The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
ANNUAL REPORTS SUBMITTED AT 4
 SPECIAL MEETING LAST NIGHT.

| Whitney, Superintendent Beede and l the Chairman of the Committee on school Buiidings--Wii be Submitted | to the Mayor To-day--ReguIar Re- 1 ports Adopted.
 At a special meeting of the board of education last night the annual reports were read and adopted. The annual
 reports which will be submitted to-day 1 to the mayor were those of the board l through it's president Eli Whitney, of | Superintendent Beede, and of the com
 mittee on school buildings. The usual report of the committee on finance and committee on schools were also read
 and adopted. The members present
 were Messrs Whitney, Hooker, Moran, Ullman, Harmount, and Jackson
 The annual report of the board sub
 mitted to the mayor was as follows: 1 To His Honor John P. Studley, Mayor
 of the City of New Haven't. | The board of education presents here with it's annual report, as required by | the city charter. This report includes | the report of the superintendent of schools to the board the report of the | supervisors to the superintendent, the 1 report of the committee of the board on l finance, the report of the committee of the board on school buildings and | the usual statistics to all of which
 your attention is respectfully called The board hoped at this time to be | able to report the completion of the l Cedar street school, but owing to un- | forseen delays in it's construction this school will not be ready for use for l some months.
 The addition to the Boardman Man
 ual Training High school, which was
 made possible by Mrs. Boardman's gen.
 erous gift of $13,OOO, will soon be com
 pleted and will add very materially to 1 the accommodation of the school. This
 school is increasing in popularity year | by year and although the cost of main- ] taining it is proportionately much | greater than that of any other school 1 in the district, the results accomplished
 seem to justify the outlay.
 The building of new high school is
 a serious responsibility and the delay in commencing work upon the building
 was due to the necessity of thorough l study in perfecting the plans and spec 1 ifications before advertising for bids l Since the contracts were signed in Sep | tember the work has progressed rapidly and satisfactorily. Appreciating that a
 work of this magnitude requires most careful supervision the board has se- | cured the services of c. H. Hunt, an l architect of wide experience, as inspect
 ing architect. and has placed the re- 1 sDonsbility of the details of construc-
 ton in his hands.
 | The school work during the past year
 has followed the same lines as for a
 number of years, without any marked 1 changes, and the board feels that, un ! der the supervision of Mir. Beede, the 1 efficiency of the schools has been mainA ] tained. The lack of funds has some
 what hampered the work, but the dis l position of the board and all in it's en- ! play is to make the best possible use Of l whatever appropria tions, in the annual ! division of the public money, may be
 allotted to the support of schools. l Respectfully submitted in behalf of 1 the board of education,
 By Eli Whitney. President. 1 New Haven, Conn.,, Feb. ', 1902. l MT. Harmount, as chairman of the
 committee on school buildings, read his
 interesting report showing the condi-
 lion of the school buildings at the pres
 ent time. and also giving an account of the work of improvements that has
 been done during the past year. Sev- ara, recommendations were made in the
 renort In the report the work on the
 new high school and the addition to the
 boardman school was spoken of The
 renort was unanimously adopted,
 The committee on finance reported that it had made a number of appro-
 nriations for current expenses for the
 wear 1902. The committee recommends ! that Inex Broadway be appointed clerk
 in the Strong and Lowell districts for | OeriOd of TOUT weeks DeSlillllilS fepL u- arv TO- 1902, at a salary at the rate of l $2Oo per annum
 The committee on schools made the 1 following recommendations:
 1 (a) That the leave of absence of Miss Ella A. Strong room ?, grade la Day
 school, be extended to the end of the present school year.
 (b) That the resignation of F. k.
 Mollton of the Hillhouse evening school
 taking effect February g. be accepted. Co That the resignation of Moses w. Saxes of the zunder evening school,
 taking effect February 6, be accepted.
 The report of the superintendent was read as follows:
 Heport of Superintendent of schools for the Year 1901.
 purpose to make this report brief, I,rineing. to the attention of the board
 of education only those subjects for
 ,,.ticl, wish tO ask its special consid
 aration. No mere report can give an adeouate idea of the actual condition of the schools and of the work that is there being done In a report general plans may be outlined general condi- tions stated. the most urgent needs
 emphasized and distinctive features of
 the work described. Really to know