Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-07-27


need special treatment. The difficulty
In training them into habits OF industry
and obedience, could probably be meet
better by truant school than in any
other way. The fact Of the existence
Of such a school and of the power to
avert and oonfns in 1t children that
are unemployed and not attending any
school, would exert very salutary in
huencs upon this class Of children, and
upon their parents. The fear Of con-
hDemept In school where there would
be no escape from regular hours ofstudy
and work, and no permission, night or
day, to go beyond the grounds Of the
school, would reconcile most boys to the
study and the restraints Of the ordinary
public school,"
HIsH SCHOOLS.
Oar High School classes have always
bsen small. One reason for this has
been that the standard of admission to
them has been too high. When the
new building for the High School was
erecting in 1871, upon the recommends
tion Of committee appointed to fix the
studies to be taught, II was decided by
the Board that the course of study for
this school should include Algebra, Ge.
ometry, Mensuration, Natural Philoso.
ply, History and Constitution Of the
q. g., General History, English and
American Literature, Composition,
Rhetoric, Elocution, Intellectual Philos-
ophy, Book Keeping and Drawing,
Latin, ,Trigonometry and Chemistry have
been added since. Intellectual Philos-
ophy has never been taught, and Chem
istry has not, in the Girls School.
The time for the course In our High
School is but three years. In many
cities the time is four years. Three
years is q short period for the work
now laid out in the course Of study
for our High Schools, as any one fa-
miliar with the subjects to be studied
and the books used can see. Pupils
ought, therefore, remain as they do in
the lower schools till they have good
knowledge Of spelling, reading, arith.
metio. geography, and English Gram.
mar. without this the branches in
the High Schools are studied at great
disadvantage. A thorough knowledge
of Grammar school studies seems to be
more important to the pupil who can
not remain the full time than a smat.
tering of both Grammar and High
scbool courses.
Statistics of The High School occupy
mnch snaoe in The report. In them the
following facts appear I:
That the Junior First wear classes
Of the Bows school have in the last six
wears enrolled respectively 81, %, 80,
20 % and AZ nnnils and in the Girls
acbool. 1c. 10. III. l6. II and 2l pupils.
That more nupiIs entered the Junior
or First wear Glass this wear than in
anv nrayious wear,
That in the Rows, School there were
IN The class of ia to ~ thirty.five
mambars nine of whom graduated in
the class Of rs TO rs there were thirty
mambars. eleven of whom graduated
in the class of '76 to 10, there were
tnltty-two me.nD0is, si,,a n1' - ,71 ~ :" A ,en
gIAouaseu 4, ~ 49,. sno o..ha,s ul10S " sr.ot twhon w
tne,e wei0 'n9 ANONYMOUSLY A'''' " '
grMua'eu. o,-,., s,,o,, .ho,o ro.0
IhS' & ~ VIC .. Ts ,1h >. % ~ S;xtaen - ,oono re
IN 1he clsss y, " - s.A.es 20 - % eh =
Dsrs, eiens y, "nv" ,so M ESu"H.ou s .ma.. ~ w
ci@ss VI ~ W 70, 'o o."Sn..od - ~
mem1ers' ten y. JAIL -" s1uua'oo 1.u." ~
tne CLASS u ~ W 20 .ao-1 1 "e'o yn so,en
teen members, s"siss ,vs VI wn'm ,on ~ Siauua s.
ted; IN tne oiass u - 70 oo 'ne'e "sr' s1
sixteen "empers' eisn' VI "no" ei"u"
atea. o,.n,,, ,o,o;,oa
Ihst sne NUMBERS VI pupiis sha ieTs.sea Gss
from tne lower SCHOOLS in'o sn9 s.S oIsm pnu.
mar scnooi Depar,mens Vi sne poys
hlgn sonoei m .ns iass ss nse so y9"s aSve w.
been iespeCsaVely 20, oo' w, ~ anu 80
and that tne numosfs lsoeiveu in'o
the Grammar oonToa Depas'mens M uaas' y, - suo sne
Girls School in the same So years nave
been respectively, ~, os' 90 % anu
%.
HEATING AND VENTILATION.
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.m M mpVl W '. suo1e": oo1u.;Sa..Iia u % isnntb Hs
t,iat,on :. A. eTnsielSDt1 psis 70 ~ t Pns.d roat
aiuues a.. W ss ~ UT - tbe .aaobars s ~ ~ Laan
.hs n,...c,a ~ sno ut " ~ ~ the;r ~ roo,ns from
exc exc 70 .e%"s epo sshranho;, ~ T M thinks all
90 W 20 - ien.eAe,. %aea e.;.a 70 20 % d;soh srna ,a
me 'eaonefS na'e o..,.L %.uI ,.",d;nn W. s .ha;1
tnis auy' uus' Mos"s AZ" na;iSnasa 3, % tha
M enaeavorS .so Sh;idran ShT e n ' manU Instances
wln'eI, 'ne - 0n aas..o a., 49, mh;nh ~ .ha tano
were kep. ~ . Ioeme 10. - NV 49, ~ sso D nj.
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