Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-21
Board of Education.

New School Building to be Erected
 On Orchard street-A New Training
 School Proposed-Other Matters of In-
 terest.
 regular meeting of the Board of Educa- tion was held last evening" Present, Messrs. Welch (presiding), Zunder, Harrison, Peck, Parmelee, Plunkett, Pond, Strong and O'Brien
 Several recommendations for abatement of taxes as recommended by the tax committee and approved by the Selsctmen were ap- proved.
 i Mir. Welch, from the finance committee, reported that lot for school building had been purchased in the Dwight district. | The lot Is located on Orchard street, between l Martin and Elm streets (nearer Martin than
 Elm), and cost g., O3O. The lot fronts 65 1 feet on Orchard street and is 163 feet deep. In regard to the purchase of 8 lot for 8
 school building to take the place of the Fair | street ungraded school, Mir. Welch said the
 committee were looking for a lot, but had not 1 yet decided upon one. They hoped to find . lot that would be acceptable
 ! Architect Robinson presented plans for | the proposed new Orchard street school ] building, which it is proposed to make a l four room building. The general design is ] similar to that of the Lloyd street school
 building. The structure is to be of brick,
 with granite strimmings and slate roof. It | was thought that the building would cost
 complete not to exceed $14,OOO. It was
 voted to advertise for proposals for the erec- tion of the building to be opened two weeks | from last evening at 7:3O o'clock.
 Superintendent Dutton reported that he ! had recently visited different localities by | consent of the committee on schools. He l said he had visited the State normal school at New Britain and was interested in what he
 saw. He said he saw great deal that was interesting. The teachers were practical ones ! and the pupils were liable to be called upon at ! any time to conduct the teaching He thought l members of the board would be very much I interested in visiting the school. He paid a l compliment to Professor Carleton. MT. Dut- ton said he had also visited the normal school ! at Newark, N. J. He said that in this school
 graduates from the High school were given l a years training in teaching and the quality ! of the teachers very much enhanced thereby. He thought that the schools in ! New Haven would be benefited by these visits l of the superintendent under the direction of
 the committee. Referring to the night | schools, he said about four hundred scholars
 were in attendance. There were large mum Der of Germans, many of them educated men,
 who were learning English very rapidly. ] Mir Dutton said the course of lectures had
 opened very favorably, and he hoped mem.
 bers of the board would find it convenient tc
 attend He said the {" achers were very en- ! thusiastic in regard to the lectures.
 Mir. Parmelee said there were number ot
 Italian boys in the city that were employed in different kinds of work that should in l some way be brought into the public schools MT. Dutton announced that three rooms l for primary education had been opened 1T 1 the Hamilton school and one in the German ] American school.
 l The new training school will be erected I when a suitable lot is found, and the teachers will then be instructed in the theory as vel ! ha1 0f tdo