The herald., 1898-10-08
SCHOOL NOTES
OF Interest to Parents, Pedagogues
and Pupils

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The first monthly meeting of the teachers
of the city schools will begin at O'Clock
this morning in the high school building
The program is as follows:
All teachers will assemble in the auditor
ium at 9 o'clock From $40 to 1910 a.
m. the kindergartners will meet Miss Led
yard in room 3.
First and second grades. music, Mrs
Parsons, auditorium; drawing, third grade
Miss Hutchinson, room 20. and fourth
grade, Mrs. Bradfleld room Is; writing
fifth and sixth grades, Mr.. Isaacs, room
30: calisthenics, seventh and eighth grades
Mr.. Rohde, room 10; sloyd teachers. Mr.
Kunon, sloyd room high school teachers
Mr. Housh, room 2
From 1910 to 1910 first and second grades
calesthenics, Mr. Rohde. auditorium; third
and fourth grades, music. Mrs. Parsons,
room Is; fifth and sixth grades, drawing
Mrs. Bradfeld, room 80: seventh and
eighth grades, writing, Mr.. Isaacs. room
49,
From 1870 to 11:1O, first and second
grades drawing, Miss Hutchinson. room
2O third and fourth grades, calisthenics
room Is; fifth and sixth grades, music,
room 90 seventh and eighth grades, draw
ing, room 49,
From 11:10 to 1140, second grade draw
Ing, room %; third and fourth grades. Mr..
Foshay, room Is; fifth and sixth grades.
caliSthenics, room 30; seventh and eighth
grades. music. room 10.
The Star and Crescent society of the high
school held its first meeting. and an cleo
ton of officers yesterday afternoon The
auditorium was filled, nearly five hundred
pupils being present, and much enthus-
asm prevailed. Some excellent nomna tin g
speeches were made, calling out round af-
ter round of applause. Although consider
able electioneerng had been done all week.
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one ever held by the society. and general
good feeling prevailed throughout the ses-
sion. There We're three nominations for
president. Marvin Mackenzie. Walter
Hawley and Walter Brown. Four hun
dren and thirty-three votes were cast
the former securing 2iO of them. Miss
Rowena Moore was unanimously elected
vice president amid prolonged applause,
Miss Clara Walton was elected secretary.
and Harry Baskerville treasurer The
critics will be Miss Eua Smith. w. w.
Webster, Miss Grace Barnett and Chas.
Adams. The installation of officers will
take place on Friday. October 81. after
which short program will be rendered.
An experiment is being made in the high
school as to the hours of assembly and dis
missal. The opening hour has been
changed to $50 O'Clock, with dismissal at
2:15 p. m. and forty minutes for lunch
with a few classes holding until o'clock.
The first educational classes of the y. n
c. A. met for the first time Thursday even
ing in the rooms of the institution The
meeting was informal and the winter s
work was discussed with much interest
Glass work will soon begin in earnest.
visit of inspection paid the department
devoted to the education of the deaf and
dumb children, located in the second story
of the Spring street school. will convince
the most skeptical of the superiority of
the oral over the hand method of nstruc-
tion. and at the same time arouse interest
in behalf of the unfortunate children who
have long been so misunderstood in their
affliction. The department is in charge
of Miss M. f. Bennett and Miss Helen Tay-
lor, both experienced teachers from Chi
cago. and the method they are introducing
In the Spring street school is working Won
ders Those who are advocates of the
method claim that dumbness in the deaf
exists because the child is not conscious ot
the possession of a voice. never having
heard its own or that of others. One
little fellow belonging 10 the class of a
dozen receiving instructions here never
knew he had a voice until he entered the
school, and patient instruction is teaching
him how to form words When he has
learned that he will be able to converse
with others understanding them, through
the lip method.
Another member of the class a boy of 10
lost his hearing at the age of wears
and was sent to the Berkeley school for deal
mutes. where he remained three years
during which time he forgot how to use
his voice, as little or no oral instruction
was given. However, under the practica
instruction he is now receiving, he will
soon recover the plain articulation he ono,
possessed. There is another little child
a dear little brown-eyed girl of vears
who has been brought all the way from
old San Juan Capistrano to learn to use her