, 1879-01-17

Es,"a,, a!nvx ~ = 1sIS;;..Ms:oo is7i,:..Mio ~ j
!. .>ealr,non. In lB11.. ...401 1:5
Titus, IN tile twelve original schools there wcre
at the start A0a5 pupils, and now but 1,1o2, or
in alI but two-she franklin and Moselcy-
there has been very considerable loss.
German instruction In thu LaSallc Street
School was abandoned within two ycura oI Its
l}.,t il might be asserted By tho friends Of Ger
1uun that these twelve schools in which thu
s,udy originated dill hot constitute fair test.
tha II nansoer Of pupils linking deru,an was
a,ssst not a n''et + teo s'' &c s 0'" ssss
4,9D7 pupils In thirteen schools, or On
Yot,1l,cr las. there wcrc 1,0:A pupils IN cEghtccn
srl,t,ols, or an average of 100 pupils to the
school. Thus, In thu past seven years, the NUN.
bcr TT pup!ls taklnE German had decreased
hut, 'said tho COMMITTEES on German, TINT
w0ulu not do either. because In 1910 the study
was sllu,marly withdrawn irom the primary
EIa E!ow. so' s to 's mset tbs objection. he would
eliminate tho primary grade pupils. Aud still,
III thu Hrutpu,ar grates alour, there was &C.
ron. falling ~ Ia is7i. tn thirteen sch9os,
il,nl,. or IN average Of ITO grammar pupiIs to
tho school. ID November last s'p average was
but l0J grammar pupils to tho echool.,
III Chicago was 10000; tue number Of these
taktuE ticrman WIS 4,2O7, or about 10 per crut.
Ipst Year thu euroln1cnt was $1,000, IN iucrease
ol l3,C0U, while the numh0r Of children taking
crn,' Iba nutnher Of ciildrnn of Ucrman blrth
bas lwIu|IIel from px per cent to az per cent.
And now tlcr wuro payiox ti3, 600 every ycar to
tench Gesan to less ti,an 2,0oj children. 30 TINT
tic cost Of tuition iu th!s branch was mora tnan
81 per pupil per year. Aud this, too, willie the
city had le1s than 81 pcr pupil per year for tuI-
common sei,ool branch. =.
NJ. ,,lrglu With tho facts and figures a.
t1uy pleased, ttey must coma out Of any itl.
yrsticat.vu iuljy convinced that tho people OF
Chicnru 10 not want German taught In tla
granular schools.
Ihts too-annarcnt decline has taken pIace.
tou. In tho faco OF tho lnost determined efforts
to prutcct and encourage Uerma1,, both BY tho
fur tlle past thirteen years was flled with tho
stories of wrecked experiments. Beginning
with Air. Cutter, and tho Washington Hchool,
tho cotnmlttce, u every report, l.d had Tho
same story tu teIl at tic way down through,
tile study wa doing well Mud there was every
reason for eneouragemcnt,-only something
somewhere was wrong, and With trt1Iu4 mod
iiicattpp tue thing would 10 nil right.
Tney ,mgu, by teaching a German cls.s In
euef, school, md thus calling from each room
tllu pu,,!a WHO wanted to study German, aud
consolidating thcni Into one class. III 16t9 tho
COMMITTEES reported that they had changed this,
tbs only objectionable feature to tho lnstrur.
ton, and NOV iii would be rIgat and the study
would progress satisfactorily.
In 1871 tAe only thug needed to perfect the
tui,,un was Superintendent, 4nd III 1879 thry
thought that grading 1t would Aelp matters.
They also thought tlut II the study was drop
ped from the sixth and seventh grades It would
hu more profitable rs whols. So in 1874 Miss
El,aurr was elected, and tho COMMITTEE said
that all was now complete, aud they wcro about
to 70 forward At an astonishing rate. Tho yea,
following it was grutIed, aud the Committed
congratulated themselves that "thcrc WAS nt
opposition to ils introduction into ant
school In the city.n Then ia 1875 Il wa
taEcn out OF the primary grades entirely, ant
still agaIu they were promised SUCCESS, Whr1
alouv came Msssrs rrusstu0 aud ltotz, and satt
In Ih77 it wns ucccssarT to 70 back u the orig
ilal mcthoA Of 1St5, with, Of course, foV
lunutcaltons. That IL, bays teachers who shal
Instruct thu scholars in thelr oyE rooms and b,
competent to teach ali branclcs. Ii short
uuopt the ClDyIDnau plau, Hut, DetoTe 4ulu1
ths, let there be ..fof bupertptepdept OF Tic,
nun instruction 4 gentleman who, beside
being u thorough German scholar and teaehg
by uratessjon eloi1Itl be- iuiy at hotna In Yll til
branches uf m Enriiah cducatIon.n Such
urntlen,an had becn choscn, and tonethlu
very rIpscIy spnroximatipu tie Cinciuuati pla
VIA now being intro4iurcI.
"And yet. nttwithstHndnc. I believe til
t;crluan ruu'uitsra hos nnvrr sske, snytniuE 4
Inn R,,,i .rt.stn t....'s. -af,,,.5, nns ~.