The San Francisco call., 1910-12-22
FREE lecture IN
SCHOOLS IS Plan
Board of Education Arranges to
Provide for Adults as
Well as Children
Advisory Commission Named
With Secretary and Direc=
tor of Bureau

The board of education at its meetin,
Yesterday, on motion of Director Payot
decided to establish a free lectur
bureau for the pupils during schoo
hours, and for adults in the evening
the proposition is explained in tn
following:
Whereas. the board of education
DeiisVeS that a system of free pub
lie lectures for school pupils and
auults is desirable, said lectures
giving the results of the latest de-
nedopments In science. history, hy-
fSjtiaa;; art, music, travel and po-
aging reading and study to definite
enos and developing a wider and
Qteeper interest In the schools on
snfd sne part OF the people by making
ddo sa1d schools and their equipment
more effective social and commun-
ily centers; therefore, be it
Hesolved, that such system. to
ana is hereby ordered Instituted
unuer the control Of the board of
ei eiGucation In the city of San Fran
cisco, the lectures to be at once
arranged for, and lecture centers
establshed for the present at the
iolloWlng school buildings:
Girls high adams ngaroe
Sheridan cnrtns v.r.
Yerba Buena Sntro
frank McCoppin Laguna Honda
DDuihel Junipero Sierra
Hisnnt HN1dnGock Mission high
'iiSsioh grammar Glen Park
Resolved, that the following
named persons interested in ali
that makes for the betterment of
conoltlons In this city be invited to
dcL as advisory commission to this
Doard or education in carrying out
the purposes above mentioned
namely:
J. P. Young IRanboel WeiIl
DR.. Langley Porter Dr. G. -Rosenherp
Walter Macarthur C. s. stanton
Willis Polk Harris Weinstoot
e. s. Simpson lanes Rolnh Jr
Thomas e. Hayden
Resolved, that Prof. M r.
bb;Lahhchard. Pan Phi. d, of the Mission
n1sh ni scnool, and Prof. G. o. Mitch
pc ana they are hereby appointed
sScIetary or the lecture bureau and
oIrector OF lectures, respectively,
ad eaGh @ IN MS own line TO arrange for
s Sno carry out all details necessary
TOT the proper and successful out
coHle OF the system hereby insti-
tir' ttiureo' ana each to serve for such
time and at such COMPENSATION as
lnls tn board may determine.
Ihe hrst of the proposed series O
Iectures Will be by Lieutenant Beck
=, D A, in the Mission high schoo
Wednesday January 4, on aviation.
Leave OF absence was granted to th,
IolloWlng teachers on account of i'll
ness Nora I. Fogarty. Lena Booth
Aorlenne Spzdoni, Margaret McGraw
Eieanor q. McEwen and Mathilde B
Conway.
The resignation of Mathilde Adam,
Spozlo and that of Rose Ryan as teach
ers IN the department, were aSaepted
Leopold Maries was assignedN from
the substitute list to the Irving M
Scott evening school and the follow
ing transfers were ordered: Miss G
A. McGinness from the Sunnyside Il
the Moulder school, vice Mrs Cor;
Tompkins, dead; Miss Mary Bowie from
the James Lick to the Roosevelt school
vice Miss Sutherland; Miss A. B. Nc
Boyle from the Dudley Stone to tn.
Jean Parker school, vice Eleanor G
McEwen, on sick leave.
Margaret c. Kelly was appointed
head of the department of mathematic
in the Mission high school. vice Ros,
Ryan resigned, and Miss Alice H. La.
lande was designated to serve as vic,
principal of the Roosevelt school dur
ing the absence of Miss A. E. Sleato
on sick leave
The board of supervisors is to b,
asked to appropriate $3,500 for tn,
equipment of the Longfellow school
$4,000 for the Farragut school, an,
$1,000 for fence In front of the Mis-
sion grammar school,
The mayor was authorized to sci
by public auction the shacks in whicl
the Sheridan school was held, also t,
sell the buildings on the two lots re
Gently purchased and adjoining tn,
new Sheridan school. so that the sit,
may be used for an additional schoo
yard.
Mrs. M. Benson was appointed jani
tress for the Oceanside school.
A request from the socialist part.
to permit pupils of the high schools t.
conduct prize debate on socialism
was denied on the ground that TIL
pupils were not of sufficiently matur
age to take up such subjects.
President Bannerman declared tha
he, for one, would not permit anythin,
like politics to be discussed by tn
pupils of any school in the department