The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
County Board of Education.

| County Board OF Education.
The annual meeting of the Burlington
County Board of Education was held il
the Court House on Saturday. There wa
large attendance. The first business wa
the election of officers, which resulted al
follows: President, DR.. F. G. Stroud
Moorestown; vice president, Isaac s
Uncle, Smithville; secretary, FRANKLIN
Dill, Mount Holly; treasurer, Charles An
drews, Fellowship; executive committee,
Warren c. Pine, Riverside; Daniel Evan,
Smithville; Spencer H. Powell, Lumber
ton; Thomas B. Candy, Burlington; Rob
ert T. Evans, Masonville.
The following paper was adopted and a
copy ordered mailed to Mr.. Evan:
Daniel Evan, an esteemed member of
the Burlington County Board of Educa-
ton and one of the members of its Execu-
tive Committee, is not with us today,
being at home critically i'll as the result of
a murderous attack at the hands of one of
his employees. The Burlington County
Board of Education, assembled at Mount
Holly today, misses its fellow member who
has always been at its meetings ready and
willing to lend his aid in furthering the
interests of the Board and the cause in
which its members are interested. We
tender to Mr.. Evan and his family our
sincere sympathy in his sufferings and ex-
press the hope that he may speedily re-
cover his health and long continue in the
fields of usefulness where his labors and
counsel have been valued and beneficial. -
County Superintendent Stees then start
ed discussion on the subject of trans
portation of children to schools in country
districts. He read report from CHINA
minson township which showed that the
system is in fiourishing condition there,
and that, in addition to getting better ia
cilities fer the pupils, the district is say
ing money. John T. Evans, district clerk
of Chester township, gave similar evil
dence. That township uses the trolley as
far as practical, and found that very good
results follow. DR.. Hugh Lejambre, of
Bordentown township, said his district
also uses the trolley and excellent results
are noticed. The school tax IN Borden
town township has been very materially
Professor T. D. Sensor, Of Trenton, who
was to deliver an address on Agriculture
in rural schools" was then introduced and
spoke for an hour and half. being closely
listened to by the members of the Borad.
He made many statements that are es-
pecially applicable in Burlington county.
The child is the problem before us, and
little consideration can be given to the
taxpayer or self-centred citizen who has
narrow minded views on educational mat
ters, as in the past the children in the
rural districts have not had adequate edu-
cational facilities. Statistics show that
the average age of children who complete
the grammar school studies is 81 years,
and this is entirely too young. Years ago
It used to be that from one to five tout of
every one hundred of those educated in
he rural schools ever achieved fame; the
balance never got beyond the confines of
heir own environment. In those days it
was education in those country schools or
Nowhere.
One prominent objection to the exist
,nce of the rural schools has been the
practice of the teachers 10 the past to de-
'pise rural life in favor of the opportunities
offered in city, and this teaching has
lot been without some encouragement
rom parents. There is some improve
nent in this direction now. Where the
Did teachers have been retained year after
year it is 70 be regretted that their ability
has not increased with the multiplicity of
studies.
Professor Sensor condemned the known
made in colleges against
boys who endeavor to work their way
through to obtain an education. He at
,ached to real estate dealers much of the
for the continuance of the
small district schools, and there is always
4 school where new. tract of land is to
be sold. He advocated a central high
school that coulo he maintained by several
townships as solution of the rural
school problem.
At the conclusion of Professor Sensor's
remarks resolution was adopted that the
speaker furnish copy of his speech and
that it be printed in pamphlet form and
that copy be sent to each member of
The township boards of education.
At half past one the annual banquet was
held at the Arcade hotel, where a fine
menu had been prepared and was thor
oughly enjoyed by the 80 participants.
After dinner speeches were made by the
following: Rev. James Stoddard, Mount
Holly. "Chlrch and School," Professor
Theodore j. Green, Riverside, I'm 2007-
q pipe DREAM" Professor Wilbur Watts,
Burlington, Forty years of service; hos
it paid ?" w. Erwin Schermerhorn, Bur
lington, (Which would you rather be
the POSTMASTER or the toast server ?"