Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-21

AMENDS the Rules.
Mr.. Harries proposed an amendment to
the rules providing that:
Graduates of approved colleges may, in
the discretion of the board be admitted to
membership in the Normal School, the col
lege training of such graduates being
equivalent to the first year of the Normal
School course
He proposed another amendment to the
rules as follows:
Upon report by the principal of the
Normal School that any pupil is seriously
deficient in health or in studies the COM
mittee on Normal and High Schools may
at the end of the first six months of the
hrst year drop such pupil from the mem
bership ROLL
Both amendments were laid over for one
month under the rules
Mr.. Brown introduced resolution de-
claring that in order to guarantee the best
efficiency in the teaching force of the pub
lie High Schools of the District of Column
bia hereafter, in the appointment of
teachers to the High Schools, preference
be given to persons holding a degree or
diploma of graduation from a college or
university, and that in addition to the
scholastic training recognized as necessary
by the board, the applicant must have
taken a course of at least one year in the
study of pedagogy, or the science and art
of teaching, in a recognized institution of
learning, must have had at least two
years of successful experience in teaching.
The resolution was referred to the COM
mittee on High and Normal Schools.
List of EIigibles.
Mr.. Barnard, chairman of the committee
on kindergartens, reported that the COM
mittee which had conducted the eXamina-
ton of applicants for positions as kinder
garten teachers had the following list of
eligibles to submit as the result of the ex-
animation held June l and last:
Whte-Harriet d. Foster, Isabella r.
Meloy, Kathryn S. Brown, Catherine r.
Watkins, Julia NJ Searle, Eliza S. Green,
Emily c. Carr, Portia NJ. Oberly. Mamie
" Skillman, Sadie c. Souder, Florence NJ.
HALEY, Mary K. Coffin, Mary E. Crook,
Welesca Pollock, Anna C. Schmidt, Alice
N. Ruff. Helen F. McVea, Lula NJ. Farm
ham and Daisy NJ. Prentice.
Colored-Genevieve Thompson, Retha
billiard, Hattie Cornish, Laura l.. Bruce
and Florence M Williams.
On motion of Mr. Barnard the first seven
in the first list, Misses Foster, Meioy,
Brown, Watkins, Searle, Green and Carr,
having attained the highest percentage In
the order named, were appointed to the
existing vacancies in the list of kindergar-
ten teachers The other successful candl-
dates will be retained on the eligible list
and appointed to vacancies as they occur
AS a result of the discussion on this sub
iect it was decided that the gratuitous
services of teachers will not be accepted
hereafter under any circumstances.
Changes in the various divisions were re-
ported and approved as follows:
Seventh division-Appoint Joseph B.
Grinder temporary janitor johnson School,
vice Frank r. Conner transferred to tenn
porary teacher of manual training. APP
point Ida v Grinder temporary janitor,
vice May Common, resigned.
Ninth division-Accept resignation of Bes-
sic E. Hall, teacher, at $475 per annum, to
take effect June 10. 1893; appoint Mabel
Turner teacher at salary of s475 per annum,
vice Bessie E. Hall, resigned, to take effect
June II. 1889.
Tenth division Accept resignation of
jamie NJ. Taylor teacher, to take effect
May 10, 1889; appoint Jennette F. Garrett
teacher at salary of $500 per annum,
vice jamie M. Taylor resigned to take ef-
feet May 49, 1899; accept the resignation of
Katie H. Wood. teacher. at a salary of
$500 per annum, to take effect June 10,
1899; appoint Annie B. Howard teacher at
a salary of 500 per annum, vice Katie H.
Wood, to take effect June II, 1899.
DR.. Hazen, from the appropriate COM
mittee, recommended a number of new text
books for the schools. including the addi-
ton of Dodge e. Tuttle's Latin composition,
Spanhoofd's Lehrbuch der Deutscher Sprache
and Bryces American Commonwealth.
Other books to be used are Edgren's Span
ish Grammar, Fontaines Doce Cientor Es-
coyidos, Cortina's Ell indiana, Thurston's
Practical Tests in Commercial and Higher
Arithmetic and Everybody's Dictionary.
The report was adopted.
Minor school Expenses.
Under the head Of new business, Mr.. Har-
ries introduced the following:
Whereas minor school expenses, such as
for ice, military drill athletic or gymnastic
training. immediate repairs, accompanies,
books and apparatus, not covered by labor
atory fees and regular acquisitions, are
now and must be incurred yearly; and
Whereas such expenses are now more or
less fully met by the income from enter
tainments given by the labor of teachers
and students, requiring great strain and
much work, which should properly be de-
voted to the pedagogical work OF the
schools. or the expenses are met by assess
ments on teachers or pupils, or both, d.
rectly or indirectly, thereby causing too
definite sacrifice or a too great sense of
comparative poverty; and
Whereas such entertainments are, In part,