, 1906-11-23

liquor and cigars in this nation is $29
and s24 for Zach pupil enrolled in the
public schools. Mrs. Knight said that
the expenditure in district No. l of AL
bany county is $3.50 for each pupil en-
rolled in the public schools, which
number $50, this including the $1,000
spent this year for improvements and
repairs Upon the buildings. The
speaker advocated the building of a
new high school building or smaller
schools of from two to four rooms each
in order to relieve the crowded condi-
ton of nearly all of the rooms. at
Mrs. Knight, that no teacher can sue
cessfully care for more than thirty-slx
pupils, whereas at the present time
there are fifty-one pupils in Mrs. Whit
ing's room, forty-five in Miss Nagels,
forty-fve in Miss Welch's, forty-six in
Miss Miller's, forty-six in Miss Moore's,
and Miss Simpsons. The ninth grade
is now quartered at the East Side school
in a closet formerly used as a cloak
room, where it is impossible to open
a book of reference for want Of room"
Mrs. Knight also remarked upon the
fact that there are 112 children enrol
led in the first grade of the public
schools in this city and hat there are
only twenty-nine in the ninth and tenth
grades, the attendance at school les
SEEMING at the rate of seventy-five each
year after the fourth grade is reached.
Finds Some Defects.
Prof. Filler, principal of the high
school, said that he hoped that he
would not be considered as critical in
his remarks or too radical in his sug-
gestions. He found that Laramie was
well up to the average of other places
with which he is acquainted, in all but
its public school system, where, al
though it is not the fault of the board
or the superintendent, there is great
room for improvement. There is
great need of a better system OF sec
ondary instruction. said Mr.. Filler,
"and also great need of more schoS
buildings" Giving some figures gath
cred from other parts of this same
state, Prof. Filler said that at Cheyenne
there are 1900 pupils enrolled, of which
161 are high school pupils; at Sheridan,
1000 pupils, with 1874 in the high
school; Rawlins, 500 pupils and so in
the high school; Evanston, 500 and ~;
Lander.27O and 40, but in Laramie, with
900 pupils, there are only 81 in the
high school, counting all in the pre-
paratory department of the university,
which answers to a high school.
Saws Enthusiasm is Lacking
These figures show hat instead OF
one in eight or one in seven, as in 9th
err places in the state, Laramie has only
one in fourteen of its school children II
the high school. This state of things
Mr.. Filler ascribed to want OF enthusi
asm in he school caused by the fac
that the university takes away many o
the older pupils, and that there Is nj
graduation day or anything for the pu
nils to look forward to as marking tn
end of their work in the schools. !
definite aim is needed by the pupils
Among other things, Mr.. Filler mer
toned the great need of a library roor
, and of other school buildings to relieV
+, the congestion at present existing
). the various rooms.
Favors simplified Spelling.
Fl v. S. Groesbeck was introduce
as an old school teacher. He emph'
= sized the fact that a majority of Tn
a children leave the school at 10 yeal
; of age and that only three out OIL e