St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-20
TEACHING Oh. GERMAN
School Inspector Stamm in a
Mood to Resist a Pro-
posed Cut.
Feeling Of Rebellion Develop
ing Against the Present
Administration.
A Breezy Discussion OF the
Subject by the School
Board.
Gleanings Of General Interest
From the Local News
Field.

The board of education had a rather
uninteresting meeting late yesterday
afternoon. 1t was uninterSting, how
ever, only in sense of comparison.
Hitherto, for at least six months, the
proceedings of each recurring or sue
ceeding session have been spiced by an
omalOrS incidents. There was nothing of
strikingly unusual order yesterday,
although the same old feeling of re-
bellion against the so-cailed retrench-
ment and reform policy of Mayor
Wright and his horde of semi official
and political sympathizers cropped out.
The board of education has been fight
ing to give st. Paul an adequate ed uca-
tional service, anu it is met by the city
council and the mayor with their little
organic powers. Technlcalities are re-
sorted TO to cripple the educational in
terests of the city.
DR.. Stamm, one of the most progress
sive and liberal citizens, and who is a
Jealous exponent OF the best interests
of the board of education and their
charge, sees serious obstacle i'll the
way of educational progress. The pub
lie schools of st. Paul have expended
good deal of money to give pupils the
rudlmertS of the German language, and
the new administration is exceedingly
anxious to throw away all that has been
accomplished in this direction. and to
abandon further study of the German.
Hence every possible curtailment in the
annual appropriation has been made.
DR.. Stamm patriotically protests against
this method, and in q strong speech be-
fore the board yesterday he moved that
the hours for German in the public
schools be extended. DR.. Bridgman ap-
preciated the value of the suggestion,
and President Pyle urged that 1t would
be Il good idea to pass general reSolu-
ton increasing the number OF hours to
be devoted TO German.
Too Great a Sacrifice.
DR.. Stamm reasserted his loyalty to
tue American government, and insisted
that the first duty of the pupil should
be to study English, to study the geog-
raphy of the country and its political
and domestic history, but he did not
feel like making the sacrifice proposed
by Mayor Wright and his henchmen in
allowing all that has been expended i'll
the study of German to 90 for naught.
lie therefore moved that one hour a
day be given to German instead of the
the twenty minutes hitherto allotted.
He considered the public schools the
nucleus to good citizenship, he said,
and since the council had arbitrarily
cut down the money to be appropriated
for the education of the young. and
this at the request of Mayor Wright, ne
felt called upon to urge that the best
possible use be made of the little money
left available.
Dr.. Smith Was afraid that owing to
the system in vogue the teachers in
German have to teach in several diff
ferent schools each, and that it will be
impossible for them to give the added
time proposed.
Thereupon DR.. Stamm explained that
it may be necessary to engage two or
three additional teachers in German to
accomplish this end. Finally the matter
was referred 10 the committee on Ger
man and the superintendent of schools.
DR.. Smith introduced a resolution au-
thOriZing the appointment of a commit
tee of three by the president of the
board on health and sanitation, and DR..
Stamm. Mr.. Dickson and Mr.. Auerbach
were appointed.
The committee on high schools re-
ported that the committee had received
the designations OF Miss Jennie Cham
berlin, of the Humboldt school, and
Miss Jessie Simmons, of the Central
high school. The report then recites:
We have transferred Miss Mildred Rich
and Miss Nettie Dennison from the
Cleveland high school and Miss
Eu nice Peabody from the Humboldt
high school all to the Central high
school. We recommend that leave of
absence without pay be granted to Miss
Laura Austin, of the high school. We
have appointed MiSsMay Pierce in Miss
Austin'S place at the salary received by
Miss Austin.
This report was unanimously adopted,
and the p eSident of the board an
nounced the appointment of the follow
ing
Committees and Changes:
Finance - Auerbach, Smith and
O'Brien.
Schools Bridgmsn, O'Brien, Smith,
Stamm and Auerbach.
Real Estate - Dickson, Smith and
Stamm.
Supplies - O'Brien, Bridgman and
Auerbach.
German -Stamm, Smith and Dickson.
Fuel and Janitors-Auerbach o. OBrien
and Bridgman.
High and Moral Training - Smith,
Dickson, Bridgman and O'Brien.
The following report from the COM
mittee on schools was adopted:
Gentlemen: Since the last meeting
of the board we have received the fol-
lowing designations, and recommend
that they be accepted: Mrs. F. l.. Will
liams, third grade, Lincoln school; Miss
Alice Mcguire, third grade, Jefferson
school: Miss Augusta CRUDE, fifth grade,
Schetfer school; Miss Grace Williams,
model teacher, Maxiield school; Miss
Laura Dobner, second grade, Hancock
school; Miss Marguerite Ellis. fifth
grade, Longfellow school, to date from
Sept. Is; Miss Lou Barrett, third grade,
Hawthorne school, to date from Sept.
"a; Miss Mamie Nolan, first grade, Hum
boldt school; Mrs. Thomas Neuhausen,
teacher of German, to date from Sept.
z; Miss Martha Papenhagen, teacher of
German; Miss Sara Rolfe, assistant
Kindergarten, Van Buren, school; Miss
Harriet Davy, kindergarten directress,
Monroe school. All to date from Sept.
l, except as otherwise specified.
We have granted leave of absence for
the current school year, without pay, to
the following teachers: Miss Nellie
DarrOw, fourth grade, Jefferson school:
Miss Minnie BeSwick, first primary,
Garfield school; Miss NJ. l.. Byrnes,
first grade, Humboldt school.
We recommend that the following
named teachers appointed be placed
upon the pay rolls at the schedule sal
ary as indicated below: Gertrude Hill,