Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-16
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.

The Tickets For the EXer rclses-The Plan of Distribution This Xear-Thc Late Miss Jamies0n-The New school on Lawrence Street-To He Like the Rosetfe Street SchooI-Results In the Evening Schools and the Cooking School-Interest Among the Mothers -Consolidation Again. At meeting of the board of education, last night, the question of issuiIig tickets for | the coming graduation exercises of the class of 'S9 of the High school, came up for dis oussion. It seemed to be the desire to arbi- 1 trate the dissatisfaction that was created in I the public mind last year in this regard. A plan was suggested that the usual number of | tickets to be given to the graduating class, 1 the board of education, and the press, and | that on Monday, April 1S, the remainder be l thrown open to the public at the box office at the Hyperion.
 1 Commissioner Leigh came in late, but when he heard the plan, he said it was thoroughly Democratic plan.
 l This mode of disposing of the tickets was l adopted. No rush tickets will be issued, but every ticket given out will call for re- l served seat.
 ] It was voted to give to the heirs of the late | Marion H. Jamieson, teacher in the Win- | | The committee on school buildings was in-
 structed to prepare the plans for the Rosette /! Street school with such notifications as l were deemed necessary, to be used for the New Skinner school, and to report such to 8 special meeting of the board.
 l Extra fire extinguishers were ordered for the High school.
 ! The building committee recommended an ! iron fence around the new Webster school,
 on account of the bad look 8 board fence would give to a school house in that locality. Action was postponed to ascertain the cost. All the evening schools are now closed and
 Superintendent Dutton made report show-
 l ing that the number of pupils registered was l LOLA, which is 262 more than last year. The ! average attendance has been 300, the salaries of teachers $2,079, total expenses $2, 743 39.
 ! The oldest pupil was aged 3S and attended the Italian school. The net cost of each pupil
 per evening was 1893 cents.
 Superintendent Dutton also made report | of the experimental course in cooking, which l commenced September 1 and lasted until February 1. There were ten classes with 150 ! girls as members. During that time they ! cooked 20 724 dishes at home.
 | As this was the first time that such 8 l course nas been tried, Superintendent Dutton l wrote to the mother of each girl 3questions. ! The first was: "What degree of interest has your daughter shown in these lsssons?' Out | of the 150 there were received 115 answers. Of these 100 replies indicated high degree
 of interest The usual answer was: "G1eat ] interest" remarkable interest" unusual | interest,"" etc. One said; 'An interest that 1 will last life time."
 1 The second question was: "Has she shown ! any new interest in household dutiesa' Of | the replies 92 were in the affirmative and 14 | in the negative.
 What estimate do you place upon such \ teaching in respect to it's educational value? There were 98 who spoke emphatically in its l favor.
 There were 92 who stoutly urged that 8 | cooking course of lessons be regular part of the common school course, four would make ! it an optional branch and eleven were not in favor of it.
 Dr. Carmalt brought up the matter of cons solidation, and thought that the board should reconsider its previous action insomuch as the objectionable features to the school dis trict had been eliminated. The minutes of the previous meeting were read, which showed that the board voted to oppose only
 so much of the bill which conficted with the
 school district, so no reconsideration was made.