The Jersey City news., 1902-09-06
AT HASBROUCk'
Largest Graduating and En-
tering Glasses in the
History Of the
Institute.
CHAT WITH PRESIDENT STINETs
Many Pupils Going to College
Organization Of the
Faculty.
CHAT WITH PRESIDENT STlAETs

A "News" reporter called on Principal
Charles G. Stimets of Hasbrouck Insti-
tute this morning and found him very
h.sv at his Office with callers and COR
respondence accumulated during his brief
fishing trip to Lake Champlain. He said
to the reporter. For the past three
weeks 1 have thought very little of any
school except the schools Of fish. But
the fish were biting better now than the
bass did last week in Vermont.
"New pupils are enrolling every day
to an extent that is quite unusual. Here
is a letter from young man who wants
to get to college in a year and he has
three years work in Latin to make up,
hrt | have told him to come We can
do it if he only has the right stuff in
him. Here is an application from a
young man twenty-three years old who
wishes to study for the regents GER
tificate to enter the College OF Ply
sicians and Surgeons next year. Well
do that for him, if he has ability. The
lady who just left entered three little
children whose ages were four, seven
and twelve years, and so it's been ever
since I returned. l ought to have re-
turned earlier and left some of those
Champlain bass for the other fellows.
THE LARGEST CLASS.
'Hasbrouck Institute will graduate
next June the largest class in its forty
seven years of existence in this city. 1t
looks now as if the senior class would
contain over thirty-fve students and
about an equal number of either sex.
The largest previous class ever sent out
numbered thirty. Some of the new
pupils will enter as seniors-though we
prefer kindergarten and primary children
and we have already more than thirty
of the old pupils, if all make up their
who will be graduates in June.
Some of these students have studied
here for eight or nine years and we shall
be proud of the record we know they
will make in college. At least seven of
the girls and dozen of the boys OF this
class will go to college--to Yale, Co
lumbia. Cornell, Princeton, and the girls
to Barnard, Smith and Holyoke. We
aim to prepare our students for college,
whether they go or not, for, in my opin-
ion, it's the best preparation for the
young man that wants to hurry to busi-
ness without going first to college; and
short cut processes don't count much
in the discipline required for either the
study of law or medicine.
1--WE like to give the boys some gen
eral knowledge of bookkeeping and COM
mercial law, with the usual rapid mental
calculations. but nothing must displace
the instruction and drill required to make
pupils think quickly, accurately and log
ically. or the instruction which enables
them to compose and write good Eng
lish letter.
THE FACULTY.
The Institute will maintain faculty
this year of twenty-five teachers in all
the departments from the Kindergarten
to the Senior grade, including also those
who have charge of the music and art
departments. These instructors are all
masters Of the work they are called on
to do. and have all had large experience
in the class room"
The reporter was shown the laborator7
les filed with latest apparatus where
every facility is afforded for the instruc-
tion of students studying physics, chem
istry or physiology, and the large gym
nasium, fitted with locker-rooms and
shower baths. where the boys and girls,
on separate days, exercise their muscles
that they may study the harder when
play ceases: the music rooms and the art
rooms filled with casts and designs for
drawing.
Attention was called also to the conf
plctc ventilating apparatus of the baiid-
ing by which the well-lighted and pleas
ant class rooms were kept also pure and
healthful.
On leaving, Mr.. Stimets said that he
expected large and enthusiastic hard
working class of pupils the coming year,
at least. he said.
II know that with all the facilities Of
fered here in those things which tend to
make such school. we have deserved
it."