The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-17
SCHOOL BOARD IMPRESSED
With The CALUMET SCHOOL

The members of the Hancock board
Of education who went to Calumet
yesterday afternoon to look over the
Calumet high school with a view TO ac-
curing ideas that will be OF service
when the time comes for preparing
plans for the proposed new Hancock
high school. were greatly pleased and
deeply impressed with the complete
ness of the equipment OF the Calumet
school.
The party from Hancock consisted
of President Jacob Baer. Superintend-
cnt La Rowe and Messrs Bentley, Jas
berg. Ruppe and Coughlin. They left
here at 1920 on street car, arriving
at Calumet about an hour later, and
the remainder of the afternoon was
spent in looking through the various
departments under the guidance of
Superintendent Hail. Judge Bentley,
one of the members of the board. says
anyone who had never visited the Cal
umet school before, everything inside
being like the exterior, plain and mas
sive and built for utility rather than
ornament. The big assembly room
! seating $50 pupils, with adjoining
rooms opening into it with acommo-
dations for nearly four hundred more,
was one feature that Mr.. Bentley mem
toned as impressing him, but his chief
admiration was expressed for the com
pleteness and thoroughness of the
manual training and domestic science
branches, where the work of the pupils
was examined carefully, and ELECTED
expressions of wonder.
The methods of conducting classes.
lthe admirable discipline maintained,
through relying to a great extent up
on the honor and conscience of the
pupils rather than to any hard and fast
rules of department, and the up-to-
date and excellent sanitary and toilet
arrangements were all noted and COM
mented upon as desirable features for
adoption in the new school which Ham
cock hopes to build.
| President Baer was equally i'm
pressed as were also the other mem
bers of the party. all feeling that the
Calumet school is one of the most
perfectly equipped and conducted OF
its kind. and one which might be safe
lily modelled after in many details.
| Mr.. Baer considers the Calumet
manual training department superior
to the big Technical high school OF
Cleveland. which he visited during the
past winter. The latter is much bigger
than that at Calumet, said Mr.. Baer
and has a much more elaborate equip
ment, including foundries, and other
departments not included In the Calu-
met equipment. but the Cleveland
teaching is more theoretical. and the
pupils work is not calculated to bring
out originality and resourcefulness to
such an extent as that at Calumet
where the c. & II. mining company
takes the products of the manual
training shops and puts them to actual
use.
| The question of the selection of q
site is dependent upon the size of tho
school to be erected and several loca-
tions are under consideration, one be-
ing the city tract near the car barns
and others being in East Hancock OF
lands filled by the Dakota Heights
company. The old Protestant Gene
terry, If any way could be devised fol
acquiring it, and sites i'm the Ulsetf
addition have also been mentioned, bu
no definite decision has as yet beer
reached. Next Wednesday the mem
hers of the board will visit the Paines
Gale school, and later probably trips
may be made to Escanaba and Negau
nee.