The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-14

CI1ANdEO IN LIE OOO4tOE VI
STUDY.
Two changes of some Importance
have been made in the general course
of study in arithmetic and language
during the past year. Arithmetic has
been dropped entirely from the first
grade, the amount of abstract memory
work has been decreased in the second
grade and the work OF beginners has
been made more concrete and obJec-
tive. To secure the last result the sys-
tenn of measurements and comparison
devised by Miss Walter, the Whitman
tic Normal school, where it has been in
successful operation for several years,
has been introduced with some modifi-
cations into our second grades. In lam
guage the course has been SO revised as
to discourage technical work and to
emphasize the Importance of good Ian
guage, oral and written. Much of the
technical work in language in the vari-
Gus grades is now omitted or postponed
until the later grades. The work in
technical grammar has been placed def
initely in the seventh and eighth
grades.
The completion and occupation of the
new High school building the coming
spring and the conversion Of the pres
ent Hillhouse building into a grammar
school building next September Will
doubtless be among the most, important
events Of the coming year in the history
Of the schools. The former will greatly
increase the facilities Of the school for
good work and the latter will consider
ably relieve several of the most crowd
ed districts Of the city. AS the new
building approaches completion every
thing indicates that it has been we'll
planned for high school purposes. At
the present time surprisingly few
changes suggest themselves which
would better adapt it to the high school
work. The building was planned for
fifteen hundred pupils and will doubt
less accommodate about that number
1t contains twenty-five large class
| rooms, nine recitation rooms, library,
a large assembly room with a seating
capacity of Fifteen hundred, a science
lecture room seating about $50, suit
| able room for the commercial depart
| ment and are departments of, physical
science, chemistry and biology. The de-
partment of physical science will con-
| sist of an elementary laboratory an ad-
vanced laboratory. recitation room a
demonstration room, two apparatus and
| supply rooms, dark room and work
room. The chemical department will
consist of laboratory, recitation and
| lecture room, a prepare ton room and a
supply room. For the biological de-
partment there will be the botanical
laboratory, the geological laboratory, a
| room for physiology and a recitation
room. The commercial department will
have three large rooms, a smaller type
writing room, a recitation room for
stenography and work room in which
all the Monograph work of the school
will be done. The three large rooms
will be occupied by the pupils of the
commercial department and in those
rooms the general commercial branches
! will be taught, e. g., bookkeeping,
banking and commercial geography. In
all there are fifty-four class and work
rooms in the building, not including
the Assembly hail. In addition to these
there are, on the first floor, the princi-
pals office, clerks room, an emergency
or sick room and text book room; on
the second floor two teachers dressing
rooms: and on each of the three floors
two lavatories. In the basement it is
expected that there will be provided a
lunch room, and two or more bicycle
rooms. The cost Of the building and
that Of other High school buildings re-
Gently erected can be found by con-
sulting statistical table No. XVIII.
The approaching completion of the
| new building naturally raises the ques-
| ton of the future relationship between
the two High schools. Situated so near
| each other as the two buildings are,
| with easy passage from one to the 9TH
| err, with rooms In each building which
will doubtless be needed for the work of
| both schools, and Furthermore with the
existing necessity for economy in the
administration of all our schools, it
seems to me inevitable that the rela-
lions between the two will become
closr than they now are and that Meth
er will remain entirely independent of
| the other Both schools are growing.
All the rooms in the Boardman school
are now used and the building could
accommodate but few more pupils.
| Whatever the relations between the
I two schools in the future it will proba-
bly, be but a short time before pupils
in the Boardman school will be obliged
to do a part Of their work, owing to
lack of room, in the new building.
There are also duplicate courses in
both schools. Many studies, e. g., Alge-
bra, Geometry, Physics. Chemistry,
Latin German, History and English are
now pursued in both, covering substan-
TALLY the same ground, taught by the
same methods, and having the same
| general purposes in view. There is no
practical reason why these courses can
not be combined and these studies
| taught by the same teachers to all pu-
pills doing the same work regardless to
which school teachers or pupils belong.
BY such consolidation of classes there
| certainly would be some saving in the
| salaries of teachers. How far this
could be carried experience only can
| determine.
The science work of High schools,
| Furthermore, is to-day regarded by
many as the most practical and most
| important work of these schools. With
the sciences entering, as they do, so
( largely into commercial and industrial
aptarpriSes this deDartmnnt is to cav