Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-30
A NOBEL
Tho New York Night School and the Good
1t Accompanies.

Tho Now York Night school and the Coo
1t Accompanies.
Too frequently ale night school /
only a night sessioNof the day schoo
instruction in the day-school Studies
rather than in branchcs specisf]!
adapted to the needs of those who hav.
fairly entered into the battle Of life ane
who have no time to give to tire feeling
Of thciS way through the'many depart
nncnts Of education. Often those who
enter the night schools with enthusiasm
falito find that which is suited to the
needs of their lives, and So they drop
out discouraged and d%istrustfGl of edu-
cational methods generally.
In New York they have a14ievenmg
high school, so~called, but which is got
a highischool' in the usual meaning, bat
rather'a school for practical education
in special lines, Il opens the first MorA
day in October and continues fdr one
h%undrediand twenty nights. The re-
quirements for admission are 2sot Sc
we're. Aa1,appficant must read write
fairly well, spell decently, and under
stand arithmetic a Ear as v%ulgarfrac-
tions and their employment ira the
transactiozs,of ordinary business. The
applicant who is admitted is allowed to
choose his; own studies. He hasshis
choice of Batin,. grammar, political
science, algebra, geometry, penman-
ship, bookkeeping, anatomy and phy-
siology, German,. French, Spanish,
photography. composition, architeet-
/ ural and mechanical drawing, free
hand drawing, chemistry, reading ard
defamation. He may take any ore
study, though he is empected to take
two. Not more thum two except in
special cases. Mc purpose, it is seen,
is, to enable a person to acquire knowl-
edge in that direction. which he finds
essential in his work or aims, or in
which he is deficient. During the
course he may abandom one study for
another with the consent of the princi-
psA- If he has oae study and thinks
he has enough of it7at the end of one
hour, or if his occupations give him but
an,hour, he may GO esUay of the end of
the hour; or he may come at the begin
ming of the seconds hour. A student
may spend one hour in a. Sow class in
one study and his nexttin q high class
Of another if he is fitted for It. The
attendance averageseone thousand, the
pupils ranging IL age from fourteen to
sixty-fve years. The older ones are of
two elasses-those wlho' wish to brush
up in a long-neglected study with
which they have been familiar in youth,
and those whose business or taste
makes an acquaintance with a new
study desirable-generally, in such
cases.. a foreign language. Some who
come'to brush up are fathers of boys
whom they desire to aid:in their stud
les. The majority, however, are young
men hom fourteen to twenty years old
who are engaged in some occupation
during the day. AM interesting ac-
count Of the school Says:
"Ct the 1000 pupils, .nIlly one-half
study arithmetic andi bookkeeping.
Not more than 40 take, to Latin, 25
each to political science. and the al
gebras and geometry. course, which
eventually run Into, trigonometry
and Trims them outystilI further. In
the thGee nightly grammar classes the
attendance is from 150' to 175, and
abouGthe same number struggle with
penmmnship. The students Of anatomy
and physiology are comparatively few,
not averaging more than 90 in each of
the TWO classes. Garlnnm is the most
popular foreign language for study,
engaging the attention,of $50 students
nightly. Spanish comes next, with
probably two-thirds as many students,
but il is increasing in,interest yearly as
young men grow to-, appreciate the
business probabilities of development
of u commerciablinterssts in South
America and Meaico.. French is not
much cared for, not half so much as
Spanish, taking the,nu,nber of students
as a indicationu. About 175 young
mem start out at the beginning
of each course with bright hopes
of becoming expert photograph
erst but at least one-third of
thenn are broughh'to, grief by the hooks
ard circles and @ord signs, and aban-
don the study befone, the season ends.
T.Rere are forty students in the: lower
amd thirty in tllae higher classes prac-
ticing architectural and mechanical
dhawing. Freeahand drawing Engages
tile earnest inseTest of an average of
LES pupils. The. drawing classes are,
from some points; of view, the most in
ueresting in the,s school, and tie results
Of their laborss being such asscan have
tangible demonstration, enable the get
ting up of a veny pleasing and highly
creditable exhibition at the termination
Of each course. Every thiag that the
! drawing students require il# the way Cd
tools and materials is furnished to them
gra~tuiteuslHby the city. The chemistry
class onlS,nunabers abou& twenty-five
students, alliof whom a,s during the
day employed in businesses Wherein a
knowledge of this SCIENCE is desirable,
if not absolutely requisite. The rsin-
cipal has, general, assistant and
twenty-five Instructors as aid him.,
Lectures are givenlbo the political
science classes on pertinent topics-on
labor stnikes and othar- timely matters
and. the instructions in physiology is
practical and experimental. -MiS
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