Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-14
KsvILLE TENN. WEDNESDAY EVENING" SEPTEMBER IA 1892
COLUMBUS DAY.
Program For the Public Schools
of the State.
Capt. w. r. Garrett, State Superintend-
ent, Gives Out an Interesting Cir
cular to School Teachers.

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intendent af Public Schools, has pre-
pared circular which he Is sendin,
to every public school in the State
1t contains instructions about tn,
celebration s.of. Columbus Day, Fri
day, Oct. 21. The circular begin
with the PROCLAMATION of the Gov
ernor making the day a holiday
The plan of celebration, says thu
American, contemplates that thu
school Of each locality shall be th'
center of the celebration, that al
civic and military organizations shal
take appropriate part and that the
entire population shall unite in the
observance.
The official program provides for 9
morning celebration, the pupils and
the people to assemble at the school
house at the usual hour. Instead ol
recitations the morning is to be de-
voted to the following exercises:
Raising and Saluting the Flag.
(Under the direction, wherever pos
sible, of Confederate and Federal
veterans.)
"Song OF Columbus Day." Ito a
well-knOwn tune.)
The address. (To be declaimed by
The best speaker of the boys.)
The Ode. Ito be recited by a young
lady.)
America" (To be the closing
song.)
The song, the address and the ode
are all original, having been pre-
pared for the occasion by some of the
best American writers.
The program provides for an after.
noon or evening celebration, and
gives suggestions for the part to be
taken by the civic and military Or
ganizations and by the citizens. 1t is
the purpose of the program to pro-
vide only portion of the exercises,
and to leave space for additional ex-
ercises, in order that (1) one portion
of the exercises may be uniform for
all the schools; (2) the remaining
portion may be different in each
school, and may be suited to the
locality, or devoted to local history.
To carry out the plan above sketch
ed, Capt. Garrett suggests to the
school officers and teachers of the
State the following:
1. To take prompt and active steps
to celebrate Columbus Day in every
school. The teacher OF every school
where the celebration will be OBJ
served should give immediate notice,
in writing, to the County or City Su-
perintendent, so that programs may
be sent to the school.
2. To write without delay to Fran
els Bellamy, Chairman, Youths
Companion, Boston, to secure copy
of the official program containing the
exercises, so that the pupils may be-
gin at once to prepare their respective
parts.
3. To follow the official program in
the uniform portion of the exercises.
4. To adopt the following plan for
the additional program
1. An original essay on some topic
connected with the growth and de-
velopment of the United States.
2. An original essay on some topic
OF Tennessee history.
3. An original patriotic ode.
4. Such additional exercises as may
be pescribed by the teacher.
This original work should be done
by the pupils, and will be valuable
in training the pupils to the habit of
investigating history, in impressing
upon them lessons of patriotism, and
in cultivating literary taste in the
schools.