Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


Handsome, Safe and Commodious Build
ing-A Few Inexpensive Improvements
Suggested-The sclloo HTanagelnent-Tho
Pupils and Teachers. ..
Little else but good can be written of the
Lincoln school. This applies to the building
in all its arrangements and even with greater
force to the management of the school. The
Lincoln is one of the most recently erected
buildings for educational purpose-the Hum
boldt, in the Sixth ward, being the last. 1t is
a commanding edifce of brick, handsome on
the exterior, and in the interior Is arranged for
convenience and comfort.
THE EXTERIOR.
The building is two stories high, four COM
modious school roorss, with high ceilings on
either floor. Entrances to the front and rear
give admission to these rooms, which are con-
| nected either by hallways or inter-
and halls are wide, and give
easy egress in case of alarm; each room, as
| it were, can be emptied without the children
interfering with the progress OF those assigned
| with each other, each rom. for all practical
| purposes, is distinctly separate-nlone.
THE TEMPERATURE AND VENTILATION.
The building is furnace heated. This has it's
great advantages IN keeping con,tant and
| equitable degree of temperature an
overcharge of heat is keptlRp. Unfortunately
! this was observable, and was lowered by
! opening windows through which direct drafts
! Of cold air were admitted, the children nearest
the windows being thus subjected to a danger
| GUS allowance of fresh air in injurious gusts.
! While the ventilation is generally good, it ad-
mits of improvement. or a happy medium be-
tween the cold air from the windows and the
| hot air from the furnaces might be adjusted.
The shool or class rooms, as has ben stated,
are commodious, neat, fresh in paint, but the
windows in every room need interior blinds.
Only gauzy curtains now exclude the food of
| sunshine, and make it impossible to modulate
| the light.
THE SCHOOL FURNITURE.
Closets. cloak rooms and such like conven-
| fences are SO arranged that they are source of
! comfort alike to pupil and teacher. The
! school furniture is new. The desks seat only
! one, and are Of the latest pattern, combinin,
! ease and convenience for the occupant.
| On the whole, little beyond praise can be
! spoken Of the school, SO far as concerns the
building, and that little has been said above.
However, before leaving this part of the pro-
gramme, it. is not amiss to call the attention of
! the authorities to the condition of the black
boards. In several rooms they are scaling off.
This was especially noticeable in Miss Pitts
! room.
! PICTURES, ORNAMENTS, ETC.
| Reference to the condition of the rooms
should not be abandoned without passing e.,
pecial commentator upon the ornamental
! features of each room. These consist
OF pictures and other ornaments
contributed by the teachers, and they have
| been 80 arranged as to make every room posi-
| lively attractive. Too much praise cannot be
bestowed, for this is wholly voluntary on the
part of teachers and has been carried to most
pleasing and attractive degree in the Lincoln
| school.
| TEE ENROLMENT AND TEACHERS.
| The school has an enrolment of 3l4, divided
into grades from the first, or primary, to the
! eighth, and including both. The enrolment is
large, but owing to the large rooms, the scho, |
does not appear to be over-crowded. But for
all that the management and instruction of so
| large a number of children is committed to
| only eight teachers.
Miss Shady has charge OF the eighth grade,
| numbering twenty-five pupils. Being also
! principal of the school, she hss the entire
charge or superintendent of the wholtsbuild-
! ing. Fortunately In this additional labor she
is largely helped by her assistants, to each OF
| whom separate class is committed. She and
| they are in hsppy accord, and as she inadver.
tently confessed If it were not for this spirit
[ AaIulOuy 0uu GSd2OUS ucSlIc W OlSCQarS0 Clc11
duties among the teachers, her work would
! indeed be onerous.
TIN DUTIES OF PRINCIPALS, WITH A SLIGHT sUs
/ PIC10N OF TAvOn1T1sM.
| Just here the reflection is suggestive: Thu
Madison, Jefferson and Humboldt schools have
male principals. While the enrolment, com.
paratlvely, in neither of these schools is largely
in excess Of the Lincoln or some others, notably
| the Neill and Washington, the principals OF
the three have class to engage their
attention, but are left free, as they should be,
| 10 exercise q constant superintendent over
| the whole school. In this respect an excep-
ton is also made in favor Of the principal Mrs
Travis of the Franklin, and Miss Hand of the
Adams school, yet neither have greater num-
Der OF pupils in attendance than the Lincoln.
Further comment is unnecessary.
l. Resuming, Miss King has committed to her
charge seventeen pupils of the seventh grade
and ten of the fifth grade.
Miss Williams has in charge forty pupils of
| the sixth grade and GLASS of the fifth grade.
| Miss Pitts is in charge of the fourth grade
and A class of the third grade, in all forty lone
| scholars.
Miss Smith has the largest number of pupils
ia the school, forty Of class Of the
third grade.
Miss Tinker's class of the second grade
| numbers forty.
Miss Scheffer is in charge Of class of the
second grade, and class Of the first grade
| numbering forty five pupils.
Miss Birmingham is principal of the primary
| department. Besides having charge of ell the
classes of the first and second grade, has under
| her Immediate charge forty-1ive children;
many, the merest little mites of humanity.
As mentioned in the report of the Neill
school, again the Objectionable feature Of mi K.
| ing up grades was encountered in the Lincoln
And here the mixture was met with in an
| aggravated form, the fifth aud seventh grades
| being mixed up Or committed to one teacher
! for instance.
THE DISCIPLINE AND CONDUCT OF PUPILS
In Miss shanley's room this legend was OBJ.
served on the black board,
''Love makes Obedience lighter than Lib.
erty."
! The manner in which the school is
controlled is epitomized in the above
| motto. The principal sets the example, and
the children with one accord accept and bestow
! love, and render implicit obedience to the
kindly control. Struck by the inscription, the
! GLOBE watched intently and observed
| that discipline maintained only by an
appeal to the children's affection. Miss Shan
| ley had occasion to kindly administer rebuke
to one Of her pupils, a long lanky youth, who
| was rather too rOllicking. He took the dose
pleasantly, but for all that dubbed up to the
surface again, to be checked in he same even
| tempered manner, without the slightest evil
| dence of vexation-when. perhaps, if the GLOBE
had been charged with administering correc
tive, the youth would have had head put on
| him.
If the above obtained as an example in Miss
! Shanley's management of her room, it held
! equally good throughout the building. The
children are not afraid, and obey because it
pleases their teachers, and they love to make
| them glad"
THE REGULATIONS.
The exercises consisted Of the ordinary every
| dev 1assons rhans loco he, <,rd;.