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. e at ty hal J ae ' ‘ ; at A review of the city schools ‘took place |.) 3, would be among the most, popu of entertainments. | ; oductive of the best results
The trustees, members of the |
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press, and some other citizens visited the various class rooms; and a large number oi visitors ended in the Normal School | room, where t! classes of the Model | School, ‘t ore ther with the class of Mr. Miller, Principal of East Kent Street
School, passed through the ordeal of in- spection and examination. The examin- ation was not thorough or critical; and therefore we shall not gitempt a criticism of it. in outward and Visible signs the city schools exhibit a markéd improvement; and it was evident that the teachers are paims- taking and capable. The answers of some of the pupils were not upto or im accord- ) ance with the elevated standard of the Hon. W. D. Stewart; and many, pérhaps abashed by his presence, did not speak sufficiently loud to be heard im all parts of the room. We learn’ that the answers returned, were, however, corregt. The following state-, meht shows the Tanher of schools, the num- ber and names of the teachers, the number of pupils on the register and other particu- lars :-—
UPPER PRINCE STI
SuperRinvENDENT—John Harper.
REET SCHOOL,
Girls’ Department,
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1. Advanced—Miss Annie Smith. Number of pupils on register, 2. Second Advanced—Miss C. C. Snad- don. Number of pupils on register, 43 3. First Advanced—Miss Lizzie Moore, Number of pupils on register, b4 4. Second Primary—Miss kmma Barr. Number of pupils on register, 64) Boys Department. 1. Advanced—Mr. Joseph D. Seaman. Number of pupils on register, 58 2. Third Primary—Miss ftlizabeth Me- Kinnon. Number of pupils on reyis- ter, a} Mixed Department. ’ First Primary—Mias Maria Lawson. . Number of pupils on register, _ 68 Infant Department. Miss Annie Montgomery. Number oi pupus on register, 104 EAST KENT STREET SCHOOL. Bi ys Department. l. Second Advaneed—Lemnel Miller, Principal; number of pupils on register 70 2. First Adyanced—John M. Duncan; number of pupils on register 06 Mixed Department. 1. Primary—Miss Eliza Lawson; number S4
of pupils on register LOTCHFORD SCHOOL.
1. First Advaneed—A. A. MeKenzie Principal; on register 51
2.*Grade 3—Alice Finnessey; on register 51
3. Grade 2—Edgar Helm; on register 37
KENT STREET SCHOOL. Mixed Department,
1. Ewen Amos—On register
sinyant Department.
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1.- Mary Walsh—On register 40 SPRING PARK SCHOOL. lajant Department. 1. Annie Lawson --Vn register 56
Total number of pupils at present on regis- ter
AFTER THE EXERCISES
Mx. Harrer briefly explained that the Examination was not intended so much to show the proficiency of the scholars as to| introduce the public to the teachers, and to direct attention to the systein which has lately been adopted.
Fiox. W. D. Srewarr said that during the examination he saw much that he was pleased with and some that ‘he was not pleased with. Some of the classes, he thought, displayed too much mere book knowiedge. This was the old style of doing things—when he went to school—stuffing the child without showing him how to use the learning he was crammed with. He presuiued, however, that if the visitors had gone into the class rooms, they would have seen better work. But on the whole, the resujt of the past four months’ work, as shown, was very satisfactory. He was much pleased, delighted in fact, with the state oi ‘ity Schools. The school yet all as comfortable as they ought to be; but he noticed, in the
the ® u) rooms were not
newspapers, that tenders had been called for the erection of another suitable building, | and he hoped that all the teachers would | goon be in comfortable quarters. Speaking | for the Government, he might say that they were determitéd to leave nothipg undorre to encourage good, sound education through- ont the length and breadth of the Province.’ Although the Government was at present meeting with some difficulties and opposi- tion, he was not discouraged. In fact he rather accepted those difficulties as a com- pliment than as a cause for discouragement. | de hoped soon to see in Charlottetown a uiding im which would be taught what is_ known as higher female education. | Rev. K. McLeynan said the impressions’ he had rece.yed trom the examination were fully as favorahle as he had anticipated. He had been in the habit of visiting schools; and he knew that it was exeeedingly difli- cult to get pupils, (especially girls)to speak so that they could be heard by strangers. Nor is the teacher always aware of the tact.. The raason is that the familiar voice is more
easily heard, than the yoice which is unfa- Mr. miliar ; and the teacher can hear those to a
whom he listens every day, more readil than one who merely visits the school, While in the old country, he had not failed to notice the correct and suitable specch and articulation of the educated classes. “Their ladiguage is charming and tinished, and wor- ° . . . diy thy the imitation of the people of this coun-
py:
“the oncrous work of organization.
