Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-02
SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS.
Report Considered ut . Special Meeting Of
the School Board.

Report Considered ut . Special Meeting Of
the School Board.
special meeting of the school board was
held last evening to consider the report Of the
committee on text books. DR.. Hazen pre-
sented the report, which was signed by him
self and his associates on the committee Mr..
Mitchell and Mr.. Bruce. The report was read
and was adopted without comment It was as
follows:
THE COMMITTEES REPORT.
your committee on text books on the night
Of May ~ asked for an executive session of the
board, which meeting held in the Office of
the superintendent. At this meeting the subject
of text books was considered at some length.
The discussion resulted in referring the whole
subject of text books to the supervising corps
for their recommendation. The supervising
principals having held several meetings, made
reports to this committee (see papers marked A
and b. At meeting held by the committee on
the night of May "a it was unanimously agreed
to adopt the suggestions of the supervisors and
recommend the same to the board Of trustees
for their adoption"
THE SUPERVISING PRINCIPALS.
The papers referred to in the report are as
follows:
At meeting Of the superintendents and
supervising principals held by direction of the
OF revising the text book list the following
recommendations were unanimously agreed to:
FIRST 10 discontinue the use Of the spelling
book in the fourth grade.
Second. TO substitute drawing paper for the
drawing book in the third grade.
Third. To discontinue the use Of the intellec-
tual arithmetic In the fourth grade.
Fourth. To use no music books In the second
grade.
Fifth: To substitute writing paper for slates
In the first and second grades.
Sixth. To permit the superintendent to pro.
vide an open list of text books on history, from
which the teachers may make such selections
as they prefer.
Seventh. To Edopt the normal series of
readers as text books.
Signed byJ. H. Warning, secretary of the
meeting.
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS.
AT adjourned meeting of the superinteud-
ents the following additional Recommendations,
which were included in tine report, we're made:
Toappoint custodian of the free books and
to purchase a horse and wagon to be used in
delivering the books. To strike 'kirl Lam
guage Lessons" from the list Of text books and
to inform the trustees that our language books
are not satisfactory, but that we are not pre-
pared to recommend a substitute at present.
Also that the supervising principals be supplied
with an assortment of stationery, including
penalty envelopes, printed with their individual
official letter heads.
PROF. LANES REQUESTS.
The following communication from Prof.
Lane, the principal of the Washington High
School, to the text books committee was read
ana referred to the committee on high school:
Il would respectfully request that the follow
ing books be added to the list of text books
authorized for use in the High School for the
coming year: c. p Lodges Mechanics, pub
lished by the Van Nostrand Co.; Cages Intro
duction to Physical Science. published by CHM
Il Co.; John Fiske's Civil Government In the
United States, published by Houghton. Miffiin
& Co.; Collars Latin Composition, published
by CHM & Co.; Ballantyne's Blank Drawing
Book"