St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-10
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From the Secretary
Nominating Otto Dreher Jr. as his
assistant and respectfully asking con-
firmatiOn of the appointment.
Received and appointment confirmed
by
Yeas-Inspectors Cook, Croonquist,
Dobner, Foley. Kuhles, MaXfield, Pos
tIethwaite, Thomson. Wright, and Mr..
President-l0.
Also, relating to q change in office
hours, and recommending that the same
be hereafter so arranged that the Office
shall remain open during the entire
day, viz: from $3.50 a. m. to p. m.
Received and adopted.
From the Principal Of the Humboldt
School
the heating facilities at the Humboldt
school.
Referred TO the Committee OH Real
Estate.
From the Superintendent of Schools
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct.J7, 1889.
To the President and Members of the
Board of Education of the City of St.
Paul, MINI.
GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to
submit to your consideration the follow
ing report of the condition of the pub
lie schools of this city for the month of
September, being the first month of the
scholastic year 1SS9-90. Our schools
have opened ausplciously with able and
enthusiastic teachers, excellent physical
conditions and children in abundance.
The number of pupils admitted during
the month is 1l.6l2, an increase over
the corresponding month Of last year
of 1,O39. Children are still coming in
large numbers, so that the enrolment
for the year promises to be far in eX-
cess of that during any year in our
history.
The teachers, as have said, encOur-
aged by the broad policy of this Board,
work. The Board is to be congratulated
upon having in its corps of teachers so
many able minds, men and women who
are familiar with the best and latest i'm
provementS in the science of education,
and are ready to apply them in their
work; and, better still, those who are
possessed of originality and are them
selves making advances for others to
follow.
The school buildings are in admira-
BILE condition. Needed repairs and i'm
provementS have been made, especially
in the matter of heating and ventila-
ton. so that some Of the buildings for
merly almost uninhabitable now furnish
the conditions necessary to health and
good work ON the part of both pupils
and teachers. This is notably the case
with the Lafayette and Deane schools.
The new buildings, completed or near
completion, In different parts ofthe city
will furnish greatly needed relief; yet.
Notwithstanding all the efforts of the
Board of Education, we still are
cramped for room in many quarters.
One of the inevitable effects of rap
idly growing population Is that our
needs increase in geOmetric ratio. 1t
has already been necessary to rent
rooms for the relief of the schools as
follows: Adams school, 8 rooms; La
fayette school, 2 rooms; Sibley school,
2 rooms; Jackson school, 2 rooms; Mon
frame structure has been built on the
grounds of the Webster school for It's
relief.
These auxiliary rooms are undesirable
because both of their cost and their in
adequacy. 1t will be necessary for the
Board at an early day to furnish per-
manent relief for these buildings.
l would recommend that the follow
ing new buildings and additions be pro-
yided as soon as possible: New build
ings: One to relieve the Webster, tObe
located west of the present building;
one to relieve the Jackson school (the
Board has already instructed the COM
mittee to secure site for this build
ing(; one to replace the Deane, and
either an addition or new building for
the relief of the Lafayette. Additions:
To the Adams. Sibley, Cleveland. and
possibly the German schools.
1t would be well also for the board to
secure site to the eastward of the Sib-
ley school for future use.
The high schools have opened with
large attendance; Notwithstanding the
creation of five branch high schools, the
attendance at the central school is
larger than one year ago. The branch
schools, most of them, have an attend
ance sufficient to warrant their crea-
ton, and after Feb. l, when new class
will enter each of them, the attendance
will be large. They accommodate a
large class of citizens who are unable
to send their children to the Central
school. and in each of the schools
where they are placed they stimulate
to large degree a scholarly spirit and
desire for fuller training. The Central
school is doing excellent work under
the direction of its new principal. Mr..
G. n. Carman, who is proving himself
the right man in the right place.
Our Manual Training school occupies
a position in our system little under
stood by our citizens, [ wish that the
public could be made to comprehend the
fact that it is not trade school and is
not meant merely for those who intend
later to make their living by manual
labor. 1t is for all classes, and would
be equally beneficial. Boys desiring to
enter college, even, can take this train
ing of hand, eye and mind together,and
then can finish their preparatory course
in the high school. Those intending to
pursue business career without taking
a college course can do the same. 1t is not
a school outside of our system, bnt an
integral pat of it.
The beginning has been made In our
work of domestic economy. Miss Ford,
the competent instructor secured by the
Board to introduce this work, has been
giving personal instruction to the girls
of the seventh and eighth grades, and
at the same time teaching the teachers
of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, so
that they can give the instructions to
their own classes. 1t is intended that
this instruction shall be
given by the regular teachers, as the
drawing is under the Supervision of
superintendent. Indeed.t this
is the true idea of departmental super
vision; that the superintendent shall
not themselves teach the pupils, but
shall instruct the teachers and then
their work.
The main efforts of teachers, prin
cipaIs and superintendent, during the
year before us, will be directed to
working out the best systems possible
in some few departments, beginning
with arithmetic. Much that is taught
under the name of arithmetic belongs
to. higher mathematics, and much be-
longs to the realm of antiquities. We
are honestly trying to find the essen
tials and to teach them inductively. so
that the principles necessary to bust
ness arithmetic shall become part of
every child's being, and his skill in
their use shall not depend upon the re-
membering of certain set rules, but
be almost instructive.
The primary schools, the most i'm
portant of all, are doing finely under
the supervision of Miss Brooks. Teach