Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
Prof. q. c. HaIl,s Renart.

! It IS Hull Tn its details, and contain many valuable suggestions relating t , education and to the proper method fc conducting the schools under his charg, It Is addressed.to the Honorable Boar of Trustees, and opens with an accour of the condition of the school at tn
 time the Professor assumed charge, little over year ago, at which time
 portion of the scholars were somewha
 disposed to be turbulent, and unin
 clined to submit to the radical chang
 which he demed necessary to oinauguratt
 but by good management and a judi
 cious grading of the schools, all diff
 culties were overcome, and the nel
 order of things produced good fruit.
 In the proper grading of the schools
 Mir. Hall experienced much difficulty
 because of the inequality of the variou
 studies in which the students were ex
 pected to be, and ought to have been
 equally proficient. Thus, for instance
 a scholar well advanced in anthmeti,
 was unable to read English, and so on
 This fer time necessitated special in
 struction. Professor Hall beileves thaf
 by mixed classes Of boys and girls, tn,
 cause of education can best be sub,
 served; but as the boys were further ad.
 vanced in their studies than the girls
 the difficulty of grading them was
 further heightened by that fact, but
 they were eventually overcome, and the
 grades thoroughly defined.
 As stated, Professor Hall is strong advocate of the co-education of the sexes and quotes in support of his argument the California State Report of 1876 as follows:
 "The co-education of the sexes has many opponents, but Tn twenty years ex- perence in mixed schools, has led me to believe that most of the objections urged against them are without foundation. In fact the influence of the sexes over each other, is beneficial mentally, morally and socially. As m families, the best types of true manhood and womanhood, have been developed when sons and daughters have been reared together. so in schools, co-education has tendency to refine the males and to give strength of character to the females. There is in the mixed schools a health spirit of emu lation between the boys and girls, which stimulates mental activity. Further more, 1t is easier to teach that pDhteness aanl W. T. Lucky, formerly principal of the California State Normal School says: After an experience of thirty-four years in teaching, thirty-one of which have been in mixed schools, am fully con 1nced that the intellectual, moral and social advancement of each sex is pro noted by cO-education.'
 There are at this time, according to the estimate made by Professor Hall, at least 1900 children in this district Of suitable age to attend school. After deducting the number enrolled in the Public Schools, 2S0; andin the Catholic 450; there are TO who do not attend any school whatever This, as the Professor says, is a bad showing for our city.
 "We have a compulsory law in our Territorial Code, but it IS not enforced The law provides that every person having charge of children between the ages of eight and fousteen, shall keep them in school not less than sixteen | weeks during each school year; eight weeks of which shall be consecutive; provided. that the children are mentally | and physically strong enough to attend, | and provided, that there is a school | within two miles. The penalty for non Is a fine of not less than Sl0O for the first offense, and not less than S2O0 for the second offense."
 If the above law was even but par tially enforced, ignorance and vice would be diminished in our midst, and many children, now growing up to evil ways and idleness, would, if forced to become educated, be mentally and morally i'm proved thereby.
 Irregularity of attendance to which | many of the children were prone, has. under the present discipline, been much although it yet continues to be a source of much annoyance, as is also the tardiness of many scholars, who | attribute the late hour of their arrivaI | to the want of rising in time to be al the school by o'clock in the morning l Such excuses by parents who desire to | have their children educated ought | never to be made, for without the nee essary promptness in attendance at | school, and the proper attention to study, good order in a school-rnom can 1 not be kept, nor progress in their stud les made. But, even laboring under such difficulties, the school has pros Dered, and the advanced classes are now well prepared to enter the junior class ,f High School, which, it is to be hoped, the people of Tucson, in their present. prosperity, will make arrange nents for the building of such a school. | It is an object upon which money can lever be lost, and the investment would, IS Professor Hall says, "give impetus to he growth of the city and enhance the 'alue of property, so from a strictly f. lancial standpoint, the investment would bee highly remunerative."
 The pamphlet embraces rules for teachers and also for pupils, as adopted l 1y the Board of Trustees, together with | ne full course Of study for the public | schools of Tucson. The latter, to say | he least is, as far as it goes, most | thorough. Each different grade, from .ourth to first, embracing all necessary branches for a sound basis upon which | .O build higher educatlOn; also the | list of text books used and a valuable | ,eport from the Secretary of the Board, | NIT. Geo. J. Roskruge, for the year end 1 ing December 3l, 1881. It is very | minute in its details giving the separate l expenses of each month for the time | named, and the purposes for which the money was applied. The recapitulation 6 nere given:
 reather's salaries for
 the year 1881 ........ Sz,527 50 | Other expense for the
 year 1881. ......... 2,519 2s
 Total expenses for.........
 the year 1881 ........ S7,046 7S |
 The book contains only B pages, but ,ach page is full of valuable information md will be eagerly read by all. It is not dry treatise on education, weighed down with the ponderous opinions Of he learned, but a real readable and pamphlet, and it reflects great ,redit on Professor Hall for having made such comprehensive and read