The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-24
YEAR IN THE PUBLICSCHOOLS
INCREASE OF 400 IN ATTENDANCE
 OYER PRECEDING YEAR.
Slight Decrease at Hillhouse-Year's Financial Summary-RecOmme nda- tions Adopted by Board of Educa- tion Last Evening.

 tion Last Evening.
 At the meeting of the board of edu- cation last evening the committee on schools recommended the extension of the leave of absence of Miss Ida l.. Sto- ry room 6 Woolsey school, until the spring term, and of the leave of absence of Miss Sarah s. Benham, room Dix well avenue school, until the spring term on account of ill-health The committee further recommended the adoption of Milnes Mental Arithmetic for the sixth and seventh grades, Speer's Arithmetic, Part l., for the first grade, Baldwin's Industrial Arithmetic for the second half of the first grade and also the second and third grades, and the Werner Arithmetic, Book l., for the second and third grades.
 The recommendations of the commit tee were adopted.
 The committee on finance recommend ed that $542 be transferred from the ap- propriation for fuel to the appropria- tion for salaries of janitors; also that $46 be transferred from the appropria- tion for rent to the appropriation for clerical assistants; that $S5 be trans ferred from telephone appropriation to clerical assistants and that $10 be trans ferred from the appropriation for gas and oil to clerical assistants; that the committee be authorized to make such transfers as may be necessary to prop erly balance the accounts at the close of the year.
 The recommendations of the commit tee were adopted
 Superintendent Kendall's report was as follows:
 The total number of different pupils registered during the year to December 1, 1898, and for the corresponding period last year Is as follows:
 Hillhouse-1S9S, S06; 1897, S34: decrease 2S
 webster-1sss, 1,5s7; 1897, 1,463; in crease 134.
 Eaton-1S9s, 1,2O2; 1897, 1,2O6; decrease wooster-1sss, ss5; 1897, sS7; decrease x Hamilton-1SsS, 1,136; 1s97 11o4! in crease 32.
 Dwight-1sss, 7os 1897, s96; increase 1S
 winchester-1sss, 1,725; 1897, 1,711; in crease IA.
 Lovell-1ssS, 2,1oe; 1897, 2,o4o increase 66.
 Day-1s9s, 1,5es; 1897, 1920; decrease 57.
 welch-1s98, 1886; 1897, 1,76o; increase 126
 strong-1s9s, 1,e46; 1897, 1887; increase 59
 Boardman-1S9s, 259; 1897, 219; in. crease 40.
 Total-1S9S, 15, ,92O: 1897, 15,527; increase 1898, 393.
 Following is the report of the evening school average attendance for the week ending December IS, 1S9S and for the corresponding week last year:
 Advanced-1S9S, 169; 1897, 133.
 HilIhouse-1S9S, 166; 1897, 153.
 Webster--189S 60. Hamilton-1S98, AS; 1897, 5S.
 Fair street-1S98, 40.
 Whiting street-1S97, 33.
 Cedar-1897, 61.
 Washington-1897, 17.
 Strong-1897, g.
 Total-1S9S, 4S3; 1897, 4e4; increase 1898, 19.
 I report the transfer of Miss Evelens Rockwell from the substitute list to as sistant teacher in the Welch school tt take the place of Miss Rhena Andrea resigned.
 I recommend the adoption and print ing of the following course of study 1T numbers and arithmetic. This course has been prepared with the assistanc' of the supervising principals and O many teachers. I believe it's adoption and publication for use in the hands c the teachers will promote the efficienc. of the instruction. The course in outlin is as follows:
 First year or grade-No number worl as such. A fifteen minute daily exer else, however, is to be given with th use of objects such as the common measures, etc, for the purpose of gain ing simple mathematical ideas. Thi teaching is to be purely objective There are to be in this grade also ex ercises in counting and also in readin: and writing numbers.
 Second grade or year-Addition an' subtraction facts within "A inclusive fractions #, 1s, 1-3; simple exercises il measuring; reading and writing mum bers.
 Third grade or year-Exercises de signed to teach multiplication and di vision facts; written addition, writer subtraction; exercises in fractions; ex ercises in measuring; written work il addition, subtraction and multiplied tion.
 Fourth year or grade-An arithmeti is put into the hands of the pupils fo the first time--in this grade-South worths Essentials of Arithmetic.
 In this grade pupils are to be givel all the common multiplication and divi sion facts also facility in written mul tiplication and division; simple exer cises in fractions and in mensuration. Fifth year or grade-Southworth' Essentials of Arithmetic or the Elemen tary Arithmetic Is to be completed i this grade.
 In the sixth and seventh years grades the Walsh Arithmetic is to b used in the hands of the pupils and tn Milne Mental Arithmetic in the hand of the teacher. Exercises in mensura tion are to be continued.
 In the eight year or grade the Verne Arithmetic Part IT., is to be used, to eether with a book of problems.
 Tn this grade there will be reviews o the whole subject and special attentlo