The Evening critic., 1883-06-27
THE SCHOOL BOARD.
The Proceedings at the Regular
Monthly Meeting YesferdnY.

monthly Meeting Yesterday.
The Public School Trustees held their
regular monthly meeting last evening at
the Franklin School building, the principal
business being the consideration of the re-
port of the Committee on Teachers as to the
teachers to be employed in the various
schools during the next school year.
Messrs. Birney, Brooks, Baum, Curtis,
Clark, johnson and Lovejoy were present,
and owing to the absence of Mr.. Brainard
ii. Warner Mr.. A. p. Clark was called to
the chair. The letter of the Commissioners,
published in last evenings CRITIC, was
read and referred without discussion.
A present of a portrait of Professor Henry
was rendered by his daughter, Miss Mary
A. Henry, and was accepted with thanks,
and ordered to be placed in the Henry
School. Bills to the amount of $5,513.5O
were audited and ordered paid
Applications for appointments rs teachers
were received from Miss Laura II. Hawkes.
worth, Miss Dora L. Smith, Miss Eleanor
Larreson, Miss Adelia +. Gates, and Mr..
Theodore Burgess, and for janitors' positions
from Charles T. Moore and Ezekial A.
Somerville
The resignation of Mr.. II. N. Copp, the
well-known and efficient principal of the
First Division, on'account of the:pre,sure of
private business resulting from his con-
nection with "Copp's Land Owner" was
received and read. Every member present
expressed his regrets at the retirement Of
Mr.. Copp, and a complimentary resolution
was passed.
Miss Nina Brooks resigned her position
as teacher in the Seventh Division and Miss
Cordelia Syphax was appointed to succeed
her.
The report of the Committee ON Teachers
was submitted, read and adopted
The list of the applicants is, with two or
three exceptions, the same as last year. The
most important change is the appointment
of Mr.. N. d. Cram as supervising principal
Of the First District, in place of Mr.. III. N.
Copp, resigned.
Previous to the adoption of the report
there was lengthy discussion of the nomi-
nations for teacherships in the Highs
and resolutions were offered to lay the mat
ter over, but these resolutions were lost and
the report was adopted az whole except
as to three new teachers at the High School,
whose appointment went over.
The resignation of Lucy b. Davis was
accepted.
Mr.. Brooks reviewed the position taken
by the trustees in regard to the auditing of
bills. He claimed that the former action
of the board in regard to bills had been to
support and not antagonize the Commits
sioners and they would find that their de-
Siolou was INV cA pouicut. no 10 buG
of the abolition of the Board of Trustees
any one familiar with tho law knew that
that was out of the question.
The report Of the Committee on Scholar
ships, ETC., was read and adopted. 1t
showed that the Amidon medal had been
awarded to Miss G. i. Mccartney, the Ken
dali scholarship to George H. Ayers, that
at the Boston University to G. L. Sites.
No competitors appeared for the King
scholarship, and W. P. Cutler was awarded
the Birney scholarship at Cornell.
"Webster's Dictionary" was restored as a
book of reference. General Birney offered
resolution for the removal of the Normal
School from the Franklin to the High
School Building and it was laid over. The
same action was taken on resolution of
Mr.. Lovejoy, giving the teachers one-half
their salaries when away sick.
The board then adjourned.