The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-07-21
FORT STREET SCHOOL.
Terminal Examinations of the Differ
emit Departments.

emit Departments.
This forenoon Fort Street School
was open to public inspection on
the occasion of closing for the
summer vacation. There was large
attendance of visitors distributed
over the departments. Mr.. A. T.
Atkinson, Inspector General, made
the rounds in company with Prof.
w. d. Alexander, of the Board of
Education. Mr.. Walter Hill, another
member of the Board, also visited
the school, as did Rev. V. H. Kitcat
of Iolani College, Mr.. w. l.. Stanley
of the Royal School, Mr.. j. w.
Smith Of Waiawa School, Mr.. A. P.
Peterson and many ladies.
Miss Coursen was found at the
post she has long honored, teaching
the youngest children. Her work
showed her easily in the front rank
of primary teachers. The start she
gives the little ones in writing is re-
markable, in many cases the results
not being improved on in the higher
grades. They were spelling from
dictation on the blackboards, which
were decorated with ornamental
borders in colored crayon too pretty
to be effaced. AS this was freehand
work it was all the more to be ad-
mired. The clearness with which
the childish voices rang out in re-
peating the words and letters given
was too natural to be the result of
drilling merely for examination day.
This room being at the bottom of
the system, it is very satisfactory to
find it's work thorough in every par
ticular.
Miss Walker conducts the second
primary. She perfects the children
in penmanship after their good be-
ginning below, this being branch
in which she excels as teacher.
Some of the writing on states looked
as trim as script from printers
specimen book. When visited this
morning the pupils were going
through mental arithmetic, their
answers coming quick and correct in
unison on the simpler questions,
while many little hands we're elev-
ated promptly at the harder ones.
Arithmetical work on the boards
was done with neatness and preci-
sion, multiplication being the exer-
else in hand.
Miss Moore initiates the young
idea in the elements of English
grammar. A class was at the black
board forming sentences on given
subjects, their efforts displaying
much promise. The writing in this
exercise was very fine, and the differ.
ent examination papers shown were
; praiseworthy in the same respect
.. No detail was wanting in the exhi.
bited work to prove that thorough.
. ness is exacted from the pupils in
everything.
Miss Tuck has been only a short
; time in this school, yet her work fits
; in harmoniously with the long-estab
lished system there in vogue, namely
the teaching of different branche!
J, coincidentally - for instance, the
: spelling of geographical terms and
: names with geography, the prope,
S use of language with the writer
exercises in every branch, etc. The
pupils are in the Third Reader ant
= among branches continued from be
> meath are taught geography ant
= map drawing.
i Miss Carter, whose youthful
V charges are exercised in the Fourth
/ Reader, teaches original compost
: ton with evident success. Tn
= manuscript work in the variou
q branches displayed the most careful
@ training. Much of it could be print
ed without correction. A Chimes
boy showed an exercise book tina
y was highly interesting. On one pag
5, he had the translation of the sub
/ ject words of sentences in Japanes
, characters, and on the opposit
page the Chinese symbols were sim
o larly inserted. Maps found on tn
blackboards, of islands in this grouE
# we're simply superb-ft to be copie
" in TYPOGRAPHY. One of the bes
IS bore the signature of Chimes
j. pupil.
- Miss Duncan is a substitute in tn
# second remove, having few day
7 ago taken the place of Miss Batcl
v. elor, who was occupying the plac
y temporarily during the absence {
D Miss Brown, the regular incumben
IF The room is that of the gramms
S. grade, where the course in Englis
g. grammar is completed. Hawaiia
ar history is specially here, and con
t. position rates high. The examine
10 ton was over when our reporter 81
tered, but there were results in blao
and white to show that painstakin
j. work had been done.
n Principal M. M. Scott and his a
II sistant, Mr.. j. Lightfoot, act Co
as jointly in conducting the academ
III department, two rooms being occ
s. pied which are made into OF
is through folding doors when desire
a Mr.. Lightfoot's specialties are IN
I'll thematics, bookkeeping and Lati
Mr.. Scott gives the pupils fms
ct ing up in English, composition c
he Shakespeare being feature, al
al their tuition in history is ma,
,r- tributary to their language trainin
he Here also the mornings exercis
Or, were over when visited, but the
to were written exercises laid out sui
list Gent to engage scholastic expe
er many hours. Neatness and tho
oughness, suffice it to say, mark
the work Of the top as of the low