The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-11
STAMFORD

| tee of the Board of Trade, at the of
 flee of the Town Clerk, to select a | delegation of residents, tax payers ! and voters, to proceed to Hartford to- | morrow to voice the objections of the | town in the matter of laying trolley 1 tracks on Broad street Judson place,
 and Elm street. All the residents of
 these streets have signed petitions | protesting against the adoption of the | two bills which have been presented
 to the legislature giving the Connecti-
 cut Company the right to lay tracks l in the proposed streets. MT. Beers
 is anxious to have a delegation of at | least two men from each block on
 the streets involved to act as com | mittee to be present in Hartford at
 the hearing: Last night, at the meet | ing of the Mems Club, a large num- Der of gentlemen signed the petitions. !! A representative gathering of the Mems club met last evening at the an address by Supt. William B. Kel- 1 sey on the worth and value of the High school A large number of gen. 1 tlemen was present, and at the con- clusion of the address MT. Kelsey was l rendered a vote of thanks. Among
 other things he said he was much | interested in the talk given at the last meeting by MT. Fletcher of the i Bridgeport trade school. He had 1 heard the same things said before. l At a meeting of school men not long ago a similar address was made, and 1 took it. School men should find out where we are at. I felt put out. l | do not believe the public schools have wasted our time. It is true g. college ! education will not make a. somebody out of g. nobody, but it will increase Many in town do not have a ciear idea of the situation regarding our | local high school. It has 65 pupils, and the senior class has eight girls and one boy. We teach all the stan-
 dard high school subjects. These the soul, and are English, mathe-
 matics, history, foreign languages and science. In the foreign languages we find an Introduction to the literature
 of the various peoples. In English we find masterly inspiration. In a short hand way of thinking. We
 must get results without the bother of unit counting. In history we 1n-
 troduce the pupil to ancient history,
 the science of government and the
 important principles found in the
 operations of nature. These things
 may be taught in dry manner; 1t Is
 easy to fall into the habit of trying
 to have the child remember things.
 So we test his memory to discover
 away with this, Yale and Harvard
 are moving in this direction. These
 colleges will now admit a young man,
 when prepared, whether he passes
 the examination. It is no longer a
 question of marks, but one of good
 sense, ability, and the knowing how
 to handle a proposition. In our local
 high school we prepare for college;
 we have the full four years course.
 Some of our pupils will go into the
 Normal school. I believe our high
 school is justified by it's results. One cannot go to a technical school until
 he has had a general training. Must
 to the Sheffield Scientific school. The
 high school has a real relation to in- dustry It is a cultural institution.
 What is one mans vocation may be another mans culture. There is no distinction between them. A general education increases ones general knowledge: our love for the beautf- full; for the right, and the element of altruism-thinking of the other fellow first. The other fellow has to result: That is the Justification of the high school. Our American idea is that the child is the property of the state. and so the state will try to make a good citizen of him by giv ing him the best education possible. l belongs to the parent, and that it is his duty to work for his parents and give back to them all they have spent for him. Citizens must main tain the government, therefore it is the business of the government to,I educate. The penalty for commit ting crime is to be educated. The purely scientific reason is another Justification for the high school. Be- tween A and IS years of age the boy has ideals of things, and then comes the growth of the moral sense. is the most important period of life. For all these reasons we are justified in maintaining a high school. There is a. real place for the trade school but we do not want to magnify it. Mir. Kelsey spoke at length of the vocational school, and contrasted it with the trade school. 1 He was in favor of some manual training in the present day high school He said that Stratford gradu- ateS as many from it's high school in to the whole number at- tending, as the high school of Bridge l port, or those of the state generally. l
 At the conclusion of the address a 1 bountiful collatio was served by Mrs. l Judson, Mrs. Curtis and Mrs Wade 1 Cook. A vote of thanks was extend l ed to Edmund Judson and his wife. 1 After luncheon the party adjourned | to the drawing room and listened to l songs and piano solos by Mrs. Jud- son.
 A force of carpenters was at work | yesterday repairing the damage | wrought by fire sometime ago on Mr. 1 Confines house at the corner of Main l street and Stratford avenue. An en- tire and much sleeper new roof is being placed upon the building, and | when all the work is done the house will be in first class condition
 Mrs T,ia11f SOhOfipl6 has moved south of Mrs. Hard's on Main street. She is rapidly getting settled in her new home.
 The heavy snow of Saturday night broke limbs from quite number of i shade trees about town
 The Wonan's Aid society of the Congregational church has arranged for entertainme on the following date: On the 27th inst. there will be ] rummage sale. On the 4th of May 1t Is proposed to have a fair and food sale. On the 25th of May another
 Extensive Improvements are being made upon the residence of Samuel Beardslee on King street. The house, new and lighter colored coat of paint.
 Vacation being over the public schools opened again yesterday.
 At the coming meeting of the Mary Silliman chapter of the Daughters of he American Revolution, Mrs. Will jam B. Cogswell of this place will T. cad a paper on Westinghouse Notes md Anecdotes"
 The Board of Trade is to hold a meeting Thursday evening in the Town hall. As there was but small