Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-07
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Total
enrolment
Il.
daily attendance.
Bows Girls. TOTAL.
Total. .2,e24 1884 5,G24 2,426 2,A5 4,841

HIgh...... Not opened.
Total. 1924 1894 5,624 1926 2,A5 4,841
Although as large additions to the school
accommodations to the city as the fnan-
cial condition OF the board would permit
have been made in the past, 1 have still
to report that the demand for more school
houses is pressing. Before the close of the
school year Just begun, there will scarcely
be an unocupied school-room ID the city.
In former reports I have shown the need
of an addition to the Webster school, a
new building in Arliigton HilPs addition,
a new building in the Rice school dictrict,
and some school facilities to accommodate
the residents of the Third ward living vest
of Oakland cemetery. In addition to these
pressing needs, the crowded condition Of
the schools in the Sixth ward demand
consideration. The boundaries of the
three school districts On that side of the
river have been changed several times, SO
as to use all the facilities of that ward,
and at great inconvenience children have
been compelled TO attend the Garfield
school, the only building where there was
any room. The last vacant school room
in that building will be opened in few
days, and before the close OF the year it
will be necessary to turn applicants from
the doors. The River school has sent its
higher classes to the Humboldt school and
has now enrolled many more pupils than
ii can find seats for. If q suitable build
ing can be found, it would seem to ne
desirable to open another
school IN this district at once. The per-
manent relief of this part of the city by
an addition to the Humboldt building or
otherwise, should also receive considera-
ton.
Tha Harrison school building is proving
too small to accommodate the pupils of
that rapidly growing section. The atten
ton of the board is called to the needs of
this district.
The High school building will be so near
ly finished by next Monday, October 8,
that the sessions of the school can be held
in it. The completion of so important
an addition to our school facilities
seems to me an event which deserves
more than ordinary notice. It has
been anxiously awaited by many whose
children would expect to avail themselves
of the advantages of the high school. The
organization of the high school dates back
sixteen years. Through all these years
there has been with many the hope that in
the near future the crown of our system of
schools should be housed in a comfortable
and tasteful building, located away from
busy streets, and should be supplied with
illustrative apparatus, and rything
that would tend to give it its greatest eff
fciency. This hope, long deferred, is now
TO end in fruition, and it would seem to me
to be appropriate to open the building
somewhat formally and call out the public
by programme of exercises which would
commend the school to public notice
and favor, and which need not
necessarily be characterized by grandilo-
Quence or buncombe.
The opening of the High school in its
new home, which the board has so gener-
Ously provided with laboratories for the
demonstration of science, calls attention
10 the fact that there is scarcely anything
worthy of notice in the way of apparatus,
either physical or chemical, in the posses
sion of the school. In order to utilize the
facilities for teaching science already fur
nished il viii be necessary to have appar-
atus, and some should be supplied at once.
in the purchase of this it would seem to
me to be wise 10 have that only which is
certain to be used. Instead of appro-
Priating large amount to be expended for
articles which, selected perhaps from a
catalogue, to make up the amount to be
expended, are when purchased, soon
thrown aside, unused, it would be better,
after supplying certain essentials, which
should include an air pump, an electrical
machine, galvanic battery, stereopti-
con with speotroscope, and polaiscope at
tachment, to make purchases from time
to time of what the work in the school
should demonstrate the necessity. In
these purchases, If science is to be made
prominent III the high school course, none
but the best should be thought of. If prac
teal work is to be done in our laboratories,
original investigation should be
permitted and encouraged by the
use OF appliances fitted for such work
Anything like the toy apparatus which sold
for use IN some schools seems to be useless
and its purchase an extravaganza. In
order to properly equip our laboratories
than the expenditure of quite sum will
be necessary and should be made only fol
the best and from time to time as use
shows the actual need. An air pump made
by J. n. Ellis, of Peoria, has been exaElin'
ed by Mr.. Weitbrecht and Mr.. Gilbert, OF
the High School, and both earnestly recon-
mend its purchase. DR.. Rowland now
lecturing on science in Market hall pro-
nounces it all things considered preferable
to any other form he has ever seen. This
air pump with 'Nicols' prisms
can be obtained for $50
1 would suggest that the matter be
referred to the committee on High School
have also to report that requests from
the parents of fourteen children attending
the Neill school, and twelve attending the
Jackson school, for the instruction in Ger,
man which is given in like grade in all the
other schools of the city, have been re-
ceived.