Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-20
FIGHT OVER BOOKKEEPING
In the Board Of. Education Won by
Friends Of the Study

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After a Protracted Discussion.
The High School Increased En-
rollment to Be Accommodated
by a Division of the Assembly
Room Into Two School Rooms.
A Proposition to Pay Tolls for
Island Children Attending Lin
coin and High Schools Reports
Of Officers and Other Business
Transacted.
One of the most important matters
considered at last nights regular
monthly meeting of the Board OF Edu-
cation was the question of providing
more room to accommodate the increas-
ed enrolment of pupils at the high
school. The matter was brough; up
at the last regular meeting of the Board
and came up last night in the form Of a
ings and Grounds. The committee did
not favor any additional rooms or
building, but recommended that the
large assembly room be divided into
two rooms.
Mr.. Stanton favored the report, but
was opposed to the idea OF spelling the
assembly hall with e. permanent parti-
ton, After the report of the commit
tee was adopted, Mr.. Maxwell moved to
instruct the committee to place NOV
able partition in the room If practical
BILE. The motion was adopted, and the
work will be done after school closes in
June.
The report of Superintendent w. H.
Anderson for the month was read by
the clerk 1t showed the following to-
tails: Enrolment for the month, 4.573;
age daily absence, 1858; percentage Of
attendance, High School 81, Washing
ton SO, Madison SO, Clay SO, Union 49,,
Centre SO, Webster SO. Richie 49, Lin
coin 96, city "a; cases of hardness,
teachers IA, pupils 343; perfect in at
tendance, 2,C19; paid for instruction.
| 1920.
In the German department the enroll
ment for the month was 557; classes,
60; pupils of German parentage, 295;
not of German parentage, 262; teachers,
s.; paid for instruction, $2O6.
The monthly report Of Librarian Will
son showed total circulation of 1856,
Of which ALSO We're works of fiction;
average daily circuia.ion, POI; circula
ton in reading room, 949; received
from fines, IS.
The Committee on Public Library re-
ported bills aggregating $172.89, which
were ordered paid. The committee was
authorized to purchase books to the
amount of S66.75. Upon the recon-
mendation Of the committee, the Board
made the following appointments:
First assistant librarian, Mrs. M. c.
Crawford.
Second assistant librarian, Miss Net
tie Wilde
Substitute librarian, Mrs. Emma Gar
den.
Janitor, Harry Phillips.
The Committee on Rules and Regu-
lations, to whom was referred the
amendment of DR.. Jepson, offered at
the previous meeting, agreed to the
amendment, but changed the average
grade to 80 per cent instead of IS per
cent, and the minimum grade in any
branch of study, from 60 to Is per cent.
The Board indicated its preference for
DR.. Jepson's original resolution, by a
vote of II to 2.
Accounts amounting to $623.81 were
approved and ordered paid.
The Committee on Teachers and
Schools reported that it had approved
a style Of diploma submitted by the
superintendent Of schools, and had au-
thorized the purchase of 100 copies.
The committee recommended that
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year in the High School,to alternate
| with lessons in English.
This provoked lengthy discussion,
and brought out the fact that there is a
very well defined division Of sentiment
in the Board regarding the value of
bookkeeping as study in the public
schools.
Messrs. Stanton, Riheldaffer and
Maxwell expressed the opinion that the
study is of no practical value. If the
sentiment were favorable to bookkeep-
ing, they favored making it elective in
the last year in the High School course,
in order, as Mr.. Stanton put it, that 1t
do as little mischief as possible" Mi.
Stanton thought pupils should be privi-
legged to take up bookkeeping in the last
year, if they desired to 60 from the
school into mercantile establishments.
This brought Mr.. Widener to his feet
with an argument for bookkeeping. He
said the High School had been referred
to as the "rich mans school" He fav-
Iored bookkeeping, and he favored it's in
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