Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-21
The High school Course.


EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN In your issue of
Thursday a friend of the change in the
High School says: The old course has
been mainly calculated to fit pupils for the
State University, and not to equip boys
and girls with the knowledge requisite to
fill the ordinary demands of modern
society This is a mistake rs IL was
proved before the Board at its last sitting
that the present course of study has most
admirably fitted its graduates for many
walks IN life. Instances are all around us
of those who are filling, with credit to
themselves and the various teachers of the
High School, positions in mercantile, me-
chanical and professional pursuits, and it
Is certain that 4 large number of our best
teachers are graduates of this same institu-
ton. Can any High School in the State
show a better record?
II has long been an acknowledged fact
that the matter learned in school is of
slight importance compared with the train
ing of the mind to think, thus giving it
the power to gain information in after
life.
In your editorial You say that the High
School does not and cannot equip pupils
for immediate and full entry into the State
University. This is also a mistake as the
l4liiitS u luliltiOAS SIdIlldlCS no nave
passed directly into each course of the
University were given before the Board on
Monday evening.
4 great objection to the new course is
that 1t crowds into the first year and half
the entire three years mathematical work
of the old. Teachers and graduates know
that this work cannot be well done in the
time allotted. An examination of the
catalogues Of the principal High Schools
in the country fails to show a single one in
which a boy or Girl Is taken from Gram
mar School and required to study algebra
and geometry in the first term of the first
year. The omission of Latin from the
junior year and Greek from the entire
course will certainly prevent any poor boy
whose parents cannot afford to send him
to pay schools from entering the classical
department of the University.
No friend of the High School has ever
had thought of depreciating the merits Of
other teachers, but assistant teachers must
have the support and direction Of first
class Principal to render their efforts sue
ce5Sful. CITIZEN.
Sacramento, June 20, 1884
DEDICATION PosrPoNEp.-The following
has been received from Rev Dr. Frost "A
letter from Rev. Harry Taylor, formerly
pastor Of the First Baptist Church of this
city, brings the sad intelligence that his
wife has been taken suddenly i'll with
typhoid fever. Mr.. Taylor was on his way
to Sacramento to attend the dedication
services here next Sunday when a dispatch
Informed him of the sickness of his wife.
which caused him to return Immediately
The dedication will not take place next
Sunday, but as soon after as convenient"
overwhelmingly night the grocery
of Westwick & Nelson. northeast corner
of Fourth and y streets, was entered by
burglars, who stole about 81 in small change
from the till, and subsequently enjoved a
lunch of Sardines. crackers, etc They
gained entrance by the side. door. having a
key which fitted the lock In the morning
u note was found, which read " We've got
even. Sorry we didn't open the safe
EUREKA Social CLUB-The Eureka So
cial Club has elected the following officers
President, Elias Steinman; Nice-President,
Gus Elkus Secretary, Henry Meyer :;
Financial Secretary, Samuel Gerson Treas
urer, Q. Ross Executive Committee-M.
S. Lavenson, K Hyman, NJ. Levy, 5. NJ,
Feldheim and Al. ElkuS,