The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-15
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
MORE IDEAS ADVANCED IN THE
 HIGH SCHOOL QUESTION.

High school.
 The regular fortnishtly meeting of the board of education was held last evening, Mir. Whitney presiding In the absence of President Avis.
 Miss Mary o'Gorman of la Hamilton was transferred to room annex; sal ary $550
 Miss Emma D. Clark. assistant In Hamilton school, was transferred to No. la; same salary. 345O
 Sister Ambrosia Coonan was granted leave of absence till January on &C., count of illness.
 The grammar schools were allowed s60 each for the library fund.
 It was voted that the special two years course in the Boardman Manual Training school, consisting of shop work and drawing, with a limited amount of English, history, science and mathematics, be withdrawn and not of- fered to another incoming class.
 Hall & Bergen's Physics was laid on the table for action at the next meet ing.
 The official name of the Boardman
 Manual Training school will hereafter be the Boardman Manual Training high | school
 Mir. Whitney said, in behalf of the
 committee on special instruction, that
 they had intended to bring in a new
 rule to the effect that hereafter candi- | dates for admission to the two high schools will be examined by the facul-
 ties of the two schools, no examinations
 hereafter being given by the grammar | school principals, and that all candi-
 dates who did not come up to the re-
 quired 75 per cent. would be rejected.
 They would have brought it in if they
 had had time to prepare 1t. It was voted that all the money re-
 maining over from the appropriations
 for the library fund for the grammar
 schools and Hillhouse high school be
 given to the library fund of the Board
 man Manual Training school.
 It was voted that 1,600 additional cat alogues be printed.
 Horace Day was unanimously elected l secretary of the board at the same sal-
 ary, $1,o00. s~ ..,., N-' | There was a short discussion on the advisability of emitting sessions of the schools on account Of wet weather. l Some of the members thought that the | high school and some of the upper grades should be exempted from the rule.
 The report of the committee on fin-
 ance for the week ending December 3, | 1894, was read. The total receipts were $229, ,19S59 The total ordinary expenses
 were $348O72S. There is a balance on
 hand of $12,6S7.81.
 Superintendent Dutton of Brookline,
 Mass, formerly superintendent of
 schools of this city. had been invited
 by the board to give some of his ideas
 on the high school question in this city.
 He said he could not agree with Profess sor Morris Tyler that two high schools of 600 were better than one high school of 600. He thought the tendency was to economize through correlation and combination. He thought the ideal plan of high school would be to have the several parts grouped on one lot. He spoke of the work which President FL
 lot of Harvard and the committee of ten had done in going over the whole ground of secondary education. Their idea was that those going to college and those not going should receive just the same education. He did not believe in emphasizing the classical element in education. He did not think it would
 be a. good plan to establish separate classical high school.
 Secretary Day read the following in- teresting note in connection with the property on George street fronting on College street, which has been purchas- ed with the buildings thereon, for the district:
 This property was sold 15O years ago
 (January 15, 1744) by Jeremiah Osborn to David Wooster, who more than thir- ty years afterwards received his death wound at Ridgef1eld during the War of the Revolution. The year succeeding this purchase he was married (March 6, 1745) to May, daughter of President Clapp of Yale college and resided in the old house now owned by the district until it's sale in 1757. The house itself must have been built previous to. this purchase, as the price paid for the premises, 1880, indicates considerable value in the dwelling. General Woos- ter distinguished himself as an officer in the last French colonial war and was appointed third in rank out of eight brigadier generals in the first organiza- ton Of the Army of the Revolution. He also organized the first lodge of Ma sons in Connecticut, in 1750, and was its first master. The property subsequent ly came into the possession of Michael Baldwin of Guilford, among whose chill dren were Abraham Baldwin. one of the framers of the constitution, sena- tor from Georgia and ICesident of the university of that state; Henry Bald win of Pennsylvania, one of the justices of the supreme court at Washington; the wife of Joel Barlow, United States minister to France; the wife of Colonel Bomford, chief of the ordnance depart ment, and the wife of Colonel French, also oe the army. .,l-...,.
 The newer house fronting College street was built about fifty-six years ago and It's first occupant was Simeon Baldwin Chfttenden. then 8, dry goods