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honed that it will be well cultivated in our ‘ Taking into account the recentness | 0 »new regime, Mr. ifteLennan thought
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shad many di ficulties with which to con- tend phut he, was glad to see that their| FOck \ a ey lug Aapprecia ed by the populace of Charlottetown. He-f lt sure é} 15, In the course of a few years, the occasio 1a! exam- ination or exhibitions given in’ t1e public
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> * ° 4 ’ Prince of, Wales. Col- 12d been p: the distinction gained by tts craduates while abroad ; and he trusted. that
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large l. L Ause OF popular education extends, the people will find that education igcheaper than the maintenance of jails for}
the suppres sion of vice and the repres: ion of erime ; and it will be felt that the educa- tion of the masses is a work worthy the at- tention of the philantrophist, the statesmen and the Christian.
Proressor ANDERSON congratulated the chairman upon the success that had at- tended the eiforts ofthe city school trustees. The examination had given him a very favorable impression of the work done in the diiierent grades, aud of the, manner in which the various teachers conduct their classes. He had spent the most of the morning in examining the pupils under the charge of Mr. Miller; and he had great
‘pleasure in bearing witness to the fact that
they reflected credit upon their teacher. Soine of the boys had attended the college previous to the introduction of the present graded system. He knew their previous ac- quirements and he knew that they had made great progress since placed under the care of Mr. Miller. The general examination in
41 | the Normal Schoolroom had necessarily been ,o/hurried; and it was not calculated to give
those interested a comprehensive idea of the work of all the city schools. Lor his part he should have liked to visit and examine
‘all the pupils in their class rooms; and he
thought it would be well in future to have the examinations extend over at least two days. He thought Mr. Stewart had been rather vague in his reflections upon the character of some of the answers given. He agreed with Mr. Stewart; but he thought it right to leave no doubt upon the minds of any present as to whatpyas meant, Some of the questions in history were answered from the book. If there was one thing he de- tested more than another it was that. He would. much rather have a wrong answer than a right one by rete. A good memory is a very good thing; but we want brains.
Rav. AncHpEACON Reap made a few re- marks expressive of his approval of the mothod of teaching introduced, and his disapproval of the practice of learn- ing the answers to historical and other questions by heart, The examination, so far as it went, gave him great satisfaction,
Hon. Joun Loneworrtn felt satistied that the Chairman of the City Board of Trustees deserved great credit. For his own part, he had not had time to devote much attention to the duties devolving upon the Board of Trustees; and those duties had been per- formed, for the most part, by the Chairman and Messrs. Dawson and Johnstone. It is satisfactory to know that the work done has been successful. The city had been ex- ceedingly fortunate in obtaining, in the work of organizing and grading, the services.of Mr. Harper, Of his competency there was not .the slightest doubt, During the ex- amination the boys and girls did not speak loud enough ; but their answers were cor- rect and otherwise satisfactory. The City Council had not co-operated with the Gov ernment in the organization of the City Schools, and consequently the responsibility devolved wholly upon the Trustees appoint- ed by the Government. Acting in -what they considered the interests of the city, they had procared the Protestant Academy building and..other.. eligible classrooms ; they had obtained schoo! furniture of im- proved pattern ; and, aided by the Principal of the Normal School, they had re-organ- izeq the City-Schools. Whether or not they hadedone their work well was a question for thosé who had witnessed the examination to answer.
W. E. Dawson, Esq., said that the Trustees—accompanied by Mr. Harper— had visited all the City Schools; and had witnessed the work done in the various class roois, He mentioned particularly the ex- amination of the pupils of Miss Finnessy as one of which-mo teacher, however capable or painstaking, need be ashamed. He stated that since its organization in August last, thirty meetings of the Board of ‘Trus- tees had been held, together with a large
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number of -Committee meetings. It was his duty -last year to ascertain the an-
nual cost to the Government of each pupil educated in the common schools throughout the country ; and he found thstit was six dollars. Under the management of the Board of Trustees the education of each child tanght in the common schools of the city would cost yearly four dollars and sixty cents.” In the grammar schools of the country the annual cost of teacning has been thirteen doilars per head. In the
| Model School of the city the cost—includ-
ing renjs and all other charges—will be’ about.eleven dollars per head. Last year some seven hundred children attended the City Schools—and in this number were in- | cluded those who atiended St, Patrick’s School. . ‘Duis year 1065 have been in at- tendance at the schools under the control of the Board of ‘i'rustees. -Liveryone - present | would, he was sure, be pleased to learn that St. Patrick’s Schoo would, unconditionally, be placed at the’ disposal of the Board
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alter the first of the coming year; and in | was thereby injured. He commenced an
the course of a few days Sore 1400 children ' will be receiving instruction in the City Schools. Mr. Dawson highly complimented | Harper and puablichy thanked him for eflicient aid he had-given the Board in
“Dr. Jounstone made a few remarks ;'
and P. R. Bowers, Esq. , excused himself.
