Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-03
Board of Education.

Sweeney. MT. Maher alone was absent. He | has business out of the city.
 Some pleasant bantering passed between | MT. Bushnell and other members at MT. 5. g
 expense in reference to his attack of indispo-
 sition at the previous Board meeting. MT. B.. ! is again in his usual fine health, much to the | pleasure of all.
 MT. Osborne reported from his committee
 that the same arrangements as last year with
 regard to the graduating exercises of the High l School would prevail. This was acceptable. MT. Parish, in behalf of the class of 80, presented each member of the Board with
 three invitations to sos class day exercises.
 The invitations are very nicely printed in ex- ! cellent style. The exercises will be upon ! Thursday, April 18th, at 2:3O p. m. Gradu-
 ation day is Friday, the 16th. The subject of | the tickets of admission for the members of | the Board was brought up. Each member signifed the number he would like to dispose l of to friends They asked for from dozen l to dozen and half apiece. The High l School hall was thought too small. This pro | voked discussion. Music Hall was proposed. Mir. Gile thought that the High School hall ought to answer. Mir. Parish thought it would be fine to have the exhibition in the Carll Opera House and inaugurate that house with l the exhibition but it would not be done quite | soon enough.
 l Mir. Osborne said there was 8 vacancy in | the High School corps of teachers, and the committee would recommend for the place
 Miss Sarah E. Porter, of Waterbury, who had ! been teacher in the classical department of | the High School there and brought the very highest endorsements of her capacity and fit ! ness for the place. The salary proposed was l $75O per annum, the appointment to be, ac- cording to the custom, for the remainder of I the school year.
 Mir. Sweeney objected to the appointment.
 It cost great amount of money to carry on the High School, and the appointments ought to go to New Haven. There are teachers here every way competent for the place. MT.
 Sweeney objected also to paying this candi- date $75O, whereas another teacher equally highly recommended was put in at $7OO. It was distinction without difference. Mir. Osborne replied that since he had been l on the committee, now abont two years, the l committee had recommended but one person
 outside of New Haven.
 Mr. Zunder said he did not believe that in | seven years there had been two teachers ap- | pointed from out of town.
 MT. Sweeney said there had been one ap-
 pointed.
 NIT. Zander said there wsrs more than 100 | teachers in the town from the High School, and, as the chairman of the committee had
 said, there were probably other appoint
 ments to be made. The Waterbury lady was
 voted appointed.
 | MT Zunder reported that room 12 in the | WooIsey school had miserable old tin pan of I O piano, which the old Fair Haven School Board bought seventeen years ago for fifty dollars. It was not worth being called an in strument and was discredit to the school. Mir. Gile confirmed MT. Zunder's statements and said he had attended an exhibition at the Woolsey school which would have been vel nigh perfect but for the wretched piano. Mr. Parish said room 12 Woolsey had an
 exhibition yesterday afternoon. There were from 100 to 200 parents and other friends present. The old piano was so execrable that | Mir. Pitman and the teachers at their own pri-
 gate expense had hired from MT. 0. NJ. Loo mis new piano for the exhibition. Mr. Gile said the Board should furnish the pianos needed. The teachers should not
 have to pay such en expense. The Board were able to supply them, and he for one | would bear part of the expense. Mir. Gile complimented the school for it's efficiency and usefulness.
 | MT. Zunder moved that a new piano be purchased for Woolsey. He said that in the school on Division street there was a piano, but it was there by the ibsrality of Miss Bar ker, who provided it at her own expense. This ought not to be. After further remarks
 the purchase of new piano for Woolsey was
 left to the Finance Committee, with power. l Mir. Bushnell, from the Committee on
 School Buildings, reported progress in the
 two new school buildings. Four rooms in
 the Hallock street school were being pas-
 tered, and the prospect was that they would
 be ready for scholars close on to May 1. l Various of the members expressed gratif- cation at the appearance of the new building Il on Hallock street. MT. Gile asked permission l to have two elms planted in front of it. MT. Sweeney facetiously suggested that that | be referred to the tree planter, the secretary | of the State Board of Education. | MT. GiIe said the view from the top of the Hallock street building of the surroun ding 1 s'Any other business ?" inquired the chair man, Mir. Welch
 l Mr. Zunder inquired if the vacancy in the Board was to be filled.
 | Mir. Osborne moved that the vacancy be | filled.
 l Mr. Sweeney said that before that motion
 was put he desired to say that the comment | he urged at the last meeting held good to- l night. (Mr. Osborne, sOtt0 0Oce-But there is
 one more of us) Mir. Sweeney asked for a
 repetition of the interjection, but none being
 made, added that this Board was full Board | to night, and ought to be able to transact all l the business without adding new man until | the election came. He understood that the | plan on foot foreshadowed somewhat the | coming election for members of the Board | He asked why notices were not sent for this ] meeting that an election was intended. MT. l Hemingway said he had no knowledge as to any concert of action by the Board. MT. Zunder said at the last meeting he was willing | to defer the election to please the gentlemen,
 but they did not give time for it. He cited an instance to show that it was important to have
 the vacancy not left unified.
 Mr. Sweeney said the idea was to shape
 things SO as to pull somebody through at the | next election. An informal ballot was taken,
 resulting in three votes each for Gen. s. B. Merwin and Gen. Frank D. Sloat. The for | nal ballot resulted in for Gen. Msrwin and
 8 for Gen. Sloat. The election of Gen. Mer-
 win was, on motion of MT. Sweeney, made
 unanimous. MT. Sweeney expressed gratifi- | cation at Gen. Merwin's election. After some remarks by MT. GiIe touching the dismissal of various rooms in one of the
 schools to allow the principal and teachers to | attend reception in the building, and some | inquiries as to the presence of various princi- | pals at receptions at other schools, replied to
 by MT. Parish, the Board adjourned. Drawing in the Schools. In another room in the building is an ex- hibition of about twelve hundred drawings
 made by the pupils of the High School, these
 drawings comprising perspective drawings from objects and from nature, few copies
 and a large number of original designs and
 combinations, which are greatly admired and show an astonishing degree of skill and prog