The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-14
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
REGUL1R MEETING LIST ETENING
 -REPORIS FROM COMMITTEES.

Cheney to Deliver a Course of Lectures in Chemistry at Hillhouse High School Financial Statement for rSovember--New Haven school Exhibit at Atlanta to be | Donated to the Pedasog,ca cal Museum in Philadelphia.
 A regular meeting of the board of ed ucation was held last evening in the | board rooms on Center street, Messrs. Asher Moran, Hooker, Manson, Mor- gan and Farnsworth being present. Af- ter the reading of the minutes by Sec retary Day the committee on schools reported the resignation of Miss Mary R. Potter from the position of teacher in room at Winchester school the resigna ton to take effect at the end of the present term. The committee rec commended it's acceptance and also that Miss Lottie F. Treat be transferred from the position of extra teacher at | Welch school to the position made va cant by Miss Potter's resignation. The report was accepted and adopted. 1 MT. Manson, chairman of the commit | tee on special instruction, reported the l following recommendations from the committee:
 That Angelic De Matty be appointed a teacher in the Hamilton Italian even | ing school at a compensation of $l.50 l ,tr +n +ot- -n effect Monday, December 15; the appto- priation of $500 to purchase drawing 1 supplies for Miss Skinner's class in col ors; that D. Arthur Cheney be employ | ed to give d series of lectures on physi- ology and hygiene at Iitllhouse high school to the pupils of the senior class taking the English course, the lectures to be given one every week until the end of the present school year and be- ginning with the winter term; that sec ton lS0 of the board rules be amended l by striking out in full the words relat- ing 10 special teachers, and shall en- l ter in the blank provided for the pur-
 pose the time spent in each room"
 In addition to these recommendations
 My Manson reported the resignation of 1 Miss Lucia M Bower, Kindergarten teacher in the Eaton district to take
 effect December "A, 1895, and recom- mended it's adoption. He then recom- mended that Miss Gertrude H. Wood
 ing Joe appointed to the position made
 vacant by Miss Bowers resignation at a salary of S45O per annum, the appoint nent to date from January 6, 1896. The report was accepted and adopted with out discussion, except the recommenda- tion of the $500 appropriation for draw ing supplies.
 Some of the members wished to know ! why this was necessary and Superin-
 tendent Kendall explained saying that 1 Miss Skinner's line of teaching was
 most valuable, training the pupils in | lines of practical value, and this work of hers cannot be carried on unless she
 has sufficient apparatus. The recom-
 mendation was then adopted.
 The building committee recommend
 ed that the Eaton school be remodelled
 next year in accordance with the vote
 for remodelling schools recently passed
 by the district meeting.
 | After some discussion and the feasi-
 bility of the proposition was settled the
 recommendation was adopted and the | committee was instructed to prepare
 plans.
 The committee on finance recommend- ed that the board of assessors be em-
 ployed to make up the grand list for 1895 at the usual compensation of $500. 1 The report was adopted. The commit
 tee also submitted a financial statement for the month ending December ,, which showed that the total expenditures on permanent improvements since Novem- Der IA was $17, ,176.46. The entire balance
 unexpended for permanent improve
 ments December was $95, .07, of which $31, 300.45 was available. The to.
 tai amount of bills contracted but not
 paid on that date was estimated at s6i.-
 lS23O. The balance available for ordi-
 nary expenditures was $7,07l26, while
 the total unexpended balance for ordi- nary expenses was S232, ,23S.11.
 I Superintendent Kendall reported thac
 the total average number of scholars 1 registered in the city schools during the month of November, 1895, was only 13,- | $40, while for the same month of 1894 l the number was 14,194. This decrease is considered to be due to the opening of certain parish schools during the past year.
 MT. Kendall read a letter which he 1 had received from Gustave Mederlein of Philadelphia, commissioner of the Argentine government and delegate general of the Philadelphia museums, requesting that the New Haven school exhibit at the Atlanta exposition be donated to the Pedagogical museum to | be opened to the public at 223 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, in about six months The object of the museum is l to show for the benefit of teachers and | the public in general the state and 1 progress of instruction and public edu- cation in every country in the world. MT. Kendall stated that even if the exhibit were brought back to New Ha- ven there would be no place to store it and advised that the exhibit be donat- 1 ed to the museum on the condition that l it might be used 5y the New Haven schools if wanted on the occasion of an- l other exposition. The board voted in accordance with | the advice of the superintendent. The meeting then adjourned.
 1 The City Missions.
 The Sunday seJvices tomorrow at the 1 City Mission hall, corner Of Court and l State streets will be as usual g m q