The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-08-23
General Statement.

~. Total ALI E5nlrollment-Boys, rs; girls.
Average Attendance-Boys. 20 GIRLS
l40; total, 1919. % e"lS'
Number of pupils to teacher 40.
average scholarship, SO; average age
II. ~ 9 "so age
1t is gratifying to state that peor,
l1igh School has enjoyed another wear
OF prosperity since my last renort
owing to an increase in the number
OF pupils in the school, an additional
teacher was added to the faculty in
the person of R. S. Harris. who was
assigned to the Ninth B Grade.
AS you are aware. this was q vary
nard year on the Scholastic hardest
that we have suffered in a great MANY
years. The winter was long and Sc
we're and 1t was almost impossible to
attain the highest success in school
work. On this account there arc
some features of the work that arc,
not exactly what would like them n.
De- Our attendance was crippled and
our scholarship reduced. Yet both
teachers and pupils always manifest.
ed determined spirit and the work
taken as a whole was commendah!e.
Inc teaching, l believe, was up 70
the standard. The faculty is com
posed OF experienced, faithful. seIf-
reliant and efficient teachers. anxious
TO DO their best and willing to accent
suggestions about their work
me general tone of the school Is
good. While there is not much time
for ethical instruction in a comnact
program, yet the teachers seize eveyv
opportunity to direct the attention Of
the pupils to what is high and noble
In character, to honesty, virtue. So
Drlety industry, truthfulness. rela.
bllity and integrity. Often moral in
struction is given in connection with
the history lesson, or a Roman hero
may form the basis of an important
lesson in ethics. While moral train.
ing may be secured to a considerable
extent through oral instruction bv
teacher-instruction that will enabie
pupils to discriminate between right
and wrong-I recognize the fact that
1t is the unconscious influence of tho
teachers life and character that acts
in the school as the most effective
power. A teachers influence for good
o. evil is far-reaching and no moral
precept can be so efficient as a
pure upright, noble Christian man or
woman serving in the position of
teacher. I trust it will not be ont of
place here to again call your atten-
ton TO the urgent need of a labora-
tory in connection with this school.
| ,Gard it IS very great misfortune
tEGt our school has never been sup
piled with proper facilities for teach
ing science. AS you well know.
work in chemistry and physics should
be experimental. But on account of
no materials, no apparatus and no
room set aside for laboratory pur-
poses, "rote work" has been com
PEELED to be the rule with our pupils.
In consequence OF this hardship and
serious disadvantage, progress in the
sciences has been slow. Moreover. it
has prevented the proper classified
ton of our pupils when they apply to
enter the college of their choice after
graduation. Invariably standard col
leges demand their laboratory manual
or notebooks and on failure to pre-
sent them, their advancement is him
dered and graduation reduced. l take
the liberty to call your attention to
this matter second time, solely in
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