Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-27
PEDAGOGUE AND PUPIL.


THERE will be a meeting Of the Teachers
Guild next Saturday.
AN additional room has been opened in the
Bellfeld school with Miss Katie Anderson in
charge.
MISS h. SMITH, the supervisor Of the new
drawing system introduced in the city schools,
left this week for Buffalo.
THE reports from the ward schools, SO far as
received, for the month of October show an in
crease of $50 in attendance over September.
THE supervisors of the Teachers Academy
decided yesterday to assess each member SO
cents to enable the Academy to meet the in
cumbent expenses.
MISS BLANCHE JONES, who held the posi-
tion of floating teacher at the Forbes school,
has been elected writing and drawing teacher.
Miss Jean Meyers takes the position formerly
occupied by Miss Jones.
MISS NJ. E. SMITH, of the Bedford School,
has resigned to teach in the McKeesport
schools Miss Mary Walters has not been reg
ularly elected, but is teaching in her place. The
attendance has increased 50 since the Central
Board ordered a teacher to be dropped from
this school
THE teachers are very indignant over the ex-
aggerated reports about the prevalence of
diphtheria in number of the ward schools.
Such reports they say injure the attendance at
the schools and bring about the very evil that
is to be Stunned, because the children, instead
of going to school, run on the streets and are
liable to catch cold
THE Normal Alumni Association of the High
School will give its annual reception at the
High School November 1S Heretofore the
reception has been held at the close of the
June session of the schools, but last year it
was decided that cooler month would add
more enjoyment to the occasion. The promi-
nent educators all the members of the Central
I'd nd In nY- 70 dna tQe will h0 in
vited.
Two of the schools-:he Bedford and the
Springfeld-out of the four ordered by the
Central Board to drop teacher on account of
decreased attendance have sufficient increase
this month to allow the retention of the same
number of teachers. The North and Riverside
are each obliged to lose one. On Friday even
Campbell, the last teacher elected, till such
time as the number of pupils justlfes her en-
ployment-
THE following are the names of the pupils
who stand first in the highest grammar rooms
of the various ward schools: Hancock, Hannah
McKeever; Knox, Maggie Beevan; PEBBLES,
Ned Johnston; North, Emily jackson; Liberty,
Bertha Young; Mt. Albion, William Graham;
Thad Stevens, Nellie Farrel; Washington,
Verona Graessel; 0'Hara, Minnie Shelley; st.
Clair, Lottie hopkins; Birmingham, Eddie
knoell; WIcKersham, Linnie Isler; Humboldt
john RudOlp; Riverside, Lizzie Foley; Frank
lin, Sadie Aufhammer; Duquesne, Frank A.
Aland; Moorhead. Essie McAteer; Lawrence,
John Driscoll; Monongahela, Jerome Herman;
Homewood, Annie Windish; Luckey, Lizzie
Sanders; Hiland, Robert Fulton; Forbes,
Henry Kieckbush and Nellie Kerrigan.
THERE is likely to be great change in the
future of the Teachers Academy. A meeting
of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday
afternoon and number of ways was devised to
make the exercises of this society an attractive
feature. 1t is proposed to have the meetings
held in regular society hall. centrally located,
and to have regular course of lectures by
noted people. To inspire a progressive spirit
degrees of educational honor, after the Ma
sonic idea, will he conferred. The most i'm
portant thing m ooted, and one that the Pitts
burg teachers have long desired, is that bene-