The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-17

Inc Fort street school Is, almost |
without exception, attended by for
eigners, and is under the able priu-
cipalship of Mr.. M. M. Scott, A. NJ.
The school is operated in three gen.
eral divisions, { y the primary, (2)
the grammar school, and (3) the high |
school. Besides the principal, the
teachers in the grammar and high
schools are Mrs. Hendry and Miss
Kinney. The three primary depart
ments are in charge of Miss Winter,
Mrs. Needham and Miss Mossman. |
THE PRINCIPALS ROOM.
This is a large, well-finished, airy
apartment, furnished with patent
desks of excellent American pat
tern. Extensive blackboard sur
face is provided over the teachers
platform and around the walls. At
the main entrance there is con-
siderable area ready to be utilized
for any purpose that may be requir-
ed. From this to within about four
feet of the platform, there are six
aisles and five rows of desks, ten in
each row. AS each desk provides
room for two pupils, there is. ct
present, seating accommodation for
one hundred. Mr.. Scott is a gradu-
ate of the University of Kentucky,
and is an experienced educationist.
When visited the work in the princi-
pals room happened to be arithmetic,
on slate and blackboard. The class
was well-advanced in this branch, in
fact, had been through nearly all
the rules, and the chief object now
is to consolidate previous aquisi-
tons, and to become expert in the
practical application of the princi-
Piles of the science. The ques-
tons propounded for solution
bear as close. as possible a re-
semblance to the daily calculations
to be met in commercial affairs.
The solutions offered undergo care
full scrutiny. 1t is not enough that
pupils can find "the answer" with
pencil and chalk. They are to prove
themselves capable of bringing mind
to bear upon the work. Processes
of solution must, in all cases, be
fully accounted for. Guess work,
under such a system of teaching, is
scarcely possible. An inspection of
the work of a previous lesson remain
ing on the black-boards, proves in
Il way, not to be mistaken, that
arthmetical calculations arc supple
mented by first-class literary execu-
ton. Every solution must explain
itself. Capitals, commas and other
necessary punctuation marks come
right into place with as much care as
if the whole matter was intended to
pass into the printers hands.
A special lesson in geometrical
ratio is given, after which members
of the class are sent forward to ex-
emplify under their own signs
manual the results of their attention
or non-attention, as the case might
be. The lesson closes with the an.
nouncement of a new and original
problem to be returned solved next
day. AS it may be of interest to any
readers of the BULLETIN who are font
of exploits in "ciphering," here it is
"If you lay steel pen on the whar
the first week in year, two pens
the second week, four the third
and so on throughout the year
doubling, each week, the previous
weeks deposit, and supposing LOO
pens to weigh one pound; hoy
many trips must the Alameda make
taking 1900 tons every trip, to carr,
your pens to San Francisco?"
A dictation exercise follows, ant
is performed with faithful regar'
to absolute correctness. The "any
thing will do" method is as dead q
julius Caesar. What is wort
doing is worth doing WE'LL"
the only principle tolerated
There is nothing to which writer
of English are more general
prone than to slovenliness of excel
t ton, and this is the very thing tha
!, the practical educator will set hin
II self to correct at the outset, by trail
u ing the learner to aim at u hig
: standard of excellence. The lessor
e and the methods of teaching pursue
!. here are evidently directed to Il
g twofold object of developing Il
). scholars reasoning powers an
!. habituating them to the performan'
of such work as will be of everyda
!, service to them in whatever situate
g they may hereafter be placed.
MRS. HENDRY's ROOM.
The second department in Il
High School division is conduct'
is by Mrs. Hendry. The -Four
q Reader is being read with fair e
preston and distinctness of enunci
m ton. There is perhaps no lungua
IS more expressive than English, al
as yet there is none more easy to co
a vert into inarticulate mumbl
ny sounds. 1t is really one of the mt
ot irk soma and distressing of nil (