El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-14
Fl PAsO HAS 299 MORE SCHOOL
PUPILS THAN ONE YEAR AGO

high school ana let the OOuSAdSS ScnOOt
have it. The graduation Of the pupils
there does not depend upon 1t and it is
not requisite to a university course"
Ross objected, however, stating:
Then there would be no incentive for
students to take It. 1t has been my idea
TO build up the manual training depart
ment and when We get new high
school, if we ever do, we want to have
a full manual training department
there
Manual Training Failure.
Crozier: The time to put it in the
high school is when we get a new high
school; it is not in favor with all and
next year fewer students will elect to
take it than last year"
Dorbandt: In that event manual
training has been a failure"
Harper: Yes, to a certain extent; that
is because the students have to come
down here"
Winter: well, it is only three blocks;
anyone who has not ambition enough TO
walk three blocks, feel that he should
not have the benefits of such course
Harper: We'll, it consumes time"
Winter: They have plenty of time.
I have done two years in one and then
had one-third of my time to play. L
know that DR.. Irwin has done the same
thing
as the teachers. the boys must miss lee
lures and they get to the classes late.
interfering with the work"
Winter then asked: rs it intended
that the clerk and purchasing agent
give his entire time to the work
Irwin replied that it was and Winter
then moved the adoption Of the report
leaving the matter of providing manual
training for the second year in the
i'm n
the board. Harper seconded motion
TO this effect and it was unanimously
adopted.
Worsham offered another motion that
all be included, saying that he did not
think they should cut out any depart
ment Winter said he believed the mo-
ton out of order unless motion
to reconsider was offered Dorbandt
agreed with him and Worsham then
moved to reconsider This was done
with Winter voting no and the full re-
port was adopted.
Harper moved that the bills Okd by
the finance committee be allowed, but
Winter asked that they be read separ-
ately and this was done.
Carpenter announced that it cost $500
TO elect the three new school trustees
when a bill for election day lunches was
presented and denied.
Then president Carpenter announced
that the census which had just been
presented to him showed a total of
7106 school children compared with 6SO7
last year. A bill amounting to s5OO.60
was ordered paid for this work.
Too Many Phones.
Winter said: There are several bills
we have not allowed because We must
investigate them. 1t is also learned
that there are four telephones in the
manual training department. in the
Mesa school 1t is our recommendation
that two Of these be discontinued and
one phone be allowed the manual train
ing department in each school and one
be allowed IN the superintendent Of
flee IN the future. Also that the tele-
phones be discontinued at all schools
during the summer" This was ap-
proved.
Miss Myra Winkler and Miss Fannie
Lee Yeager requested permission to use
a room at the high school for a sum-
mer school, but this was denied, as 1T
would establish a bad precedent.
]. E. Curd asked that his salary be
paid IN II instruments, but this was
likewise denied as il was feared all the
teachers, or great many of them.
might make a similar request.
On motion of Dorbandt, the lease on
the Mesa annex at $35 per month was
renewed for one year and the cottage
near the high school at s25 per month
was also rented.
The board then adjourned.
superintendent Report.
The report of superintendent Crozier
follows:
The report Of the schools rendered
you at this time is necessarily brief,
incomplete and lacking in detail by rea-
son of the fact that / was elected
superintendent on May 10th, practically
at the close of the session, and owing
TO limited time and numerous duties
no opportunity was afforded me to OBJ
tain more than cursory glance Of the
work that was being done. From the
somewhat general reports Of the prin-
cipals, you should feel that the results
obtained in the schools during the past
session, are gratifying. There was in
augurated the very commendable
policy of having no formal graduating
exercises in the eighth grades of the
grammar schools. In times past more
seemed to be made of this event in a
child's life than his graduation from
the high school, Simple exercises in
time, energy and expense. not only of
the pupils but Of the teachers as we'll
High School Work.
The work in the high school during
the past session has been most salts
factory. Through the cooperation of
the Y NJ. c. A. authorities it was the
policy to bring before the students
twice a month speakers and lecturers
Of note, and such men as ex-governor
Joseph w. Folk, Capt. Richmond Pear
son HobsOn. Sunshine Hawks, DR.. Ly-
man 3. Sperry, not to mention many
others, were numbered among those
who lectured to the students. The
good that is done in this way is in
calculabie
Your attention should be called to the
steady growth of the high school dur
ing the past four years. The enrolment
increased from $50 in May, 1906, to 316
in May, 1910. The graduates increased
from five in 1906-07 to &c in 19O9-lO.
The period during which the attendance
at the high school seemingly fell off,
WAS when the system Oh M god