The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-01-29

At the regular meeting Of the Board
of Education on Monday night, Janu-
airy 26th, Superintendent H. G. Weber
put himself on record as being a far
sighted business man when he recon-
mended to the board that night
school be opened in the Hadley build
ing on Pearl street. This building is
situated in very thickly populated
section of the, CITY, and will go a long
way toward enabling those boys and
girls who work in the day to study aft
er hours. There are thousands of
young people surrounded by circum-
stances that prevent them attending
the day school, and many of them will
hail with delight this opportunity to
get at least a common education
Some of the greatest men this country
has produced got their primary edu-
cation under less favorable conditions.
A fair example can be found right
here in the city of Nashville in the
person of Bishop Evans Tyree, who
has spent night after night on the
hillsides back of where the st, Cece-
liza Academy stands, studying his les
sons by the moonlight Parents can
not afford to fail to take advantage of
this opportunity to educate their chill
dren. The probabilities are that the
building will be crowded soon after
the beginning of the session. The re
port of the proceedings of the meeting
on the 26th follows:
e. E. Barthell and G. A. Blodau, re-
Gently appointed by Mayor Jas. S.
Brown to succeed John H. Dewitt
and w. ]. Cummins, whose terms
have expired as members of the City
Board of Education, were installed as
members Monday night at the regular
meeting and reorganization of the
Board for the coming year. Mr..
Blodau the new member, was elected
as Secretary Of the Board
A special feature of the meeting was
the adoption of the recommendation
of Superintendent H. c. Weber pro-
viding for the establishment of a night
school at Hadley, this to be the inau-
guration of the night school work
among the Negroes. Superintendent
Weber also urged the necessity Of
manual training, not only in the high
schools, but also in the grammar
schools, and while such a plan was
not recommended as feasible and prac-
teal at this time, the idea was en-
couraged and Superintendent Weber
was requested by the Board to draft
a curriculum for such a plan of work
DR.. Lees called the meeting to or
der at 1880 o'clock
Secretary Dewitt read the minutes
of the previous meeting which were
approved
The pay roll for the month of Janu-
airy amounting to $22,606, and ac-
counts aggregating $1,56941, were ap-
proved.
Mr.. Akers spoke with reference to
the bill pending in the City Council
providing for submitting the High
School bond issue proposition to a
vote of the people on June 10 next
stating that he not only felt confident
that the bill would pass the Council
but that $500 names have already
been secured to the petition recon-
mending the proposition, indicating
that the proposition Will pass by the
vote Of the people.
The resignation of one Of the teach
ers, Miss Mollie e. Berry, was accept
ed
The last item of business was the
discussion of the manual training and
rolored night school nronosition, and
the empowering of Sunt Weber to
establish a night school at Hadley,
After this the meeting adjourned
to next Monday night, when the Board