The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1911-05-30
ADDITION PLANNED TO
SCHOOL BUILDING
Maple Avenue Structure May
Have Three Rooms Added.

was crowded and more room was
needed the board of education Fri
day night ordered Robert c. Walsh
to draw plans for three story brick
addition to the Maple avenue school
building
1t was suggested by George G.
Smith that the addition provide a
room for the board meetings afford
ing more commodious quarters than
at present and permitting each mem
ber to have a desk. The two upper
stories would be used as class rooms.
The dimensions of the new building
as discussed Friday evening are to
be about twenty-five by thirty feet
The board has also decided to erect
a three-story addition ON the rear of
the Maple avenue building for toilet
rooms
Mr. Travell had the following to say
regarding crowding of the high school
pupils
IF the board of education should
decide to substitute desks and chairs
for the benches in the two recitation
rooms cut off some years ago by
sliding partitions from the rear of
the chapel, certain advantages will
result
"0) Better class work and good
handwriting will be promoted by CIV
ing pupils a good writing surface in
stead of books and cardboard to write
on
"(2) Sixty seats can be placed in
those rooms, and this will enable the
removal of most of the pupils now
seated in the drawing room. The pres
ence of pupils seated in the drawing
room is disadvantage to the draw
ing teacher in the excellent work she
is doing in our schools.
"(3) A careful and conservative
estimate of the humber of pupils we
shall have in the high school in Sep
tember is 237 This includes seven
pupils from the township and not
bounds of the township.
The seating capacity of the high
school is 176 We have increased
this by 80 to PA by using seats in
the drawing room. An addition of
sixty desks will increase the 176 high
school desk space to 236, and should
clear the drawing room for regular
drawing purposes.
Even then, it will be necessary,
in accordance with a former resolu-
ton of the board that nonresident
pupils be admitted to our schools
only as there was room, to refuse ad-
mittance to nonresident pupils living
beyond the bounds of the township,
until we have discovered whether We
have room for them. If some are
admitted, it would seem wise to se-
lect them by examination.
The recommendation regarding the
reseating of the chapel was adopted.
Superintendent Ira W. Travell re-
ported for the month. The statis-
tical report for the month of April
shows 1874 pupils enrolled for the
year, as compared with, 1867 at this
time last year. This shows an in
crease of fraction over one per
cent. and corresponds almost exactly
with the growth of the town. There
were 1912 pupils in actual attendance
during the month. The percentage
of attendance was SS.6.
Two classes from the Mills street
school have availed themselves of the
privilege of visiting the public play
ground for a half hours exercise.
They were sent at two-thirty in the
afternoon of May 25th, at which hour
the playground is closed to other chill
dren.
The children were drilled in vari-
Gus physical exercises and the boys
We're trained in running, jumping and
use of apparatus All the exercises
were conducted with delightful snap
and energy and were evidently greatly
enjoyed by the children.
"Such an exercise, given once a
week. said Mr.. Trayell takes very
little of the effective working school
time of the children, and will be
beneficial, l feel confident, in the
improved physical and mental tone
of the children. They go to the
grounds under the supervision of
their teachers and return again in
the same manner"
Keen interest in spelling has been
aroused in the grammar grades
through a-series of four tests, each
covering one-fourth of the work OF
the entire year, and given to each of
the grammar school classes. Fifty
words to be written and five words
in oral spelling were given to each
pupil. The results show most com
mendable progress. In the first test
a total of 2140 words were misspelled
by about 500 pupils; in the second
test 973 words We're misspelled; in
the third test 534 words were mis-
spelled. The fourth comes on June
7th. The last test shows an average
of SO per cent. in spelling for all the