsend jenkins.
cocrea Sho9s-Commi,,one jenkins Patterson wetmore
Warming and Baker fraud Herring
ByLars Elections and Qna aitoH'-COmmis'iOns Townsend
TaacaI we;more, Maibev,on segnan
r5 H"v we.. O''''''e "''
Nootaion Of 1ru's,sC wetmOrt, Haed Fuller
Beard. ee Wts' Farr Nelly hlam[o,b Les'. ". ,
Kelly. Fsrr Baker, jenkins Patterson.
superintendent Riddle submitted his annual port Of
which the following Is an abstract:
The number OF schools under the OF the Board
3ol of which A are grammar schools for males As
sexes, 6i primary departments, IT separate primary
schools cOlOred schools AZ corporate schools 81
ing schools, normal college, model school The aver
age attendance of pupils was 1l7239, and the whole
number registered 25l,5i5. Inc increase in tho
average over last year IL 1874, manly in the
grammar and primary schools. The number Of
mixed schools schools where the are educated
increased by the addition OF the upper
wards in Wcstchester, and teachers commend that
mode OF organization as possessing many advantages
appears be TO change It, The
number pupils register during the year, as com
pared with the average attendance at all the day
schools, showed an aDsenleelsm or about eleven
cent less than during the previous The
smallest OF abseneeism Is In the grammar schools
nd il m fha
% per cent.
Too little regard has been had 10 the space which
should be allotted to each pupil in the construction
the school buildings, with view 10 both comfort and
ventilation In many claSs-rOOms of the primary de
and schools only about 80 cubic feet OF
each pupil is possible To be given, with all the win
and doors In some recitation
cubic feet Is afforded. The sole consideration IN
furnishing the schOOlrOOms been IN these
cases to crowd as many seats together as possible
pupils In these schools because OF the necessity of
opening the windows in tho coolest weAfhc?
There should be-, IN oil grades OF pupils, uniformity
OF treatment mental, physical ana moral; but
exists that the pupils OF grammar schools
in nearly all the school buildings from 100 10 $50 cubic
feet Of air per pupil Additional accommodations ara
required in the Twelfth, Twenty second Seventeenth
Nineteenth Wards, ~ reason Of tue great Increase
OF attendance.
Tue WORK of every teacher the city schools has been
under supervision OF the Superutsudeuts
department by frequent examinations. Ol2Il2 classes
thus examined, instruction IN lOll was found TO have
been excellent In OIL good 10 l4J fair in indifferent
and in one bad The dlscp pine found IN Ian 10 DO
excellent, IN $40 good In 1870 FAIR IN IL Indifferent aud IN
three bad. Tue result ia instruction does not differ
materially from the reports Oh tho preceding year, and
In discipline II IL precisely the Tue greatest
degree OF excellence IN INSTRUCTION Is shown ia
The female grammar schools. aud Of deficiency IN the
mae grammar schools. These examinations show
alhO he CilCltucy Of principals IN the general manage,
mcut OF DO schools In l2l t was excellent, IN ca DJ
in eight fair Ia Two ihdoronr ANA Doue arc rcpOttod