Arizona republican., 1904-01-21
TUCSON NEWS
The Schools, Public and University
 Personal Matters.

Tucson. Ariz., Jan. 1S.(Special Cores pondence of The Republican.)-Thf Tuscon people have noted with pleas ure the fact that Phoenix is to have a s25,O library. They rightly feel that it not onl. rebounds to the credit of Phoenix but to the whole territory. and that such movements are steps in the right direction toward securing state hood.
 The librarian and trusteers of the Carnegie free library are arranging a ehiIdrens' room in the north wing. This innovation was decided upon about a monIh ago, and since that time Mrs Battle, the librarian, has been busy making preparation for the opening Shelves have been placed along the walls of the large room in the north wing, chairs and tables have been pur- chased and the children will soon have reading room all by themselves. This north wing is separated from the main reading room and has never been used except for an occasional puglic meet ing All of the juvenile books of the li- brary will be placed on the shelves in this room. About four hundred juvenile books were recently received. MT. An drew Carnegie has donated copies of the Magma Charta and the Declara ton of Independence which have been fram- ed and placed in the childrens' room.
 William Angus, superintendent of the schools of Pima county, has submitted Co N. c. Layton, superintendent of pub ic instruction for Arizona, report on the schools of this county, which will be included in the Arizona educational exhibit at the worlds fair.
 The school census of the county this wear will be almost $500. The enroll ment in the public schools is now about 2.250: the average number be- longing ss l,35O: the average daily at- tendance 1850; the percentage of the attendeGcs.' of the average number at tending, S:.e7.
 ProfeasoT P. NJ. Walker. principal of the Tucson schools. contributes to the report a short sketch of the work here. He says:
 During the past year our greatest eff forts have been placed or the subjects or oral reading and English. The Mex lcan children in particular are in great need Of strong work on these lines: and the deficiency is by no means con fined 10 those who speak a foreign tongue, for it is the unanimous con clusion 0f the educators that the great est seFd 0f American school children IS in H'TitieH and oral language. Ere quent and regular exercises in vocal and physical culture are given to de- velop the body, the vocal organs and a fine tone of voice. The supervisor of music is required to use every effort 10 cultivate her work with these sub .1ects and exercises that the desired re- suits may be the most easily obtained.
 Very little iS attempted in the p.i- mary grades in the subjects of his tory, physiology and geography, since II is necessary to place the larger stress on tAe pupils acquiring a begin ming in. English. Of course drawing. number work and nature study are by no means ignored. but nature study in particular ;s used largely to develop the voCa bulary.
 Since the .pFsparatory department of the university is loCated here and is within reach or all pupils who complete the Erammar. grade work. no high school course is provided in connection with our public schools Our work Is therefore confined 10 the work usually done in the grammar school.
 Although all the grades have been crowded and we have been forced to push pupils ou from one grade to an other, still we have steadily tried to raise the standard of promotion and graduation.
 Fully ninety per cent of our pupils the work of the grades take up advanced work either in the University of Arizona or in the colleges and universities elsewhere"
 Superintendent Angus considers at some length the San Xavier school founded by Indian Agent J. NJ. Berger in 1884 and fostered by him.
 The Sisters Of St. Joseph are contem- plating a new 0rphanage. They former ly maintained one out near the St Mary's hospital but it was wrecked by a storm about two years and half ago. J. P Louergan has donated tract of ground a mile south of town