Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

MOnd0y-Three Hundred DOllafs Voted For Color Study-New School on Fair Street-SuPer1ntende Cur tis, Report.
 The board of education met last night at 7:30 ard held 8 star chamber session for three-quarters of an hour. When they came out they refused to say what had been done, but it was generally understood that the election of new member had been under discussion. The reason given for not taking up this matter formally at the meeting last night was that one of the members, MT. Avis, was not present. It will be brought up at the fsrt meeting when there is full board present.
 Dr. Osborne and MT. Philip Pond, pres ident and secretary of the Alumni associa- tion, came before the board and asked them to publish the catalogue which has been prepared by the executive committee. It will contain heliotypes of the four prin- | cipals, sketch of Principal Curtis, list of | instructors and graduates, and historical l sketch of the Alumni association. Fifteen hundred can be printed for $150 or two thousand for $175.
 ! The committee on schools, through MT. J. D. Plunkett, recommended that Miss l Anna Rogers of Bennington, Vt., be sub stituted for Miss Lois Gaskell of Oswego, N. Y., for the vacant position in the Hal lock street school, as Miss Gaskell had been secured when the board gave her the call, by some other school. This went 1 over under the rule.
 l It was voted that half holiday should be given on Washington's birthday, and the other half devoted to patriotic ex- ercises. A request was received that the for class day which amounted to twenty five dollars. The request was denied, MT Plunkett only voting in the affirmative. H. E. Marsh was appointed to make ou the rate book for this district with salar, of $500.
 Miss Skinner, the instructor of drawing for New Haven, came before the board ant urged the necessity of form study. Sh spoke forcibly of the value and utility O color study.
 It touches the business of upholsterers clerks, railroad men and many others Educationally, the child apprehends forn and form are taught inseparably. Perhap
 no other study acquaints child with hi environment better than that of form ant
 color taught together. From the ethics
 point of view the training of the tast
 touches the home-life more directly thai
 anything else we teach in the schoole
 Anything that leads to the formation of
 refined taste is of value in this hurryin
 American life.
 A general outfit will be needed for eac
 school, consisting of chart, ffty-one set
 of tablets and colored paper, and materis
 sufficient for each student to make thre | 5.- A~-@
 a half cents for each of the 1000 childre
 in this city.
 Miss Nader, Miss Skinner's assistant , was present and endorsed the remark
 made by Miss Skinner.
 It was voted to appropriate $500 for tn
 materials for color study.
 Architect Robinson presented the plan for the new school on Fair street to b built on lot west of the present schoe
 building. The new building will be tw , stories high, with four rooms on each floo1
 and large room in the basement for nigh
 schools. There is projection in front il
 which there is a principals room and
 teachers room with storeroom upstair and a similar projection on the back fo ' staircases. The building will be of bric
 trimmed with stone. East Haven ston
 will probably be used.
 These were adopted with the exeeptio
 of the heating system, which is to ! looked into by the committee and system
 in other cities examined to decide if th
 Mead system, the one suggested, is tn most economical method of heating th building.
 Superintendent Curtis, in his monthl report, after describing the differen methods of supervision in city schools an defining the duties of the superintendent
 spoke of the principals meetings held eac , month, and some of the results. Then b :, spoke at length of the grade meetings. . system of phonetic reading has bee
 adopted and the teachers have been give special instruction in the methods of teact ! ing drawing. The fact that the writin
 was poor was attributed to the fact ths
 the slate pencil is used exclusively unt the fourth year, and it was suggested ths the use of the pen and lead pencil be mad
 earlier in the school work. After d.
 scription of the Ling system of physics culture and recommendation for il l adoption, he closed his highly interestin
 report with report of the late meetin , of the department of school superinteno ents in Brooklyn.
 Bids were opened for the addition to th r ! Winchester school and awarded to the low
 est bidders as follows: Carpentering, c.
 Brown, bid, $4 425; masonry, George N Grant, bid, $5, 1884; plumbing, Daniel Kelly, bid, $367; steam heating, New Ha l ven Steam Heating company, bid, $51t
 painting, Wolcott & Parrett company, bic $294.