Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-25
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Meeting Of the Board of Truste

Meeting Of the Board Of Trustees.
special meeting OF the board Of public
school trustees was held last evening, for the
purpose of taking action as to selecting
SITES FOR NBw SCHOOL BUILDINGS,
provieed for In the act of June 4th last. Mr.
Baldv In, from the committee on Ouiidin - 70
ported that the District COMMISSIONS q ware
disposed 10 ratify any action the trust ees might
take. ne also reported a resolution, which Mas
repairs recommend to the board the Al vissb,Iitv
OF locating the public school building for the
second division On the Corcoran market sGuare
tIontlng y street ana sne g1ounds to be en-
not less than $50 fee;.n Mr.. Loyeioy also offered
leSolutio1 that tie but ding to be ere ,te in the
secoI division se on the Henry plan; adopted.
erection OF a building in the seventh division,
tcolored Schools,) made report STATING that
there was put one building In Georgetown, and
1t was unit for school purposes and iniudicIons.
ly located. In the second subdistrict there was
the greatest pressure for school accommoda-
IONS IONS ana the largest amount of rental is paid
there AFTER some discussion, in which Mr.
Curtis urged that the board recommend the In.
en- OF the building IN Georgetown, a motion
was adopted that the building be located In the
sH Pine saodls h II was decided that the
erected on tine Force building" plan
MT. Brown, OF the sixth division, submitted a
report recommending the erection of a school
ou!idlng 10 Anacostia, at a cost not to exceed
50 5us asking that the plan therefore be referred
10 the committee On buildings ana repairs 81
ordered. ~
TEACHERSIIPS ETC
Ihe resignation OF Mrs. HetlIebower ,nee
MISS Annie clark OF the first district was re.
lived and accepted. Applications for POSITIONS
as as teacneTs were read and filed from Messrs.
Addison Dent, I. j. Boilin and William C. EW-
Ing. and for janitorS' position from w p Alien
aid GEORGE X. E. Hunter.
THE KING SCHOLARSHIP
tra,1 iei1er was presented by the superintendent
been with no little regret that have observed
that the king scholarship has not been put to
peter practical use: but this is not the fault
t eloner OF the superintendent or board of trus.
ices OF the pubic schools. In making a present
Oh tnls scholarship or rather five scholorsbfps
In the last instance), thought and hoped was
giving something OF real value and was desfr
Gus OF its being understood as free, voluntary
oHer1ng. 1ohah hnO,C 1Cas." He then refers
70 an article in The STAR OF the 10th instant.
s,Hatlng that the King scholarship was
0otalned and presented through efforts of
W. X woodward esq. for many years an eff
c1ent trustee OF the second division, and saws.
NOW While | doubtless spoke to my friend.
woodward, on the subject at the time. do NOT
believe that he Oh any body else will claim thai
any efforts were required or used to Induce me
TO do what all The correspondence will show I
was s. not only Wiling but very DESTROYS to do
thdt tne iirst ofer-one four years course-Was
through w. j. Rhee5, and finally the whole
scn;oarsalp, Tor 20 syear-, was through the sll-
psrlhtenden. He coses,s do not Iefer to tn
comparatively unimportant motive for the pur-
po: OF any present correction OF the above mis-
representation. doubtless through an inadvert
ance, OUT 1t Is due to me that it should not ar.
pear on your records that required squirting
IRON any quarter to make SO small an offeringh
Mr.. Love1oy stated that the first Columbia
College scholarship was presented by the fac
uity OF the National Medical College in 1855, and
me hehdaii scholarship was not given until
1869, and since then twenty three Scholarships
nave been awarded, OF which nine went to the
IlfSt district, two TO the second, and six each 70
the third and fourth districts w
Tue ietler or Mr.. King was referred to the
committee on annual reports, with renlnst
mat they give history of the different scholar
SHIPS, ana emoody In 1t Mr.. Kings correspond