The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-07
SCHOOL NOTES.


to Indiana for her vacation. Miss Offley goes
with her as guest
Mr.. and Mrs j. w. Douglass, OF the Indus
trial Home School of Georgetown, will spend
the summer in Maine.
The Georgetown High School picnic, set for
Friday, had to be postponed on account OF
the rain until this week.
Miss Robinson, the German teacher in the
West End High School, will spend the sum
mer holidays in New England.
Miss Siebert, Miss walhaupter, and Mrs.
Hoegelsberger, all of the High School, expect
to sail for Europe on Wednesday.
Miss Schooley, principal of the Addison
School, will take an ocean trip to Boston i'm
mediately on the close of the school year.
The principals, trustees, and teachers of the
public schools are uniformly courteous to
visitors, reporters,or strangers who drop in on
them at seasonable or unreasonable hours.
Miss Janey, wife Of the supervising princi-
pal OF the Fifth Division, goes to Old Orchard
to spend the summer with Miss Perrie, one of
the Sixth Grade Curtis School teachers.
The class day exercises of the Georgetown
High School will occur on Tuesday evening,
june 49, Only those presenting tickets will
be admitted. The Georgetown Orchestra will
furnish music
On next school-year opening day the High
School of Georgetown enters upon its second
year course OF study, and it will have more
than doubled its number Of pupils. 1t now
has sixty on the rolls.
Mr. Mirch, principal of the Curtis School,
Georgetown, has accepted an invitation to
deliver course of instruction in mathematics,
geometry, and field surveying at Chautauqua,
Glen Echo, during the session beginning June
16.
The Business High School, in the Thomson
Building on Twentieth street, is all that it
claims to be a business school, Book
keeping, shorthand, and typewriting have
been most thoroughly taught during the
year. and no doubt the pupils will occupy
| good situations soon, il they keep on as they
have begun.
Friday, June 13, and the Saturday follow
ing there will be public exhibition at the
Miller Building, on H street, from 9
| to P. NJ, of the results of the
work of the manual training schools
among the colored pupils The High and
| Normal (colored) schools will hold their
| commencementinth in the Academy of Music June
| II.
There will not be any special closing exer-
cises in the Curtis Building this year. The
| work of the drawing classes and of the school
| OF manual training will be exhibited as us
ual, and the teachers will divide up Monday,
the 18th, into visiting aud receiving day for
| visitors. The High School only will hold
| class-day exercises Of musical and literary
| character on Wednesday, the 18th instant.
1t will be of interest to all connected with
the public schools to learn that Rev. A. D.
Mayo, popular educational speaker, will be
in the city during the month of June. He
| will be engaged while here in preparing a
"circular OF information" at the request of
United States Commissioner Harris, of the
! Bureau OF Education. 1t will contain the
results of Mr.. Mayo's observations of public
educational matters in the South for the past
twelve years Mr.. Mayo's address is the FIRE.
donia.
An unusually interesting occasion at the
Central High School on Wednesday afternoon
was the dedication of large portrait of Abra-
ham Lincoln in an appropriate and practical
address by Judge Harlan. The portrait was
purchased, as many Others have been, by the
scholars to furnish the class and school-rooms
in home-like manner The Lincoln portrait
was hung in the hall, and was draped in the
American flag. Judge Harlan addressed some
elk hundred pupils on this occasion. There
were also music by the High School orchestra.
and Miss Rose sung the "Star-Spangled
Banner' as solo. Judge Harlan dwelt upon
Lincoln's industry, integrity, manliness, and
| perseverance, and especially upon his loyalty
to principle and sympathy with others.
The Carroll Institute free night schoo
closed last week with finely rendered pro
gramme of recitations, and with music by
Professor George II. Beaker and Mr.. NJ Els
trade. Mr.. Thomas j. Sullivan, president O.
the Institute, made the opening address, ani
Mr.. j. Clay Smith gave a history of the school
Those who acquitted themselves during tn,
year with high honor received medals or books
Edward 2. Hayes won the highest prize fo
elocution. Other prize-winners were j.
Smith, Adolph q. Newbeck, w. j. Shug
rue. E. l.. Newbeck David F. Dee
Thomas A. Hughes, John F. Connor, justin
Macdonald, John A. Loughran Patriel
Quigly, William 2. Allen, Maurice Woulffe
j. F. Hurley, e. p. Noyes, NJ. Quigly, jane
WIeelan, Herbert Vaughn, Resse Bean, NJ
Rawling, and E. P. Sullivan.
The report of the committee on textbook
at the trustees meeting Monday night was o
unusual interest. The President, John T
Mitchell, presided, and Trustees Thayer
Wood, Whelpley, Hazen, Gregory, Bruce, ant
Cornish were present. and Mr.. j. G.. Falck
secretary. The report recommended that
custodian Of the free books be appointed; tina
a horse and wagon for the delivery of tn
books be purchased; to strike Kerk's Language
books from the Fifth Grade textbooks; t
provide supervising principals with stationery
including penalty envelopes; to discontinu
the use of spelling books in the Fourth Grade
TO substitute drawing paper for books in tn
Third Grade; to not use music-books In tn
Second Grade; to substitute writing paper fo
states in the First Grade; to permit superin
tendents to have an open list OF teXt-booksfo 70
the use OF teachers and to adopt the Norma
series of readers. This report was unani