New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-10
THE GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL.
RESUME OF THE WORK DONE DURING
THE LAST SCHOOL TERM.
THERE WILDE MORE PUPILS. MORE TEACHERS
AND MORE ROOM FOR THE NEXT TEHM'
AND STILL. BETTER RESULTS

THERE wrIIpE MORE PUPILS MORE TEACHERS
AND MORE ROOM FOR THE NEXT TERN.
AND STILL BETTER RESULTS
ARE HOPED FOR
The Brooklyn Girls High School. wnich cioseo
about two weeks ago. has had one OF the most sue,
cessful wears in It's history. During the year ~"
sden,a ba va been registered on the rolls The last
graduating class contained 13S girls the largest CLASS
which was ever graduated from the inst''u''on. vi
this number sixty were in the four-year Language
course fifty In the three-year English course ana
twenty-eight In two-year business course.
Appl,catIons have been made by 400 OF this year
1rodnatss from the grammar schools for admission
into the Girls High School next sep'e"oer n's
will raise the attendance over this year more IMAM
25O and the quarters will be somewhat cranPeu
But in this contingency the old schooi puoi''s W.
g. in Bcdford-ave. near Hancock-st VIII DC use,
for recitatons by three four OF the classes anu
this will relieve the pressure In the nam ouhuiis
Erasmus Hail. the new high school In South Drooh-
Ivn vi;l be started IN the fall 1t Will ACCOMMODATE
200 or 300 pupils and although the attendance u 'e
main school will not be lowered, 1t Is eNpec'eu Una,
the new school will help to keep down the "a'u'" "
increase in the entering classes OF the'maih schoo
each year within the limits OF the capacity VI '"e
building.
IMPROVING THE SCHOOLS sTANDAHD
The girls do not have a school paper or deoauhs
literary
as do the boys in their school But the girls ,ree
from all these outside distractions devote themselves
assduous;y to their studies. The courses nave III
WAYS been more or less severe. but TINS year '"e
standard has been raised until II almost Teac"eu
collegiate conditions. ,usAd
The three-year English course Is 10 DE aoo's"e :.
in two years No admissions have peeh nnaoe ~ ~
d,rirc the last two semesters and with the srauua-
ton or the class OF 1898 1t will cease TO exist as
ma rt Of the high school curriculum
Special attention has been given 10 'he WIZ ~
natural sciences drawing and vocal mus,S and
physcs in which individual work can be done by
forty pupils time There Is b ,a1se .,eroot
con lectures are given on history, physca, seosna
ply and art Once week on Mondays ito ans for
choral singing and sometimes recltations are nero
there The visitors gallery at these exercises mas
during ihe year four additions have been made a
to the corps Of teachers which now sds and
the best to be had The salary OF $50 eomm m
sarh f HaS schoo commtiee says formerly
most OF the teachers were from New Engiah1, n.'
particularly from Leland Stanford r un,veIen
and the University OF Michigan ne was chers
in his n pras :. Of Ss TO dae the He thinks
that the classes have been more ntsi.ise ra al" -
look mon their education not as an accomplish
ment merely. but as preparation Tor me WORN
sc,5oo1. DISCIPLINE HAS BEEN EXCELLENT.
French German, Latin and Greek are taught TOT
those In the language course. OF this years gradu-
ates from that course. fifteen or twenty intend 10
enter college in the fall. or this number Corneii
will get the larger share Others so TO Smith Vas
sar and Wellesley. To all these schools young
women are admitted from the Brooklyn girls Hish
School on certificate
The discipline OF the school throughout the year
has been excellent Calvin Patterson, the principal
has proved himself an excellent man, both as a
teacher and dlscipnaran lie has conroll sa
the school bv appealing 20 the seif-rcspect OF the
pupils rather than by rigid rules or the infection
Of penalties. In his work he has been ably sec e
onded by Miss Maria Blandin and Mrs. Lewis. his
frs, and second assistants Miss Caroline b. i-erow,
the head OF the elocu;ion department. ana Mss
Josephne Brink head OF the literary department,
are also valuable aids The great need OF the school
IL q new building. to be used as a gymnasium ana
art room but there seems TO he no prospect or Its
erection in the near future. .
Principal Patterson has gone with his family 70
his country home In Massachusetts. where he Will
remain until school opens again in the fall.