Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-26

lows:
 1 In retiring today from the office of
 President of your honorable Board, l lay aside it's honors and its cares with the proud eonsciousne ess that 1
 have served the Board, the school district, and the cause of education In thought, word and deed to the very b st of my ability.
 l thank you, my co-workers of the l Board, for the earnest, able and con- stant care with which you have per 1 formed your duties.
 | I must congratulate you upon the limproyed condition of our schools. The completion of Lakeside a hand some two-room brick building), and 1 GreeDville school, colOred, has
 greatly relieved the crowded condi- tion of our schools and we now have
 commodious school rooms. supplied with the lat st and best furniture and appliances. for all of our school pop ration (6 to 21 years of age) who are l likely to apply for admission. To our principals and corps of teachers much praise is due for the
 earnest, jealous, 1 may say, enthusi- astic performance of their duties. l They have taught, not altogether | for 'the times; they have taught for | the eternities. The mind aroused, the thought awakened will go on and
 on to the utmost boundary of time
 and out into the great beyond. Our teachers are largely home products, graduates of our schools. They will compare well in learning, tact and
 trairing with any teachers of their
 grade in any town, city or State.
 Only two complaints were received
 by the Board during the past year from patrons; both pertaining to
 matters of discipline and by request of plaintiffs no .tiOn was taken by the Committee of teachers and schools. This, when we remember
 the diversity of population and the proneness of humanity to "kick." is quite gratifying to me, and l doubt not to you all.
 | would recommend to committee, | teachers and schools that our course of study be extended, to the extent,
 at lei st of higher work on Political
 Economy. In these days, when the
 science of government constitutes so
 large part of the conversat tion and
 literature, it is, in my opinion, neces- i sary that we should teach our child
 ren the foniamental truths upon
 which is founded our Constitutional
 government from reliable text books, rather than that they should absorb
 warped theOii"s, vague ideas, rides cent dreams from pal Lisan. selfish | and subsid 'zed sources.
 1 I would r commend to the Board 1 that as soon as the finances of the district wi' permit that house of
 three or four rooms be err ted upon l the grounds of the City High School, 1 to be used as a home for the jaritor,
 a1d in which shall be provided a
 room for the meetings of the School
 Board and preservation of it's prop erty. This would enable us to secure
 a re'iable janitor for lkss salary, as
 his house rent would be free and at
 the same time give additional secur- l ity and prot ction to our property.
 The school buildings are mostly in
 d good state of repair, but I wish to call the attention of the buildingc com
 mittee to the nee ssity of having the l fence rebuilt and other needed re- pairs at the $ :ond Ward School at tended to during vacation, the deck roof at the City High School, as also
 the tin roof of the Pine Street Bnild- ing are sadly i'll need of re-painting Lakeside building should, this sum-
 mer, be inclosed with neat, durable fence.
 Gentlemen. whatever of service 1 may have been to Public Schools in the past. has heen cheerfully accorded. i in the language of Ruskin This is the best of me: This, II any-thing of mine, is worth your memory