St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28

tlon OF now 10 get enough to make and keep
our schools what they ought to be is a very
serious question. The cutting down onl
h Inc an allowance van made by the schoo
ooard for the running of eur schools is
working disastrously. and our minds are be-
coming so callous that we are neglecting to
reallze the Importance of all this For three
years st. Paul has not had a new school
building, and at the present time teachers
are struggling with sixty pupils in a room
that ought to have only forty or less
He appealed to the Commercial club to use
its influence as it can to better this state of
things, that our schools may be pride of
our city.
Miss Stanley was called upon next, and
her remarks in part follow:
"reminiscences of Our Public Schools is
the work given to me-to a woman who has
spent two thirds of the years of her life as
teacher in our public schools-and the time
limit is fixed at five minutes. Why. our
are aas of places
half justice to the two men two
of our six superintendents-who always
come to mind when my work in our schools
is brought before me. From 1860 to 1875 our
| growth was very slow, but very sure. After
| 1878 the board of education became more
| venturesome. New buildings were planned,
| were built and quickly filled. Mr.. Mattocks
| passed to his home in Heaven, and after a
] short time B. F. Wright took charge of our
schools. young man of deep preju dices
| ana strong convictions in those DAYS, but q
| just man, worker and builder.
! ITO the boards of education of those early
days and to MIR. Mattocks we are, as a city,
growth, and for the high place we hold in
and to the boards that placed him
and kept him at our head we owe
much of our present prosperity. Mr..
| Wright was builder. an organizer,
| and he planned well for our schools. True
QrQ ,oJun ,dn1.
some OF our teachers are overworked, bul
everybody tells me the Bell charter is to
blame for that
Miss Brooks talked very Interestingly of the
and interesting paper entitled '"fhe Little
! Children" which is here given in part:
II consider 1t an honor to act as represen-
tatlve OF the small people. and speak in theil
behalf. 1t is great thing to be accounted
worthy OF the honor: They are shy, thest
little people, and reveal their secrets to bu
few; The land in which they live is not the
land OF 'grown-ups.' though they may not be
is a very small world, but in reality. spir
1tually. mean. it is very mysterious an6
wonderful. 'Grown-nps' soon forget the
way to it. and even when led back to its en-
chanted regions. travel its winding paths
with dlfhculty and uncertainty. Yet sc
necessary is il to know this land in order to
enter into right relations with its inhabit
ants am that some OF the rarest minds which
| IL 49,. -. o.eL y Oouceu, nave mdue II
the object OF their lifelong study.
Ihe little children, numerically as great as
the voters, but never taken into considera.
ton by our political parties: more powerful
than an armed force yet never accounted
dangerous to the peace Of the state they are
the light OF our homes, aud the hope of ou1
nation. May Heaven bless them.
Prof. George Weitbrecht responded to the
toast The Big Boy" and Mr. Slack to the
comparison of European and American
Schools
The evening ended very pleasantly, and
the cordially of the members of the Com.
mercial club and its secretary will not soon
be forgotten.