Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

YESTERDAY was well represented. Superin-
tendent Luckey was Chairman, and Prof.
Proudfit acted as Secretary. The adoption
of the new course OF study as arranged by
Superintendent Luckey, with suggestions
from principals, was the business before the
meeting. The most noticeable changes, Mr..
Luckey stated, were in drawing, language
and spelling, the latter TO be altogether in
Prof. J. NJ. Logan introduced a resolution,
mentioned in THE DISPATCH two weeks ago,
that the principals be divided into commit
tees who will prepare questions on all the
school subjects which are to be distributed
to the various schools every ten weeks.
These questions are not to be test for pro-
motion. but more ass as &suggestiSye We mesnoas @ M tS f0s
school will be made more uniform. His res
olution was adopted. All the principals of
the city will be on some one Of the commit
be asked to print the questions. The new
course of study is quite extensive and will
be ready in two weeks.
Names in the Honor List.
The following are. the names Of the
pupils who stand first in the highest gram
mar rooms of the ward schools: Springfield,
Hugh Maxwell; Mt Albion; Henry Voelke;
st. Clair, Laura Koch; Lawrence, Eliz-
abeth Kenngott; Hancock, Belle Smith;
Vile, Harry Sailing; Moorhead, Stan
ley McCloskey; Luckey No. l, Mag
gle Bell; Luckey No. 2 Margaretta Cline;
South: south Lulu Turburgh: Thad Stevens Lizzie
Gertrude Speaker; Birmingham, Louis Erbe;
Ralston, Sadie Burns; Hiland, Elsie Coleman;
Humboldt, Gertie Reineman: Howard No. ],
Rose Pickering; Howard No. 2, John CARING;
Colfax, Susie Longeay; Washington, Ethel
McCracken; Knox, Ada Richardson.
Women Can't Teach Surveying.
Notwithstanding the fact that the High
School Committee passed a resolution that
the position of assistant professorship Of
mathematics at the High School should be
given to a gentleman, a number of ladies
are active applicants. The action of the
committee was not because q lady was in
capable of filling the position, but rather to
the fact that surveying will be included in
the requirements of the new position, and
that will require outdoor illustration.
Applications for the position are numerous
and from everywhere. Prof. Apple, an in
structor in the Clarion State Normal School,
appears to be the strongest candidate. A
general utility man for the electric depart
ment will also be elected.
The Odds and Ends.
Miss Lida Hoskinson and Eliz Lingo
were added to the Hiland corps of teachers
last Monday. The increased attendance
made it necessary to open a new room at
both the Garfield and Highland schools of
the Nineteenth ward. The prospect is that
another room will be opened shortly. The
Misses Carrie and Cora Evans, of the Wash
ington schools, Seventeenth ward, mourn
the loss of their father, who was buried last
Thursday.
Warrants for the amount Of SAC, ,0S2 90 will
be issued tomorrow to the teachers. The
Executive Committee of the Teachers
Guild will meet next Saturday at the Grant
School. An election of officers will ensue.
Miss Parloa at Braddock.
Miss Maria Parloa, of Boston, the
authoress, lecturess and founder Of the
schools of cooking in Boston and New York,
has been secured to give series of lectures
on cooking at Braddock, beginning next
Wednesday, at Odeon Hall, on Burton street.
There are to be IL blossoms in the series. Mrs.
James Gayley and Mrs. A. r. Hay are the
leaders in the affair.
The Braddock Board OF Education has
elected Miss Edna Chester, daughter of
Captain L. Chester, of McKeesport to fill