Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-05

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struction per pupil, which has been
steady UP to 1897, has during the
| past year been arrested and the cost
reduced. The cost per pupil for the
year 1897 Is 81 cents less than for 1896
| II the finances of the school commit
| Tee Tor the two years past are analysed
| and considered in the light Of all the
Iacts and all the requirements of the
schools, the results will be found credit
able to its financial management.
The clear but conservative attitude of
the school committee regarding the kim
! dergarten ought to secure the gradual
extension of the kindergarten system
by such methods as will reduce the ex-
pense of each school, and also give the
I system an opportunity to demonstrate
here what seems to have been proved
in so many places, wits inestima BILE
value to our~schools and the possibility
OF incorporating it gradually into the
public school system without serious
/ financial stress.
Manual training is making progress
on sound basis. Although it is not
1 found in as many grades here as in
some other places, the character and
quality of much of the work done in this
department is probably not excelled in
any of our sister cities.
The conservative course to which
this board has held, Notwithstanding a
pt pular demand for the extension of
this department, ought to give assur-
ance that there is no danger of too
rapid advance or too large expenditure
| here.
Drawing in the schools is being
taught under a system that promises
| In the larger cities, and particularly
IN Worcester, the English high school is
becoming such an efficient agency for
meeting the needs of pupils who do not
expect to go to college, and the number
/ is so large of those who recognize the
/ e&cellency of the classical high school
/ as place to fit for college, that the
number of high school pupils is rapidly
increasing. The question of providing
! high school accommodations which shall
be adequate to the certain demands of
the immediate future. has already been
| considered by the committee. 1t is i'm
portant that the subject shall soon re-
celVe such further attention as may be
necessary to secure the cooperation of
the city council in promptly forwarding
some plan for the enlargement Of our
high school accommodations.
With our school houses so much i'm
| proved, with the kindergarten estab-
lshed, manual training successfully be-
gun, the cost of instruction per pupil
diminishing, and with the earnest and
efficient cooperation shown by officers
| and teachers, the committee should be
encouraged to continue its efforts to.
wards still greater improvements along
these lines, and should meet with con.
hdence the delicate and difficult prob
| lens that will certainly present them.
selves to those charged with the great
responsibility of maintaining and i'm.
proving our system of free public
/ schools.
superintendent Carroll in his monthly
report submitted with his endorsement
a recommendation from a committee Of
the principals that an exhibition Of
school work should be made next june
and that it be held in the new city hal
or Mechanics hall. The idea as explained
by the superintendent is to group to
| gether exhibits from the departments O.
drawing, manual training, evenins
schools and evening drawing schools
The matter was referred to the commit
tee on drawing and manual training.
The recommendation in the annual re
port of the superintendent, relative IL
the keeping in order the systems O.
heating and ventilation in the differen
school buildings provoked quite dis
cussion.
Mrs. Foster suggested that the matter
mittee than that on school houses anc
hygiene. She spoke of the faulty systems
in many of the school buildings, which
required the overheating of some oc the
rooms in order to properly heat o hers
Mr.. Brooks defended the work Of the
committee on school houses and n.y.
giene. He intimated that the committee
would achieve better results but for the
interference of state officers who were
n 6a nj
heating and ventilation, and in support
of this statement said that those build
ings heated with steam, in accordance
with the approval of the state police
were unsatisfactory and unreliable
while those heated by furnace heat were
giving perfect satisfaction
Mr.. johnson attempted to have the
recommendation referred to a special
committee, but the motion was lost the
test vote being to IL. The recommends
ton was then referred to the committee
on school houses and hygiene.
On motion of DR.. Sullivan, the salary
of the clerk was fixed at $1400, the same
as last year
The salaries of the truant officers were
fixed at $1,000 each, as they were last
year.
Henry E. Fayerweather and Michael
]. English were reelected truant Off
y
ceived 16 votes, all that were cast, and
Mr.. English Is, with l vote for John
O'Connor.
The request for extension of leave of
absence of Ella L. Smith, classical high
school, to Sept. /, 1898, was granted.
The following recommendation for
appointment were confirmed: Hannah
II. Mcdonnell, Thomas street, grade 1,
assistant; Bessie B. Woodward, Cham
berlain The salaries Of these teachers
were fixed at $3.50.
On motion of Mr.. Eames, the report OF
the superintendent was accepted and
100 copies were ordered printed.
A petition from Mr.. and Mrs. Bryson,
for authority to raise the prices of GER
tain articles at the high school lunch
counter, was referred to the committee
on high schools.
A petition was received for signatures
from the w. G. 7. u, asking congress
for protection of the anti-cigaret laws
by providing that cigarets imported in
original packages on entering any state
shall, be subject to it's laws
Just before the close of the meeting,
Mr. Johnson made a touching reference
to the death of DR.. James R. Fitzpat-
rick. a former member of the school
committee, and paid handsome tribute
to his memory.
GALLONS FOR oNEII.
Greenfield, Mass, Jan. 4.-The gallows
upon which it is expected John O'Neil
will suffer tie penalty for the murder