BOARD OF EDUCATION..1877

Brooklyn Union Argus 
1 September 1877

EVENING SCHOOLS
The salaries will therefore remain as follows:
Salaries - Principal of high school $3.50 per night. Teachers in high school
$3 per night. Principal in all other  evening schools $3 per night. Teachers
in all other evening schools $2 per night. First teacher in female
department, teaching a class $2.50 per night.
It was then decided that the schools open at 7:15 P.M. and close at 9:15P.M.
The rules and course of study in force last year were adopted for this year.
The study is as follows:

ELEMENTARY GRADE
Monday - Spelling, reading and writing
Tuesday - Reading, arithmetic and writing
Wednesday - Spelling, reading, arithmetic
Thursday - Reading, arithmetic, writing
Friday - Spelling, reading, writing and singing

INTERMEDIATE GRADE
Monday - Map exercise, reading and bookkeeping ex.
Tuesday - Spelling and definitions, arithmetic and bookkeeping ex.
Wednesday - Map exercise, reading and arithmetic
Thursday - Spelling and definitions, arithmetic and reading
Friday - Reading, bookkeeping ex., arithmetic and singing

ADVANCED GRADE
Monday - Reading, history United States, grammar exercise, and arithmetic -
interest
Tuesday - Written definitions, geography exercise, and bookkeeping
Wednesday - Reading,  history United States, grammar exercise and
arithmetic - interest
Thursday - Written definitions, geography exercise, and bookkeeping
Friday - Reading, history United States, grammar exercises and arithmetic -interest.

In schools largely attended by Germans unfamiliar with the English language,
in sufficient numbers to form a class of not less than twenty, the exercise
of phrase writing or other instruction in the English language may be
substituted for bookkeeping or penmanship.

5 September 1877
EVENING  SCHOOLS
Mr. N. J. GATES, the Chairman of the Evening School Committee, has appointed
the following gentlemen as Local Committees for the Evening Schools set
opposite their name, there being only one to each school this year instead
of two as heretofore:

Evening School No. 1 - Dr. SHEPARD
Evening School No. 2 - J. WILLIAMS
Evening School No. 3 and Colored No. 3 - J. MURPHY
Evening School No. 4 - D. MAUJER
Evening School No. 5, Branch Primary No. 14 and Colored No. 1 - W. E.SPRAGUE
Evening School No. 6 - J. R. SPARROW
Evening School No. 7 - A. AMMERMAN
Evening School No. 8 - George C. BENNETT
Evening Scholl No. 9 - L. V. D. HARDENBURGH
Evening School No. 10 - H. B. SCHURMANN
Evening School No. 11 - J. L. MARCELLUS
Evening High School - N. J. GATES

21 September 1877
The following is the list of teachers of the Brooklyn EVENING HIGH
SCHOOL, Ryerson street, near Myrtle avenue for the season of 1877-1878:
 
Faculty of Instruction - 
James CRUIKSHANK, Principal; 
William M.JELLIFIE, Vice-Principal
 
Instructors - 
P. T. GALLAGHER, algebra and geometry; 
W. M. JELLIFIE,reading and declamation; 
Robert SPICE, chemistry and natural philosophy;
H. P. SMITH, penmanship; 
A. O. SMITH, penmanship; 
J. B. GRANT,architectural and mechanical drawing; 
F. T. L. BOYLE, free hand drawing;
Byron HORTON and G. F. THAYER, bookkeeping; 
W. B. MANDEVILLE, arithmetic and spelling; 
A. G. KIMBERLY, arithmetic; 
M. A. WEED, mensuration, mechanics and grammar; 
Marc VALETTE, grammar, composition, history and phys. Geography; 
J. J. WELLS, arithmetic; 
T. J. ELLINWOOD, phonography
T. J. MURPHY, principal's assistant.
 
Lecturers - D. EATON, Astronomy; Robert SPICE, Chemistry and Philosophy;
B. KELLOGG, Rhetoric and English Literature; A. G. KIMBERLY, M. D.,
Anatomy and Physiology; W. M. JELLIFIE, Elocution and ---------,
Commercial Law.

Transcriber: Carole Dilley
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