The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

men, with the exception of Mr.. Young
and Mr.. Morrison, are still living and
have seen the wonderful development
of a school system. In the founding Of
which they took SO active and so hon
orable a part. The two boards which
went out of office when the new board
was chosen consisted of the following
men and women:
West Division -- Isaac Atwater,
George Huhn, A. 7. Ankeny, S. @.
tngton.
"East Diyision-Dr. A. Ortman, Or.
Charles Simpson, s. n. Chute, e. K.
Smith, Mrs. G. o. Van Cleve, Mrs. G..
S. Winchell.
ut will be noticed that these boards
consisted of six members each, and
we may fairly assume that occasional
deadlocks led to the change to seven
members for the new board. The
superintendent Of schools elected by
the new board was o. v. Tousley, who,
for several years preceding had been
superintendent Of schools Of the West
Division. The number of school build
ings in the city at that time was twelve,
viz: Washington, Jackson, Lincoln,
Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams,
Sumner, Humboldt, Winthrop, Everett
and Marcy. No high school building
had been completed at that time, and
the high school pupils are recorded
as belonging to the Church school. So
called because it's sessions were held
! in the church, which then stood at
the corner of Fourth avenue S and
Fifth street, and the Curtis Block
school, which was located on First
avenue S, between Washington avenue
and Second street.
'"The whole number of pupils en-
romeo during the year was sails, and
of these 100 belonged to the high
school department. The number OF
teachers employed was SO, and Of this
number 16 are teaching in the schools
to-day. There were also a superin-
i tendent of penmanship, a superintend-
ent Of drawing, and superintendent
OF music: The organization Of the
teaching force was practically the same
as 1T is at present, except that the
teacher of the beginning room was
called primary principal, and was sup
posed to have the direction and man
agement of the primary work in the
building.
THE financial statement of the board
shows that it set good example to
Its successors, as the year closed with
surplus In the treasury of $326.98.
The report of Superintendent Tous-
ley gives a glimpse of the problems
| which were considered of most i'm
portance. Considerable space is TAX.
en- to explain whysthe enrolment in
the higher grades is so much smaller
than that in the lower grades; a prob
lem, by the way, with which his sue
cessors have struggled with VARYING
degrees of satisfaction. Corporal pun
lshment is also referred to with an.
prevail, and the fact noted that dur.
ing the year 312 pupils became az,
: Qualnted with the rod. Assuming thai
al the victims were boys, this would
show that about 10 per cent of al
the boys in the schools suffered cor.
poral punishment during the year. A
the present time corporal punishment
Is forbidden except upon the writer
permission of the parents of the of,
Tending pupil.
THE suggestion is made that some
means must be taken to reduce thu
amount of hardness, which we arr
Informed averages 'one-half to ever,
enrolled pupil A table of enrolment
Is presented in which it is shown tina
In per cent of attendance of pupils OF
whole number enrolled Minneapoli.
stands seventh in a list of twenty-si,
tcities. -
"The Importance of supplemental,
,readlng is referred to and the sugges
ton made that many more readin.
books should be furnished to tn,
pupils. In those 9days arithmetic wa,
the fetch and received large amour
OF the time and strength of both teach
err and pupil, yet we read in the re
: port as follows: While the instruc
ton has been thoro, it must be con
fessed that the attachments of tn
pupils have by no means been com
mensurate with the efforts made by tn
teachers This can. hardly be held t,
support the assertion that the chill