The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-04-04
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES.
Dedication BrOussard School house
Sunday. April 5. 3 p. m.
Burke SchOOl-hOuSe Sun
day. April II, 1908.

tinguiShed French scholars in
America, will address the people
of Broussard and vicinity on the
subject of a good system of pub
lie schools and the best means of
support.
Sunday, April II, 1908, at
p. M, President B. G. Caldwell,
of the State Normal School, who
has labored for the cause of edu-
cation for the past thirteen
years, will deliver a rousing
school address at the Burke
school house in the second ward.
When two such men as Prof.
Fortier and President Caldwell
are willing to give up their time
and pay their expenses to come
to us in the interest of public
schools who can doubt that La
fayetue parish will soon have one
of the best organized systems
of schools in the State?
During his visit here last Mon
day State Superintendent Cal
houn paid the School Board of
parish deserved
compliment when he said that it
is one of the most progressive
Boards in the State and that in
his rounds of the State he holds
up this parish as a model for the
to follow. It is the Opin-
ion of the State superintendent
that few more years of
such as has been made
here within the past few years
will result in placing Lafayette
parish high up in the rank of
school com munities,
not only in Louisiana, but in the
whole South.
A visit to either of the town
will convince you of the
fact that State Superintendent
Calhoun was right when he told
them that they needed a new
The children at the Primary
school are all happy except
those in Miss Larche's room.
They consider themselves dis
eliminated against because all
other class-rooms are supplied
with patent desks and they have
the kind that is neither attractive
nor comfortable.
Mr.. Judice has given the use
Of a building for the accommO-
latiOn of the school children and
the assistant teacher who has
recently arrived. The attend
ance at Scott as in many other
places throughout the parish has
doubled since last session.
State superintendent J. v.
Calhoun visited the Primary and
High schools on last Monday
and delivered a short talk to the
children at each school. He i'm
pressed upon the children the
of an education, but
he said that an education could
not be obtained by simply going
to school. The child must work,
and the best teachers were ne
cessary. He said that better
teachers than taught in the La
fayette schools could not be
found any where in the State.
Mr.. Calhoun pointed out to
the children of Lafayette parish
5he great opportunities they had |
for acquiring an education be-
cause after finishing at the High
School they could pursue their
studies still further at the In
lustrial Institute which would
get better and better each year.
He paid a tribute to the papas
md mann mas who have secured |
The splendid institution for La
fayette parish by voting a
special tax. The Lafayette pub
ic school buildings, he thought,
should be discarded and re-
placed by a modern brick struct-
Ire. That was the only thing
missing. The children are in
jelligent; they have good teach
ers and some good furniture. !
WhV should thew not have a.