The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-29
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
SUPT. KENDALL REAPPOINTED FOE
ATERM OF FIVE YEARS.

d TERM OF FIVE YEARS.
Secretary Day and Clerk Hewlett Also
Reappointed-Purch of a Lot ON
Gilbert Street Authorized d-Communt.
cation from Superintendent Kendall
Regarding Supervisors.
AT the meeting of the board of educa-
tion last evening Superintendent Calvin
N. Kendall was reelected for a term
of five years at the same salary as last
year, $4,000, Secretary Horace Day
was reelected for one year. He stated
that at the end of this year he would
not be candidate for reelection.
George T. Hewlett was also reelected
clerk.
Section ITO of the city charter reads
as follows: 1.-THE superintendent Of
schools, if he has not held the office.
shall be appointed for one year, and II
continued in office thereafter may be ap-
pointed for term Of five years, and his
salary shall not be reduced before the
expiration Of said term of five years. He
shall not be removed during said term
except by the vote of five members Of
the board of education"
This is the first time that a school
superintendent has been appointed Tor
a term of five years in New Haven. An
amendment to the charter, changing the
term for which a superintendent might
be appointed from five years to two
years. was drawn up some time ago, APP
sent to the legislature.
The special committee of the common
council, appointed to advocate at Hart
ford favorable action on measures in the
city's interests, appeared before the
committee in Hartford and advocated
favorable report on the amendment.
Members of the board of education who
appeared before the committee opposed
the amendment, however. and the COM
mittee rported unfavorably upon 1t. The
section of the charter which permits the
board to appoint superintendent for
a term of five years has met with quite
general disapproval.
Mayor-elect Driscoll will appoint four
new members of the board Of education
during the next sixteen months, the
present members whose terms expire
during that time being Messrs. Conn0r,
Asher, Hooker and Whitney.
1t was voted to purchase lot on
Gilbert street adjoining the Cedar street
school. The contract for furnishing the
stationery for the year was awarded
to George A.. Matthews, the lowest bid
der. A remonstrance was received
from a number of residents near the
zunder school regarding the play
grounds this summer, but as the board
has already given permission for the
use Of the grounds the secretary was
instructed to notify the remonstrants to
that effect. The matter of electing an
inspector of school buildings was post
poned till next meeting.
Superintendent Kendall presented the
following communication:
AT the request of the chairman Of the w
committee or schools I have prepared
The Following statement relative to the
place of the so-called special studies In
our schools and the supervision Of the
schools in general. 1 hope that what
nay have to say would be of service,
however slight, to the citizen honestly
questioning the value of the present
work Of the schools.
First as to drawing: Drawing has been
aught in the schools since 1868. 1t is
lot a new subject, therefore. 1t has
passed the experimental stage. One su-
oervisor at $1,S00 and one at $3.50 The
otal cost for the year ending June, 1898,
vas $4,83910. The cost of the instruc-
ion for each child based on the num-
,er registered was thirty-five cents.
Drawing is form of expressing the
thoughts and feelings Of the child. tt
las been said that one does not thor
'ughly know thing until he can draw
t. 1t has also been said the trinity In
PRACTICAL art is the mind, the eye ana
he hand; the eye to perceive, the mind
0 conceive and the hand to execute.
Drawing is eye training, mind train
ng and hand training. 1t is pre-emi-
iently the school study or exercise
which combines in an intelligent and
ducative way, seeing and doing. Ask
n adult to make a representation Of q
oor, for example, and he will observe a
oor-its relative height and breadth,
he panels, the proportions of the panels,
teas he has never looked at door
efore. So with the drawing of any OBJ
sct, one comes to know the object in a
fay he could not have known 1t had
e not tried to represent it on paper.
The school exercise in drawing teaches
ne child to see accurately and to exc
ute intelligently. People go about
'ithout the power to actually see
lings and to understand them Draw
lg is after reading, writing, arithmetic,
pelling and English one of the most
seful and practical of all the school ex-
rcises. There Is no industrial art which
not related to drawing. We live in
n age highly industrial. 1t is a well
nown fact that much of our highly
1illed labor comes from Europe, that
le native American Is unable in many
ranches of highly paid labor to COM
etc with the mechanics and artisans
ho come from over the water, and this
SO in spite OF the TACT that the public sg
,hools have been in operation so long.
is in part due to the fact that educa-
on in this country until a compara-
vely recent period, has been q pure
,nkish educa tjnu More draWing ratf1.