’ H. Lawson, Ezg., of the Pairiot, said he
had previously visited the schools of Miss derly, was fined $2 or 8 “days; Thomas Wise, Finnessey, Mr. iigim and Mr. Millar, and .druak and incapable; was fined the same; M, in reading and speaking, the vo.co with all he was highly pleased. He con- Dooley, same oiience, fined the same,
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“gratulated the Board of ‘Trustees upon the 7 factory result of their labors.
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\had been noticed and criticised ; and said he elt sure that in six months’ time the ex-| amination would, m every Way, be ee
salisiactory. oor 7 7 7] arty What Four Years have Shown.
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Four years ago, says the Toronto Mail, | the Globe congratulated the peopie of Can- | jude that they had ‘‘ at last the happiness of | 1 ving unce: a Goveraimn: ple iged to a pure: | acinimistration and under a Party that has }ever struggled for purity in publi affairs. Thousands believed in the Party’s purity} and the Government’s purity at that time, | but what an experience the country had | since then! Let us take a “‘gentle retro- spect,” as old Sam Johnson used to say to Boswell when the year was en its death-bed. First as to the general corruption of the Party itself, that is proven beyond all quibble or plea of extenuation by the num- ber of Liberal members convicted and pun- ished for corrupt practices : DOMINION,
'Shibley, Chushing, Jodoin, ‘Tremblay, Mackay, Macdonald (Cornwall),
McGregor, McNab,
Chishoim, Wood,
irving, Cameron (8S, Huron), Norris, Walker,
Devlin Mackenzie (Montreal) Coupal, Stuart,
Bigger, Kerr,
Murray, Macdougall (S. Renf'w) Alymer, Cook,
Wiikes, O Donohue,
Mel@nnan, Dymond,
Prevost, Higginbothim,
LOCAL, Barber, Neelon, Haney, Paxton, Striker, Currie, Ferris, Smith (Victoria)
Chisholm,
L Oliver.
Secondly, as to the wholesale corruption of the electors by. party. Mr. Workman’s Chairman said in Nis-evidence in the Her- ata- Worknin suittthat ‘when "he went into an election he went in to win, and didn’t care a d—arif it cost $20,000.” They ape all alike, i. ¢., all \ possess the means.
Miter.
Hon, Joby Simpsoh. wrged an: elector on polling day in one bf Mr. Blake’s:contests in West Durham to “never mind the poll, but goin and buy all tlle votes he could.” The same worthy Libersl ‘‘mesmerized them in batches of fifteen ad sixteen, and turned a hundred that night|at Glen’s.’” Mr. Hi. H. Cook admitted he spent $28,000 in two elec- tions in North Simdpe, but in the third, the 1874 contest, he a not spend as mich, because ‘She thought he would have the sympathy of the pedple in consequence of his previcus expenditures, and because his opponent had to carry the Pacific Scandal.” Myr. M. C, Cameron, of Huron, spent $14,- 000, according to his own testimony, in one contest there, and Major Walker spent $20,- G00 in London, Pyor old Malcolm Camer- on, in his, last hours, importuned the party to recoup him for the money he had spent in the party’s behal’ in buying up an Ottawa newspaper ; for the $6,000 he had spent in contesting Russell, the said $6,000 “ having had a good effect in subsequently securing that constituency to the Reformers ;”’ and for the ‘‘time and money” he spent in car- rying South Ontario in 1874. A
it cost Mir, Lailamme’s friends $25,000 to carry Jacques
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Thirdly, as to the hypocrisy of the cor- ruption of the Party. Madiver’s appeal to a tardy fellow-liberal was ‘the sum and essence of this hypocrisy of corruption— } ‘* Come along, John, come and help us put! down bribery and corruption ; we've lots of money, so come along.” Se, too, Mr. Nor- ris’ adinission that he hid away a bribery expenditure of $11,000 in his ledgers under
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