River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-23
The teaching faculty of the Public

| Schools for the ensuing year, barring
Unforeseen accidents. will be:
IL. L. Wilson, Principal.
Irma Kleinpell. Assistant.
b lie Frye, SecondGrammar.
Eta Harnsbergef, First Grammar.
Anna Whipp, Second intermediate.
Nellie Proctor, First intermediate.
Laura Weld, Second Primary.
Eugene Rollins, FirstPrimary.
The school building is in excellent
painted with oil and lead, the interior
has been thoroughly renovated in the
janitOr's most efficient manner, the
floors, walls and furniture shine like
a new tin pan. The high school room
| and library were papered two years
ago, the first and second primary
rooms have been similarly beautified
this summer. The walls in the new
portion of the building, four rooms,
are yet white and for several years to
come will need no renovation. The
basement is packed with seventy
cords of thoroughly dry wood con-
yenient for use. The equi, lent of
the school for efficient work in all the
departments and for all the studies
pursued is excellent. The apparatus
| and appliances for study and illustra
tion are numerous, of the best quality
and consequentlyc costly, but necessary
aids to efficient and rapid work. The
most perfect charts, globes and maps
for teaching physiology and hygiene,
| geography, language, reading, music,
and numbers have been accum ulating
year by year as the district could
| afford until few schools in the largest
towns are better supplied. There is
in addition to these appliances men
| toned. well selected assortment of
apparatus for illustration and expert
ment in the science of physics, includ-
| ing some for experiments in chemistry
| and electricity. The text book
library, the books in which are for the
free use of pupils, has been in process
of gradual Encouragement for several
years. The tendency has been to re-
duce the number of text books in a
| series, generally from a three book
| text to one of two, obviating the
| necessity of furnishing duplicate of
matter, which was but practically a
review of preceding book, with no
advantage except extra profit to the
book publisher. This has now been
| completely accomplished in geography
| and arithmetic, the branches mostly
| affected by this criticism, so that now
| two books in geography answer better
than three as formerly, and two in
| arithmetic do service for four as here
tofore. In reading, however, the re-
verse method has been attempted with
good results. The teachers in the lower
grades had complained that the chill
dren lost interest in reading from the
necessity of repeating the exercises
long after they had learned the text by
| heart. So that in these grades we have
practically doubled the amount of
reading matter by supplementary
books. The younger pupils, from the
| nature of the case, must be persist
emily drilled in reading, for they can
accomplish nothing for themselves
in the way of studying until they
can read and comprehend the
| hought expressed in the te xt book
While this revolution OF the arith-
metical text book was going on the
board took advantage of proposition
| favorable to the district TO ''swapn
| the old books, many of which were
useless through dilapidation by con-
| slant wear, and somewhat antiquated
| in subject matter for series of new
books, thoroughly up TO the demands
of the times. The text book in
| arithmetic is the Cook-Cropsey.
Harper's Geography will be the only
geography used, of which full supply
has been added.
| History. Montgomery's Leading
facts has Leen substituted for Barnes
Other books introduced are Went
worth's Algebra, Joynes-Meisner's
German Grammar, Schiller's Wilhelm
Tell, Sybels' Die Erhebung Europas
gegen Napoleon, and Heath's German
English dictionary. The school will
open Sept. 10th. with splendid
| preparation for good work.
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