The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-07
HIGH PRAISE FOR ALBEIT
The State Board of Education on
the Governors Services to
the Schools.
Special to The Jersey CItv Ne,os.

TRENTON. Dec. Z, 1892.-The State Board
of Education met at the STATE House yes
terday. and Prof. Poland submitted the
annual report of the Board to the
Governor. 1t was the final meeting for
the year and the last meeting at whic h
Governor Albeit will preside as Presi-
dent.
After the transaction of the usual
routine business. Nicholas Murray Buller,
of Paterson. made an address on behalf
OF the Board, in which he gave expression
existed between the Board and the
Governor. He said the State Beard OF
Education, and more particularly the
schools OF New Jersey, were deeply in
deDted to the Governor because of the
interest ne had exhibited in school mat
ters. and the energy he had displayed in
striving to make more efficient The educa-
tlonal administration of the State. Dur
ing the three years of Governor Abbett's
administration, said Mr.. Butler, greater
progress had been made in educational
matters than in any preced-
ing decade In the history of
the schools of the State. He specified
by stating that the Normal School had,
during the Governors administration.
doubled its attendance, extended It's
buildings. enlarged it's facilities and had
reached an unexampled era of prosperity
During this time many economies had
been introduced, SO that despite its rapid
DEVELOPMENT. it had become, to con-
siderable extent, self supporting, COM
pared with other State institutions of a
similar grade. The boarding hall, hid
stated, was entirely self supporting, ane
really produced AN income.
THE STANDARD OF THE SCHOOLS RAISED.
The Model School also had increased it's
number of pupils. aud is more popular
than ever, before: Mr.. Butler
vision ot the State Board of Edu-
cation. This school. he said, had been
thoroughly reorganlzed during the past
three years. The expenses have beeR re-
duced. and the efficiency of the school
largely increased. Within the admins
tration of Governor Albeit, aud with his
aid, the whole system of State examina-
been rearranged and improved, and the
standard of the efficiency throughout the
State had been raised.
COMPLIMENTS RETURNED.
The views of DIR. Butler were received
with applause by the Board, and Gov
ernor Albeit made brief but appropri-
ate reply, iu which he thanked DR., Butler
and the Board for the compliment that
had been paid him. He stated that dnr-
ing his administration his only thought
aud purpose had been to make the
schools of the State efficient; that he had
early seen many opportunities for I'm
provements in the school system of
New Jersey, and had labored TO bring
them about. He complimented
the Board upon the fact that the utmost
unaDimlty had prevailed, and that the
good results that had accrued were to a
large extent due to the fact of unity of
purpose and determination to make
things better.
His observation during his term of
office had convinced him that the only
purpose of the Board. and the officers
connected with 1t, had been to advance the
interests of the schools, and that when
his term as Governor expired, one of the
interests from which he would deeply
regret severing himself, was the educa-
t1onal department.