Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-31
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summary of the annnzi EacpO
OF Superintendent ID. ~. Harm,

summary of the Annnzi Eacpors
OF Superintendent ID. ~. Harlan.
The animal report OF ID. W. Harlan,
superintendent of public schools, was
presented at the meeting of the Board OF
Education last evening. Following are
| extracts:
Number of school days in tne year,
206; number of days schools we're taught,
l94; school houses in use, rs, an increase
of l; pumher of sitlings, S,O0S, an To-
crease OF Sc; teachers, IT'S, an increase OF
Z; pupils enrolled during the year, 8, 1884,
an increase of 100; average belonging to
schools, 1901, an increase OF 1871; aver
age daily attendance, G,193, an increase
OF 40; 32S were enrolled in the high
school classes and 1856 in the grammar
md primary schools, the average daily
attendance in the latter being {, 1897, an
Increase of 81. The per cent of attend
Rnoe of the average number belonging to
all the schools was 1874; high schools,
96.OO; grammar and primary schools,
oS.l; per cent of attendance In all the
schools to tho whole number enrolled,
GA At the opening of the next term
the number of sittlugs in the schools will
be 1896, an increase of 1888.
Dthoo 1910 bue uulnper or BCnO0lB has
Increased from is to 20; sittings from
4,5O2 to 6,OO0; enrolmepts from $500
to D lS4; average number belonging from
3,660 to 7,OOli average attendance from
3,335 to q, 1913; teachers from 80 to ITS.
There are five colored schools with II
teachers and 798 sittings; total enrol
ments last ysar, l,l5l; average number
belonging, 76l; average daily attendance,
no ne
ment, SOL.
Two night schools were corducted last
winter, with lib pupils and an average
attendance OF rs.
The Wilmington Teachers Institute is
alluded to in complimentary terms. The
presentation OF flags to public schools 10
highly commended. The changed
methods OF marking and promoting
pupils is approved. The advance made
in the course of instruction in drawing is
alluded to In detail and the results com.
mended.
The manual training school occupies a
leading place in the report; the exercises
are fully explained and the results highly
commended.
In conclusion the report ssys: "In
review OF the year it ia pleasant to be
$500 - "NJ Nhot ONoA1 Athb Va WOfK
has been kept up. The three r's' have
not been i1stled from their place. And
that IN new work, the work OF instruo-
ton In hygiene and in other elementary
sciences has been progressive; that form
study aud drawing have elected q large
share of attention from both teachers
and pupils; tina tine efforts TO tegch the
children to talk and write freely and cor
rectly have. been crowned with more than
former success; that manual training hAs
been successfully inaugurated in the
boys high school; that tho discipline of
the schools, while necessarily rough In
some cases, and accompanied apparently
by too much corporal punishment, has
on the whole been milder and more con-
duoive to good manners, intellectual
habits and the love of knowledge, than
heretofore. A more willing and hearty
cooperation in every progressive move
ment than has been accorded generally
by our teachers could not reasonably be
asked of any corps of teachers. For the
consideration given to my suggestions
and for the continued confidence Of the
board, am profoundly grateful"