Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-27
HIGH SCHOOL COMING.
FREELAND WILL BE UP TO DATE
IN EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.
Plans Under Way to Add an Academic
Course of Three Years to the Present
Branches-Borough Teachers Appoint
ed-Some Changes Were Made.

As announced in the TRIBUNE on
June 80 last, Freeland is to take its
place among the towns of the state
where higher education is given
to the boys and girls who have passed
through the common branches.
The first step in what might be
termed the new era of education in this
town was taken by the school board on
Monday evening, when Prof. William S.
Houck, b. S., of Berwick, was added to
the faculty.
The TRIBUNE has learned that the
ed by the establishment of a high school
of exceptional merit, one which from
the very beginning will commend itself
to every friend of education in the
borough.
1t is the intention of the directors to
years, which will embrace stud
les that shall place the school on par
with any in the county, and will enable
the youth of Freeland to obtain at home
the knowledge and learning, which, to
secure heretofore, it were necessary to
go elsewhere.
STUDIES LIKELY TO BE TAUGHT.
The act of legislature of June 2s,
1895, contemplates the employment in
every high school of at least one person
legally certified to teach book keeping,
civics, general history, algebra, geom-
etry, trigonometry, pane-surveying,
rhetoric, English literature, Latin in
cluding Caser, Virgil and Cicero, and
the elements of the following branches:
Physics, chemistry, botany, geology
and zoology, including entomology.
Mr.. Houck is legally qualified to teach
all tho above branches, and the school
will likely have all or greater part of
these studies.
This step has been decided upon after
mature deliberation of the matter, and
is in answer to the repeated and sincere
solicitations of a number of the most
prominent people of town who have
sons and daughters now fitted to enter
a high school.
The time has come when Freeland
must step boldly forward and show that
its people are as progressive on educa
tional lines as in other matters, and to
delay year longer would be doing an
injustice to the boys and girls of town
who are now ready and qualified by the
excellent training given them in the
common branches to enter those ad
vanced studies which are taught only in
an up-to-date high school.
PRINCIPAL AND VICE PRINCIPAL.
The high school, as stated before, will
be placed in charge OF Prof. HOuck as
principal. Prof. T.. +. Hanlon, the
present supervising principal, will be
vice principal. From what can be
learned of Mr.. Houck as teacher and
from what is known of Mr.. Hanon in
the same profession, tho two should
make a combination which, with the as
sistance of the remaining members of
the corps, will soon place the Freeland
public schools on plane to which our
citizens can point with pride.
Another matter which the directors
have considered in making these prep
arations is the opportunity that is here
at present to make Freeland an educa-
tonal centre for the surrounding towns.
The several villages heroabouts contain
many boys and girls whose parents wish
them to receive an advanced education
and at the same time have them reside
at home. With high school in Free
land conducted on the standard intend
ed there are sufficient out-of-town pupils
ready to apply for admission here and
pay tuition fees which will reimburse
the board for any extra outlay that may
be necessary.
NO INCREASE IN TAXATION.
In any event, there can be no increas-
ed taxation. With an additional state
appropriation and economical manage
ment of the revenues the high school
will cost the people of Freeland sum
insignificant when compared with the
good that should result from its estab-
lishment.
The high school will be located In
the Daniel Coke building on Washing
ton street. 1t is learned from reliable
source that the board will in the near
future, probably at the close of the next
term, remodel the third floor of this
commodious structure. Recitation
rooms will be formed and all the neces-
sary scientific apparatus will be in
stalled. The cost of this would be very
light, as the building is well adapted
for ho alterations intanAad
GOOD NEWS FOR TEACHERS.
1t has also been learned that the di
rectors propose to establish system in
regard to teachers by which positions
will be retained and promotions made
solely on basis of merit All Other
considerations, it is claimed, will be oil