Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-08

Miss NJ. Zug, of the girls secondary Miss
Annie Etter, of the boys secondary Miss
Lizzie Carpenter, to be promoted to the
girls advanced secondary, and male
teacher to be placed in charge of the boys
advanced secondary, at !. salary Of fifty
dollars mouth.
r. X. BUEHnLE
To the Board OF Directors Of The Common,
Schools Of the city Of Lancaster:
The experimenting committee concur
in the foregoing recommendations OF the
city superintendent relative to the organi-
zation of the schools for the new school
building at the corner OF Lemon aud Lime
streets, and asks the approval Of the same
by the board. And the committee also
request the board to give to your COM
mittee authority to open said schools rs
soon as they are ready for occupancy, at
it's discretion.
Respectfully submitted
DANIEL G. BAKER.
II. E. SLAyMAKE2,
HM. MCCoMsEY,
LUTHER RICHARDS.
JOHN W. JACKSON.
LANCASTER, April !. 1891.
Mr.. Baker also presented the following
report from the city superintendent and
the committee 5 recommendations relative
to the same:
The German fDgl.sh Schco,
The city superintendent also desires tu
call your attention to the Gern;ta and
English school. To all who have visited
this school and observed it's operations, it
has become apparent That the diversity OF
classes is too great to do Justice to them in
their present building, and with their
present teaching force. The fact is that
there are more pupils in average attend
ance there i'll proportion to the number
of teachers employed than in any other
school in the city, the boys secondary on
Mulberry street only excepted. When it
is remembered that an additional language
is studied and that the principal has charge
of the primary as well as secondary grade,
it can readily be seen that pupils there
labor at disadvantage, as compared with
those attending either secondary
kschOois. With a view to rcmcdyinS this
evil and also for the purpose of providing
more room in the primary grade. | woul d
recommend the temporary .cmoyal of Mr..
Matz with the pupils Of the secondary
grade to the building on Mulberry street.
about to be vacated by the boys sccon.i..
ry, the appointment OF an assistant to MIR.
Matz, and the organization Of the remain
ing pupils as German and English pri-
mary with Miss BundeI as principal and
Misses Witwer and Stanley as assistants.
Miss Bundell had charge OF some German
classes, as assistant, and would no doubt
give satisfaction liz this particular if placed
in charge of the school. It should be
mentioned that number of applicants
were refused admission last fall for want
of room, and that Mr.. Matz giving in
struction in vocal music in the high school
the removal to Mulberry street will be ad-
vantageOus also on that account.
1t is now some months since called the
attention of the committee to the ia ct that
large number of pupils are Withdrawn
from school at eleven clock in the MORN
ing for the purpose OF carrying dinner. one
hour before the time for diSmissin~ school.
With view to giving Definite figures in
regard to this subject, requested some of
the teachers to report to me. These re-
ports show that twenty-six pupils leave
from Mis- Zuercher's school at that hour.
twenty-one from Mr.. Matz's and thirty.
eight from Miss Johnston's. In view of
the fact that these pupils thus lose more
than one sixth OF their school time, I feel
constrained to bring this subject to YOUR
attention for the second time, and to ask
YOU to permit us to open the schools at
the corner Of Mulberry and Vine at 81
a. m. and close the morning session at III
a. M, by way of experiment for the re-
mainder of this term.
Yours respectfully,
Il. X. BCEHRLE.
The committee concur with that portion
of the superintendent recommendation
relating to tho employment Of an addition,
al teacher, but they propose that the de-
vision shall be rs follows: Miss Kate
Bundell, with a new assistant to be re-
moved to the building about to be vacated
on South Duke street, and to Re placed
there in charge of a German and English
primary school, composed Of the pupils of
the lower grade of Mr.. Matz's school, and
Mr.. Matz, with his two present assistants,
to remain where he is with the secondary
and higher primary grade. This also meets
the superintendent approval.
Respectfully submitted,
DANIEL G. BAKER,
w. McCOMsEY,
II. E. SLAYMAKER,
LUTHER RICHARDS,
JOHN w. JACKSON.
Lancaster, Apri! !, 1881.
MIR. Evans suggested that the change
could not be made without altering the
rules.
DR.: Carpenter thought the plan suggest
I'd might be tried temporarily, BY unani-
nous consent, and if it worked we'll the
'ule might be changed.
On motion of Mr.. Baker it was ordered
hat the primary schools on South Null
'erry street be opened at $50 and closed
It II 80 from this time until the end of the
resent session.
Mr.. Evans, from the finance committee