The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-30
THOSE Who SUCCEEDED
Certificates Mailed to Thirty
Seven Applicants.
OPINIONS OF DR. ANDREWS
More Money Should Be Spent on Pri-
mary Schools-The Work OF Edu-
cation Should Begin at the
Foundation.

County superintendent Mary Mullins
yesterday mailed teachers certificates
to 81 successful applicants who took the
examinations which were held on the
18th and Goth of this month. Five Sc
cured professional certificates, II First
grade certificates, II Second grade GER
tiicates and one a Third grade certih-
cate. The applicants scored an unusu-
ally high average. The following took
the examinations: Misses Margaret
o'Reilly. Lizzie Price, Josie Chirhart.
Charlotte Cahoon. Gertie Rosenstein,
Maude Beebe, Jennie Fraser, Lulu Ev-
ans, Elizabeth Evans. Isabelle Doonan.
Harriet Mccarthy, Emma Hesse, Mary
G.. Rogers. Mary Holland. Mary Stack
pole, Catharine Quill. Deddie Gibbons,
Agnes Hanley, Nora Peters, Lillian Ste
venson, Kate Cosgrove. Debbi Glib
bons, Lolita Glover, Clara Schubert, Ju-
liza a. Murphy, katharine Moran, Ida
Jeffery, May T.. Carman, Laura Berger.
Elizabeth Bennett, Ella Crowley, En-
ma Farlin. Alice Dinsmore, Mrs. Anna
l.. Boyd, Everett +. Paxson, Arthur Il.
Jones. John Conroy.
During the past controversies over
fads in the public schools, in which
state Superintendent Carleton and City
Superintendent Hendricks were ar
rayed on opposite sides, frequent refer
ence was made to that eminent instruc-
tor, DIR. Andrews, late of Brown uni
versity. but now superintendent of the
city school of Chicago. DIR. Andrews
arrived in Chicago a few DAYS ago. and
in a newspaper Interview gave express
sion to his e on the fad" and other
questions, which will be read with some
interest here, as the same matters have
been discussed recently, more or less,
in this state:
Il am in perfect sympathy in the
spending of no more money on gram
mar schools until there are plenty of
primary schools, and no more money or
high schools until there are plenty of
grammar schools.
There is no feeling so deeply fixed
in my mind and heart i'm taking up my
work in Chicago as my sympathy with
these schoolless little ones who are
crowded out of the primary school by
he grammar school. and out of the
grammar school by the high school. |
would not close up any school. but in
all future expenditures 1 believe the
wants of the lowest grades should be
met first.
lou ASK me II 1 MINK lndt the us
ing generation Is suffering from being
taught entirely by women. and If | be-
lieve in increasing the proportion of
men among the grade teachers. To
this | reply that | have no knowledge
that the character of the children is
weakened by exclusive woman teach
ing. In fact. | do not believe this to
be true. | will say further that
never would under any circumstances |
turn a woman teacher out to put in "A
man. Beyond this / am undecided. be-
cause l am not in possession Of full and
reliable facts.
There is considerable d~issension
here, / am told, over what are called
These are German. French. Lat
in, drawing, physical culture and man
ual training. | do not consider any one
OF these branches a fad, and | would
have some way in every schoo for
every scholar to take these branches
If he wished to do so. But at the same
time ] have a strong partiality for the
thorough teaching of the three RS.
n | would not for n m curtail
the groundwork Of public school edu-
cation for the purpose of teaching
these branches. SO that the policy to
be pursued resolves itself into a ques-
ton of e%xpediency.
In reply 10 your i~nterrogatory con
corning the powers and term of office
u the superintendent OF SCHOOLS. / can /
speak without the least reserve. The
best policy in every great organization.
from the United States government
down, Is to clOthe one man with great
power and hold him to a strict account
The superintendent of schools
in a case in point. He ought to have a
free swing, 50 that If anything goes
wrong everyone will know whom 10
blame, and SO that his head can either
be punched or cut off as the occasion
may require.
Il believe that the term of office of
the superintendent of school should
be several years in length. Every Of
ficer should have a reasonably long
term of office who is responsible for a
policy. But so far as l am concerned
nothing about IL. II my work at
the end of the first year does not COM
mend itself to the board of education.
II will have no difficulty i'm getting rid
of me, you may rest assured"
The school board will meet tonight
under the new rule changing the regu-
meeting time from Thursday to
Tuesday nights. A number Of vacan-
cies have occurred on the CORPS of
teachers, and the teachers committee
will make recommendations to fiji the
vacancies at the meeting of the board
next week. There are a large number
Of applicants for the places.
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