Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-15
DON'T LIKE RULE
tupllS Petition 10 Abolish ibe
 Three O'clock Session.

with its numerous pedals on an in surrection by some of the pupils o the Crosby high school. The proba billty is that it did for 2 petition a' bold as that which was presented tt the board protesting against the so called afternoon session would haral! have seen the light of day if no backed up with considerable rebel lious strength. This afternoon ses sion is maintained as q sort of punish ment for recalcitrant and tardy pu pills. If a pupil starts record fol tardiness in arriving at school morn ings he is told by Principal Wilby tt report at o'clock and he is then kept at study for an hour or so. Thjs is anything but popular feature in the life of the school but it has the backing of Superintendent Tinker and the board and Commissioner Kelley as well as Commissioner Mona gan know that it is a good thing, a first class substitute for the old fash toned rattan, not that the honorable commissioners ever felt the indignity of the magic wand of the school prin- cipal, but they know what did them good and what is likely to do others good in the same respect. So they uphold the idea of this afternoon ses- sion of the Crosby. Following is the petition in full and the names of the signers:
 To the Mayor and the Members of
 the Board of Education.
 Gentlemen: We, the undersigned students of the Waterbury high school, believing the present mode of discipline in vogue at that institu- tion-namely, the custom of the fac ulty of said school in having those students, whose recitatiOns have been unsatisfactory in the morning, or those students who have been tardy in reaching school in the morning, return to school in the afternoon to what is known as the 3 o'clock seS-
 
 ductive of the results wished to be attained, hereby petition your honor able body to make dispenSation of these kindergarten methods
 This disposal of students, which IS said to owe it's origin to the town of Plainville. is made by some of the teachers of said school for every pet ty offense, or in other words, is rec Ognized by said teachers as the gen eral panacea for all misdeme1nOrS.
 Not only does the afternoon session break into the afternoon of those students returning to school but in terferes with their being able to give good recitations on the following day as the time taken in going to and from school might De devoted to study.
 We further believe that such puer" ile methods have no place in the Wa terbury high school. and petition your honorable body to make disposal of them.
 Leo EgeIeston. John C. MoriartN Fergus C. Fay, Francis Began, Wal ter r. GeraGhty, Louis Hayes. Frank J. Werzinger, Joseph Hackett, Pat rick Mahaney, r. ]. Finn, Merwin Tyack. Frank Carroll. Lawrence E. r eming, Thomas Nolan, Robert Pre- tat. Clarence Pardee. John McNellis, Philip Davidson, Florence Chase Harold Cooper, Stanley Hackett Howard Beaumont, Arthur l.. Jacobs, Helen Shanahan Theodore Meyer, William F. Schick, Minnie Malone, George O. Castle, Daniel r. Parker, Florence NJ. Towle, F. C. Daniels, Florence A. Stage Raynonl Dillon, Helen NJ. Scovill, Michael J. Wall, Gertrude L. Coughlan, Arthur D. Meyers, Mary C. Sullivan, Edna Sand land, Harry S. Bole, John C. Black all, Walter Hutchinson, Everett w. Case, Robert F. Johnson, Alex Vel lington, Peter L. Kenney, James Hayden, B. C. Stigberg, Edgar Dau- nois. William II. Jones. George Bal thazar, Joseph Cunningham, C. Spender. Neville German, Florence Mae Webster, George E, Browne, Mary Packard, Agnes Richmond, A. Auray, Georgie Wolff, Grace Wolff, T, Downey, Laura Quick, s. Saresky, Mary Quinn, V. Sanchelli, John Me Laughlin, Albert Bronisky. Sadie Wheeler, Mollie Quinn, Edward s. Bauby. E. A. Hynes, Arthur Savard, Etta c. Hughes, George Carroll, Katherine Donahue, Jerome Sullivan, C. Richardson, T. F. Mcclure. NJ. Marshal, w. Brooks, H. kimball F. r. Biitner NJ Kreidel, F. w. King, Irene Cullen, NJ. Nelson, Helen Story, K. German, Grace Warner, NJ. Hen derson. Bertha Cullen, l.. Withey, William Casey, r. Fitzpatrick, Clark Swanfigure, Charles Bergin.
 While Clerk Fitzgerald was read ing the petition some laughter went the round of the commissioners and he was interrupted occasionally by such exclamatiOns:
 What is that. Mir FitZgerald?"
 "Panacea, said the clerk.
 "Puerie, did you say puerile, MT Clerk"
 ''Puerile is what the clerk said"
 Good, first class. puerile is very good, ha, ha, ha.
 Those words might be spent in a better way come in all right there" said Sunerintendent Tinker "I