Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02


each grade in one year. These schools are
highly efficient. They are under the man
agement of
PRINCIPALS OF MARKED ABILITY,
Who are ably seconded by the teachers. |
Pupils who complete the course in the |
grammar school have received thorough |
training in reading, writing, spelling,
arithmetic, geography, grammar, history
OF the United States, physiology, with
some training in music and industrial
drawing. The teaching is made as prac-
teal as possible, and those who leave
school after graduation from the fgrammar
school have obtained a mental training and
| accumulated a store of facts that will be of
lncalculable benefit to them in after life.
The graduates who enter the high school
we are told on good authority, are as well
prepared as the Lupils who enter any SINH
| lar school.
| THE IEGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Is based OF the requirements of admission
TO the several colleges in the State Uni
Versity. This is done, not that the school
| may be simply feeder to the University,
but because it is agreed of educators that
these requirements are the best prepara-
ton for actual life that can be devised.
The subjects cover wide range and in
sure mental discipline and habits of re-
search that prove of the highest value,
whether the pupils enter the college or at
once engage in business. Another adyant-
age Is thus secured, an advantage that can
| hardly be over-estimated in its effect in the
school; the Faculty of the University every
Year, on the application Of the principal,
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inc the classes and report the result to the
University Faculty. Two years ago, for
the first time, the Sacramento High School
was placed on the list of accepted schools.
In other words, the teaching is so efficient,
and the work is so thoroughly done in ali
the departments, that graduates of the
school, who are recommended by the prin-
cipal, are admitted to the University
without examination. The students from
the Sacramento High School have always
been well prepared in what formerly were
the specially important branches. The
requirements" however, of late, have been
made to conform
TO THE GROWING CONVICTION
That a knowledge of our mother tongue is at
least as important as a knowledge of Latin
and Greek, or of mathematics. The school
has been brought fully into line, and the
students who have lately entered the
University are not allowing the laure!s
won by Others in former years to tarnish,
while one young lady has made mark in
the mathematical classes by being assigned
with five young gentlemen TO Il first sec
ton" Of the Sophomore class The re-
quirements for admission to the University
are on a par with those of the Eastern in
situations. 1t is hard for newcomers to
understand this. 1t may not be amiss
therefore, to say that last summer one of
our Sacramento boys, graduate of the
high school,, entered an Eastern college
with 50 much honor that one of the Faculty
wrote to the boys father to inquire about
the school, not believing ii possible that a
boy could find such advantages in the pub
lie schools of Sacramento. Our Eastern
friends who may come to U.s. may rest as
sured, that if after settling here they still
wish to send their boys to Eastern colleges
instead Of taking advantage of our Uni
versity, they must not hesitate to place
them for preparation in our high school.
Our own people have also, from the yearly
reports of the Committee of the Faculty,
an evidence that cannot be gainsayed,
given by men competent to decide in such
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management, and is an honor to our city.
There is maintained by the city a mag
nifcent
| ART GALLERY,
Under the immediate direction of the Cali
fornia Museum Association. The gallery
and its contents, valued at some S650,000
was given to the city by Mrs. Margaret Z.
Croker. 1t is very handsome and very
large building of three stories, and stands
in the midst of a beautiful terraced garden.
where the plants and flowers are cultivated,
and the orange, lemon, palm trees and
other semi-tropic growths flourish in great
luxurlance, testifying convincingly to the
equable and semi-tropic character of the
climate.
THE INTERIOR
Of the gallery is furnished in the most
elaborate manner, and in its architecture,
freScO and other ornamentation is not sur
passed by any interior upon the coast The
paintings exceed 700 in number, and were
gathered during a long period of years by
the late Judge f. j. Croker.
\ SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Is maintained in the building by the NIu-
scum Association, where people receive a
thorough art education at a nominal tut
ton rate. 1t has Just entered upon its
| third year, under the chief instructorship
of w. F. Jackson and has been great
success from the beginning. Its splendid
selection of casts and statues was the gift
to the association of business firm of the
city, and many citizens have rendered SINH
Lar aid by subscribing for life memberships
and partnerships Here, too, is placed the
States
| MINERAL CABINET
4 large and very valuable collection of
mineral specimens. Lectures, exhibitions
scientific debates, discussion of papers and
j the collection of illustrative examples of
q the mineral history of the coast engages the
attention of the Association. In the city
are business colleges, private kindergarten
schools, seminaries, religious schools and
societies. convent, musical associations
social clubs, sportsmens societies and
nearly all the confraternal orders known
to the country, some of which own their
own halls.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
OF this city is complete in It's character.
1t is governed by Board of Fire Commits
sioners. There is Chief Engineer, First
Assistant, four Foremen and a corps of paid
]
tramen. The force has in its charge three
superior Amoskeag steam fire engines, one
hook and ladder truck, four hose carriages.
large number of hose reels, and com
plete electric fire alarm system. Hose
reels are located at various points through
out the city. Hydrants are located at
convenient points and very thickly, in add
dition to which are number of stand
pipes extending into the river wells and
Sutter lake, and also a,nlmber of storage
reservoirs, the latter being chiefly in the
mere thickly settled business sections ofahe
city. The great quantity of shade trees.
and the thickness of the foliage constitute.
in case of fire, an almost impossible bar
| rier 10 the progress of flames, and hence i
is considered by the citizens eff Sacramento
! that any extensive conhagration is next to,i
impossible here
ETIE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Is governed by Board of Police Commits |
| sioners, consisting of the Mayor, Police
Judge and Chief of Police The police
arrangements are superior Disorder is
Jess known here than in any otker COM
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