The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-07

of the board of education, as agent of
the New Haven city school district,
be and is hereby authorized and en-
powered to sell and convey and to
execute a good and sufficient deed
therefor on such terms and at such
price as said board or a majority
thereof shall agree upon to Harry L,
Weis, of the town of New Haven, a GER
tain piece of parcel of land belonging
to the New Haven city school district
and situated on Fair street, bounded
westerly about one hundred five feet
by land of said district, northerly
about five feet six inches by land of
the heirs Of Amos T.. Barnes and east
erly by land Of Harry L. Weis of New
Haven and running to a point on Fair
street, the westerly line of said prem
ises commencing on Fair street at the
point of contact of the contiguous lines
of the premises of the said district
and of the said Weis and thence run
ming northerly to point two feet six
inches westerly from the westerly brick
wall of the house of said Weis and
measured at right angles to said west
erly wall at the rear end thereof and
thence running northerly in a continu-
Gus straight line through said two
points to the rear line of the premises
of said district.
The estimated receipts and expendit-
ures for 1856 are as follows, commenc-
ing July Is, 1896:
Receipts-Balance from old account,
| $12, ,20406; from district tax, $240,000;
town tax, $54, 900; town appropriation
for text books and s1pplies, $12,600;
income town deposit fund, $1,000; state
of Connecticut, school fund and civil
list, $4,000; evening schools, 1894, $1,000;
evening schools, 1895, $1,000; apparatus
and library, $500; tuition and other
small receipts, $4,000; rent of Garter
house, $780, Total, 1870 .06.
Expenditures = Salaries: Teachers,
| $255, 900; janitors, $24,oOo officers, $4,000.
| Total $2S7000.
Rent-Hamilton school. $1,S00; board
rooms, $500; house corner Lloyd and
Wolcott Streets $50; store No 8S De-
Witt street, $204; house No. 16 Leonard
street, $500; house in rear of high school,
| $3.50 store No 1870 State street, $192;;
evening schools, $500; building No. 1876
South Front street, $780, Total, S4,756.
Books and supplies Fuel, $500; text
books, $4,000; stationery, $1,000; printing,
| 81, 500; janitors, $500; miscellaneous, $4,-
500; apparatus and library, S1,6o0. To-
| tai, $29,900.
| Miscellaneous-Annu school meet
| ing, 5000; enumerating children, $500;
| gas and oil, $780, making grand list,
| $500; telephone service, $500; horse keep
| ing. superintendent of schools, $500;
graduation exercises, high school, $500;
| express, carting, travel etc, $500; in
cidentals, 81, 500; insurance, $500; electric
current for H. FL. S. motor, $500; tax
collector, salary and office expenses, pro
rata, $1,75o. Total, $3.50.
| Repairs-To buildings, $4,000; heating
apparatus, $500; furniture, $4,000;
blackboards, $500 Total, $4,000
| Interest-On bonds, $175oo; temporary
loans, $4,000. Total, $2s,200.
| Total estimated ordinary expenses,
$37o 206.
| Permanent inlprovements-Ba alance
due on equipment of Boardman school,
| 81. .598. 81; balance due on Zunder school,
S44, 1896. III; balance due on Strong school,
$67, POS. 40. Total, $16,5S0.51. Grand total,
| 1929, 730.59
| The annual report of ex-Superintend-
| ent Curtis was presented to the board
| and contained among many sugges-
| tions and comments the following:
| "Tt has been a common practice TO
| give a grade teacher fifty-five and even
sixty pupils in one room and expect her
to instruct and manage them all with
| ie ,ie,ta a1ya
especially in the primary grades. No
teacher can do justice to fifty pupils.
| She can only teach one group of fifteen
or twenty at "a time. The others must
| be employed. To be sure, there are oc-.
| cupations that keep the little ones out
| of mischief for the time being; but
much time is wasted. There is really
no time nor expense saved by giving
| teachers large classes. 1t will either
take so many more years to
| do the work or it will be half
done. In the Welch and Dwight
| schools, in accordance with the terms
of the contract with the state board of
| education, the number of pupils in each
room is limited to forty. This ought to
| be the maximum number for every
| teacher.
| Intelligent teaching can be secured
| only by the intelligent training of
| teachers. The New Haven city school
| district has taken the high stand that
| hereafter none but well-trained teach
ers shall be permitted to enter upon
| the work of teaching in the public
schools of New Haven. The first quota
! from the state normal school will be
received in September, 1895. The impair
| tial manner of their selection leaves no
| doubt that the new teachers are the
best products of the state training
school. Possessing the ability and the
perseverance which have enabled them
to finish the six years course of study
and training, and imbued with the am
| bition and the enthusiasm of youth,
| there is little question as to their
ultimate success.
$50 far as L am able to judge, from
| what I know of the working of the
Hillhouse high school, am constrained
to say that 1 regard the results of
! its teaching and it's discipline as be-
| yond what the public has a right to
expect from such conditions as those
under which the teachers are obliged
to work. believe that hardly another