Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
PEDAGOGUE AND PUPIL.

THURSDAY being Thanksgiving Day, the
public schools will be closed.
THE city teachers will be paid tomorrow,
and warrants to the amount of S38, 698 s6 will be
issued.
MRS. mitchell, Of the Thad Stevens School,
has been absent all the past month from her
school duties owing to the severe illness of her
mother.
MISS FANNIE BIRD, late assistant principal
of the Bayard school, Seventeenth ward, will
be married on Tuesday morning to Mr.. II. B.
Dawrence, Of California,
AN entertainment will be given by the pupils
of the Thad Stevens School on Friday evening.
December 20. An operetta, gymnastic drill
and many other attractions are in preparation
for the event.
Miss KATE FL1NN, Of the Forbes School,
who has been absent from the schoolroom for
the past two months on account of illness. has
quite recovered and will soon resume her du-
ties as teacher of No. OF that school,
Miss NJ Q. ANDERSON has been elected the
assistant principal Of the Liberty School. She
is probably the youngest assistant in the city
and takes charge of the largest High School
class In one ward school, So in number.
A SESSION of the Teachers Institute will be
held on December Z, at the Ralston School.
Prof. ]. NJ. Logan will have class-drill in
arithmetic. Superintendent Luckey is in COM
munication with Prof. E. E. White of Cincin-
natl, to have him present to deliver a lecture.
It will be interesting to the teachers to know
per cent on their monthly salary this year.
AT the teachers meeting held last Tuesday
to ask for an increase of salary, q committee,
consisting of Miss NJ. Troup, A. Mckinley,
P.EMorris, Ella Martin and NJ. E. Taggart was
appointed TO see the Committee on Teachers
and Salaries on the subject The impression
seems to prevail that only the grammar teach
ers and assistant principals will be benefited,
but this is not the idea Of the promoters of the
plan, who believe tnat especially the primary
as well as the grammar teachers are entitled to
an increase.
THE Permanent Certificate Committee or
ganized yesterday. The committee consists of
Prof. G. B. Woods, W. W. Kennedy, g. W.
Kratz, ]. K. Bane and Miss Ella McCutcheon
Prof. Woods was elected President and Prof.
Kennedy Secretary. The examinations will be
held on February l. 8. Is, March l and g. the
studies for the first Saturday being physiology,
composition and reading. Profs. Bayne and
Kratz we're appointed to secure central place
to hold the examination. A circular will be
sent to the candidates apprising them of the
date. subjects and hours of the examination.
THE thirty-ninth annual session of the Wash
ington County Teachers Institute commences
tomorrow. Superintendent Spindler has Col
onel Parker, Hon. E. E. White, of Cincinnati;
Deputy State Superintendent Houck, Rev. ].
D. Moffat Prof. W. G. McCelland, of Washing
ton, Pa, and Prof. George Little, of Washing
ton, D. C., on the programme as the instructors
The lecturers of the evening are Hon, R. G.
Horr, Rev. Lyman Abbott, Rev. ]. M, Buckley.
Mrs. Mary Livermore. The Levy Concert Com.
pany closes the institute programme on Friday
evening.
To-MoRRowSdiss Jennie Gosser will assume
this duties Of her new position, to which she
has Just been elected, at the High School On
Friday, her last day as assistant principal of
the Liberty school, the directors presented her
with a valuable dictionary, her associates of
the higher rooms gave handsome vase of an
tiuue silver, and her pupils q large etching with
a very beautiful basket of flowers. Robert
Watt made the presentation speech for the
High School. The afternoon was made the oc-
casion for farewell reunion in the school hall
at which the upper rooms and all the teachers
participated. There was excellent singing.
THE party of Pittsburg educators who visited
the Philadelphia schools the earlier part of the
week say that the Pittsburg schools Compare
very favorably with those of Philadelphia,
The Quaker City seems to be superior in draw
ing but as Pittsburg has just introduced the
same system as has been in use in Philadelphia
for some years the Gas City will undoubtedly
soon hold lis own in this branch of educational
work, Clay modelling is feature in the pri-
mary rooms of Philadelphia. The practice of
having but one session in rainy weather and
dismIssing at o'clock was an idea that favora-
bly, impressed one Of the Pittsburg educators
who was on the trip.
THE following are the names Of the pupils
who stand first in the highest grammar rooms
of the various ward schools: Bedford. Lewis
Davis; Allen, Emma Weber; PEBBLES, Ned
Johnston; Duquesne, Frank Aland; Hancock.
Hannah McKeever; Soho, Lizzie Kirschhaum;
O'Hara, Minnie Shelley Birmingham, Eddie
Knoell: Wickersham, Linnie lsler: Knox
Carrie Wickes: Humboldt Freddie Wenke;
Luckey, Fanny !Trimble: Lawrence, John
land. Elma Fitzgerald; Mt Albion.
VIM Graham; Monongahela, VIM. GRABBING:
Liberty, Bertha Young; Forbes, George Schaf.
fer, Raiston. Stella Scott; Springfield. c. I,ud-
wig: Moorhead, Ella Boyce; Mt. Washington.
Lille McGowan; Thad Stevens, Nellie FarreI:
North, Jennie Dumbrill; st. Clair, Lottie Hop
kins
Miss Deborah Payne. of the Grant school.
stood the highest this month in the High School
class.