The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-15

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 MT. Asher-"If the committee SC rules l am satisfied" | MT Fox - What the committee agree upon I am satisfied With, but l will not be subject to any one or two of the members. Am l to go on with my question:"
 Chairman Staub--"Yes."
 MT. Fox-"Has any school commis- sioner spoken to you against the habit of using water colors?"
 Yes, sir"
 Do you care to state who?'
 No sir.'
 The committee decided that the name of the commissioner was not wanted.
 When were they first supplied to the teachers in the schools?"
 Two or three years ago" | "To what grades were they first sup plied?'
 ITO the seventh and eighth grades first; to the fifth and sixth afterwards" t"
 Has all the color work been supplied within two years?"
 Yes, about two years.'
 Now I understand from a study of the syllabus that color work goes on in the higher grades, and I want to know with what it is done.''
 Two lessons have been given, as signed by the supervisor in the seventh and eighth grads. We have had twen- ty-fve lessons approximately to date and two of these in colors before the middle of October"
 By the new supervisor?" | "Yes"
 Were those lessons in colors with pencils or water colors?"
 Those I refer to were with water colors." Where do they get those crayons?"
 'They purchase them. I don't know where"
 "Is nothing in the way of colored crayons supplied in the seventh and eighth grades?"
 "The pupils in the seventh and eighth grades have the privilege of borrowing from the lower grades if they wish"
 What portion of the time given to so-called drawing is apportioned to color work, I mean with black or white or anything?"
 'T have said that four lessons have been given in water colors in the New Haven schools this year."
 That is not the question. What time each week is the teacher required to teach anything that comes under the head of drawing?"
 '"The approximate time is one and one-quarter hours per week.
 "Is the teacher allowed to go over that?"
 -Four twenty minute lessons are given in the lower grades. They are allowed to give three one-half hour les- sons in the seventh and eighth grades"
 What part of that is devoted to any color work and what part to black and white?'
 T cant say"
 q have been told by a teacher that from one-quarter to one third was de- voted to color work Is that so?"
 T can't say
 Would you say that large portion of that time in the lower grades is given to the use of colored crayons?" "Yes"
 ''Is it fair and just to say that under former superintendents drawing meant simply black and white work with pen ell on paper, while under your later administration it has meant that plus water color?''
 q can't say what was done under former superintendents
 Do you know Mir Asher?" MT Chase objected to the question. MT Fox called upon the committee to decide and the question was allowed. MT. Kendall--"So far as I know I want to answer. I presume that col ored pencils were not used them." "Then the work now is that former work plus color work, isn't it?" "No'
 "In what point is that an erroneous and unfair statement?"
 MT. Chillingworth-"W What connection do you make between that and super visors' work?'
 T want to show that unnecessary | work has been introduced"
 MT. Chase-"It makes no difference what Mr. Fox is satisfied with All | that is necessary is that we are satis- fied'
 MT. Kendall having been directed by | Chairman Staub to answer, said T thought that the indications were that work with the brush was entirely for eign to work with the pencil" MT. Fox-"What 1 want to know is, don't drawing now mean work, with the pencil as well as with the brush "Yes."
 'Did you introduce color work of your own idea or did you do it at the request of the teacher of draw ing?"
 'At the suggestion of the teacher of drawing"
 Don't you think it would have been well to have looked into the way these things are taught in the art school and ascertained the best way?" MT. Chase objected to the question. MT. Fox called upon the committee to decide and MT Chase withdrew the ob- lection.
 MT. Kendall-"It seems to me that it S better to inquire of practical edu- ,ators than of the art school. I would 20 to people with long experience in dealings with children. In many of the progressive cities of the country water color work is a feature of the school work"
 ''Iu most of the cities of the country?" 1T can't say"