The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-15
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTED
 ATT LAST NIGHTS MEETING.

I N Ih
 Reports of Committees--Superin
 Report-New Haven School System to be
 Studied at Leland Stanford University
 Mir. Matthewson's Request.
 A regular meeting of the board of education was held in the board rooms on Center street last evening, with Messrs, Asher, Moran, Hooker, Man son, Morgan, O'Connor and Farnsworth present. Nothing but routine business schools reported the resignation of Miss Emily Coxeter from the position of teacher in room of the Welch school, the resignation to take effect February 2S, 1896. The resignation was accepted The committee recommended under the direction of the superintendent that not less than thirty minutes and not more than sixty minutes per week be devoted to work in mental arithmetic in the four upper grades of the gram mar schools of the city, this time to be q part of the time now given to writ ten arithmetic; that as text books Bailey's Mental Arithmetic, Brodbury's s Light Arithmetic and Wentworth's Mental Arithmetic be used by teachers only an not to be purchased for pupils About 140 books will be required at a cost of $40. The recommendation was approved and adopted.
 It was voted that Miss Cain, teacher in the West street school be allowed $1O for keeping attendance during the absence of the assistant principal, Miss Hull, from February. 1895, to February, 1896, and to allow Principal Abbott sal ary for two days spent in attending a funeral
 The committee on special instruction recommended the appointment of John H. Bailey as a teacher in the Temple street Russian evening school at a sal ary of $150 per evening, and that Whit ney's German Reader and Newcomb's s Plain and Spherical Trigometry be adopted for use in the Boardman school. The former recommendation was adopt ed and the latter laid on the table.
 The building committee recommended that a new water closet be built at the Greenwich street school during the next summer and that it be connected with the sewer, the whole to cost not more than 5000. The recommendation was adopted. Superintendent Kendall submitted a lengthy report for the month of February, which showed that there is at present a total registration in the city cshools of 14,059 pupils, a slight gain over the same time last year. The whole number of boys regis tered is 7,199, of girls CISCO, being 339 more boys than girls. The representa- tion of nationalities in the night schools is as follows: Americans 241, French F, Scandinavian v, Germans S1, Rus sians 130, Italians 147, Armenians 3, Poles 40, MT. Kendall stated the neces- sity of having course of study for the various city schools and said that Leland Stanford university had selected New Haven as one of the fifteen cities af, which the school system was to be studied. The superintendent stated that, brief exercises would be held in the various schools next Friday in com memoration of Washington's birthday. The board voted that the committee on supplies be authorized to expend $60 in purchasing books to form a nucleus of teachers library. the books to be kept in the board of education rooms. On motion of Mir Moran it was voted that MT. Kendall be requested to pre- pare a full an complete course of study such as he thinks suitable for the various city schools and to report to the board at a convenient time MT. Kendall stated that he would not at- tend the National Convention of School Superintendents to be held in Jackson vile, Fla, soon, but instead would spend about ten days in visiting schools in eastern cities The board voted a leave of absence to him for such 6 visit.
 Other business having been disposed of, A. McC. Mathewson appeared before the board and asked that the board recommend an appropriation for the elimination of the Northampton tracks and the purchase of the land adjoining Hillhouse high school now occupied by the tracks MT. Mathewson explained the advantage to the school and the resi- dent portion of the city should the tracks be removed and said that the removal was possible and probable, as he had learned from Vice President Hall. He thought the property adjoining the high school lot could be secured for $25 000 The board referred the matter to the finance committee and then adjourned.