Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-22
!. rrv HIGH SCHOOL.

ANEW HIGH SCHOOL.
he Adjourned Annual school Meet !
ing votes to Appropriate $17O,OOO
for a New High SchOol-A Tax Of
Three and One-half MILLS Laid-I
other Business Transacted at the
Meeting.
The adjourned meeting Of the city school
istrict in Music hall was unusually well
ttended last evening, and much interest
vas manifested in the proceedings. At
,xaetly 7:45 O'Clock Clerk English called
he meeting to order and q few minutes
later Prof. Simeon e. Baldwin was elected
chairman. After the call for the meeting |
had been read the meeting voted unani- |
mously to fix the bonds of the treasurer
and collector at $780, 900 each, to lay tax
of three and one-half mills on the grand
list of 1892, and to ask the town for An
appropriation of $13, 600 for the purchase
of free text books in the public schools.
Then came the great contest Of the even
ing on the question of erecting new high
school building. Mr.. English moved that
the board of education be authorized to
issue bonds to the amount of $170, 900 for
the purchase Of q lot and the erection and
furnishing of new high school building.
The motion was promptly seconded and
ing. Hardly had the motion been second
ed when John T. Sloan arose and moved
that the entire matter be laid upon the
table. This motion was lost, and those
present proceeded to debate the question.
James D. Dewell was the first speaker
and warmly advocated the erection of
Enew high school building. During the
course Of his argument he said that he was
in favor of a new high school for more
than one reason. The chamber of COM
MERGE, he said, is constantly endeavoring
to secure the establishment of new enter
prises in this city, and the first question
asked by anyone is what are your school
Recommendations Can my children get q
higher education without being compelled
to, 90 through collegei Mr.. Dewel also
said that Hartford had high school which
cost one quarter of million dollars and
he believed that were the question ever
raised as to whether the people of that city
would sooner part with that building or
the capitol, they would decide in favor OF
retaining the high school. In closing he
| strongly advocated the establishment of a
| new building, should it cost as much as
half million dollars.
Ex-Alderman Chandler opposed the pas
| sage of the motion. He claimed that when
| the children came out of room 10 they had
| q sufficiently good education and all that
| the law required them to have. He strong
| ~ opposed the plan of making the high
school dumping place for all children
who came out of room 10, whether they
wanted to go there or not. He then cited
q case of boy who was thus dumped into
the high school and remained in the
"scrub," or the lowest class of that insti
tuition, for three years. This claimed
was an imposition on the tax payers of the
city, who were compelled to pay for THU
boys education two years more than they
should He favored q wedding out Of thf
high school and the fixing of 80 high 4
standard that all who could not live up tt
the requirements of that STANDARD
would be dropped. This he saii
would relieve the present overcrowdei
condition of the school very materially
| In closing Mr.. Chandler stated that he die
not oppose new high school, but did no
think that any appropriation need b
made this year, giving as his opinion tina
if the high school was properly weedet
out and the manual training school built
there would be no necessity for a new
high school this year at least.
Professor Brewer, in advocating tn
erection of new high school, stated tina
the present building, which was beini
ueed by 900 students, was built to accom-
modate less than one-half that number
taxable property is being deprecated jus
, go long as we do not have a suitable higl
school. I want to see building 60 a.
which will be a credit to our city ant
show that we are progressive city. N
matter what it may cost to erect such
building, firmly believe that every cen
. of it will come back to the taxpayers wit
interest, in the shape of increased value t.
the properties.
Attorney G. q. Fowler, in opposing tn
, motion, said substantially Is follows: I be
, lieve in new high school, but do not be
1ieve that there ia any immediate necessit
for it. I believe that our system of educs
ton ia wrong in that children are put int
school a year or two too early and the
rushed through the various rooms in orde
to make room for others who come along
and thus from the grammar school int
: the high school. Children should not b
T allowed to enter the high school until the
are fourteen years of age instead of being
as now, little tots in short clothes. TIL
: is wrong to the children and wrong to tn
1
r. | weakiings. The district has had $50, 0(
given it for the purpose of building NAL
}. ual training school, and the board of ed
u cation has had that money long enough
have built the school and relieved the hig
= | school at least to the number of two hui
dred. Build your training school and yo
J will find that the new high school will nj
be an immediate necessity.
y Attorney J. P. Goodhart advocated IL
I A1,ok% ho,
, commodations at the high school were II
adequate, and that it was a physical in
possibility to put 918 sholars, the prese,
J. number at the high school, in FOL seats.
10 At this point Attorney Fowler moved
an amendment that the manual trainiI
), school be Immediately built, and if tn
= does not relieve the crowded condition
10 the high school that special meeting
b called for the purpose of appropriatinR
sum for the erection, etc., of q new big
% school.
This amendment was promptly laid {
g the table on motion of Attorney J.
= Goodhart, after which Judge Shelde
called for the original motion, and it VI
y was passed with but comparatively fe
70 dissenting votes.
= Alexander Troup then called the atte
ton of the meeting to the detriment whit
> tho children in the WEIGH school suffer,
in consequence of having the traini1
school in the same building, and advis,
J. the enforcement of the training school fl
r teachers from the grammar school. T
:. then introduced resolution to the effe
u that the board of education look into Il
# matter, and If it be found that it is de
n riment, to arrange for the separation
one from the other. The meeting then q
journed.
BY Professor Carl Marwis.
20 Herr Carl Msrwig of New York cit
o yielding at last to urgent solicitations, vi
open dancing school on Wednesday eve
= ing, September 20, at Warner hall, ar
= will visit New Haven regularly every wes
e thereafter. Ladies' class will come at
- p. NJ; children's class, p. m, and ladit
q and gentlemen's classes at 8 p. m. A
T kinds of fancy and artistic dancing will
taught in private lessons. Arrangement
for private classes can be made. Profess
Marwig's renown in his profession ia
r well known in New Haven fashionable 81
t. ciety that he needs no introduction.
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