The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-02-12
DIR. C0LCR0VElS
REELECTED HEAD
OF CITY SCHOOLS
Gets Salary Increase of $500 a
Year-Teachers for the Com.
ing Year to Be Chosen at Reg
ular Meeting of the Board,
First Monday in April.
Contract Closed for Lyceum
Course of University of Min
nesota Extension Department;
Interesting Report by the
School Physician Nicholson.

School Physician Nicholson.
Dr.. P. P. Colgrove was reelected to
serve his third term as superintendent
of the city schools at salary Of $4,-
200, an increase of $500, at regular
adjourned meeting Of the board Of
education Of the Independent School
District of Virginia held last night
at the Technical high school building.
The board fixed its first regular meet
ing in April as the time when the
other teachers in the schools Of the
city will be hired.
In a special report submitted to the
board DR.. Colgrove called attention to
the fact that despite the completion OF
the new Soutside school, occupied the
first of the year, it will not be long
before congested conditions again pre-
vail unless some provision is made
within q short time for more room in
the grades.
During last year there were admit
ted 314 children into the six kinder
gartens in the city proper. The seat
ing capacity Of the new Southside
building, exclusive of the kinder
garten room is 378. The new build
ing, therefore, provides sittings for
only 81 more pupils than were pro-
NOTED from the kindergarten last
June.
The records for January Of this
year show that 344 children have
been admitted into the kindergartens
this year and the board is confronted
with the problem Of providing in
creased facilities to take care Of the
increased enrolment which will ma
turally follow next year.
Seating Capacity of Schools.
The seating capacity of the six
school buildings in the city exclusive Of
the kindergartens is as follows:
Roosevelt 578, Northside 378, South
side 378, johnson 1923, Primary 355,
Central 222. The present enrolment
is as follows in the same buildings
exclusive of the kindergartens: Roose-
welt 535, Northside 34S, Southside 800,
johnson 321, Primary 3l3, Central 200.
From the totals, exclusive of kinder
gartens it is apparent that in the
schools of the city there are at pres
ent only 1875 seats not in use. 1t is
not practicable to make use Of all
these. At the Northside school there
are 80 pupils in the two first grades
and "a seats in the two rooms, leav.
ing only four seats in the two rooms
unoccupied. 1t is not possible, accord
ing to the superintendent report tt
get first grade pupils to 60 from an!
part of the district south Of the rail
road tracks to the Northside school
Parents living south Of Chestnut
street object to having lower grade
pupils sent to the Primary building
In the Roosevelt building there arr
four eighth grades. There are tot
many pupils to crowd into three
eighth grades and not enough to fiji
up the rooms with four eighth grades
Dr.. Colgrove states that he does no
think it advisable for an eighth grad
teacher to have more than 36 pupils il
the interests of the best work. TIL
matter Of providing additional schoe
facilities will probably be taken up b
the board at an early meeting.
Physicians Report.
In his monthly report to the boar
DR.. Nicholson, school physician, calle
attention to the fact that some pre-
visions should be made for dental car
in the schools. During the month Q
January he had examined 83 cases
There were developed in the school
two cases of scarlet fever, six case
of chicken pox, and ten cases
mumps. Forty calls were made Q
pupils. Thirty-six visits were mao
to the schools in the city, two to eae
of the location schools and one to tt
Farmstead school. The good result
Of medical inspection in the cit
schools are shown by the fact tn
four children have been returned fro
the school for crippled children ar
that their parents are now among tt
most enthusiastic advocates of me'
ical inspection in the schools. Durin
the last month more than 200 vaccin'
tions were done in the schools as
preventative against smallpox. Th
disease is now epidemic in sever
places over the northwest and b
cause of it the schools Of the eli
of Calumet, Mich, have been close
Attention is called in DR.. Nicholson
report to the success attending Il
recent infant welfare exhibit loan
to the schools by the Pickands-M Math
company and to the fact that in 4
schools of Cleveland instructions